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- Pitney Bowes Case Study: Aviva Canada Inc.
- Aviva Canada Inc. is one of the leading property and causality insurance groups in Canada, with annual written premiums of close to $3 billion. To manage the extensive volume of mail and shipments, Aviva Canada was using several different and independent shipping systems, each linked to a different carrier with...
- Tags: Pitney Bowes Inc., Aviva Plc., Aviva Canada Inc., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
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- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Microsoft says crisis will impact tech
- Microsoft says crisis will impact techGround Control to L.E.M. Apollo13 Gemini has returned to Canada:Tom Hanks Impersonator,"Aren't we glad Houston didn't say San Fransico. That fire would wipe-out the SSA and put fourteen million Americans out of their homes."" I wonder how my trailer park is doing?"Wrong!!What's needed is NOT...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft says crisis, MICROSOFT SAYS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- New Nero software turns PC into TiVo TV recorder
- TiVo and Nero have announced today that they will be launching a package that turns a Windows PC into a TV recorder, much like the TiVo sitting on top of your living room television, called Nero LiquidTV/TiVo PC. Like TiVo's existing TiVo Desktop software, LiquidTV will allow...
- Tags: Software, Recorder, PC, Nero, TiVo Inc., TVs, Desktops, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Mio Knight Rider GPS
- If you ever dreamed as a child or as an adult of owning a car like KITT of Knight Rider fame, you're dream is about to come true...sort of. Unless you're rolling in money, you can't have the actual Trans Am or David Hasselhoff, but you can have the next...
- Tags: GPS, Keyboards, display, Mio Knight Rider GPS, KITT, portable navigation device, Knight Rider GPS
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- My Awesome IT Job: Vice President of Security, SuccessFactors
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Security, QA, SuccessFactors Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Astroturfing, sockpuppets, and SCO
- Astroturfing, sockpuppets, and SCOMisplaced sympathySeveral years ago, someone where I was working a Unix house was lemanting about how Microsoft had treated poor IBM. At the time IBM's profit was bigger than MSs turnover. As if IBM could not look after itself after 90 years!Many have willingly taken adopted Google...
- Tags: Sort-of, Sarah Palin, Astroturfing, SCO Group Inc., Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- If McCain skips debate, there's always Google In Quotes
- John McCain just called for postponement of Friday's debate until the financial crisis is solved, as the Boston Globe reports. If that happens, there's always Google In Quotes, a Labs project offering up news quotes from the candidates, not only for the U.S. presidential race but also for contests in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, John McCain, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- The kids like Vista
- The kids like VistaWhy did you toss that in?You were doing well until you reached:Most kids have largely recognized what only a small number of adults have come to grips with: the OS is irrelevant. It’s all about the web browser, folks. Google Docs, Zoho, and OpenOffice all work quite...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- T-Mobile G1: Apple shouldn't be scared... yet
- T-Mobile G1: Apple shouldn't be scared... yetno automatic screen rotationThe phone probably cannot automatically switch orientation because the iPhone does. Apple probably has an overly broad patent on that ability and if you try to implement that you'll end up in court.There is room for everyone.The cell phone market...
- Tags: cell phone market, T-Mobile G1, Android Phone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, T-Mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Android: Exciting, but not iPhone exciting
- Android: Exciting, but not iPhone excitingNot IPhone then what?Sam,If not IPhone/Apple or Android/T-Mobile, then what?Thinking through my priorities for a smart phone, they are - calling, emailing, gps'ing, and web browsing - all of which to varying degrees depend on the network (extent, bandwidth) in addition to the phone hardware...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Is open source politically attractive?
- Is open source politically attractive?Do you think Canadians are so obsessed with software...... that a reference to open source as software is significant?I suggest the endorsement is a statement of political principle. Though it may not be accurate, open source might be considered an expression of an old principle:...
- Tags: open source, Bloc Quebecois, voter
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Virtual colonoscopy as good as the real thing?
- Virtual colonoscopy as good as the real thing?colonoscopyJust to be clear about when to repeat a screening colonoscopy: If you have had a normal colonoscopy without polyps, and you do not have a family history of colon cancer first degree relative, the recommendation to for the next colonoscopy...
- Tags: colonoscopy, real thing, Virtual colonoscopy
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- NY issues its RealID card
- In a move that some fear as the harbinger of a national ID card, New York this week launched its version of the "enhanced" driver's license, complete with RFID chip and good for land and sea crossings to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. by Richard Koman
- Tags: REAL ID, Card, New York, Times, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric car
- Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric carIf only we the normal peoplecould afford one!RE: Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric carThis is a major move being missed by the so-called news media. An *American* firm with American technology building energy-sensible automobiles in America with American workers....
- Tags: Tesla, EIA, car, manufacturing site, electric car, manufacturing
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Ultimate Steal spreads across the pond: Vista Ultimate included
- As I wrote a few weeks ago, the Ultimate Steal has been roaring for those in the US and Canada, and it's finally reached us across the pond the Atlantic to all the idiots out there. Similar things apply, such as needing a valid university or college email address, and...
- Tags: Offer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Pond, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, E-mail Address, Open University, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?Obama's childish attack????Kinda like the one where McCain says Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners, when in fact, what he wanted was to teach them how to recognize inappropriate touching to protect them from child predators? Ridiculous, childish attack INDEED!Um ridiculous and childishlike...
- Tags: INTERNET, RIM BlackBerry, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Groups fear secret IP treaty
- Have you heard of ACTA? Chances are good you haven't. Not much is known about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, as Wired reports, since the IP-protection treaty is being negotiated in secret. All we know for certain is it's a treaty (.pdf) about beefing up intellectual...
- Tags: Treaty, IP, Chances, Intellectual Property, Internet, Healthcare, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'Dang. He and Al Gore must have the same speech writer...:D :D :D :D :DI don't think so....RIM is a Canadian company, and all Canadians know that it was, in fact, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who coincidently was also Conservative who helped invent the...
- Tags: Handhelds, John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?
- One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?Still it is insufficient evidenceAt least for the hard line Republicans it is.Over a hundred years of data? Wow, that's like...Standing in your front yard for one minute between 0742 and 0743 while smoking a cigarette and extrapolating the next...
- Tags: Climate Change, cigarette, weather record
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
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