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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Product servicing the new green business model Expect a shift from manufacturing to product servicing as vendors entertain the entire lifecycle in an increasingly green world, said a professor with Schulich School of Business. How Nokia is changing its business to adapt. WITH VIDEO
Friday, March 12, 2010
Celestica builds a BI centre of excellence At SAP’s Solutions Tour 2010 in Toronto, an exec explains why organizations at once face too little and too much information. And, Celestica recounts how it built a business intelligence centre of excellence. WITH VIDEO
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Does your company buy from polluters? Forrester Research examines the problems of determining the carbon footprint of companies’ supply chains. Though a company may be environmentally responsible, there are no reliable benchmarks for determining the cost reducing the emissions caused by transporting supplies to the firm 
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Dell gets closer to retail deal in Asia Dell Inc. is working on plans to sell PCs through retail stores in Asia and Australia, as part of a wider shift within the company away from using only direct sales.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Wal-Mart launches online movie store with HP technology Joining a growing list of digital video download service providers Wal-Mart Stores has launched an online movie store. The new offering is built on HP Video Merchant Services, a Web-shopping technology. 
Monday, February 28, 2005
An RFID warning shot Radio frequency identification is a part of the present and may well be a major part of our future. This situation is, at best, a mixed bag. It would not be quite so bad if vendors of RFID products and companies that say they want to use them better understood security and privacy. 
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Experts debate RFID benefits, challenges Procter & Gamble Co., for one, say it's using the small, antenna-equipped computer chips that can be integrated into paper or plastic labels to better track inventory and even gauge customer reaction to various products. 
Monday, May 31, 2004
RFID and privacy: Debate heating up in Washington Privacy advocates and some lawmakers are pushing a debate over potential privacy abuses from the growing use of radio frequency identification chips as huge retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. move toward large-scale use of the technology. 
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Xerox hopes plastic ink leads to printed chips A team of researchers at Xerox Corp. has discovered a way to print plastic transistors using a semiconductive ink, paving the way for flexible displays and low-cost radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, Xerox announced Friday.
Sunday, March 14, 2004
CIOs: Diversity in IT supply chain pays off Using small suppliers or companies owned by women or minorities in the IT supply chain can give buyers better access to specialized skills and more opportunities for cost reduction, said CIOs from several large organizations at a conference in Chicago this week.
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Germany's Metro plans huge RFID deployment In the first move of its kind, Metro AG, the world's fifth largest retailer, plans to take radio frequency identification (RFID ) technology beyond the pilot stage by requiring around 100 suppliers to affix smart tags to their pallets and transport packages. 
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
From the Editor-in-chief It's been more than three years since the technology stock crash and the events - economic and tragic - that combined to reduce IT investments to a trickle. Tight budgets have meant that CIOs have been forced to squeeze more from what they have, and many IT vendors have fed largely on small-upgrade scraps between rare new-project banquets. 
Monday, November 03, 2003
Defense Department goes on offense with RFID Companies that want to sell products to the U.S. Department of Defense soon will have to comply with a new condition of doing business with the multibillion-dollar buyer: wireless inventory tagging.
Monday, October 13, 2003
Military orders suppliers to use RFID technology The U.S. Department of Defense last week said it will require all of its suppliers to put radio frequency identification tags on their shipping pallets and cases by January 2005, a mandate that likely will have an even bigger impact than a similar move by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in June.
Saturday, August 31, 2002
Directly Speaking An Interview With Dell CIO Randall Mott An Interview With Dell CIO Randall Mott
Thursday, January 31, 2002
Directly SpeakingAn Interview With Dell CIO Randall Mott In an exclusive interview with CIO Canada, Randall Mott talks about the challenges of being CIO of the world’s biggest computer systems company, and the state of the CIO profession in North America.
Tuesday, October 24, 2000
Billionaire's Club Goes High-Tech If you're interested in seeing whether you made it into the Billionaire's Club, you can see an AP report with all 465 names at The Washington Post and CBS MarketWatch sites. Three of the top four richest people on earth (excluding dictators and royalty) earned their bankrolls at Microsoft: Bill Gates (US$90 billion), Paul Allen ($30 billion) and Steve Ballmer ($19.5 billion). Michael Dell ranks seventh with $16.5 billion, just ahead of five Wal-Mart heirs. Wal-Mart, which sells just about everything, may be a role model for Dell, which sells not only Dell hardware online, but now software and also plans, according to News.com, to go into auctions. Can sundries and bedding be far behind? 
Thursday, October 07, 1999
HP hopes to rewrite the book on e-commerce Even though the IT industry is far from lacking in buzzwords and verbal shorthand, Hewlett-Packard Co. seems bound and determined to add a few more to the collective vernacular.
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