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Mercer Human Resource Consulting Increases Productivity With Mobile Technology

Consultants at Mercer Human Resource Consulting spent many hours out of the office, visiting clients. They were keen to demonstrate to clients that Mercer was at the forefront of technology and improved customer service, while increasing productivity during travelling time. Mercer chose to roll out mobile handheld devices, running Microsoft...

Tags: Mobile, Mercer, Microsoft Corp., Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Pocket PC, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Hardware

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Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched

Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop

Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...

Tags: INTERNET, apparent murder-suicide, Escapee, murder-suicide, Spam King

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-24

10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear

10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear#9 is wrongThe actual principal for #9 is the GFC principal, Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any TWO.In reality, a successful project blends all 3 to get a product with a reasonable level of all.Corollary to #10:"It's just what I asked for,...

Tags: Strategy, IT Project Manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

TTProtect (zip)

TTProtect is an advanced software protection tool, it protect software against cracker. It absorb the advantages of the other protections, and adding own characteristics, use of a unique anti-tracking methods, make it difficult to debug protected application. TTprotect features Debugger Detection, Anti-Attached, Drx decoding, Code Chaos and confusion, Virtual Machine...

Tags: Software, TTProtect, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-23

Evil tech administrators

Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...

Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

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

Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?

Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?Greed is the problem with our systemYes we are capitolists but greed is problem when it comes to affecting the lives of millions.People sue for malpractice and receive millions. Laywers make a bunch a money from the cases. Insurers make money...

Tags: Insurance, insurance company

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

VMware and common performance myths

Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something about the findings of that research in the post, Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth. I've just...

Tags: Virtualization, Performance, VMware Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-22

The evolution of search over traditional BI

Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...

Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio

News items 2008-07-22

MB IChing Numerology (exe)

MB IChing Numerology calculates if your name is lucky based on IChing. You can choose to use this tool to make changes to your name numerologically, so that it is beneficial. I Ching philosophy is found to have tremendous effect on all spheres of human life. I Ching is advocates...

Tags: MysticBoard, MB IChing Numerology, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-07-22

First hints of Microsoft's "fight back" ads appear

First hints of Microsoft's "fight back" ads appearPerception IS reality.The damage is done. Apple is #3 in US home computer sales today. Perception [b]is[/b] reality and unfortunately for microsoft they've got battered, much of it being well deserved. This is the proverbial finger to plug a dyke breach.RE: First hints...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Saving money with solar tech

Saving money with solar techSaving money through natural sourceWe all know that green energy is the future of all earthlings.Scientist are doing a lot of inventions to generate energy from natural resource, the prices are exhorbitantly high hence a comman man like me is not able to afford / use...

Tags: SAVING MONEY, Govt

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?

[Updated with video.] I'm spending a few days at Fortune Magazine's invite-only Brainstorm conference. It's an excellent lineup of speakers and the audience is full of top tech industry luminaries. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, was just on stage and he spoke about trying to harness...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Social Media, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...

Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Toward the end of the dentist drill?

If you're as afraid as I am when you enter your dentist's office, I have some excellent news. The London-based Society of Chemical Industry reports that UK researchers have developed a new technology that spots tooth decay almost as soon as it's begun. This new technology is based on Raman...

Tags: Technique, Tooth, Researcher, Dentist, Raman, Festy, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-21

New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePoint

New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePointSharePoint Best Practices!!!I'm not disputing the result of the studies but i think the downsides are normally excerbated by inappropiate practices. Every product has its downsde but i believe these downsides can be overcome if appropiate practices are used: SharePoint Best Practices Start...

Tags: Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21