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- Actrol Parts Puts Chill on Rivals With Mobile Data Base
- Actrol Parts, based in Blackburn, Victoria, is one of Australia's major privately owned refrigeration and air-conditioning wholesalers. Actrol Parts wanted to get a competitive edge by improving the management of its quotes database for air-conditioning and refrigeration components. It needed a system where engineers and sales representatives working onsite with...
- Tags: Mobile, Sales Representative, IBM Corp., Actrol Part, Sales Strategy, Pricing, E-mail Servers, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software
- Case studies 2006-05-16
- Actrol Parts Puts Chill on Rivals With Mobile Database
- Actrol Parts wanted to get a competitive edge by improving the management of its quotes database for air-conditioning and refrigeration components. It needed a system where engineers and sales representatives working onsite with customers could give accurate and on-the-spot estimates for individual projects. IBM Business Partner Notability implemented an enterprise-wide...
- Tags: Database, Mobile, Sales Representative, IBM Corp., Actrol Part, Sales Strategy, Pricing, E-mail Servers, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Storage, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- Microsoft Live Search now embedded in Facebook
- When Microsoft announced it had struck a deal with Facebook to integrate its Live Search technology into the Facebook platform, the Redmondians were reluctant to share details. But as of today, October 7, Live Search is now part of Facebook. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Redmond Pie Site, Business Structures, Internet, Blogging, Search, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury
- NASA's Messenger spacecraft makes second pass by Mercury as part of effort to slow down enough to orbit the barren planet in March 2011. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-10-07
- Online, hard to avoid debate
- Tonight's presidential debate is spring up all over the Net. NBC's Hulu has launched a new Election 08 hub, which PaidContent describes as "an odd mix of debates, speeches, political humor, soundbites and commentary." Hulu is also showing Crawford, a film about the effects of...
- Tags: Debate, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Blogger ethics, public relations... and you
- Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...
- Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- 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
- TRO hearing today on RealDVD
- Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...
- Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Does the Semantic Web matter?
- My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...
- Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created
- AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD's advanced processors. The new company--currently known as "The Foundry Company"--will take over all of AMD's existing manufacturing facilities, including the two leading-edge fabs in Dresden, Germany, and...
- Tags: Asset, Foundry Networks Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Government, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...
- Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Review: HAVA Platinum HD lets you watch TV on your Nokia Internet Tablet, S60 or WM device
- I've been using a Slingbox since they were first launched a few years ago and have used all of the mobile clients to watch my TV content on the road. I still have my Slingbox Classic and use it on my S60 and Windows Mobile devices from time to time....
- Tags: Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Corp., Mobile, PC, Video, Tablet, HAVA Platinum HD, S60, Mobile Client, Slingbox Pro HD, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...
- Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing
- SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- RealDVD sales suspended, case moves north
- A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against Real, suspending sales of RealDVD, NewTeeVee.com reported over the weekend. Hollywood studios had sought the injunction as part of a suit against Real's DVD copying software. The RealDVD website now says the product is "currently unavailable." ...
- Tags: Movie, Sales Strategy, DVD, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Sony AW series: The best laptop display?
- With expansive 16:9 displays and Blu-ray drives, the new crop of desktop replacements with 18.4-inch displays are geared toward mobile entertainment. Though its design is nothing special, the Sony VAIO AW series stands out from this group, according to reviews at PCMag.com and LaptopMag.com, thanks to its high-quality, LED-backlit 1,920-by-1,080...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Desktop Replacement, Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Display, Desktops, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?
- I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, and probably a few others that I signed up for and forgot to use. I have found a nice collection...
- Tags: Mobile, Fuss, Tool, Productivity, Web 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Gil Yehuda
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
- The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that...
- Tags: FBI, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Operation Cyberslam, Gembe, Federal Government, Government, security, botnet, cybercrime, DOS, attacks, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-10-06
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