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Server Upgrade Helps Optimize Company's Usage of Its Own Product

Brother International Corporation ("Brother") manufactures and supplies printers, multi-function center machines, sewing and embroidery machines, and label makers for businesses and home consumers. Printing plays a leading role in Brother's business. However, with so many printers on its internal network, Brother was having difficulty supporting large numbers of printing resources....

Tags: Brother Industries Ltd., Server Upgrade, Printing, Document Management, Printers, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals

Case studies 2008-04-15

Brother Deploys mySAP Customer Relationship Management to Enhance Customer Relations

Despite having amassed mountains of data on millions of end consumers, Brother International Corp. knew little about its clientele. In order to enhance customer relationships, the company deployed mySAP Customer Relationship Management mySAP CRM and SAP Business Information Warehouse SAP BW, a component that is now found in SAP Business...

Tags: mySAP, Brother Industries Ltd., SAP AG, Brother, mySAP CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software

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CEATEC Roundup: Sony's 0.3mm OLED display, Sharp's solar-power TV, Panasonic's LifeWall concept

While we all wait around until January for the Consumer Electronics Show, an event like CEATEC Japan can give us a taste of the future for home theater. And since ZDNet didn't offer to fly me over there to check it out first-hand (cough, next year, cough), I had to...

Tags: Sony Corp., 3D, Panasonic, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Sharp Corp., TV, Wall, Construction, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six months

Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six monthsMS extends XP downgrade rights by six monthsI did my share of begging to MS to "let the customer be right" concerning XPs continuing desirability,Thank god they actually listened to mine and probably a half million similar letters.I can now look forward...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Panasonic Viera TH-58PZ800U

The big-screen HDTV arena is still owned by rear-projection models, but with every passing year flat-panel versions, especially plasmas, fall in price and become attractive targets for folks seeking massive home theater pictures. But prices haven't fallen far enough yet for most people, so for the foreseeable future big-screen plasmas...

Tags: Quality, TV & Home Theater, TVs, plasma, Panasonic, Panasonic TH-58PZ800U, THX Display Certification

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Apple wins royalty rate showdown

Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...

Tags: Apple wins royalty rate showdown, RIAA, royalty rate showdown, piracy, Apple Wins, music, showdown, MPAA, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

The open source opportunity in web advertising

The open source opportunity in web advertisingFireFox Beta 1 was issued...... in November, 2007. If that final 3.0 is a version number, I don't think the entry comes from 2006.You might ask if the person using FireFox could remember and report when he first downloaded 3.0.Microsoft sells advertising...... and...

Tags: Sales strategy, open source opportunity, Web Advertising, sales, security, open source, Web

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind

By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...

Tags: Job, Financial, Economist, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-02

The cost of doing business in China: Privacy

The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...

Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD

VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVDRealDVDFrankly, the software is pretty cool. But, in typical Real fashion, it fails miserably in a few ways.Primarily is the playback interface. Unless I'm missing something, in full-screen mode there is NO WAY to get rid of the Real interface...

Tags: Digital music, Corporate communications, Digital media, Consumer electronics, RealDVD, iTunes mp3 ripper, iTunes MP3, CD, ripper, Apple iTunes, DVD, MP3, video

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Agresso's answer to ERP addiction

Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...

Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accounts

Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accountsWhy...Why are you people so hard on Palin? She can't help it. She suffers from Palinitis: You open your mouth, out pops a lie.I mean, she is only running for Vice President of the United States, with the additional possibility...

Tags: Devilcrat, Obama, e-mail, Palin, secret email account

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!

Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!RE: Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!One can only home apple shuts iTunes downMusic Industry to AppleLOL!disagree strongly"one appeal of the iPod is how easy it is to buy music for...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, music industry, music

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Pioneer Elite Kuro PRO-111FD

Pioneer markets its Elite lineup of plasma TVs to appeal to the hard-core home theater enthusiast, and that means pricing these panels above and beyond just about anything else. The enthusiast who can afford one, however, can rest assured that the 50-inch PRO-111FD performs above and beyond anything else on...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, PRO-111FD, HDTV

Product reviews 2008-09-30

CA Dems: Scrutiny of Yahoo-Google deal threatens competition

Seeing as how Google and Yahoo are both California companies, California House members have taken it upon themselves to tell the Dept. of Justice to butt out of the advertising swap between the two Internet honchos. In a letter of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the Democratic reps said: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Computer Associates International Inc., D, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businesses

Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businessesAll Cloud based applications have this vulnerabilityFrom what I have been able to tell putting any type of personal or secret business data on the internet is pretty much the same as publishing it on the front page of every major newspaper...

Tags: Vertical industries, data liability, Internet, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

1 million Classmates headed to Venezuela

1 million Classmates headed to VenezuelaAgreedChavez can control any Open Source software in his country, as the government is taking control of all private industries.This is not really about what he feels is best for all, but instead of what he feels he can control the best.You failed to notice...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Web browsers, Debian, Classmates, aversion, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Canon Vixia HG20

The Canon Vixia HG20 is an excellent HD camcorder that's reasonably easy to operate out of the box and looks good, too. It's almost identical to the company's Vixia HF11, but rather than recording mainly to internal flash memory, it records to a hard drive. As for performance, it's as...

Tags: Corporate communications, Flash memory, Canon Inc., HG20, Vixia HF11, camcorder

Product reviews 2008-09-29

ISPs keep their distance from deep packet inspection

Lawmakers in Washington took a break from dealing with the economy this morning to examine one piece of controversial technology that big companies are quickly distancing themselves from - Deep Packet Inspection. The technology, which allows deep granular analysis of network traffic, grabbed the attention of privacy advocates when it...

Tags: DPI, Advertisement, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-25

KAUST to house fastest supercomputer in Middle East

Thanks to one of my tipsters, I was informed the other day that KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have teamed up with IBM to build the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East. KAUST is one of the most modern, dedicated...

Tags: Supercomputer, University, Middle East, Supercomputing, KAUST, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-25