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- New Mobile Solution Improves Distribution Efficiency for Snack Food Manufacturer
- Snack food manufacturer Lance supported Direct Store Delivery DSD using a difficult-to-maintain mobile application running on eight-year-old devices, which were failing at an increasing rate. The company addressed those challenges by migrating to Apacheta RouteACE workflow software running on new Windows Mobile devices. Features such as bar code scanning, support...
- Tags: Food Company, Mobile, Mobile Solution, Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-06-05
- Why I called Mozilla's change to the Firefox install process "sneaky"
- Why I called Mozilla's change to the Firefox install process "sneaky"It got me, and I read the article!I don't know where it was, but the option to not take over as the default browser is something I never saw. I even did a custom install.It was easy to fix...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- What value in medical endorsements?
- What is the real impact of a celebrity endorsement for a medical product? We all remember the Robert Jarvik contretemps. I thought it was fair that a man whose device was made nearly obsolete by a medicine might do ads for it, but others disagreed, since he...
- Tags: Advertisement, Endorsement, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Cooking at the South Pole
- In a freely available article, The Wall Street Journal reveals how chefs cook at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. You might find surprising to find such a post here, but cooking at the South Pole needs lots of innovation and creativity. Let's look at some of the challenges. First, the...
- Tags: Food, National Science Foundation, Wall Street Journal, Mushroom, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Big storage is watching you
- Kudos to Larry Dignan for an informative post on the system that caught NY governor Eliot Spitzer canoodling with a prostitute. Modern information technology enables 24 hour surveillance of every citizen. Should we care? Of course not. Every citizen is a potential terrorist. You want to...
- Tags: Database, President, Surveillance, Information Technology, Storage, Personal Responsibility, GPS, Government, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you
- Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...
- Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Parallels, VMware Fusion, Boot Camp battle in real-world tests
- Parallels, VMware Fusion, Boot Camp battle in real-world testsI've gone with ParallelsI liked the integration with the MacOS, though at times it creates an odd gui seeing the XP dock bar on the bottom of the Mac screen when using it with two monitors. Speed is exceptional under almost all...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, performance, VMware Inc., VMware Fusion, Microsoft Windows XP, real-world test
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Vendor relationship management: viable or theory?
- While at LeWeb3, I caught Doc Searls session entitled "Turning the tables: What happens when the users are in charge." Doc is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and widely regarded as a leading thinker on customer relationships. Susan Kish at LunchoverIP does an excellent job bullet pointing Doc's presentation....
- Tags: Health Insurance, Theory, Idea, Health Care, Vendor Relationship Management, Doc, E-lance, Business Reality, Ed, Jarvis, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Comcast plugs DigitalVoice during my service call
- Actually, I think that's smart. Backgrounder: if you have been keeping up with news about the Pacific Northwest storms that have hit my part of the world over the last several days, you may know there has been massive flooding, rain and high winds. ...
- Tags: Phone, Comcast Corp., Modems, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Components, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Google's big green energy goal: A distraction?
- Google's big green energy goal: A distraction?Not such a bad ideaI think the press they will get if they manage it will be well worth the investment. Plus, they're unlikely to develop the technologies themselves and more likely to buy up and develop a startup energy co, providing valuable cash...
- Tags: Data centers, Google Inc., distraction, big green energy goal, green energy goal, energy goal
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Mark Cuban wants Facebook and Yahoo to dance the rumba
- Mark Cuban wants Facebook and Yahoo to dance the rumbaFacebook, "pulse360.com" & "Bid4KeyWords" ....."Unless Facebook’s social APIs provide some unique competitive advantage over OpenSocial APIs, or that Facebook and Microsoft or Yahoo teaming up will pay huge dividends, openness is the path of least resistance…and enlightenment."And it's ALL (well...
- Tags: Channel management, Facebook, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-04
- Are you sick of Facebook yet?
- I hope not because here is another presentation from the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference: Lance Tokuda, CEO of Rock You, the top Facebook app developer. His team can design an app on Friday afternoon, protoype, code and launch by Monday, and grab a few million users...
- Tags: Facebook, Team Management, Scripting Languages, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Images: High-tech hoaxes and media mess-ups
- Paul isn't dead, Dewey didn't defeat Truman, and Lonelygirl15 is a fake. Here are few of the best hoaxes and pranks to have spread through the media over the past century. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-31
- Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo dance
- Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo danceSoftware Industry's Lance ArmstrongYou are _way_ too nice. "Software Industry's Lance Armstrong"? OK... I'll take it Dennis Babes. Thanks man.RE: Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo danceThe native wiki provided with SP2007 is very basic. This opens a new door for those who need better. It...
- Tags: Atlassian, Microsoft Does, Wiki, Lance Armstrong, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo dance
- Continuing from Dan Farber's news post regarding Atlassian, the enterprise wiki space just changed. Speaking with Jeffrey Walker, president of Atlassian and the software industry's Lance Armstrong, it is clear today's partnership between Atlassian and Microsoft is a big deal: The curious thing is they...
- Tags: Partnership, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Atlassian, James, Business Structures, Web 2.0, Wiki, Finance, Internet, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Debating the morality behind software development
- Debating the morality behind software developmentWell, that's where themorality issue somes up. While one person may find it morally objectionable to do a thing, eventually someone else will probably do it. So for that one person, he has made a choice based on his ethical beliefs. So...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, nuclear energy, software, software development
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- Graphing social patterns with Linkedin's Reid Hoffman
- Speaking the Graphing Social Patterns conference covering the business and technology of Facebook in San Jose today, Linkedin founder and chairman Reid Hoffman poured cold water on the notion that a single social graph would prevail. "One graph that includes all types of relationships in one perfectly orchestrated universe is...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, LinkedIn, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Microsoft says some way to go on software piracy
- Microsoft says some way to go on software piracyCraig Mundie should not be speaking on thisCraig Mundie is the old boy Microsoft management whoes name has not come up a lot in the US antitrust cases. But he was a central figure in the permatemp problems which came prior to...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Craig Mundie, software
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Your thoughts on Vista's performance and reliability updates
- Your thoughts on Vista's performance and reliability updatesVista hibernation issueWe just got a new dual core 2.4 with 2 gig of memory PC with Vista on it. I was surprised that boot up and shutdown times along with coming out of hibernation were very slow. With all of the memory,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patches, performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, hibernation, patch management, memory, game
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
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