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VCON Telecommunications10535 Boyer Blvd., Suite 300Austin, TX(512) 583-7700www.vcon.com TICKER: VCTS.LN (No. 022021)EXCHANGE: Nouveau Marché EMPLOYEES: 135 worldwide Gordon Daugherty President, VCON, Inc.; Chief Marketing Officer Responsible for all company operations throughout the Americas, he also oversees strategy and global marketing campaigns. Had been at VTEL. David Moss VP, Sales, Americas
SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES1 Symbol PlazaHoltsville, NY 11742(631) 738-2400www.symbol.com/mobile TICKER: SBLEXCHANGE: NYSE EMPLOYEES: 6,200 Jerome Swartz Chairman, Chief Scientist Credited with more than 150 patents, he cofounded the company in 1975. Was a program manager on a key NASA Apollo project in the 1960s. Ron Goldman SVP, Mobile Computing and Scanning Previously
In 1996, the management of Worldspan was faced with a critical decision. Of the big three U.S.-based computerized travel reservations companies, Worldspan was a dust-eating third. Market leader Sabre had just launched Travelocity, which would grow to become one of the largest online travel companies in the world. According to
It’s been more than two decades since videoconferencing vendors began promising to revolutionize the way the world does business. The revolution still has yet to arrive, but when—or if—it finally does, at least we’ll be able to watch it together in really high-quality video. In his 1996 novel, Infinite Jest,
Lightnin, a manufacturer of custom-designed industrial mixers, couldn’t move fast enough in the 1990s. Botched orders and delayed shipments added up to unhappy customers. So Lightnin executives looked to make its processes more efficient. While other companies are still recovering from bingeing on new technology, this 80-year-old industrial stalwart and
A salty-snack maker in Texas pioneered the use of wireless communications on delivery routes. Among the copycats: Pepsico, Pepsi bottling companies and such Pepsi subsidiaries as Quaker Oats and Tropicana. So how come all these Pepsi units invested in different wireless systems? After all, Pepsi owns Frito-lay, the company that
DID YOU KNOW THAT: ? You need to be sensitive to changing bandwidth In order to manage costs, the mobile application you deploy should be capable of working with a variety of wireless networks, from a WiFi local area network, with its low cost but limited range, to the cell
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THE OBSTACLE When a diversified company decides to unify technology across business units, power is rearranged. Some people lose it (field executives) and others gain (often the corporate chief information officer). There’s plenty of motive and opportunity for the technology managers in business units not to cooperate fully with headquarters.
Summertime is hot and sweaty. You’re likely to be munching on chips at neighborhood barbecues or pulling on a cold beverage from dawn to dusk. PepsiCo drivers, in turn, must get up before sunrise and put in 10- or 12-hour days to slake thirsts for soda and hunger for salty