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Latest Technology Supports Rapid Growth of Coffee Company

First Choice Coffee is a leading coffee company based in the United Kingdom. Its products include quality coffee and beverages, coffee machines, and blenders. First Choice Coffee deploys Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system to support its business and employees with more user-friendly tools. The Windows Vista operating...

Tags: Coffee Company, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Certified Partner, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites

Case studies 2007-11-01

Additional Resources

11 open source business models

You are looking at it sideways.It's never as simple as you make it seem. Things usually can't be broken into neat little lists which are really just stereo types.From Wikipedia: Business Model: "A business model describes the rationale of how an [b]organization[/b] creates, delivers, and captures value[1] -...

Tags: Strategy, business model, open source, EULA Ware, software

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Windows Mobile is better than you think

My main gripeis with the antique user interface which is little more than an uninspired, miniaturized desktop GUI.The foundations seems solid enough now - it is quite decent in multi-tasking and is generally responsive.I too believe that if MS can reinvigorate the UI they still has a strong competitor. Oh...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy

Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note

Can I suggestNetbooks with Win 7. Just installed it on a useless Linux netbook and it works fine and only cost me A$399 (which now is almost the same as US ;-))For once try and rein in your hobby horse and let the students join the new millenium.On and...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NeatX, oh-so, netbook, thin client, Linux, desktop, operating system, tool

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard: Benchmark performance showdown

iTunes? Quicktime?Let's see--- his tests were largely based on running two Apple apps. And imagine this! The Apple apps did better on Apple hardware. What a surprise!Not.Come on, guys. That's not a benchmark. That's an ad.Of course it is an adwhat else did you expect from a fan boy?Seriously, iTunes...

Tags: Operating systems, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple-hardware, operating system, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, performance

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

AT&T: Google has it in for nuns, mom, and apple pie

Ummm what?Ok let's start:Blocking ambulance services: Errrm would a call to this service always be without error? no.Blocking other numbers: ok they might have a case.Does the blocking of the other numbers prevent the User from contacting those numbers by not using Google Voice?... I think not.Does AT&T has...

Tags: Federal government, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Sister Mary, pope, Google Inc., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Google challenges e-readers by taking e-books directly to browser

Kindle Format?Did they also say how they propose to display Kindle's proprietary format in your browser?Oh myDunraven, go get a good strong cup of coffee, drink it down, and read the article again. You just aren't awake yet.This is cool!NTRE: Google challenges e-readers by taking e-books directly to browserAnyone...

Tags: Web browsers, E-books, e-reader, Web browser, Google Inc., e-book

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies

The Federal Trade Commission wants me - the blogger - to inform you - the reader - about any financial ties I might have with the companies or the products I write about, just to make sure there's no conflict of interest there. That's fine. I have...

Tags: FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Coffee Roaster Drives Productivity and Insight, Prepares Strategically for the Future

Based on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Oughtred Coffee and Tea is a coffee roaster, distributor, and equipment service provider. Relying on a basic accounting package to manage operations, the company handled many processes outside the system, resulting in islands of data, data reentry, and a lack of business insight. To...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Insight, Microsoft Corp., Business Services, Retail, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Case studies 2009-10-01

Apple slashes iPod prices in anticipation of new models

Wait, what? $20 for an iPod classic? Seriously? Whoops, dropped $20 not dropped to. My mistake. All Apple fans need to thank MS![i]The move is also a reaction to Microsoft?s competitive pricing of its Zune HD portable media player.[/i]Without MS, there would be no price drops. :)Yeah, but I'd still...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Pricing, Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, paperweight, Apple Inc., gen, PMP

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Is your supply chain gonna kill you?

Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...

Tags: Supply Chain, International Financial Reporting Standards, Audit, Jason Busch, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-04

What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us

My Guess, as requested.Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to...

Tags: Strategy, Backblaze, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers

Sound like checkmate, they have everything the Kindle does for less $$ $They even have better quality. I want to buy one right now although it has to have the books that I want.At the risk of sounding fanboy-ishI must ask. How does the 6" $299 Sony touch (but...

Tags: E-books, e-book, Sony Corp., e-reader, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere

While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...

Tags: Solution, Data Center, Open Source, PaaS, Vision, Supplier, VMware Inc., Tool, SpringSource, Spring Framework, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Your iPhone could soon be watching you!

Have you completely lost your mind?"OK, this seems like a great feature for product vendors because it allows them to duck warranty obligations"What obligations are there exactly if you drop your iPod into a bathtub, or spill coffee on it while driving? If anything, these nuissance claims get built into...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

ActiveBooks 1.0 (Windows)

ActiveBooks is a powerful Windows application that monitors your QuickBooks accounting system distributes your valuable reports. For example, start your work day with the Overdue Invoices and A/R Aging Reports just by checking your email coffee optional and you don't need to log in to QuickBooks. Keep track of how...

Tags: Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Windows, ActiveBooks

Software downloads 2009-08-05

Google's Schmidt resigns from Apple's board; Jobs: It would be recusal city

Google's Schmidt resigns from Apple's board; Jobs: It would be recusal cityIt will be interesting reading the reportingOne the one side, we have Google, a darling company, who is considered an 800 pound gorilla despite never having had any real commercial success outside of internet search.On the other side, we...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Smart phones, Operating systems, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, job, board, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, mobile, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., phone

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Living with the Adkaf

Last April, Darby Green, an entrepreneur in New Zealand, contacted me concerning a series of posts I'd published about having coffee attack the keyboard of a new Dell computer (see the string of posts beginning with The old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick). He suggested that his company had a solution, called the...

Tags: Coffee, Adkaf, Keyboards, Entrepreneurship, Hardware, Peripherals, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-01

Olam International Boosts Database Performance by Up to 300%

Olam International is a leading global supply chain manager, diversified across 20 agricultural commodities, 60 countries, 6,500 customers, and more than 200,000 suppliers. The company supplies nuts, spices and beans; confectionary and beverage ingredients such as coffee and cocoa beans; rice, sugar, dairy products, packaged foods; and cotton and wood...

Tags: Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., Beverage, Olam International, Food & Beverage, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-08-01