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Microsoft and Yahoo deal: Decker, Liddell play big roles

If a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo happens itll be because of two chief financial officers--Sue Decker and Christopher Liddell. Decker left, arguably the heir apparent to CEO Terry Semel at Yahoo, is considered to be the most valuable executive at the company....

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Search, Microsoft, General

Blog posts 2007-05-04

International Paper Uses Oracle9i Application Server to Deliver Integrated Web-Based, Self-Service, Customer Solution in Only Six Weeks

A $26.4 billion company, International Paper IP is the world's largest paper and forest products organization. The company realized that providing timely and accurate information would enable customers to better manage their own supply chains. To accomplish its goals, the company needed to integrate two disparate order systems and establish...

Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Application Server, International Paper Co., Server, Oracle9i, Oracle9i Application Server, Application Servers, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

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International Paper's New Warehouse Tracking System Leverages RFID Technology to Improve Inventory Visibility

International Paper is one of the world's leading manufacturers of paper products and packaging solutions for home, office, printing, publishing and industrial applications. When executives at International Paper chose to enhance the efficiency of their supply chain in an effort to improve customer satisfaction, they identified warehouse tracking procedures as...

Tags: International Paper Co., RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

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Teaming With Sun to Cut Costs and Complexity in SAP Supply Chain Infrastructure

Operating in nearly 40 countries, Stamford, Connecticut-based International Paper Company International Paper, the $25 billion manufacturer, employs approximately 83,000 people and exports its products to more than 120 countries. And since the mid-1990s, it has used SAP solutions software to manage its global mill products businesses. One of the best...

Tags: Supply Chain, Sun Microsystems Inc., International Paper Co., SAP AG, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software

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Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from Networkcar

OK, I admit it. When I bought my car a year-and-a-half ago, comparing the fuel consumption metrics among the different models WAS part of the equation, but not the most important part. Now, with gas lines forming in my own little town and people putting summer trips...

Tags: Monitor, Performance, Technology, Performance Management, GPS, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security.  Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...

Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

NoScript vs. Internet Explorer 8 Filters

NoScript vs. Internet Explorer 8 FiltersThink About End UsersI've tried, a couple of times, to use NoScript in my normal surfing, and it became unbearable quickly. Too many sites were disfunctional. MLB.com is a good example.It's one thing to make an add-in for technical users that they can tweak on...

Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, Channel management, Microsoft Internet Explorer, NoScript, IE8, MLB

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...

Tags: Spam, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Gmail, CAPTCHA, spammer, MSN Hotmail

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...

Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-03

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users loseCompetition?Does Viacom think that a 10 minute pixellated clip of a show or movie is really competition for seeing the entire show/movie on a TV or big screen? This is getting ridiculous. If anything, having these clips on YouTube is free...

Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Viacom Inc., Google IP, YouTube Inc., IP, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

What to do with your first generation iPhone (updated)

With the launch of the iPhone 3G a little over a week away and new rate plans published many people are wondering what to do with their first generation iPhones. An AppleInsider story lists a bunch of options including handing it down to a family member or...

Tags: Apple iPhone, First-generation, 3G, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Digital Music, Cellular Phones, Digital Media, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past

To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...

Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics

Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...

Tags: Business Process, Metastorm, Green Technology, Ethics, Operational Planning, Business Ethics, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-01

What should your email archiving policy look like?

What should your email archiving policy look like?Using ONE email acct. for workLooks like it's time to employ a 3rd part vendor or create your own content filter to block access to gMail, Hotmail, etc.In our school, we have decided to go through a 3rd party that works with us....

Tags: E-mail providers, e-mail archiving, e-mail, email archiving policy

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Why computers fail

Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...

Tags: Checkpoint, Multiprocessor, Failure, Computer, Desktop Computer, LANL, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-01

IdPhotos 2008 (exe)

IdPhotos 2008 is an advanced but easy-to-use tool designed for automatic image processing of ID photos so that they meet the specific requirements of international ID regulations. A standard catalogue of ready-to-use templates - for passports, visas, driving licenses and other identity card photographs - is included. With the IdPhotos...

Tags: Photograph, PIXEL-TECH, IdPhotos 2008

Software downloads 2008-07-01

Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses

Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...

Tags: Car, Stock, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Wall, Sales Strategy, Mortgages, Sales Force Management, Construction, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Google curbs essay-writing service advertisements

Corporations over time gain social responsibility for the products they release: Microsoft and their report abuse features, Facebook and their privacy settings, and now Google are adding more to the list. I spoke some time ago about plagiarism, more on a positive note, considering the use of...

Tags: Google Inc., Essay, Advertisement, Plagiarism, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Tech giants aim to cut patent trolls off at the pass

Tech giants aim to cut patent trolls off at the passEasier SolutionAn easier solution to the problem is to get rid of destructive, insidious software patents completely. Software should never have become patentable.Software patents == utter corruption of our market and will be a major cause of the US losing...

Tags: Tech Giants, patent troll, patent, software patent, software

Discussion threads 2008-06-30