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21 November 2003   

 

4 out of 10 118 calls are accurate

"According to the report, 61% of calls to the Thus service requesting business numbers were answered correctly. But this figure dropped to 33% for residential numbers, making Thus the least accurate service for home number inquiries."

Lucky for me I didn't want to advertise in the Yell version of 118, sure it may be more accurate, but I think very few will call for, "a local web designer, please."


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Radio tags spark privacy worries

You could have a shop that notices that you are wearing a Versace clothes and vary the level of services and prices accordingly "

I have heard about these tags but not realised that they were in such wide spread use. Nor, that their effective range was only 10 metres. But why worry that your clothes size is being transmitted around the shop? Vanity!

I don't like the idea of a burglar scanning my house to see what goodies are inside, but sure there'll be some effective way to stop this.

On the whole I like the idea, and there'll be plenty of benefits for the consumer to come out of this technology. Less shop lifters and thus lower prices is one.


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'Lost generation' of bosses blamed for IT mediocrity

Techies tend to be sidelined in key decision-making and are disconnected from the management mainstream. In effect, low-tech managers are forcing the UK economy into a low tech equilibrium.

This really pisses me off. I see this so often and hear, anecdotally from those techies, of idiotic management decisions spending orders of magnitude too much on pissy projects, and pennies on mission criticals.

I agree about the IT literacy tests. Especially in the 'jobs for life' UK Civil Service.


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