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Buy 3PAR storage, they'll buy a carbon offset certificate

3PAR wants to be known as the storage vendor that wants you to use less storage. Of course, that means it wants you to use THEIR storage. Craig Nunes, vice president of marketing for 3PAR, figures that businesses in the United States typically buy four times the...

Tags: 3PARData Inc., Mary Kay, Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-11

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News to know: Firefox 3.5; Lenovo; Blackberry Tour; Chambers

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. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Benchmarking Firefox 3.5 Testing Firefox 3.5 ... mind your add-ons! Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.5 released, more...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

News to know: Rigged PDFs; Obama's CTO; Android bug; Windows 7

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100? CNET News: Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks Ryan Naraine: Rigged PDFs...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, CTO, Adobe PDF, E-waste, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE 8

Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE 8They should publicly ignore the catcalling.The louder people complain, and the louder MS doesn't care and simply push developers for more and more compliance, the more respect they will garner. I like this early warning they gave. No matter...

Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Web technology, Quality, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, Web site, standards, Mozilla Firefox, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Microsoft to modify Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy scheme

Microsoft is making changes to its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy strategy via a couple of modifications it will implement in Vista Service Pack SP 1 and Windows Server 2008 next year. Microsoft is doing away with "reduced functionality mode" for individuals that its WGA activation and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Antipiracy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Google's high-speed battle with Microsoft

Google's high-speed battle with MicrosoftWell quit talking about it and create cool. Not rocket surgery[B]Bill Gates has indicated he is fed up with Google being seen as the ‘thought leader' of the Internet Age. Steve Ballmer believes "We have the birthright to lead the pack. We've got more technology. We've...

Tags: Investment, Leadership, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google stock buy-out, buy-out, Google stock, Bill Gates, stock

Discussion threads 2007-03-18

Virtual schools come under state scrutiny

Virtual schools are such a new and growing phenomenon that policy makers are having a tough time regulating them. Online programs are increasingly the targets of compliance investigations, reports eSchool News. Can legislation be far behind? The Oregon Department of Education claims the Oregon Connections Academy, an online charter...

Tags: virtual school

Blog posts 2006-09-12

Virtual school may get only virtual funds

Plans for a virtual school in Gillette, Wyo., have been scuttled on the grounds that it wouldn't qualify for state funding as there is no precedence for such a school, reports the Star Tribune. "It's just a setback, and we're hoping we can still make it work," said Ed...

Tags: virtual school

Blog posts 2006-07-27

My Small Business 2.3 (Windows)

My Small Business is a software package designed for small business owners - especially those with home businesses like Tastefully Simple, Pampered Chef, Avon, and Mary Kay. It features customer, inventory/product, and purchase order databases, all in an easy to use interface. You can create order forms, print them out,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Small Business, Inventory Level, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-02-16

Beauty consultant 1.10 (Mobile)

Support for sales of the wide range of Mary Kay beauty products. Pocket Outlook interface for easy access to client information. Manages hundreds of products and records sales for up to 20 products with calculations of totals less sales taxes and discounts. Sales records can be conveniently exported in seconds...

Tags: Consultant, Mobile, Westcott Creations, Pocket PC, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Sales, Software

Software downloads 2003-07-01

Mary Kay InTouch Community Scales Out and Up With Windows 2000 to Accommodate 1800 Percent Increase in Online Orders Over Two-Year Period

Using the scale-out and scale-up capabilities of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server family, Mary Kay Inc. has been able to easily grow its online ordering solution to accommodate this phenomenal growth. New Web servers can be deployed in just three hours, giving Mary Kay Inc. the agility to rapidly support...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Case studies

Mary Kay Advances BSM Strategy/ITIL Adoption With BMC Remedy IT Service Management

Mary Kay Inc. is one of the largest direct sellers of skin care and color cosmetics in the world. Several obstacles prevented the company from gaining a complete understanding of that infrastructure. Visibility into infrastructure components was fragmented across different tools and groups, not directly tied to key ITIL processes,...

Tags: Strategy, BMC Software Inc., Service Management, Business Service, Business Service Management, Remedy Corp., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, It Management, Quality, Business Operations, It service Management

Case studies

Mary Kay Advances BSM Strategy and ITIL Adoption With BMC Software

Mary Kay Inc. wanted to support dramatic domestic and international business growth by delivering superior IT products and services that align with the goals of the enterprise. As a solution the company executed a Business Service Management BSM strategy and adopted the recognized best practice processes outlined by the IT...

Tags: Strategy, BMC Software Inc., International Business, Business Service, Business Service Management, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, It Management, Quality, Business Operations, It service Management

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Major Cosmetics Producer Deploys Microsoft Search Technology to Increase Efficiency

Mary Kay Inc, one of the largest direct selling skin care and color cosmetics companies in the world, was without a viable enterprise search application. After moving its U.S. portal to Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, the company decided to upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to leverage the...

Tags: Enterprise Search, Search Technology, Microsoft Corp., Search, Cloud Computing, Portals, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software

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