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- Intuit service shows how little patients count
- OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...
- Tags: Insurance, Intuit Inc., patient, vet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Mid-range European ERP portending the future?
- On my personal blog, I skimmed over recently published results for Agresso and COA Solutions. Agresso is emerging in the US as a small if solid player in public sector as well as for those businesses that need a more agile approach to business configuration than you'd likely get from...
- Tags: Revenue, Public Sector, Vendor, SAP AG, Agresso, COA Solutions, COA, Maintenance Revenue, Saas/on-demand, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Books: Entering the Age of Glosses
- Here's the key to thinking about the future of writing, something straight out of the manuscript era: the humble gloss or "scholia," for those who prefer the Latin. They are the notes, in margins, footnotes at the bottom of a page (the standard starting around 1700) and later in the...
- Tags: Movie, Audible Inc., Cryptography, Books, Copy, Kindle, Master File, Page Number, E-books, Digital Security, Security, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Managing PR in an open source world
- Managing PR in an open source worldWhat's the point of reading someone's opinion?Additional information or a new perspective or both. That's especially worthwhile when erroneous information has been circulated or conventional wisdom is domineering.So if the PR staff can make your information more reliable or provide you with additional...
- Tags: public relations, open source, open source world, Managing PR, social media
- Discussion threads 2008-12-08
- CompanyGate 2008 (Windows)
- CompanyGate is a Customer Relation Management program featuring an integration of Customers Management, Invoices, Quotation, Receipt Management, Sales Records, track Receivable,Manage Expenses, Manage Suppliers, Manage Sales Calls, Telemarketing, and generate customized reports.CompanyGate is a CRM tool for all Small to medium size service companies that contain all the financial and...
- Tags: MedSites, CompanyGate, Sales Strategy, Telemarketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Windows, Sales, Marketing, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-12-07
- Vista-related e-mails I'd like to read (but probably won't)
- Vista-related e-mails I'd like to read (but probably won't)This whole mess is just a public relations problem for the Vista brand, andMicrosoft in general. Microsoft will move as quickly as possible to get the Vista brand off of shelves. MS should also move to settle this case out of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), e-mail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- Verizon fires workers who snooped on Obama cell records
- Verizon fires workers who snooped on Obama cell recordsYou missunderstandIt is one thing to legally access these records, a whole different matter to have an unauthorized party do it.Whether we agree with something or not does not change the fact that if a legitmate request is made, it has to...
- Tags: worker, American People, Well HERE, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-23
- JobBlogs: Facebook for business
- I've been a little busy over the last few weeks, but it hasn't all been drinking and partying. I've been looking into JobBlogs, which has a highly innovative SaaS appliance, which blends together customer relation management and project management, with social media within business as a main selling point, into...
- Tags: Facebook, Software-as-a-service, File Server, Workspace, File Servers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Team Management, Cloud Computing, Blogging, Storage Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Lawyer claims that Microsoft is "biggest hacker in China"
- Lawyer claims that Microsoft is "biggest hacker in China"This is not the right time at all for MS to push the issue. With the globaleconomic crisis especially, MS will not be able to get blood out of a turnip. This will just cause negative nation-wide publicity in China, and you...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., piracy, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- New report places Semantic Web 'On the Cusp' of something big
- Today sees the publication of a new report by Boston-based David Provost. On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry PDF features David's analysis of the space, informed by detailed conversations with representatives from many of its leading companies, and the picture he paints is an optimistic...
- Tags: David Provost, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?Read the book Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh BernoffRead the book Groundswell if you want great insight into how to do this properly and there are also lots of case studies and stats in the book.In respect of the product ratings...
- Tags: Groundswell, Dell Computer Corp., Direct2Dell
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- 5 more reasons IT projects fail
- 5 more reasons IT projects failOn the other sideof the equation is the customer. It has been my experience that, in non-technical businesses, the manager who makes the decisions with regards to the company's IT needs, knows least.Remove the word "IT" andthe article applies to everything in the worldOf course!That's...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Projects Fail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Students try to bring down Facebook
- A little off topic I'll admit, but it still contains "students" and "technology", which to me justifies this post. I'm not one to make harsh and unsubstantiated comments about something or someone, but this calls for an exception. Facebook is a difficult one to judge in terms...
- Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Information, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Meshing the desktop into the cloud
- I'm often harsh on Microsoft, but I'm going to lighten up now that it's introduced Live Mesh (great coverage at Liveside, a useful ten points from Mary Jo, more at Techmeme). One of the misconceptions people often have about the Web is that exists 'out there', as...
- Tags: Web, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Mesh, Zintel, Mesh Account Service, Channel Management, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Benioff: Platform as a service needs a decade to cook
- Benioff: Platform as a service needs a decade to cookPlatform as a service - will it be a realityWhat is platform as a service you ask.... and you will get many different answers. The response that the stack of hardware and software all the way to the application server...
- Tags: PaaS
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- SmartWorks Personal Edition 4.9 (Windows)
- SmartWorks is a cost effective and scalable collaboration tool, which allows people in a workgroup to share, track and manage information flow. SmartWorks is a client-server based software and comes with customization features that allow the users to tailor it to their requirements in minutes. "Smartworks allows enterprise of any...
- Tags: SmartWorks, Collaboration, Strategic Planning, Groupware, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems
- Software downloads 2008-03-02
- FCC hearings: Comcast versus Vuze
- FCC hearings: Comcast versus VuzeCouldnt have said it better myself...George you pointed out specifically in your article that Comcast COULD change to the DOCSIS 3.0 networks vice the DOCSIS 1.1 network they have now (which a previous discussion I believe it was determined this has been around since 1999)..so Comcast...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), VOIP, FCC, Comcast Corp., network, British Telecommunications, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Garmin%3A+The+curse+of+the+Nuvifone+and+GPS+price+competition
- Garmin%3A+The+curse+of+the+Nuvifone+and+GPS+price+competitionGPS Gadget Thing, R U KiddingGoogle or any on-line maps are fine if you always know before go or if you get a cell signal. But if you travel extensively, the value of always knowing where you are and your relation to almost every address and retail establishment on the...
- Tags: Handhelds, GPS, Garmin Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Where's the big money in open source?
- Thanksgiving this year reminded me of a key Clue concerning open source.  The big money in open source lies in making it special. (A 16x20 matted print of this special scene is $30 from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Vermont.) This is why open...
- Tags: Enterprise Computer System, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- Warner Music Group boss: We went to war with consumers, and the consumers won
- Warner Music Group boss: We went to war with consumers, and the consumers wonSomething elseThe first order of business is to make sure that people who [b]want[/b] to do business with you aren't prevented from doing so.I spend a lot of money on WebScription e-books. No DRM, and all...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), digital-rights management, content company, music, advertisement, Warner Music Group Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
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