The Ten IC Companies Least Likely To Survive

Thanks to EE Times for this one. The magazine asked readers in the US this question: Which of the current top 20 companies are least likely to be around in five years time?

Answers:

Renesas

AMD

NXP

Fujitsu

Sony

Infineon

Hynix

Freescale

ST

Toshiba…

The Ten Most Drunken Countries

Thanks to the World Health Organisation for this one – the ten most drunken countries on earth.

Moldova

  CzechRepublic

  Hungary

  Russia

  Ukraine

  Estonia

  Andorra

  Rumania

  Slovenia

  Belarus…

The Ten Most Horrible Bosses

Thanks to complex.com for this one – the ten most horrible bosses. They appear to be confined to American bosses, but whether American bosses are adjudged more horrible than bosses in other countries is not clear. Here they are – the ten most horrible bosses of all time:

Steve Ballmer

  John…

Ten Riskiest Phones

Thanks to Bit9 for this one. Apparently some Android phones are no longer getting software updates which leaves bugs un-patched and loopholes unclosed. Here, according to Bit9, are the ten most vulnerable phones:

Samsung Galaxy Mini

  HTC Desire

  Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

  Sanyo Zio

  HTC Wildfire

  Samsung Epic 4G…

The Ten Most Annoying Things About Working In An Office

Thanks to Samsung for this one – the result of its ‘Office Bugbears’ research project to find the ten most annoying things about working in an office. Here they are:

1.      Slow IT systems (68%)

  2.      Print delays caused by jams (42%)

  3.      Unnecessary email traffic (39%)

  4.      Colleagues talking too…

The Ten Worst-Dressed High-Tech Execs

Thanks to GQ for this one – the ten worst-dressed execs in high-tech:

Mark Zuckerberg

  Steve Jobs

  Bill Gates

  Peter Chou

  Shantanu Navagen

  Tom Anderson

  Howard Stringer

  Seth Priebatsch

  Dennis Crowley

  Reid Hoffman…

The Ten Worst CEO Traits

Thanks to RecruitingBlogs for this one – the ten worst CEO traits:

Control Junkie.

  Being Right

  Rude

  Gives Blame / Takes Credit

  Bad Listener

  Withholding info.

  Anger

  Kills Messengers

  Win/Lose (no concept of win/win)

  Negativity…

The Ten Worst Executive Decisions

Thanks to ZDNet for this one – the ten worst high-tech executive decisions of all time

IBM not buying DOS outright

  Adam Osborne pre-announcing the Osborne Executive

  HP scrapping PA-RISC

  Scrapping DEC Alpha

  HP buying Compaq

  Launching Vista

  Sacking Steve Jobs

  AOL/Time Warner merger

  Yahoo refusal of…