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- Allstate Canada Upgrades Its Desktop for a More Stable and Secure IT Environment
- For the past 50 years, the Allstate Insurance Company of Canada has provided Canadians with home, auto, and personal insurance. In late 2002, Allstate Canada decided to upgrade its aging IT infrastructure to assist its large and geographically dispersed workforce. With a goal of improving software performance, stability, and network...
- Tags: IT Environment, Desktop, Information Technology, Allstate Corp., Microsoft Corp., Allstate Canada, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
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- Canada not the solution either
- Canadians have access to less medical technology than patients in other countries, even though the computer networks handling back-office functions may be more effective. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Canada, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Social networking penetration by country in September 2008
- Country Sep-2007 Sep-2008 Point Change Canada 83.9 86.5 2.6 Brazil 76.0 85.3 9.3 United Kingdom 78.7 78.4 -0.3 Mexico 67.3 73.0 5.7 Spain 63.9 70.7 6.8 United States 65.8 70.2 4.5 Australia 56.5 67.5 11.1 ...
- Tags: Network, Federation, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- SMS fees impacting Twitter feature
- Just this week, I was applauding Twitter for rejecting an offer from Facebook. One reason I noted was that Twitter's SMS text feature makes alerts from twittering (tweeting?) news outlets such as ZDNet even more valuable. Now, that feature seems headed for the history books as wireless carriers impose fee...
- Tags: Wireless Carrier, SMS, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis
- DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...
- Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- More tidbits about electronics recycling and e-waste
- Goodness, they did it. As debate continues over nasty e-recycling behavior and the role of the government, businesses and the average U.S. citizen in fixing the situation, Massachusetts asset disposition company Converge has delivered on its promise to expand its international network with responsible partners. The company says it has...
- Tags: Asset, Recycling, Electronics, E-waste, TV, Alberta Recycling, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- What's driving women out of computer science?
- When it comes to higher education, women have achieved parity with men in almost every technical pursuit...except computer science. With all science and engineering fields considered, the percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85,...
- Tags: Women, Computer Science, Computer, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Microsoft offers zero percent financing on Dynamics ERP and CRM
- Microsoft is taking a play from automakers as it tries to stoke demand for its enterprise applications--zero percent financing. The company said Thursday that it will offer zero percent financing for 36 months to Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM software. The fact that technology vendors are increasingly...
- Tags: Financing, ERP, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .
- I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Kmart Black Friday deal: $699.99 42-inch Samsung plasma
- Kmart Black Friday deal: $699.99 42-inch Samsung plasmaThis is a deal why?I can go buy the PN42A450 for $749 today at Best Buy or Circuit City.Samsung products...I used to own a Samsung VCR. It was a piece of crap. (Fooled me once. Shame on Samsung.)Foolishly, I thought...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Kmart Black Friday, Kmart Black Friday deal, K Mart, plasma
- Discussion threads 2008-11-09
- (Gallery: Honda's walking assist device)
- (Gallery: Honda's walking assist device)RE: (Gallery: Honda's walking assist device)The next phase will be to take those that can't use their arms or legs and are house bound to be connected by the web to a serogate android like Honda's little guy that climbs stares and such and then these...
- Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Honda Motor Co., Gallery
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Foreign governments attack White House, Obama, McCain campaign systems
- Foreign governments attack White House, Obama, McCain campaign systemstsk, tsk...MISLEADING headline!!!Man, just when will folks like you stop your xenophobia??!! Whatever happened to the terrible horrible Russians that you guys kept telling the public that they wanted to invade and control us?!! Get a life!!In case you haven't...
- Tags: SECURITY, govt, Foreign governments attack, Obama McCain, Foreign Government, White House, attack
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Election-day technology watches the polls
- Election-day technology watches the pollsReffer back to President Clinton for a clue.He also promised a middle class cut and then didn't come through when elected. You can be sure about the tax raising however. No Democrat has ever failed to keep that promise.My biggest concern.Energy. If Obama...
- Tags: Election Day, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Alpine PND-K3 - GPS receiver
- We've reviewed a couple of in-car GPS devices from Alpine Electronics, including the Alpine Blackbird and the Alpine Blackbird II, and we haven't come away particularly impressed. While offering a decent feature set, the performance was subpar and definitely not worth the eye-popping price tag. The company's latest model, the...
- Tags: Keyboards, GPS, GPS receiver, start screen, Alpine, Alpine PND-K3, Alpine Blackbird
- Product reviews 2008-10-30
- Symantec cuts outlook amid 'pause' in IT spending
- Symantec sees tough sledding ahead as the company cut its fiscal third quarter outlook. "Like many other companies we saw a pause in IT spending the last week of the quarter," said CEO John Thompson on a conference call. The security software vendor said Wednesday that its...
- Tags: Revenue, Symantec Corp., IT-spending, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething — and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Cringely's right, Windows Mobile is dead
- Cringely's right, Windows Mobile is deadPeople who know nothing have the loudest opinions"Cringley is right, unless you can point me to any hot new product that will be using it."@UninformedIdiotHave you heard of the HTC Touch HD or the Xperia X1?Triple......I like your posts sometimes but you're way out on...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular phones, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., mobile, WM7, Microsoft Zune, Cringely, handset, High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-24
- What's On unavailable from the App Store (updated)
- NapkinWare's What's On dead iTunes link, a killer (US$1) TV listings app for the iPhone, was mysteriously removed disappeared from the App Store some time in the last 24 hours. The app, billed as a "a portable channel guide for your iPhone/iPod Touch" has a beautiful interface...
- Tags: Apple Inc., App, NapkinWare, Sales Strategy, Digital Music, TVs, Digital Media, Tv & Home Theater, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- The average user feels little or no "Apple tax"
- The average user feels little or no "Apple tax"Quite eloquent...Adrian,As I read your prose I don't see a bias towards a specific platform. Congratulation, it's well written.I'm a Mac and Windows user, preferring the Mac platform very much more than Windows. Interestingly I paid the MS tax moving from DOS...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Apple Inc., average user, tax, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- Suicide theories wanted
- Suicide theories wantedsuicideWhy is no one considering the rampant over prescription of anti-depresant drugs and their relationship to suicides? SSRI drugs are a social scourge as terrible as crack or crystal meth. They are legal addictive drugs, handed out like candy by doctors, promising a cure for depression. But the...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, GSK, pornography addiction, suicide, SSRI, theory
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
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