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- Zhujiang Beer Group Controls Costs With Oracle
- Established in 1985, Guangzhou Zhujian Beer Group is one of China's top three brewing businesses. The company wanted to improve the flow of information within the company to ensure critical business data reaches managers and decision-makers promptly to reduce the time needed to respond to market shifts. They wanted to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Inconsistency, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Sales, Software, Finance
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- Why I still prefer Internet Explorer
- I wrote a blog post last week where I discussed some of the good lessons from the success of Firefox. I truly believe Firefox is a great browser, and I am glad that competition has forced Microsoft to pull its IE developers out of suspended animation to update its ability...
- Tags: Opera Software, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, DIV, CSS, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- XP SP3 performance gains - Nothing to write home about
- XP SP3 performance gains - Nothing to write home aboutYou took the words right outta my mouth......er, off of my keyboard. I half expected the same thing. But Microsloth did themselves one better. They can still "claim" a performance gain, but they never claimed how much. ...
- Tags: Performance management, Nothing, XP SP3, Microsoft Windows XP, XP SP3 performance, performance, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- CH2M HILL Optimizes Business Development Performance With New CRM Solution
- CH2M HILL's multiple CRM and home-grown opportunity-tracking systems resulted in diverse, disconnected applications for supporting business development. These islands of data drove redundant data entry and data inconsistency, and could not provide a single, enterprise-level view for managing strategic pursuits/accounts. Management engaged technology research firm Gartner Consulting to discuss CRM...
- Tags: CRM Solution, Business Development, Microsoft Corp., CRM, CH2M HILL, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Strategic Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2008-04-15
- QWERTY or T9 text input methods, which do 968 prefer?
- QWERTY or T9 text input methods, which do 968 prefer?Matt: Give Adaptxt a trial!Adaptxt found [url=http://www.adaptxt.com/]here![/url](But I do find T9 on my N95 is pretty amazing for what it does except that if you add words that you find you wish you hadn't, you are stuck with them unless you...
- Tags: Keyboards, SureType, QWERTY, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- I'm really worried about AMD ...
- I'm really worried about AMD ...Couldn't agree moreI've bought a number of AMD CPU's over the years. The Athlon X2 was an amazing product. But AMD just can't keep it up long enough to make real traction.The ATI deal like you said wasn't a bad deal in and...
- Tags: Leadership, Processors, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- New WiFi from Intel improves rural communications
- New WiFi from Intel improves rural communicationsRe: "New WiFi...improves rural communications"Great!!! Glad to hear about the technology.HOWEVER...What's this talk about Africa and Asia? What about here in the U.S.?ANYONE who is outside the reach of Cable is going to be CONDEMNED to years more of the Internet via...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, INTERNET, Network technology, rural communication, Wi-Fi, POTS, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Want Vista SP1? Here's what to expect
- When Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to manufacturing on February 4, they promised to make it available for the general public in mid-March. Today they delivered on that promise, making SP1 available to Windows Vista users through Windows Update and as a standalone installer package from the Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Update, Version, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, Installer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- 'Requirements Critic' checks documents for problems
- Requirements Critic ("RC") is a joint project out of our Silicon Valley and Bangalore labs (time difference: An almost perfect 11.5 hours) that's looking for ways to aid the process of requirements development. Its current prototype is a Microsoft Word plug-in that acts sort of like a grammar checker-except it's...
- Tags: Requirement, Requirements Critic, Real Estate, Productivity, Business Operations, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- (Images: David Karp's Vista annoyances)
- (Images: David Karp's Vista annoyances)Where Are The Other 10,000 Annoyances?T-minus 18 days til I go back to Windows XP.My opinion"Windows Explorer frequently chooses the wrong view for files, showing documents as thumbnails or photos in the Tiles view,"Good grief - totally agree. The worst offender is the total inconsistency of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, performance monitoring, David Karp, Microsoft Windows Vista, annoyance, Vista annoyance, Microsoft Windows, codec, monitor
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- Comcast CEO kinda, sorta gets there are "horrific" customer service problems
- In a just-posted interview by FORTUNE magazine writer Stephanie Mehta, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is asked whether or not he realizes that his company has a "horrific" reputation for customer service. At the least, Roberts' answer shows that he is not in denial....
- Tags: Customer Service, Brian Roberts, Comcast Corp., Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Within days of Taser International going on defensive due to one death, another man dies
- Within days of Taser International going on defensive due to one death, another man diesTasers: don't use them anymoreThe police in Vancouver murdered the poor man.using tasers=murder or execution less certainPermitting taser's use in policing is akin to saying human lives still don't matter, seeing use of tasers is only...
- Tags: Taser, TASER International Inc., permanent injury
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Oracle's wall-to-wall software suite
- Oracle's wall-to-wall software suiteI don't understand the point of this middleware stuffYou have data, protected by constraints against inconsistency (an area where Oracle's DBMS product is, to be frank, embarrassingly weak) and you have programs that access and modify that data.What on earth is the point of middleware? I believe...
- Tags: middleware, Oracle Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2007-11-18
- Popularity of these 10 posts tells me you hate it when big companies screw consumers like you
- I was going through some server logs of our most-read and most-popular posts, when this realization hit me: You're really, REALLY interested in those cases when big business, dumb corporate policy, or the errant actions of incompetent customer "service" types screw consumers. How can I...
- Tags: Firing, Server, Apple Inc., Servers, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- MS Project Tool 2003 Addin (zip)
- With smart open through your projects by search text or by Project Manager. Rename your projects. Alerts Project manager when is about to delete an assignment, task or resource with pending hours in Project web access Timesheet. Bulk checking all your projects with clicking just one button. Change project manager...
- Tags: Project, Addin, Project Manager, Assignment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-10-24
- Chinese market major target for Intel's OLPC competitor
- In more OLPC-related news, Intel is working directly with the Chinese government to get their Classmate PCs into the hands of Chinese kids before OLPC can get their XO off the ground. Ars Technica is reporting on Intel's efforts in China: Intel's interest in China should...
- Tags: China, Ars Technica, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Mio DigiWalker C230
- Back in May, we reviewed the Mio C220 portable navigation system, which we loved for its ease of use and affordable price, but ultimately we had to diss it because of an awful screen. Well, we're happy to say that its successor, the Mio DigiWalker C230, offers the same intuitiveness...
- Tags: Keyboards, GPS, Handhelds, Mio, Mio C230, Mio DigiWalker C230
- Product reviews 2007-09-27
- Apple warns against hacking iPhone
- Apple warns against hacking iPhoneIt's simpleIf anyone else I bought things from were this mean to me, I would STOP buying their stuff. This is not the ONLY phone, just another phone. If we all stop buying it if you can afford it anyway, they'll have to change...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, hacking
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- The most exciting thing in IT
- The most exciting thing in ITAh yes, the best of the past . . .I was a great fan of the QMS printers - they were tough and the support was excellent - on par with Sun service!The HP workstations (HP735 et al) were workhorses that were tough and worked...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Strategy, Operating systems, UNIX, SCO Group Inc., SCOx, Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Phony choices in the net neutrality debate
- Phony choices in the net neutrality debateThe Internet has always had some level of intelligenceThe Internet has always had some level of intelligence. As the father of the Internet Robert Kahn says: "I'm against anything that bans intelligence inside the cloud". Even Vint Cerf tries to shy away...
- Tags: Web site development, Network technology, duopoly, Net Neutrality, Internet, phone, cable, streaming video, phone company, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
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