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The CueCat was ranked No. 20 on PC World ' s list of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time". [7] It also landed on Time ' s list of "The 50 Worst Inventions", calling it "little more than a high-tech paperweight". [8] Despite its poor showing, the CueCat has been viewed as a precursor to QR codes, which have become ubiquitous. [6]
AT&T long-distance network crash (January 15, 1990), in which the failure of one switching system would cause a message to be sent to nearby switching units to tell them that there was a problem. Unfortunately, the arrival of that message would cause those other systems to fail too – resulting in a cascading failure that rapidly spread across ...
Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.
Source: mmcmaxi via Flickr. 4. Google is socially awkward Wave. Buzz. Plus. Google's history of social-media flops actually stretches back beyond these three stinkers, but they're the ones that ...
List of bank failures in the United States (2008–present) List of largest U.S. bank failures; List of sovereign defaults; List of stock market crashes and bear markets; List of UK businesses entering administration during 2008–2009 financial crisis; List of accounting scandals; List of defunct airlines; Agency cost; Center for Audit Quality ...
This is a list of obsolete technology, superseded by newer technologies. Obsolescence is defined as the "transition from available to unavailable from the manufacturer in accordance with the original specification." [1] Newer technologies can mostly be considered as disruptive innovation. Many older technologies co-exist with newer alternatives ...
From the personal computer to the smartphone, the late Steve Jobs revolutionized modern society over and over again. Along the way, however, he racked up an impressive list of failures.Jobs proved ...
Then there's the list of "companies that had license agreements with President Trump [that] have failed": "Trump Shuttle, Inc., launched by President Trump in 1989, defaulted on its loans in 1990 ...