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- Bringing the Last Mile Closer: Business Process Outsourcing Ventures Experience Success in Rural Areas
- The Common Services Center CSC is a Business Process Outsourcing BPO unit adjacent to a secondary school in Thirukkuvalai village in the Maiyladhurai District of Tamil Nadu. CSC is a gleaming new structure with five computers, the most modern software, Internet access, and video chat capabilities. Village women who cannot...
- Tags: Video Chat, Business Process, BPO, Last Mile, Computer, Common Services Center, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Productivity, Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Corporate Communications, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-06-01
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- 'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary
- This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...
- Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October
- Today Canonical announces the upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution. Ubuntu 9.10 will be available for free download on Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose - to...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Samsung Moment (Sprint)
- In case you haven't noticed, the Google Android dam has broken. For almost a year HTC was the only manufacturer to offer handsets with the operating system, but in the past month, Motorola and Samsung almost fell over each other to offer Android smartphones of their own. Moto gave us...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, slider mechanism, Sprint Communications, Samsung Moment, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2009-10-22
- Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak
- Weak Passwords suckUntil about 4 years ago my organization had no restrictions on passwords. Our students got their birthdays or their phone numbers as passwords and our staff could choose whatever they wanted. Most common staff password was 1234. Well after years of security breaches and administration...
- Tags: MSN Hotmail, phishing, password, weak password
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Open source can save your life
- Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...
- Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Platform Computing Announces Infrastructure Sharing Services
- The folks at Platform Computing are at it again. This time, they've announced a product to support cloud computing in the form of infrastructure as a service IaaS. They're calling it Platform Infrastructure Sharing Service ISF. As often is the case with a new product from a...
- Tags: Platform Computing Inc., Platform Infrastructure Sharing Facility, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations
- LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Why Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are racing to run your data center
- Why Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are racing to run your data centerOld news repackagedCloud and utility computing which might be one and the same are a multibillion dollar business in 2009. Are you guys for real about reporting this like news? We have been running our business at...
- Tags: Data centers, cloud computing, Network technology, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., data center
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- How green is software as a service?
- I was briefed Friday by Symantec's Cecily Joseph, director of corporate responsibility, and one of the things we got to talking about was a survey the company conducted back in March to get some more visibility into Green IT priorities. The research, which was conducted by Applied Research, represents 1,052...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Green IT, Power Consumption, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-06
- Overcoming the laptop wall
- Overcoming the laptop wallSeems fairly simpleIn my opinion, either:Construct the firewall and proxy services of the university properly so that the wireless network that students can connect to is tightly limited on what websites they can access, or potentially only the intranet. Only allow full inet access to hard wired...
- Tags: Firewalls, Notebooks, Web technology, laptop wall, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- Virtual desktop services gain TCO boost with HP clients, Desktone cloud-based 'DaaS' advances
- HP and Desktone have made strong market moves into the fast-growing desktops as a service Daas space, also know as desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure VDI. These new products and services show an aggressive ramp-up and sophistication to deliver a fast-track to DaaS. HP and Desktone,...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtual Desktop, TCO, Desktone, DaaS, Virtual-D Service Center, Fisher, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Livio Radio
- Photo gallery:Livio RadioThe iPod may have killed AM/FM radio for the latest generation of music fans, but the classic version of Apple's ubergadget only lets you listen to your own music collection; there's no hipster DJ introducing you to your new favorite band. Music fans still crave new sounds and...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Monitors & displays, Livio Radio, Pandora
- Product reviews 2009-05-27
- OXX Digital Tube
- Photo gallery:OXX Digital TubeWi-Fi radios come in many shapes and sizes, but the Oxx Digital Tube is in a class of its own with its jumbo, hollow-bodied design. The Tube's unique look accommodates its built-in subwoofer, and yes, we found that the radio delivers much more bass than is common...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Wireless LANs, Monitors & displays, Oxx Digital Tube, radio
- Product reviews 2009-05-20
- EMC World: Companies that adopt new tools still need to manage the data
- How or why is your information important? Information in a business setting might include e-mails that need to be retained and archived for regulatory purposes. Or it might be the collaborative documents that employees have been working on for a product launch. At EMC World in Orlando...
- Tags: Mark Lewis, EMC Corp., Tool, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- The "erotic services" shell game: hypocrisy online
- The "erotic services" shell game: hypocrisy onlineWhy dont they just make it legal, regulate and tax the crap out of it.If many law abiding citizens continue to break a particular law then the law is no longer socially justifiable. Laws are simply social control over behavors that are unwanted....
- Tags: game, hypocrisy, Evangelism
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft
- Cloud vs sand: Google vs MicrosoftGeeks make it right.Marketers make it look right.Which one do you want behind your business?Google may look like Sun in 20 years but then Microsoft will look like DRI. I can imagine a similar report with far different findings to be release from Microsoft....
- Tags: Data centers, E-mail servers, Now Let, Who-ever, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., server
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Advertiser Decreases Timeline, Increases Confidence With Technology Center Visit
- Chicago, Illinois - based Apartments.com is a premier online rentals resource offering renters a comprehensive database of apartment homes while driving highly qualified leads to advertisers. Apartments.com acts as a central point of reference for renters who are looking for the perfect apartment and for property owners and managers who...
- Tags: Advertiser, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Data center wars: HP preps its server sortie
- Cisco, Dell, IBM and Sun have all rolled out their plans to cater to the next generation of data centers. Now it's Hewlett-Packard's turn. HP on Monday will reportedly launch a new server system designed for corporate data centers. The Wall Street Journal reports: According to HP...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Convergence alert: Keep an eye on the building network tech guys
- This is one of those thinking-out-loud posts that I believe will inform many GreenTech Pastures posts to come. Just wanted to direct your attention to a new ad campaign out of IBM this morning that is focused on the role that "smart buildings" will play in the green movement in...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Convergence, Data Centers, Strategy, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
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