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- Salesforce.com Case Study: BridgeStreet Worldwide
- BridgeStreet Worldwide's management needed visibility into global pipeline & customer relationships to grow business. The company required customizable CRM to match proprietary sales methodology and also wanted to drive adoption & support remote sales reps with offline access, Outlook and PDA integration. BridgeStreet Worldwide chose salesforce.com over Siebel OnDemand Upshot...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., BridgeStreet Worldwide, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
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- Corporate Housing Provider Boosts Revenue With Interactive Mapping Solution
- BridgeStreet Worldwide is a corporate housing provider offering fully-furnished apartment accommodation services in more than 100 U.S. metropolitan areas and more than 50 locations around the globe. BridgeStreet Worldwide's initial mapping solution offered little more than static road maps for clients and guests who were evaluating the company's accommodations online....
- Tags: Revenue, Accommodation, Microsoft Corp., BridgeStreet Worldwide, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
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- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?
- Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Semiconductor sales up 5.5% in August 2008
- Worldwide sales of semiconductors grew by 5.5% to $22.7 bln in August 2008 from August 2007 sales of $21.5 bln. Sales grew by 2.4% from July when sales were $22.2 bln, SIA says. Year-to-date sales through August were $170.2 bln, an increase of 4.5% from the same period of 2007...
- Tags: Semiconductor, PC Unit Sale, Unit Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Nokia announces 5800 XpressMusic touch screen S60 device
- Nokia announces 5800 XpressMusic touch screen S60 deviceThis device is awesome......it's not quite got the UI of the iPhone but the feature list is impressive and it costs £200 unlocked with free music.It's going to sell by the bucket load.Knock UpI don't know if I'd call this a knock off...
- Tags: 3G, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, touch screen, Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- 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
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again
- Never let a human do a malware infected host's CAPTCHA recognition job. On their way to abuse the DomainKeys verified server reputation in order increase the probability of their spam emails reaching the receipts, spammers and malware authors are once again attempting to break Microsoft's "revisited" CAPTCHA, and are able...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Spammer, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- I... B... Wha?
- The following is a true story, and happened to me today. I'm on a business trip visiting Richmond, Virginia --Â which for those of you kids reading this piece, is the state capital, has a population of over 200,000, and is home to...
- Tags: Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- First Intel MID now available for $699
- There was a lot of Intel MID Mobile Internet Device news and demos at CES back in January, but we are just now starting to see them become available. Jenn from Pocketables posted that the Aigo P8860D/Gigabyte M528 MID is now shipping from Japan for US$699 with free worldwide shipping....
- Tags: Device, Intel Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Wireless LANs, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Notebooks, Open Source, Software, Wireless, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Top US sites in August 2008
- Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Internet 188,937 1 Google Sites 144,738 2 Yahoo! Sites 141,549 3 Microsoft Sites 123,466 4 AOL LLC 110,623 5 Fox Interactive Media 89,236 6 eBay 71,495 7 Ask...
- Tags: Site, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Contactizer Pro (dmg)
- Welcome to Contactizer Pro, the amazing all-in-one solution for managing, sharing and organizing your personal and business information. Contactizer Pro makes your contact management experience more efficient, productive and inventive. Following the prodigious success of its predecessor, OD4Contact, many users worldwide continue to choose Contactizer Pro for their calendar, organizational...
- Tags: Objective Decision, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-29
- Ballmer: Tech industry still buoyant
- Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said he still sees a "certain buoyancy" among technology and telecommunications customers worldwide, despite recent U.S. economic woes. SANTA CLARA--Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday he still sees a "certain buoyancy" among technology and telecommunications customers worldwide, despite recent U.S. economic woes....
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Industry, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Strategy, Networking, Management, Reuters, Microsoft, economy
- News items 2008-09-26
- 2.8% of households wordlwide to have Internet TV by 2012
- Global subscriptions to Internet-based TV are on track to reach 19.6 mln subscribers in 2008, a 64% increase, according to Gartner. Revenue from worldwide Internet protocol television is forecast to reach $4.5 bln, up 93.5% from a year earlier, with Western Europe boasting the largest number of IPTV subscribers and...
- Tags: Revenue, IP Television, Internet TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- EA Spore backlash could help end DRM
- EA Spore backlash could help end DRMPirate = Potential Lost Sale. Myself = Definate Lost Sale.I am not buying this game because of it, and I really wanted to as well.I don't understand the mentality of EA. If EA consider a pirate as a lost sale why not...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Games, Removing DRM, digital-rights management, Electronic Arts Inc., EA Spore, piracy, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- T-Mobile announces iPhone killer: G1 with Google
- T-Mobile announces iPhone killer: G1 with GoogleMore detailsIs it 3G? Does it support TMobile @Home service?Turn an average article into something differentby by simply attaching the often used, albeit over-used nomenclature: [i]iPhone Killer[/i]RE: T-Mobile announces iPhone killer: G1 with GoogleThe link gives a page not found???Do you know if...
- Tags: 3G, Telecom & Utilities, WIRELESS, T-Mobile, Apple iPhone, iPhone Killer, Google Inc., phone, @Home
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Apple recalls iPhone power adapter
- Apple recalls iPhone power adapterHow about finishing the list"The ultracompact USB power adapters were supplied with every iPhone 3G sold in the following countries" No listRE: Apple recalls iPhone power adapterJust another messed up launch for Apple. What does that make it 6 or 7? I cant believe You Apple...
- Tags: adapter, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, car, recall
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Yahoo begins radical home page overhaul
- Yahoo is moving ahead with a radical redesign of its home page--the most heavily trafficked site on the Web--making changes that give users a personalized view of the wider Web. SUNNYVALE, California--Yahoo is moving ahead on Thursday with a radical redesign of its home page--the most heavily trafficked site...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Site, Channel Management, Marketing, Reuters, Yahoo, home page, search, personalization
- News items 2008-09-19
- IBM: Salesforce.com's new best friend?
- IBM has launched a Center of Excellence for software as a service to help customers implement on-demand software. Guess which SaaS provider is likely to benefit the most? Yup. Salesforce.com. On Thursday, IBM announced a so-called Center of Excellence statement designed to "assist organizations worldwide in evaluating,...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, IBM Corp., Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
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