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Medications Manufacturer Gains Advanced, Cost-Effective Business Intelligence

Heel is one of the world's largest manufacturers of homeopathic pharmaceuticals. Its U.S. subsidiary in Albuquerque, New Mexico, employs more than 100 people. The Heel office in Albuquerque lacked visibility into its operational data, and its manual-based reporting was time-consuming, inconsistent, and often inaccurate. Heel deployed a Business Intelligence BI...

Tags: Manufacturer, Microsoft Corp., Heel, Pricing, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Data Management, Manufacturing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

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The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Clinometer for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile)

Clinometer for iPhone features a large, easy to read, digital display and a beautiful ornate gold frame that remains vertical to provide a visual indication of the amount of heel.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Tech Center Labs, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Free Microsoft open-source content management app to get its debut next week

Very interestingStrange - Ballmer was all excited about how the SharePoint 2010 team focused on internet facing capabilities. Why play with Orchard if you can get all the features CMS and more with a hosted version of SP2010 at a fairly cheap investment?I guess for small businesses who just...

Tags: Content management, open source, Microsoft Corp., open-source content management app, Free Microsoft open-source content management app, FREE Microsoft, open-source content management, Microsoft Windows NT, content management system, OSS Projects

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-01

News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces

3 Words for you...Windows Live Essentials...Saves on bloat?It was nothing to do with that. Microsoft have said that they unbundled a lot of things from the OS build as it allowed for easier and more frequent updates.Good point.I use Hotmail but also use Live Mail on my own machines as...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Operating systems, Groupware, E-mail providers, e-mail, Microsoft Windows, Windows Mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

UPDATE: Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces

Yesterday was Windows 7's launch day - WooHoo! Yay! PARTAY!!! - but now that the parties are over and people are settling down to actually use their PC, a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel emerges. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-10-23

The 10 smartphones that emit the most radiation

BT rulesBut one cannot text wehn driving!How many of your thoughts can be expressed with 160 characters?HTC Touch Pro for me!:)I love it! :)Hmm... I wonder how much the HTC Touch Pro2 will emit the radiation? :)RE: The 10 smartphones that emit the most radiationWhen I first got my phone...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, radiation, smart phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

RealNetworks: It can get worse

It couldn't happen to a more deserving company. ntntReal is paying a price for not open sourcing its codeTrying to be like M$ harmed Real.They must GPL their code immediately, in order to survive.Real should also shoud push for M$ removing media player from windoze, and embrace Linux as the...

Tags: Digital media, OPEN SOURCE, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Reconsidering Obama's ed speech? Sort of

but Obama's going to pay all my bills!RE: Reconsidering Obama's ed speech? Sort ofDo you remember being a student? The is par for the course. It is about being pro-American, pro-'democractic' system, and respecting the office of the president."How does the President inspire you? What resonated with you from Obama?s...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, Obama, job, tax

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing

Interesting......a guy who has no problem violating copyrights complaining about a lack of ethics.Carl RapsonSPAM on Twitter!!! Say it isn't so!!Why is this worthy of a ZDNET blog entry. Is your next entry going to be about how you hate to get those EMail's that say "You've Won $15,000,000" or...

Tags: Spam, E-mail, Twitter Inc., Twitter spamming, BAD ETHICS, spamming

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Logitech Performance Mouse MX

Following Logitech's announcement of its new glass-tracking Darkfield mouse sensor, Microsoft countered that only 7 percent of mouse users were interested in mousing on glass. Microsoft also suggested that the remaining 93 percent had already been satisfied by its own BlueTrack sensor, which, unlike Darkfield, is available in mice as...

Tags: Mice, Microsoft Corp., mouse, Performance Mouse MX, BlueTrack, Logitech, sensor, performance

Product reviews 2009-08-27

Liveblog: Sony announces $399 7" Wi-Fi 3G e-book Reader; will it kill the Kindle?

Goodnight KindleWitch cheaper competition Amazon is finished. I'm surprised that it was Sony who stepped up.The game is getting interestingThough I am pretty sure it's a few years or decades too early to be declaring anything a "Kindle killer" or a "Sony killer". Basically the market is still very...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Wi-Fi, Amazon.com Inc., Sony Corp., game

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...

Tags: Google Gmail, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Dana Blankenhorn, Smart Phone, Andrew Nusca, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail Providers, E-mail, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Windows 7's Achilles' heel - XP Mode

XP Mode is a crutch, for a wounded patient, that is supposed to get better.Microsoft is betting it will go away soon, and, like the Windows Ultimate Extras, disappear forever.I believe it will, as anyone serious about using XP will bypass the Windows 7 middleman.This is news?Is XP Mode not...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, XP Mode, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

UPDATE: Windows 7's Achilles' heel - XP Mode

According to security firm Sophos, Microsoft risks undoing much of the work it has done on the security front over the past few years by shipping XP Mode with Windows 7. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Kids are changing their online habits, will adults change too?

You've made me curious.... with the last sentences of your blog post. What invite-only places do you mean? And why wouldn't we know that they existed?RE: Kids are changing their online habits, will adults change too? "Now, they seem overrun with marketeers and I?m visiting less."The same is true with...

Tags: online habit, advertisement, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

SailMaster 2.5 (Mobile)

SailMaster displays key data in a clear and easy to read format and can help sailors of all abilities understand how to maximize speed and efficiency. Originally designed as an economical tool for experienced sailors to optimize racing performance, the simplicity and low-cost of the navigation application means that sailors...

Tags: Mobile, Horn, Structure6, Productivity, Performance Management, Benefits, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-20

Remote code execution exploit for Firefox 3.5 in the wild

Remote code execution exploit for Firefox 3.5 in the wildinstall "noscript" now!This is exactly the type of exploit noscript is designed to prevent - unless you allow the untrusted web site, you will be protected.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722cheersShields Up!:Noscript? Check. Adblock? Check.Ubuntu 9.04 Linux? Check.AppArmor Firefox Profile? Check.Everything is super fine and safe...

Tags: Web browsers, Linux, Web site development, Microsoft Windows, Web technology, Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-07-14