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McDonald's hopes to accept RFID wands nationwide as early as next year. Canteen has decided to convert all its vending machines after watching sales shoot up more than 40% in its North Carolina test. IBM technology guru Michael Karasick notes that while "the hype level for m-commerce has gone way down," the the technology still promises to change retailing "profoundly...
...Olympics. Virtually every global company is staking out ground. "If you're serious about growing, you've got to be there," says Dallas-based management consultant William Dunk, who adds that individual investors would do well to take their cues from the likes of Coca-Cola, GM, IBM, Motorola and P&G. All are committed to China...
...another weakness, the country?s pool of seasoned executives is starting to get larger, says Jean-Bernard Schmidt, president of a Paris-based venture-capital fund, Sofinnova Partners. Consider the career of Pierre Liautaud, another Tech Tour participant and the brother of Business Objects? CEO. This Liautaud started at IBM in 1982, first as an engineer for IBM France and later as vice president of marketing for its Internet unit in the U.S. He left Big Blue in 1999, returning to France to take the job of CEO of @Viso, an Internet incubator formed by Vivendi and Japan?s Softbank...
...information technology market research firm IDC says SAP's main competition going forward will be from the software industry's heaviest hitters. Microsoft bought Great Plains, an enterprise-application software company, in December 2000 and is expected to target part of SAP's traditional customer base. While IBM isn't talking about its plans, it is expected to make a defensive play, and Oracle is putting more of its efforts into corporate software applications, SAP's core strength...
...devices to communicate wirelessly within a 10-m radius. The privately-held British company - which has raised $65 million in funding and does about 60% of its business in Japan - has already shipped more than a million Bluetooth single-chip devices, many of which are showing up in IBM, Sony, Compaq, Fujitsu and NEC laptops, Sony cell phones and Hewlett-Packard printers...