Ready for international Computer Awareness Day on Monday, London based IT company WFH IT Support has released its list of the ten most common cybersecurity mistakes made by businesses. “2020 has presented challenges across the board to businesses big and small and to make things worse, cybercriminal tactics have become more sophisticated than ever. The National Crime Agency has identified a surge ...
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Toolstation let me down – data mining
I wasted an early morning trip to Toolstation this morning. I company I usually find good – whichever branch – polite, organised, good basic products. There is a slight annoyance, as they always data mine for name and postcode, but were always content to continue without. But no longer Me – part xyz please Him – name and address Me ...
Ed Goes East
‘The Brats are on the phone again today banging on about our assembly and test costs,’ Ed’s diary reads, referring to the 20-something year-old, super-sharpies employed by his company’s private equity owners to monitor his performance.
Hermann Hauser’s Criteria For Judging A Business Plan
The average ratio of accepted business plans to rejected business plans is 50:1, aacording to Hermann Hauser, founder of the VC firm Amadeus Capital. How does he separate the wheat from the chaff?
Fable: When The Steel Industry Went In For ICs.
About 20 years ago, the idea caught hold among the steel-manufacturers of a far-off country that the semiconductor business was a very good business to get into.
First Casualty In US Spectrum Auction
Maybe the US government won’t get as much as it was hoping to from this month’s auction of spectrum, which was expected to see non-traditional telecoms players like Google, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, get into the wireless telecoms business.
Seeding A Market, According To David Sarnoff
The greatest businessman who the late Bernie Vonderschmitt, founder of Xilinx, ever knew, was David Sarnoff. One of the many things Sarnoff taught Vonderschmitt was the importance of seeding a new market by making technology affordable. “After World War two I had a job with RCA. I was managing the solid state division”, said Vonderschmitt, “RCA had a policy of ...