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European Seafood Brand Replaces ERP and B2B Infrastructure With Integrated Value Chain

MW Brands is one of Europe's leading seafood brands, and a growing force in the global seafood business. Spun out of the H.J. Heinz Company, MW Brands inherited a dated and expensive IT infrastructure that could not adequately support their supply chain network or plans for expansion. Recognizing the need...

Tags: Brand, Value Chain, ERP, Microsoft Corp., MW Brands, B2B, Branding, Enterprise Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing, Software

Case studies 2007-06-12

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LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brands

LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brandsPlasma and LCD can fight it out all they want...I still think the best value in HD TV's is DLP.There's no other way you can get a huge 61" 1080P set with ports galore, a gorgeous picture,...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TV, LCD, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., DLP, lamp, plasma TV, LCD TV, Sony Corp., brand

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-22

LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brands

At a rate of more than three to one, retail electronics salespersons are recommending liquid crystal display LCD flat screen TVs instead of sets using plasma technology to shoppers who are seeking to purchase big screen televisions (sets with screens measuring 40 inches or larger), according to the J.D.Power and...

Tags: Sony Corp., Brand, LCD TV, Plasma TV, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Salesperson, LCD, Branding, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM

Blog posts 2008-07-21

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystaranticompetitive argumentThe problem with the anticompetitive argument is that the company engaging in the activity has to command a substantial share of the overall market. Apple doesn't even have 8% of the market. Also, Psystar never even tried to license Apple's intellectual...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Top online ad campaigns by fast food chains

Advertiser Ad views, 000 Share of ads Unique ad viewers, 000 Frequency McDonald’s 295,884 33.6% 51,897 5.7 Quiznos.com 98,041 11.1% 16,390 6.0 KFC.com 84,974 9.6% 12,620 6.7 PapaJohns.com 82,298 9.3% 17,115 4.8 Subway 8,150 8.9% 15,478 5.0 Dunkin’...

Tags: Food, Advertisement, Online Advertising, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging Google

Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging GoogleContentUnless you're including content in your definition of an advertising platform, you've left out a most important factor. People look at ads because of what else is on the page. And that other material has to be located and purchased profitably.Yahoo has been successful...

Tags: Web browsers, Financial accounting, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Maidenform Gadget (gg)

Introducing the Maidenform and Amazon search bar gadget. Maidenform is a leading manufacturer of bras, panties, and shapewear. A pioneer in women's intimate apparel, Maidenform has over 80 years experience and continues in its fine tradition today with their 3 main brands: Maidenform bras and panties, Flexees Shapewear, and Lilyette...

Tags: Search Bar, Sidebar Gadgets, Maidenform, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-07-17

Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0?

As the hype and confusion over social networking and all things X2.0 accelerates, it seems that the PR/marketing techniques that dominated the late 1990's are back in fashion. Take this from an email and press release I received today: Email: "I thought you might be interested in...

Tags: Network, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Last.fm app debuts on iPhone and iPod touch (video)

On the opening day of the App Store, a number of competing music streaming applications were available, including major brands AOL Radio and Virgin, along with a favorite of mine, Pandora. However, one notable admission on day one was the music social network and ad-supported streaming music service, Last.fm. That...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Video, Apple iPod Touch, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emails

Brad Taylor, Google's Gmail Spam Czar, has just posted details on the ongoing cooperation with PayPal and Ebay, two of the most targeted brands in phishing emails, the effect of which is rejecting compared to flagging as spam each and every email pretending to be coming from paypal.com and ebay.com...

Tags: Google Gmail, DomainKeys, PayPal, eBay Inc., Authentication, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-09

HP iPAQ 910c Business Messenger

Though more well-known for its laptops and desktop PCs, HP is no stranger to smartphones. The company has released several models in the past, including the HP iPaq hw6945 Mobile Messenger and the HP iPaq 510 Voice Messenger, both of which have garnered some good user reviews, and now...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Keyboards, HP iPAQ, Hewlett-Packard Co., smart phone

Product reviews 2008-07-08

Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?

Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?I for oneI for one welcome our new giant rubber snake overlords.RE: Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?I woke up one morning and my friend was hitting my forehead with a giant rubber snake...at least I think that's what it was.1 MW powers...

Tags: rubber snake, snake, Giant rubber snake

Discussion threads 2008-07-06

Nikon announces D700: Full-frame dSLR for $2,000 less than flagship D3

Nikon announces D700: Full-frame dSLR for $2,000 less than flagship D3I wonder how much Ms. Chen was paid by Nikon......to conveniently overlook the existance of the Canon [i]5D[/i]?The Canon is a full-frame 12Mp camera that costs several hundred dollars less than the [i]D700[/i]. It's used by a lot of professional...

Tags: Nikon Corp., Canon Inc., D700, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Full-frame dSLR, camera

Discussion threads 2008-07-04

Why computers fail

Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New Worldsmart & clean: grid parity within 24 monthsGiven the fact that the price for fossile fuels are constantly rising, solar energy is one of the most promising solutions to our dwelling energy problem. Within the Solar Market Thin film applications...

Tags: grid parity

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World

The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...

Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Top hotel sites in Q1 2008

Q1 2007 Q1 2008 Percent Change Y/Y Intercontinental Hotel Brands 55.1 48.5 -12% Holiday Inn 30.7 30.8 1% Holiday Inn Express 16.2 18.8 16% Crowne Plaza 13.4 7.9 -41% Intercontinental 6.6 4.9 -26% Source: comScore by NB

Tags: Holiday, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Dell Studio 15

Parsing the intended markets for Dell's ever-shifting in-house brand names requires a bit of tea-leaf reading, although it's been easier of late, with the company stripping down its consumer brands to just the Inspiron and XPS lines. Now the company is adding a new line between the budget Inspiron and...

Tags: Notebooks, Branding, Processors, trade-off, Dell XPS, XPS, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2008-06-26

Windows XP Product Key Finder-Lite (exe)

If you need to reinstall Windows XP and you do not have the installation number Windows XP Product Key, this program will read the necessary installation number from registry. If the Windows system does not work, reads the product key from the root of the injured system. Just connect drive...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Product Key, BonCut Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-23