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...same way that Apple's Macintosh created a graphic user interface, GUI (pronounced goo-ey), that made it easy for ordinary mortals to use personal computers, Land has laid claim to what he unabashedly calls a VUI (voo-ey), or vocal user interface. The idea is that companies need an idiot-proof building-block system to assemble easy-to-use services with which customers feel comfortable. "All business is vocal," Land likes...
...article in the London Sunday Times quoted the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation as warning that some textile companies treat migrant workers "like slaves." Woo's response? His company pays workers more than the minimum rate set by the government and complies with the ethical codes laid down by customers...
...with Lynch's help he plans to build a gleaming new "university" on Teufelsberg in order to provide "knowledge to students but also give them the chance to be enlightened." The university would form part of a network of similar institutions in Austria, France and elsewhere. Shortly after Lynch laid a foundation stone this week, however, a senior official in the regional government told German radio that it had not granted permission for construction of the university on Teufelsberg and possibly never would. A manager at the Berlin culture center where Lynch and Schiffgens spoke conceded that the flap...
Like other publications, this very page recently questioned the role and tactics of record companies in the digital music marketplace. The Crimson may be cavalier about the impact of theft on our colleagues in the music community. After having watched thousands of regular, working class employees laid off and no longer in the music profession, we are not.Whatever one might see as the future for record companies, the importance of their creative and business role to date cannot be denied. Record companies have invested enormous sums of money to find and develop talent, and to record and market music. They...
Coordinating some 200 task forces and 600 project teams, Vasella set about knocking heads together. By the time he was done, 12,500 people had been laid off; an $80 million venture fund helped ex-employees with good ideas start businesses. He got the unions to accept performance-based compensation, a concept new to Swiss industry at the time. "Ex-Sandoz people say there is more freedom," says Novartis' elected employee representative Kathrin Amacker. "Ex-Ciba people say there is more drive and deadline consciousness...