Information Technology

Learning to say "No!"
"Thanks, but no thanks. We don't want this project." Would you say this to business that knocks at your door? To business that you specialise in? You would today, if you were the chief of a software development company that wants to limit its exposure to
revenues from upstart dot.coms.
WAP: Belied expectations
Over the past year, the mobile phone segment spearheaded by likes of Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola have been going ga-ga over a new technology called Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

The `dumb-bell' effect
Welcome to the new Silicon Valley. Brash, bold, and a lot less attractive for an entrepreneur with half an idea.

The issue of PEs
The Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) recognizes that the present commentary that explains the Model Treaty's definition of a permanent establishment (PE) is inadequate for e-commerce.

Gluing Business Application Software Together
Many organisations use software applications to support key elements of their manufacturing, sales, customer service, and financial operations, and have reaped tremendous rewards in the process.

Where IT increases savings tempo
You have to buy a spark plug for your motorbike today and Murphy's law dictates that the neighbourhood garage runs out of stock that very day.
Searching with sense
In the beginning was the search engine, which made searching for relevant information on the Net painful. Then came engines like Google, which ranks sites according to how often they have been visited, and Askjeeves, which claims to offer a `human' touch
, with actual people searching for you.

Escrow for software
Few people would license a critical piece of software without

A PEG for investors
YOU know it is hot. But there is hot and then there is hot. And you do not want your investments in Internet stocks turning to toast.
TIP OFF
When you want to change the default icon of a shortcut, usually you right click the Shortcut tab -> Properties->Shortcut, then press the change icon button and select from the available icon files. But, you can also select and use any other bitmap image,
as the icon. Just after pressing the change icon button-> press Browse -> select the file type " all files " instead of the default Icon files. Now you can select any bitmap image file as the icon, including your loved ones. Is it no great?