Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Dec 1, 2005
- 3 min
Scotland loses out in the digital switch-over chaos
THE BRITISH TELEVISION industry today is a bit like the proverbial swan — it may all look smooth and controlled on the top, but...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business InsiderIan Ritchie
- Nov 3, 2005
- 2 min
The just get it from IBM attitude is bad and lazy - let’s shop local
A POPULAR working definition of an expert is “someone who lives 5000 miles away”. When I ran a software company with headquarters in...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Oct 6, 2005
- 2 min
The vision of freedom has become one of repression
IN 1994 I invited Tim Berners-Lee, then a fairly obscure technical geek, to deliver the closing keynote speech at an international...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Sep 1, 2005
- 3 min
For richer or poorer, property rights transform lives
I HAVE OFTEN wondered if there is some kind of systemic difference between the western world, where wealth creation seems to be able to...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jul 28, 2005
- 2 min
Famous faces can’t guarantee sales – they’re only human
TRICKY THINGS — celebrities. Being flesh and blood and having minds of their own can have drawbacks, particularly if you have hired them...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jun 2, 2005
- 2 min
Fear of the download: it’s here to stay so exploit it
WHEN will they ever learn? Leading publishers are criticising Amazon for putting the full content of hundreds of thousands of...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- May 5, 2005
- 3 min
How MSPs are wasting time, food and the democratic process
NOW THAT THE MSPs are fully installed in their shiny new parliament building at the bottom of the Royal Mile there is a sense that they...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Apr 1, 2005
- 3 min
Risk-all Rupert doesn’t do free, but could learn from his rivals
FEW businessmen in the world are as willing to take the really big risks as Rupert Murdoch. He bought the failing Sun newspaper from the...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 3, 2005
- 2 min
Nice v nasty IT company. It’s not that black and white
EVERYBODY KNOWS what to make of the two superheroes of the IT industry: Bill Gates, the captain of the giant Microsoft ‘evil empire’,...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Feb 3, 2005
- 2 min
Funding the ‘soft’ options may be the ‘Smart’ option
THE GOVERNMENT has set a target of getting 50 per cent of the UK’s young people into higher education; a goal already achieved in...
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