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- Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader (exe)
- Class is in Session - let's check, how much you have forgotten since grammar school. Step up to the podium and put your smarts on the line to see if you're smarter than a 5th grader. Fast forward to the next round with the help from your 5 classmates. Enjoy...
- Tags: Class, Pressure, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-29
- The Way To Work
- No one can predict the future, but we are under more pressure to try to prepare for the future than ever before. The world of work is changing more rapidly than at any other time in our history. Private, public, and third sector organizations are experiencing shifts that make the...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Pressure, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-06-07
- The Lean Contact Centre
- The Contact Centres are facing a seemingly impossible challenge: Call volumes are rising, for seemingly no particular reason; There is increasing competition, which means that one needs to provide a better customer experience; Whilst at the same time - there is an ever-present pressure to reduce costs. In this white...
- Tags: Author, Pressure
- White papers 2006-01-27
- Managing Behind the Scenes: Meeting SAS Service Levels With HP-UX Workload Manager
- Business pressures are driving demand for Business Intelligence BI across the enterprise. Productivity pressures require full empowerment of every employee. Accountability pressures require close tracking of every business process. Regulatory pressures require that businesses document what they are doing and why. These are all core BI functions. Through the use...
- Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, Pressure, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Operating Systems, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-08-01
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- Cisco SONA
- Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification
- The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...
- Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem
- Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Web Application, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright, Pricing, Smb/Sme, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic].....Sounds similar to the other candidates too... ]:)Simplified version/* Sarah's playbook */repeat {__receivequestion; __if (IMayHaveAClueAboutquestion)__{____reciteMyScripts;__}__else __{____winkAtCamera;____ignorequestion;____printf("... but I'd like to focus on my own topics.");____dumpIrrelevantAnswers;__}} until (hostLeavesMeOffHook)RE: Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]Spot on!BidenIn the case of Biden he just makes stuff up. Facts never...
- Tags: Government, Sarah Palin, flowchart
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese serviceSo when do we clean up our own act?First we need to clean up our own operation, put a little sunshine into the dark corners of the domestic-"intelligence" "community", enact and enforce strong privacy legislation (at least on par with what's in effect...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Says, agreement
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloads
- Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloadsVolta and PDCI'm guessing Volta will show up again at the PDC. Dharma Shukla's Live Platform Architecture session seems to hint at it with "hybrid client/cloud scripting". I also wouldn't be surprised if a stand-alone Volta session is added at the last...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Dharma Shukla, Pocket Internet Explorer, Deepfish, Volta, WM7, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Denon AH-NC732
- Bose has managed to persuade thousands of people to spend large sums of money on the company's QuietComfort 3 and QuietComfort 2 noise-canceling headphones. That has emboldened companies such as Denon--which can leverage its own highly respected brand--to come up with its own pair of $300 noise-canceling headphones. Alas, Denon...
- Tags: AH-NC732s, headphone, Bose, Denon
- Product reviews 2008-10-01
- Microsoft HealthVault offers the nickel tour
- Microsoft HealthVault offers the nickel tourMicrosoft HealthVault offers the nickel tourSounds good in theory but...[i]But Nolan admits the system won’t really take off until its partners, such as Kaiser, Mayo Clinic and New York Presbyterian Hospital, build in connectivity that lets you download your records from them quickly.[/i]Therein lies the...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Microsoft HealthVault, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- iPhone + Lotus Notes = Opportunity + Annoyance
- Maybe you saw the IBM announcement or the NY Times blog posting on it. iPhone now can run iNotes, a lightweight application for access to Lotus Notes email, calendaring, and contacts. But why the complex equation? Let me break it down for you: iPhone. IBM Lotus...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Sustainability is big concern for mobile telcos says head of Orange Mobile
- I recently met with Olaf Swantee, the head of Orange Mobile, a large telco owned by France Telecom. Mr Swantee said sustainability and the availability of spectrum were two key challenges. Other highlights from the interview: -WiMAX is not...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Sustainability, Mobile, Telecommunications Company, Spectrum, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Thinking about Oracle Fusion applications
- Thinking about Oracle Fusion applicationsKilling Oracle DB in the enterprise......will probably be more difficult that killing off the mainframe...Postgres and/or MySQL may match, or even pass, it in terms of capabilities. But Oracle will still have history.And remember, Oracle pretty much works. This isn't like replacing Windows, where...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Oracle Corp., open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., sales
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?
- Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?Well, given that you could carry a folding keyboard, why not?But, how about touch screens that somehow gave you a feeling when your fingers were in the right place??? You could possible put at least a raised "dash" on the screen for the F...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, PRODUCTIVITY, keyboard, notebook computer, notebook, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution
- I have a lot of sympathy for Sridhar Vembu. CEO of AdventNet, the parent company behind Zoho. His last two posts reflect much of the fear and frustration behind what I am hearing in the startup world. But amid the gloom, Sridhar offers a glimmer of hope. A few snippets....
- Tags: Capitalism, Financial, Alchemy, Wall Street, Zoho, Alchemy Analogy, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes today
- The financial bail-out of Wall Street wasn't the only thing keeping Congress critters working through the weekend. Somehow, House members managed to get it together to withstand lobbying pressure from radio broadcasters and pass the Webcaster Settlement Act. Now, Pandora founder Tim Westergren says, the battle moves...
- Tags: U.S. Senate, Broadcaster, Webcaster, Free Trade, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Web Science: The next academic hot spot
- Web Science: The next academic hot spotThe previous issue of SciAm was very good.For anyone who doesn't know, the prior issue of Scientific American was almost entirely about privacy and security, with an appropriate focus on the Internet.I thought the web science article in the current issue was very interesting...
- Tags: Channel management, Web, web science, academic hot spot, Web Science, hot spot
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
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