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General Motors: It's Time for a Rebranding

General Motors: It's Time for a RebrandingHave You Been To A Dealer Lately?Look at the Saturn Aura, Chevy Malibu, Pontiac G6 and Saab 9-3. They are all on the same platform Epsilon. Do they all look alike?RE: General Motors: It's Time for a RebrandingI guess you don't realize that the...

Tags: Branding, American Auto Industry, cost difference, General Motors Corp., car, Cadillac

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

Each major section in BIT ends with a case study - this is the Cutter Mills case from 2001 illustrating the governance issues associated with appliance computing. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Paul Murphy, Cost, Supply Chain, Application, Marketing, Smart Display, PC, Information Technology, Production, Vendor, Project Manager, IBM AS/400, Product, Customer, Order, ERP, Supplier, Plan, Finance, Failure, Decision, Systems Management, Cutter Mills, Cutter, Changes, Bugtoaster, 4Cost Information, 5Estimates, Actuals, Cost Difference, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Supply Chain Management (SCM), UNIX, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-10-24

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Toshiba Satellite A505-S6980

You can't argue with a large-screen, value-priced laptop when it delivers good performance, and looks nice to boot. We appreciated the Toshiba Satellite A505-S6960 when we reviewed it in our 2009 back-to-school retail roundup, liking its affordability, large screen, strong battery life, and excellent-sounding speakers. Just a few months later,...

Tags: Keyboards, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Processors, Toshiba Corp., keyboard, laptop computer, Toshiba Satellite

Product reviews 2009-11-04

Walmart unveils 15.6" HP Pavilion G60 laptop for $298

hmmfor once, i agree with you. why are they still making the celeron...? shouldn't the atom replace that?Intel Celeron?is Inhel still making this 10 year old crap?surplus maybe? ntnti feel 298 is bad for celron processor..but still good option for ppl who r new to these creepy labtops..RE: Walmart unveils...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, HP Pavilion, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

GOP will present a health care bill

Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Calling all innovators: Google hangs "Help Wanted" sign

Google hangs help Google provides no conduit for unsolicited ideas. It is arrogance - that one can get away with whilst the web is young. ZDNet should try asking why, rathering than pandering...Perhaps if their staff were given 15 minutes a week of free time to ponder on what is...

Tags: Benefits, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Best iPhone & iPod touch apps

It's that time of the year again! It's hard to believe, but this time last year, we only had 5,000 apps to choose from in the App Store â€" this year there's more than 85,000 apps to choose from. What a difference a year makes. Whether you're looking...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Twitter Inc., Video, Road Trip, Apple iPod Touch, App, Smart Phones, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

With Motorola Droid, Verizon puts doubts about Google Android platform to rest [review]

Looks pretty nice, one comment on the article tho...[i]Further, Android 2.0 offers universal search, surfacing Web pages (history, bookmarks, etc.), contacts, applications and more all from the same search field widget. It?s a welcome addition.[/i]This is actually a feature of Android 1.6 and so not exclusive to the Droid or...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Inc., Google Android, Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, Verizon Communications Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

More laptops combine Core i7, Windows 7

dear zdnet editors,please put sign "commercial" before you write one.who cares for lenovo and win 7 anyway?i agree !The low cost PC manufacturers DON'T CARE about things like heat problems ! They just want to make money and sell PCs that will have a short lifetime because of their poor...

Tags: Notebooks, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, MIL-SPEC, Microsoft Windows, Little Man, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Students find Win 7 upgrade a tough assignment

Well DUH!Students, retired folks, IT pros, dabblers, 'nix heads, etc. would ALL find trying to UPGRADE from a 32 bit to a 64 bit OS hard. Three words - "can't be done."There, was that hard? Why is this even news?This is newsbecause some people like to keep spreading...

Tags: Operating systems, clean install, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Migration Wizard

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

Vista is still alive here..."Vista definitely improved"Vista-preinstalled SP1/SP2 Just Works, so I have no immediate plans to upgrade to Windows 7. Right now, I don't want to tempt fate.I don't see why people get all emo over Vista's UAC. It doesn't bother me.Yes, everyone says that Windows 7 is better...

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

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Vizio VF551XVT

Photo gallery: Vizio VF551XVTWe're willing to bet that when Vizio announced the VF551XVT back in January, plenty of savvy HDTV bargain hunters marked down "June" as the time they'd buy this 55-inch LED-based LCD. Then the company pushed its release back to September. Then it announced that the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Vizio VF551XVT, Vizio

Product reviews 2009-10-23

WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden

Hat tip to Danny Sullivan for pointing out the above panel at Web 2.0 Summit, which featured Robert Thomson, Wall Street Journal chief, and Marrissa Mayer head of search products at Google, plus Martin Nisenholtz, The New York Times Company, and Eric Hippeau from the Huffington Post, moderated by...

Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Journalist, Thomson Corp., Internet, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-23

sbFirstDay - Netbook 1.96 (Windows)

sbFirstDay-Netbook is appointment-based business software for the independent service professional Book appointments; create and send stunning, high impact marketing emails to your customers, track inventory, run reports (income statement, sales detail, sales tax reports, inventory reporting, etc.). Create standing appointments, email appointment reminders, etc. Complete video training fo r every...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Netbook, Rhino Heaven Software, sbFirstDay-Netbook, E-mail, Sales Strategy, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Sales, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-23

Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms

Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -  announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft SharePoint, Compliance, Box, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-22