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- Visible Breakthrough: Nature's Sunshine Products Gains Critical Stability and Enables Future Growth
- Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. NSP has been manufacturing herbal products, natural vitamins, food supplements, and other complementary products for more than 30 years. The company must respond to ever-changing market demands while keeping overhead and staff size low. Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. uses Unisys Enterprise Application Environment EAE, Release 3.3,...
- Tags: Nature, Unisys Corp., Enterprise Application Environment, Food & Beverage, Marketing Research, Manufacturing, Marketing
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- Actions speak louder than words and the message is disheartening
- Here's a rhetorical question: If you're holding a seminar about the benefits of green technology strategy, should you really be giving away a gas card as one of the incentives to sign up? I thought not. For shame! But, as Forrester Research points out in a new...
- Tags: Global Warming, Forrester Research Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-30
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought. Now it's no coincidence that...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Virtual desktop solutions and mobility
- Several suppliers, including Citrix and VDIworks, have come forward to speak with me about work they're doing to address the inhibitors to deploying VDI-based solutions. Here are some of the issues these suppliers are addressing. Organizations have come to think that the only...
- Tags: Desktop, Mobility, Virtual Desktop, VDIworks, Staff Member, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Vista Audio Changer (msi)
- A system tray application which allows the user to switch their Default Audio Output Device at the click of a mouse - extremely useful for users with multiple sound cards, or multiple outputs on a single sound card. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Audio Card, System Tray, RSoft
- Software downloads 2008-08-29
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...
- Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), pricing strategy, window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins
- Dell's second quarter earnings fell short of projections, but revenue was well ahead of targets. Translation: Dell is gaining share at the expense of its bottom line as price competition heats up. Dell reported fiscal second quarter earnings of 31 cents a share on revenue of $16.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled intoI agree "One OS to unite them all""One price to keep all happy" In the end it's just a marketing ploy different versions each with their own "missing" pieces. In many ways it looks like double dipping...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, marketing, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- The importance of the Veoh decision
- The importance of the Veoh decisionThe problem is "appropriate steps".The question is, how thoroughly does a store-and-serve operation have to police what it's storing?In this case, removing something shown to be violating copyright on notification is sufficient. And that's reasonable.The problem is the situation when there are millions of...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Tools & Techniques, Veoh
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two yearsHe doesn't get itSo to summarize Debes (who comes off a little like Vinny from da mob or a coke dealer - his words, not mine):(1) SaaS and Cloud computing as a delivery vehicle has been tried before and therefore will fail (like all...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, software-as-a-service, SaaS IS, SaaS Model, Lawson Software Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Google Apps dashboard: Serious about the enterprise?
- Google is developing a system status reporting dashboard for its Apps Premier product line. This decision provides further evidence Google is serious about becoming an enterprise software vendor. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Dashboard, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Google, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?
- What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?The biggest thing in IE8 for the enterprise: continued compatibilityproblems and continued foot dragging on the standards front. Also very slow JavaScript. Much slower than the already released version of FireFox, Opera, and Safari. Pretty sad . . . .RE: What's in IE 8...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, enterprise user, standards, Mozilla Firefox, IE8, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!Laughing hereI guess it's alright when envirofascists want to regulate our icebox because at least they're staying out of our bedrooms.BTW, my garden resents you preaching that we should remove 60 pounds of food from its photosynthetic leaves.Somebody has to speak for the plants...
- Tags: fridge, Freon
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?
- In the IE 8 Beta 2 Reviewers' Guide, Microsoft provides a list of what it considers the most alluring features for business users of IE 8, the final version of which is expected this November. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
- Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software as a service, SaaS, software, Lawson, Asia, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-08-28
- GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting
- I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...
- Tags: Accounting, Small And Medium Enterprise, Advisor, GoBootstrap, GoBootstrap.com, Tax Estimate, General Usability, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
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