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On the Road to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: A Continuing Tradition of Excellence

As official convergence communications provider for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Avaya is one of a handful of partners that have proven themselves able to rise any challenge and meet the uncompromising performance standards of the Federation Internationale de Football Association FIFA. The company wanted to provide secure around-the-clock...

Tags: FIFA, Avaya Inc., World Cup, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Business Structures, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Finance

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The 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: A Celebration of Excellence

Avaya is proud to have been the Official Convergence Communication Provider of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. The challenge was to design, implement and manage an ultra reliable and secure, high-capacity converged communications network for over 200,000 total end-users in a rapidly changing, maximum-visibility global environment. The solution tot...

Tags: FIFA, Avaya Inc., World Cup, Team Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Management

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The 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: Flexibility and the Competitive Advantage

Avaya was one of a handful of providers as Official Convergence Communication Provider of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. The challenge was to provide highly flexible, easy to deploy and manage converged communications for the German Football Local Organising Committee LOC - one of the driving forces behind the...

Tags: Germany, Competitive Advantage, FIFA, Avaya Inc., World Cup, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

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The 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: Mobility and the Competitive Advantage

Since becoming a trusted FIFA World Cup partner in 2001, Avaya has helped bring the excitement of the world's most popular sport to an estimated total global audience of 30 billion fans. The challenge was to provide ultra secure around-the-clock voice and data communications for over 20,000 on-the-move end-users in...

Tags: Competitive Advantage, FIFA, Mobility, Avaya Inc., World Cup, Business Structures, Team Management, Strategy, Finance, Management

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OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough

There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand. OO.org 3.0 really is a serious upgrade over version 2.4 and makes NeoOffice irrelevant for Mac OS X users (previously, OpenOffice only worked within X11; While NeoOffice did a great job porting OO.org...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OO.org 3.0, OpenOffice, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0

Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, On-demand, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Egnyte, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Facebook as social rule of thumb?

This new course I'm taking introduces sociology, and I assure all you budding sociologists who read that this new-found knowledge isn't going to my head. It seems for many, especially students who are forced into a semi-confined place as others, take precedent, that Facebook confirms events within our lives. ...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Open source protectionism?

I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...

Tags: Open Source, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Debate around 'partial disclosure' heats up

There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a period of time to fix the issue, or it may just be circulated amongst the underground without ever coming...

Tags: Disclosure, Researcher, Vulnerability, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Value, value and values in an open source world

There is a distinct difference in the attitude of open source players, advocates and users. It comes down to a five-letter word, value. Or its plural, values. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Value, Cogswell Cogs, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model

While the U.S. launch of WiMAX marks the debut of fast wireless Internet, the overall implications of this technology are much broader. See how this could shake up the cellular world and usher in a new breed of software, devices, and business applications. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Mobile, Network, Broadband, Sprint Communications, Mobile Broadband, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)

Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., McDonald's Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead

Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)

Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?

Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and...

Tags: Network, built-In, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions

I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...

Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2.0 next week

Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2.0 next weekrelease is on 13th day of the month...unlucky day if you ask me.For M$ and the sucker who download it.I'll go with Linux, the safe bet!Go Microsoft!!!Whip Google / Apple / FOSS and their collective sorrow @$$.RE: Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2.0...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Silverlight 2.0, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake

Microsoft Big Brains: Gary FlakeThe Live products keep getting betterI am a Microsoft programmer who does web and normal programming. The web programming tools are getting better and better. But, Popfly is an example of the way that the web can be used for both programming and for...

Tags: Channel management, PRODUCTIVITY, Web, Popfly, tool, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversationsThis could help the economy...The government should burn the recorded conversations to CDs and sell them. :-)NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversationsHrmmm I wonder if they are hiring?More lies from the Bush administration.http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060102/news_1n2bush.htmlIt only counts because AMERICANS are...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone sex, NSA, Eavesdroppers, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-10