I read in “Otto The Modest” (BusinessWeek, June 5, 2006) that Michael Otto, CEO of German retailer Otto Group, ‘refuses to take his company public partly because he thinks the market encourages shortsighted management.“We don’t have to come up with a good story every quarter for the investors and the press,” Otto said in an… Read More »
Some people will do ANYTHING to make a statement. The folks at Phonebashing (www.phonebashing.com) are obviously very good at this. True, what they are doing is probably illegal (and definitely obnoxious), but for mobile phone bullies who have prevailed in the past, this is pay back time! If you are ever at the receiving end… Read More »
Two years ago, when Dell revealed its enterprise strategy, I mentioned that the company will drive industry standards even if such standards happen to be proprietary, presumably because of its customer focus. Hell, I was wrong. Dell’s recent announcement that it will start shipping AMD-based servers was not about putting customers first. If the company… Read More »
From The Economist:Two Shanghainese entrepreneurs are offering themselves as verbal and physical punch-bags to frustrated office workers. Fed up with your boss? Underpaid? The founders of Wantong Ltd certainly hope so. Chen Jun and Zhang Li are offering Shanghainese a novel service: for 100 yuan they will lend a listening ear; for another 20 yuan… Read More »
There are some ructions amongst Chinese in New Zealand at the moment, as Tze Ming Mok link summarises on the Public Address site. Reading that, Keith Ng’s defence of student magazine Salient’s satire and the entries on Cokemaster’s Geekzone blog about Chinese students at Massey University in Palmerston North taking umbrage at the varsity rag… Read More »
It seems that virus writers have created a Trojan that, in addition to harvesting data, deletes illicit files such as warez and porn from infected machines. Called “Erazer-A” (how appropriate!), the malware spreads across P2P networks, where it poses as useful program files. If executed, it scours folders used for P2P applications and erases matching… Read More »