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- Residential Flooring Supplier Enhances Customer Service and Shortens Sales Cycle
- With nearly 30 years' experience in supplying floor coverings and countertops for Portland, Oregon, residents, Classique Floors knows a lot about helping customers choose the right flooring for their remodeling projects. With the help of Microsoft Small Business Specialist Mt. Hood Computer Services, Classique Floors is enhancing its customer service...
- Tags: Customer Service, Virus Protection, Network, Network Security, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Flooring Supplier, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...
- Tags: CERN, Power Supply, Grid, Computer, Hadron Collider, Productivity, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-08
- Image Tracking System (msi)
- The Image Tracking System has been designed for magazine and book publishers who purchase images to be used in their publicaitons. The application suite tracks these purchased images throughout their lifecycle within the publishers organisation, ensuring that at any time, all the images can be accounted for. The Image Tracking...
- Tags: Agent, Image, Data Byte Software, Image Tracking System, Client Application, Real Estate, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- Mac ready the enterprise?
- Mac ready the enterprise?My work MacBook Pro just experienced this very problem...My work MacBook Pro just experienced this very problem. When I'm at home I connect it to my external 22" CRT, keyboard, mouse, etc. It stays there until I get back to work where I use it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Notebooks, laptop computer, video, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Mac ready for the enterprise?
- Larry Dignan makes a spirited argument as to why Apple should be working much harder on getting Mac kit into the enterprise. I know it's a Friday afternoon for me and we've already had one false alarm earlier today that got everyone a-Twitter. Only the other day I managed to...
- Tags: Lid, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Computer, Productivity, Keyboards, Desktops, Notebooks, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Microsoft was kind enough to let me know that the Hyper-V Server, that is a dedicated, minimal Windows 2008 Server platform dedicated to being a bare metal, type-1 hypervisor, is now available. It joins products of this type available from VMware, Citrix and several Linux distributions. ...
- Tags: Industry Standard, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Agresso's answer to ERP addiction
- Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...
- Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Appistry targets cloud computing
- If we consider suppliers that have embraced the cloud computing concept and have offered something to help organizations use this approach to gain additional scalability, performance or reliability as needed, they are, for the most part, suppliers of processing virtualization software, virtual access software and management software for virtualized environments....
- Tags: Appistry, Supplier, Defintion, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"
- From time to time, I receive a note from a public relations person who represents one company or another that is clearly a disaster in the making. These notes appear to designed to pique my interest without giving me any information about the product or service to be discussed. As...
- Tags: Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Live coverage of the T-Mobile G-1 Google Android announcement
- Live coverage of the T-Mobile G-1 Google Android announcementGPS supportRumors have been that the G1 does and does not include an onboard GPS. This is a wonderful feature on the iPhone and enables credible real-time navigation and location-based services. Hope to get a positive confirmation regarding GPS on the G1...Wath...
- Tags: GPS, Product marketing, Cellular phones, goggle, T-Mobile, T-Mobile G-1 Google Android, T-Mobile G-1 Google Android announcement, UMA
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- For first time, open source OK'd for UK schools
- The most amazing part of this news is that it's actually news. Just read the report from the Inquirer: OPEN SOURCE companies have been granted official permission to supply software to the UK public sector for the first time in British history. ...
- Tags: Software, School, Open-source Company, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- The Disaster Recovery Items Few Consider
- How Too Much of a Disaster Screws Up the Best Plans I spent a lot of time one night this week with the CFO of a coastal Texas organization that's based between Houston and Galveston. That phone interview yielded some surprising observations about disaster recovery and how...
- Tags: Phone, Disaster, Laptop Computer, CFO, Disaster Recovery, Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
- Virtualization: The race is on to corner the market
- As the technology goes mainstream, competitors such as Microsoft are eager to dislodge VMware from the top of the virtualization tree. Most of the servers installed next year will be virtualized from the outset, experts have said. But, as the technology goes mainstream, will moves by Microsoft...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, VMware, Microsoft, Hyper-V
- News items 2008-09-19
- Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric car
- Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric carIf only we the normal peoplecould afford one!RE: Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric carThis is a major move being missed by the so-called news media. An *American* firm with American technology building energy-sensible automobiles in America with American workers....
- Tags: Tesla, EIA, car, manufacturing site, electric car, manufacturing
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads
- Frank Zappa again is a mother of invention. Since Friday, songs of the experimental musician, dead now for almost 15 years, have been used to test a one-click system for getting payments from individuals who download works of artists illegally. ...
- Tags: Payment, Musician, Antipiracy, Nexicon Inc., Piracy, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Could this be the problem driver? (Apple's sneaky iTunes 8 install)
- Could this be the problem driver? (Apple's sneaky iTunes 8 install)Apple Sneaky???How can this be? Apple? The greatest supplier of software "that just works" in the world. Shows me Apple is no different than Microsoft. I have always thought it underhanded that you agree to install X and as a...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., sneaky iTunes 8, problem driver, iTunes 8
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Open source and military procurement don't mix
- Open source and military procurement don't mixWhat's the alternative?Once an IT department with very elaborate and essential software decided to cancel the contract with the original supplier. In return, the department received a termination date for using the software. Someone had long ago decided to rent rather than...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Cloud computing as a term: More meaningless by the minute
- The term cloud computing may have outrun its usefulness--it's beginning to conjure up images of "Web 2.0" and "paradigm shift." For the record, cloud computing refers to an all-encompassing hosting of applications, services and even hardware. You'll just put your stuff up there in some cloud and...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Dell repair adventure, conclusion
- Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
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