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- ING Chile Consolidates Information and Improves Budgeting Processes
- ING Chile wanted to implement a flexible IT infrastructure on one unified platform, to systematize the budgeting process and consolidate reliable financial information, permitting quick and efficient development of its 3 years budget (MTP - Medium Term Plan). The challenge was to eliminate manual processes and reprocessing of information, to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Budgeting, Information, ING Group, ING Chile, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Case studies 2008-02-01
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- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard
- Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...
- Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economyGoogle earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economyAnd the ship starts to sink...I hope no one was expecting them to have a good quarter considering their lack of innovation, discontinuing services, and their prized possession of search...
- Tags: Financial accounting, earnings miss, GOOG, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Confirmed: Twitter buys Summize
- Confirmed: Twitter buys SummizeTwitter uses Web Data MiningThis makes much sense, because Summize offers great Sentiment Analysis technology.With Summize Twitter is now a gold mine for Web Data Mining and Web Monitoring. Ford could ask Twitter, how their products do. If the people like their new car or not. Ford...
- Tags: Channel management, Twitter, Summize
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Twitter confirms Summize acquisition
- Twitter confirms Summize acquisitionTwitter could make money with Data MiningThis makes much sense, because Summize offers great Sentiment Analysis technology.With Summize Twitter is now a gold mine for Web Data Mining and Web Monitoring. Ford could ask Twitter, how their products do. If the people like their new car or...
- Tags: Channel management, Twitter, Summize
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption
- UK enterprise adoption of the iPhone 3G may be hampered by security issues and Apple's exclusive partnership with O2, among other factors. For years, Apple has paid little attention to products for enterprise users. Now it's pitching its new iPhone 3G as: "The best phone for business. Ever". But...
- Tags: Barrier, Apple iPhone, Phone, O2 Plc., John Romeis, Gordon Barnes, Paul Jarvis, Phil Jackson, Ignacio Toro Lyng, 3G, Cellular Phones, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Natasha Lomas silicon.com, iPhone 3G, smart phones, Apple, IT
- News items 2008-07-11
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!Airport SecurityI'm fairly sure if anyone was to see me naked... their eyeballs would no longer function anyway. I say go ahead, it's more a punishment for them than me. But I can certainly understand why many people would find...
- Tags: airport security, body scanners!, scannerS!, Nate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- The lighter side of Bill Gates
- As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadershipIt's GovernmentWhy should anybody put any effort into any government project. There is no penalty for failure. The pay checks keep on rolling.The oversight Congress are a bunch of self serving fossils, who for the most part are clueless.However, the public...
- Tags: Six Sigma, Government, brain drain, bad leadership, CMMI, leadership
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Laptop wars: Toshiba goes thin with 128GB solid state drive
- Laptop wars: Toshiba goes thin with 128GB solid state drive128GB SSD is Good NewsWith SSDs for Laptop capped at 32GB until now, this new 128GB Portege from Toshiba makes for the first serious SSD alternative to latops equiped with traditional HDD. Thanks a lot for the information.RE: Laptop wars: Toshiba...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Toshiba Corp., laptop computer, solid state disk, Apple Inc., SSD, Cell
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Where Latin American Internet users come from in April 2008
- Markets Audience, 000 Average Usage Days per Visitor Average Hours per Visitor Worldwide 849,580 17.1 25.7 Latin America 61,610 16.3 28.6 Brazil 19,320 16.0 30.2 Mexico 11,773 14.7 23.7 Argentina 8,440 17.8 32.4 Chile 5,320 17.4 28.4 ...
- Tags: Visitor, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Virtualise your life - mixing mobility and cloudivity
- Virtualise your life - mixing mobility and cloudivityGreat idea, but concerns still lingerThe dream is certainly a nice one. The dream has been presented in different forms for at least the last 20 or so years. Each time a slightly different technology was at the heart of the dream. Each...
- Tags: cloud computing, cloudivity, Ulteo, mobility
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Fusion: new, tiny developer Mac?
- Fusion: new, tiny developer Mac?Considering Pico-itxConsidering Via has had a pico-itx spec out for almost a year, a Mac of that size could easily fit into a case like that with off the shelf components.Apple would just have to make an OSX build that supports the Via processor. No trick...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Amazon Kindle - Now $359
- Amazon Kindle - Now $359SONY PRS-505 is better and cheaperWhy does the kindle have a keyboard where it should have screen space? It's definitely a first generation piece of junk that everyone will look back at in disgust.Apple could kill Kindle once and for allIf Apple ever makes small...
- Tags: Keyboards, E-books, Sony PRS-505, Wireless delivery, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Don't go buying high-end graphics cards to power the next-gen Photoshop
- Don't go buying high-end graphics cards to power the next-gen PhotoshopOK ...... what budget would you be looking at?CS3 and high end graphics cardsI'd just like to know what use CS3 and Elements make of upgraded graphics cards. I was thinking about the new 8800GT for Mac Pro to...
- Tags: Video cards, Games, Adobe PhotoShop, high-end graphics card, video card, PS CS3, graphics, game, RAM
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
- Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini and all three MacBooksI meant MacBook....ntMac Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQMy Mac Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ is far more stylish than any of the current heap of Laptops.RE: Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini and all three MacBooksWho cares about comparing apples to apples in this case?...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Processors, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Psystar, Geekbench, Apple MacBook, CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- A U.S military botnet in the works
- Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?
- Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?.mobi is UsefulI like developed .mobi sites, and have a blog and showcase of .mobi sites at http://mobienthusiast.mobi. It's true that there are many mobile optimized .com sites, but I like the simplicity of being able to type in...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, DotMobi, mobi site, mobi, mobile, mobi domain, dotMobi, Visit BofA.mobi, domain
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
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