
Monday, May 24, 1999
World Cup marketing mess-up -- For whose gain?
The outsourcing of air-time sales and acquisition of sports and other events to a consortium of private firms. Over the past fortnight, there have been charges galore of corruption in the awarding of the World Cup air-time sales contract to first Stracon and later Nimbus.
Networking made difficult
Whenever the computer industry introduces a supposedly simple, purportedly must-have product, smart consumers should grow suspicious. This is an industry with a great hype machine but almost no clue about what mainstream users consider simple and what they really need.
E-Speak to help HP attain leadership
Hewlett-Packard Company has chalked out a strategy to reorient its businesses and carve out a leadership position in the e-commerce arena with the help of its new open source technology, E-Speak.
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