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  Financial performance analysis of US and world telecommunications companies: importance of information technology in the telecommunications industry after the AT&T breakup and the NTT divestiture
Goto M. Decision Support Systems 48(3): 447-456, 2010.  Type: Article

Goto presents a study of the performance of the world telecommunications industry using data envelopment analysis-discriminant analysis (DEA-DA)....

Jan 11 2011
  Digital phoenix: why the information economy collapsed and how it will rise again
Abramson B., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 368 pp.  Type: Book (9780262012171)

When my father-in-law taught his little girl the principles of relativity, he took her to a construction site, in the center of town. There, they looked through the peepholes in the plywood fence surrounding the site. He lifted her up ...

Nov 24 2005
  Technology paradise lost: why companies must spend less to get more from information technology
Keller E., Manning Publications Co., Greenwich, CT, 2004.  Type: Book (9781932394139), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Using an enormous quantity of examples and anecdotes, this book describes the author’s experiences consulting for major corporations on information systems (usually, but not exclusively, enterprise resource planning (ERP)). T...

Feb 16 2005
  Technology paradise lost: why companies must spend less to get more from information technology
Keller E., Manning Publications Co., Greenwich, CT, 2004.  Type: Book (9781932394139), Reviews: (1 of 2)

This work is about the maturation of the software industry, especially in light of the wild spending of the 1990s. The author, Erik Keller, formerly with the Gartner Group, makes the convincing point that the days when corporations cou...

Dec 8 2004
  Outsourcing to India
Kobayashi-Hillary M., Springer-Verlag, 2004.  Type: Book (9783540208556)

After the dot-com bust, the generally weak US economy has driven unemployment rates for the information technology (IT) profession from 1.9 percent, in 1999, to 5.9 percent, in the first half of 2003. A trend that has contributed to th...

Dec 6 2004
  Tele-centres in Ghana
Falch M. Telematics and Informatics 21(1): 103-114, 2004.  Type: Article

This paper is similar to other papers focusing on the state of computing in developing countries, especially in Africa, written to demonstrate access to information technology. Different models of tele-centers are described. The Ghanai...

Sep 17 2004
  Cyber elites: a survey of Internet café users in Uganda
Mwesige P. Telematics and Informatics 21(1): 83-101, 2004.  Type: Article

Upon the growth of Internet technology, a few decades ago, analysts looked to the information generated and made available by the Net to act as a bridge to close the various gaps that prevailed in the international system: economic, so...

Jun 23 2004
  Cellular number portability: really such a big deal?
Robinson K. Ubiquity 4(39): 1-1, 2003.  Type: Article

The author argues that cellular phone number portability, which allows one to change service providers without changing one’s phone number, is not such a big deal as the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and others w...

Feb 24 2004
  Adoption of low earth orbit satellite systems: a diffusion model under competition
Altınkemer K., Yue W., Yu L. Information Technology and Management 4(1): 33-54, 2003.  Type: Article

First and foremost, this interesting paper deals with business issues, such as competition, markets, and technology diffusion, focusing on the anticipated coming battle between Globalstar and Teledesic for market share in the low earth...

Jan 21 2004
  In search of stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters
Chapman M., APress, LP, 2003. 288 pp.  Type: Book (9781590591048)

In this book, Chapman shares his extensive personal experience in the US software industry. A foreword, written by Joel Spolsky, reminds the reader that most high-technology companies develop a built-in social conflict between the &...

Oct 22 2003
 
 
 
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