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Half.com to continue at full speed

Half.com to continue at full speedList both places?It might be nice as a seller to have the option to double list. It'd basically work like an E-Bay buy it now, but the but it now link is on both ebay and on half.comThat way you can have it listed indefinately...

Tags: e-Bay, Half.com

Discussion threads 2004-09-24

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America's airways ready for NextGen

It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...

Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Changing open source terms bad move in a recession

Changing open source terms bad move in a recessionOpen Source flawed modelIf a car manufacture engineers a car, it does not release its blue-prints for free. If an architect designs a house he or she does not release his plans for free. The equivalent of an engineering blue...

Tags: open source, car, recession

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad

C'mon, Vista really isn't that badRE: C'mon, Vista really isn't that badI agree, it eases the transition from the digital to the physical world for computer users and seems especially geared towards newer computer users and explaining steps and giving more information about the system itself and any software installed....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, C'MON, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?

Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?Its such a mix mash of thingsA lot of the Services/Cloud efforts Microsoft is spearheading seems too conflicting at times. I personally started to use Live Mesh to store documents and other files, yet it does so many of the things...

Tags: Programming languages, SkyDrive, Microsoft Corp., stand-up

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.Telecommute JobsI see these articles appear every few months. They always talk about how great this concept is, and how it is a great deal for both companies and employees. However, my husband has been contacted by headhunters several hundred times...

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

US Internet ad revenues reach $11.5 bln in the first half of 2008

US Internet advertising revenues in January-June 2008 were $11.5 bln, setting yet another new half-year record that represents a 15.2% increase over the first half of 2007. Q2 2008 was up 12.8% over Q2 2007 and showed a slight decline of 0.3% from Q1 2008. Search revenues totaled almost $5.1...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, AM

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Online ad revenue strong first half of 2008: What about the second half?

Internet ad revenue surged in the first half of 2008, up 15.2 percent to $11.5 billion compared to a year ago, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Unfortunately, that duo left their crystal balls at home when it comes to the second half outlook. Simply...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Online Advertising, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

ZDNet blogger: working from home

ZDNet blogger: working from homeYou crazy Brits and your teaI don't mind tea, but I just don't get the fascination. Give me a pot of Deans Beans and I'm in hog heaven. Give me a cup of tea and, well, I'll drink my cup of tea and then...

Tags: Blogging, tea, cup

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework

Considering my background, it's not at all hard to understand how I've become the tech support helpdesk for family, friends and the neighborhood as a whole. I've done my best to accept my lot in life with grace and courage. This time, my Grandson, Steven, was trying to complete a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft PowerPoint, Laptop Computer, Steven, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-07

News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Samsung HT-X710T

We recently looked at the HT-TZ512T from Samsung, a solid home theater-in-a-box that focuses on DVD playback and offers wireless rear surround sound. The TZ512 also offers a few additional audio inputs as well as compatibility with various digital file formats. The HT-X710T, reviewed here, keeps most of...

Tags: Corporate communications, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, Monitors & displays, DVD, Samsung HT-X710T, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., TV, video, subwoofer

Product reviews 2008-10-06

Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?

Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo. The company's stock reached a five-year low today, closing at $15.31 - or less than half of the $31 per share that Microsoft had offered to pay for Yahoo in February. On top of that, the...

Tags: Google Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Business Structures, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem

Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Web Application, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright, Pricing, Smb/Sme, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Microsoft starts sharing details on SQL Server 'Kilimanjaro'

Just a couple of months after releasing to manufacturing SQL Server 2008, Microsoft is starting to offer details about its next release of its flagship database. That product, code-named "Killimanjaro," will ship in the first half of 2010, according to Microsoft officials. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Team, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Master Data Management, Kilimanjaro, Project Madison, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Team Management, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-06

SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing

SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Improve your failed IT culture

Improve your failed IT cultureRisk and rulesWhat's the connection between your suggested steps to improve projects and the problem identified?Is it possible to deal with the problem identified in the following quoted quotes without using the word "blame"?Creating a culture for risk management is a challenging proposition for most firms....

Tags: Strategy, Financial Planning, Computer Services, Anton, risk management, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-06