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- A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?
- A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?This was an easy guess.The language is Spanish.Puerto Rico is definitely out of the question, because they are seriously corrupt over there.Being that it's in South America, that petroleum is coming from Venezuela.Makes you wonder why we are paying so much for it?Clue;Crooked &...
- Tags: gasoline, image, petroleum, oil, pinch
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Tribunal Supremo Electoral Improves Speed and Reliability of Vote Processing
- The Tribunal Supremo Electoral Supreme Electoral Court is the highest body that oversees voting in Ecuador. Supreme Electoral Court wanted to implement a reliable high-availability IT infrastructure to guarantee transparency and reliability of information during electoral processes and create a robust voter database for timely updating and use in elections....
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Reliability, High-availability, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Exxon v. Venezuela and you're the loser in this battle
- Exxon claims it's won a round in its court battle against Venezuela. Venezuelan assets are now frozen in Britain and Netherlands. A lawsuit is in court int he U.S. as well. Exxon claims total Venezuelan assets valued at $36 billion dollars are now frozen. ...
- Tags: Venezuela, Lawsuit, Exxon Mobil Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- Grupo Fybeca Consolidates Client Information in a Single Database and Maximizes Productivity
- Grupo Fybeca wanted to gain a stable, flexible solution to adapt to the company's needs and establish a robust, reliable, and highly available database capable of managing high levels of client information. The challenge was to centralize and consolidate up-to-date information for use in different sales points and for improved...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Grupo Fybeca, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards settersAgreedI've seen nothing like the sort of hardball that's been played in the OOXML standardization effort in the small standards body on which I sit. Consensus seems to work quite well; so well that I have yet to...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), standards body, OOXML, OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- A tale of two handheld players: RIM vs. Palm
- A tale of two handheld players: RIM vs. PalmAs a Palm handheld user who ...... struggled with the decision whether to go Treo or BlackBerry in 2004, I chose the BlackBerry and now I wouldn't go back! My newest Palm is relegated to displaying Photos and being an eBook...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, handheld, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Palm Treo, smart phone, Treo 680, Palm Inc., Treo 680 Smartphone
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- Life of marine iguanas on the Galapagos
- The marine iguanas on the Galapagos Islands lived without predators for a very long time. But when humans arrive 150 years ago, they brought with them cats and dogs which are occasionally biting the iguanas. Still, these animals remained excessively tamed. With the explosion of the number of tourists on...
- Tags: iguana
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Are butterflies spying at each other?
- An international team of researchers has decided to discover why some unrelated species of butterflies living in South America had similar wing patterns. And according to PLos Biology, they used genetics and genomics tools to find how butterflies got their spots. Their simple answer is that a 'supergene' controls wing...
- Tags: species
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Anti-HP hypocrisy in Congress?
- Anti-HP hypocrisy in Congress?Seattle Times links Law FirmsThe same law firms complaining about Wikipedia and Blogs are the enablers of this wrong doing according to the Seattle times. This is a culture battle between a society that thinks citizens should read only and keep their mouths shut and the read-discuss...
- Tags: Government, U.S. Congress, John Perkins, Economic Hit Man, Confessions
- Discussion threads 2006-09-18
- Correction on Vista and TPM versioning
- Correction on Vista and TPM versioningWhat do you meanthe fingerprint never changes?All you've done is create a single point of failure: if any motherboard component fails, you're out hundreds to thousands of dollars in software that has to be replaced.Motherboard failures are common enough at least on Dell laptops that...
- Tags: Operating systems, Motherboard failure, IBM Corp., operating system, TPM, hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2005-10-06
- Medianet Ecuador Covers Mall Payment Needs With VeriFone Omni 3750 Terminals and Fast, Flexible Wi-Fi
- As part of its objective of becoming the largest provider of POS networks and payment processing services in Ecuador, Medianet Ecuador focused on providing services to retailers in 20 major commercial malls located in three cities. These malls account for 50 percent of all retail sales in Ecuador. To reach...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Payment, VeriFone Inc., Wi-Fi, Operational Accounting, Finance
- Case studies
- Juan Marcet Establishes a High Availability Database and Achieves Maximum Productivity
- Juan Marcet Cia Ltda. is a leading retailer and distributor of school products, office supplies, electronics, and computer accessories in Ecuador. The company wanted to unify systems in a single, flexible, and scalable technology and consolidate information for timely critical information analysis for improved decision-making. The challenge was to achieve...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., High Availability, Juan Marcet, Productivity, Linux, Retail, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Open Source, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Leading Food Manufacturer Automates Product Life Cycle Processes Using Content Management Capabilities in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
- Del Monte Foods, one of the largest U.S. manufacturers and distributors of branded canned fruit and vegetables, manufactures approximately 3,400 products from its 40 factories in North America and seafood operations in American Samoa and Ecuador. In the competitive market space, Del Monte faces daily challenges associated with introducing new...
- Tags: Food, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Product Life Cycle, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
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