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SkypeOut now free in US and Canada

Skype has tossed down the gauntlet. In an announcement today, the company announced that SkypeOut - the ability to call any landline or mobile number - is now available free through the end of the year to all U.S. and Canadian customers. From the press release I just received:Skype, the...

Tags: Canadian Customers, Skype Technologies S.A., SkypeOut

Blog posts 2006-05-15

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Universities in hot water over students' peer-to-peer sharing

The success of iTunes shows ....... that people will pay for a product if the cost is reasonable and they have CHOICES.Most music CDs now a day have a SINGLE song that is worth listening to. The reason people started stealing music was because the industry was forcing them to...

Tags: Personal finance, P2P, MPAA, RIAA, piracy

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service

Ought to be interestingSilverlight is the means by which Netflix streams their on-demand content. I cannot help but wonder if MS cut a deal with the new Blockbuster service.Does MS support "open internet", or do they want us to pay for itDoes MS support "open internet", or do they want...

Tags: cloud computing, Strategy, Media Streaming, Microsoft Silverlight, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Corp., open-Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"

6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, regulation, Videotron, network, Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

TD Bank botches IT system consolidation; Customer havoc ensues

If you're a TD Bank customer and your balances are a mess here's the reason: IT issues are wreaking havoc on the bank. TD Bank, formerly Commerce Bank, told customers that balances, credits and debits may be inaccurate due to computer glitches. The problems...

Tags: Bank, Commerce Bank N.A., Information Technology, Consolidation, Balance, Computer, TD Bank, Productivity, Financial Services, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-02

Financial Transactions and Personal Data Security - Is Your Customers#$# Data Safe?

The risk associated with collecting and holding individual personal data for a Money Service Business MSB is both very real and very serious. In 2007, a major Canadian bank lost a computer backup file that contained individual personal data of 470,000 of its customers.3 In 2008, Statistics Canada confirmed that...

Tags: Financial, Theft, Data Security, Financial Services, Security, Finance

White papers 2009-10-01

Layer 7 Application Services Governance

Layer 7 Technologies', CEO, Paul Rochester, and VP of Engineering/Chief Architect, K. Scott Morrison, stopped by telephonically to introduce their company, its philosophy and bring me up to date on their product portfolio. The company offers server appliances and virtual appliances that take on the tasks of firewall, compliance enforcer,...

Tags: Web, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Channel Management, Web Services, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Loan Wizard Pro ( Mortgage and Loan Tools ) v4.50.2 (Mobile)

Loan Wizard Professional for Palm powered devices is a powerful mortgage and loan manager. Keep track of multiple loans for all your customers or properties. Solve for loan amounts, monthly payments, interest rates, and duration. Full database of loans. Work with an unlimited number of loans. Mortgage specific information including...

Tags: Mobile, Tool, Mortgages, Finance, Capital Structures

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Delvinia Delivers Customer Insight in Half the Time With SAS

Delvinia Interactive, based in Toronto, is a Canadian pioneer in the digital marketing space. The challenge was to combine and analyzing massive amounts of customer behavior data in order to provide clients with digital customer experience-related insights about their customers. Delvinia Interactive Using SAS 9.2, SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS...

Tags: SAS Institute, Delvinia

Case studies 2009-06-01

SuccessFactors lands big deployment, new cloud computing VP

SuccessFactors, which offers on-demand human capital management software, said Wednesday that it has landed a deployment of 300,000 users bringing its user base to 4.5 million. In addition, it has named former eBay exec Tom Fisher as vice president of cloud computing. The 300,000 user deployment was...

Tags: SuccessFactors Inc., Human Capital, Retail, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Active MediaMagnet 5.70 (Windows)

Active Media Magnet is software product that completely automates your press releases management and Internet publicity strategy. Now submitting your press releases to over 33000 media contacts (including newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, and specialized media). Unleashes the true power of automated promotions to drive customers to your site. Add or...

Tags: Press Release, Microsoft Windows, Myrasoft, E-mail, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-04-28

Wood, Arrows, and motivation

A comment by frequent contributor Roger Ramjet from last week: Free Databases There are many free databases to choose from: Firebird, Ingres, Postgres, and MySQL to name most of them. Most of the "best" developers and the largest community are behind Postgres. MySQL...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Stagnation, Motivation, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Reading the Oracle tea leaves

Reading the Oracle tea leavesFree DatabasesThere are many free databases to choose from: Firebird, Ingres, Postgres, and MySQL to name most of them. Most of the "best" developers and the largest community are behind Postgres. MySQL came out of nowhere - and it seems destined to return there, after the...

Tags: Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., Postgres, tea leave, database, Oracle Corp., BLOC, NDP

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Wireless data caps: Are usage based pricing schemes here to stay?

Wireless data caps: Are usage based pricing schemes here to stay?Paying through the nose For It...The reason nobody wants to "pay for video" is they equate this service with television. And television does not cost $700+ dollars to watch a frikken movie!!! Or, $27,000 to watch a sporting event. What...

Tags: Corporate communications, Pricing, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Cellular Wireless, wireless, pricing scheme, pricing strategy, Wireless Data, video

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

If Blackberry Maker Eavesdrops On Itself, Who Else Gets To?

It’s good to find that R.I.M. does not actually record employee phone calls, according to a company representative contacted this afternoon by Between The Lines. Because what is so piquant about the original comment carried by Research In Motion chief information officer Robin Bienfait that she records...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Communication, RIM BlackBerry, R.I.M., Handhelds, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Some advice to would be consultants

Some advice to would be consultantsSound advice ...I own a small me and one other person IT company, and we both love what we do, and know it fairly well Anyone that says they know everything about computers and networking is either lying or delusional ... neither of us have...

Tags: Quality, training and certification, Microsoft Windows NT, certification, Richter, knack

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

Customer Intimacy and Software - The Halogen Story

Rarity in the software industry Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema wrote a great business book a few years back called “The Discipline of Market Leaders”. In essence, they posited that market leaders are strong in one three key disciplines: product innovation, operational excellence low cost leadership or...

Tags: Software, Customer, Halogen, Software Firm, Product Innovator, Tools & Techniques, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Edifier MP300 Plus

Edifier is a Canadian-based company that makes a variety of PC speaker systems that feature unique, funky designs. The company seems to have good distribution internationally, but U.S. customers may have a hard time finding Edifier's products in brick-and-mortar or online stores. In the case of the Edifier MP300...

Tags: Network technology, Edifier, MP300, sub, PC-speaker, satellite

Product reviews 2009-02-02

Genworth Financial Canada Accelerates Loan Application Processes With Self Service Portal

Genworth Financial wanted to strengthen already high customer service levels, which are required in the highly competitive financial services market and maintain competitive edge with a self-service Web site that provides customers with clear, intuitive interfaces and well-organized content. The challenge was to provide access to real-time application status and...

Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Genworth Financial Canada, Portals, Web Technology, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-02-01

Joyent takes on Google

In what many will see as a bold move, cloud computing infrastructure provider Joyent is taking on Google. Today it announced the acquisition of Reasonably Smart, a Canadian open source infrastructure provider based on JavaScript and Git. Rod Boothby, Joyent's VP of platform evangelism said this is the first...

Tags: Google Inc., Environment, Joyent, Capital Structures, Open Source, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-14