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Forrester: Only one percent have negative experience with SOA

Forrester: Only one percent have negative experience with SOAForrester: Only one percent have negative experience with SOA[message removed by author]Thank youfor writing an article that conveys a remarkable fact. You probably can't get 99% of Americans to agree on the name of the first President. And yet, you...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, negative experience, Forrester Research Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

70% of companies had negative experience with outsourcing, 44% did not get any cost saving

InfoWorld TechWatch points to Deloitte & Touche study of current outsourcing practices, where an overwhelming number of respondents has had negative experience with outsourcing and half of the respondents faced hidden costs. 70% of participants have had negative experiences with outsourcing. 25% of respondents realized that they could handle certain...

Tags: outsourcing, negative experience

Blog posts 2005-04-19

70% of companies had negative experience with outsourcing, 44% did not get any cost saving

InfoWorld TechWatch points to Deloitte & Touche study of current outsourcing practices, where an overwhelming number of respondents has had negative experience with outsourcing and half of the respondents faced hidden costs. 70% of participants have had negative experiences with outsourcing. 25% of respondents realized that they could handle certain...

Tags: outsourcing, negative experience

Blog posts 2005-04-19

Additional Resources

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Android 2.0 (Eclair) FAQ

Android 2.0 GPSWill the GPS be functional if I don't buy the expensive Verizon data plan or pay by the Mb.You would need access to the internetto download the maps as needed there would not be enough room on the phone to store the whole country locally. So unless you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Android 2.0, phone, ECLAIR

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2, kills Palm Pre sync ... again

Round up the executive and throw them in jailApple's behavior is simply unacceptable.Palm... Shakes HeadNote to Palm: Make a Front end that uses the iTunes DB or quit trying to keep hacking. It is REALLY stupid. A) You will never keep ahead of this.B) Even if you keep fixing it,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Pre

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

What's the key to Apple's success?

One word: QUALITYA concept absent from WindowslandTDSo sad to see how Apple destroyed the word "innovation"Apple has never, ever, done anything innovative. By applying the term to blatant rebadging of 5 year old technology, you devalue the meaning of the word and insult those who actually [b]do[/b] innovate. For shame.Oh,...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall

Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...

Tags: Recall, Pregnancy, Attivio, Spam Email, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, search, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Students find Win 7 upgrade a tough assignment

Well DUH!Students, retired folks, IT pros, dabblers, 'nix heads, etc. would ALL find trying to UPGRADE from a 32 bit to a 64 bit OS hard. Three words - "can't be done."There, was that hard? Why is this even news?This is newsbecause some people like to keep spreading...

Tags: Operating systems, clean install, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Migration Wizard

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Windows 7 killer deals commence; 7 days of PC specials, $30 OS upgrade

That Best Buy deal ain't bad at all......stop Geek Squad at the door take the merchandise pop in the Ubuntu CD's and I'm ready to go. Thanks Win 7 for the cheap hardware.Apple should be offering deals now, tooJust to steal some thunder from the Win 7 (vista 2.0) over-hype.Fanboi...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating systems, PC, operating system, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Snow Leopard, Media Center PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Did 'reporters' sink Vista?

Yes. They made it much worse.There were early driver problems, many devices NEVER got updated for Vista, the fit and finish was and is rough, the extra security was a nag (but should have been DEFENDED and EXPLAINED by the tech pros, instead of being ridiculed), business was right to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

DROID aims to make Apple iAnnoyed

i ilove itintWhat a dumb adAnybody who would think that this ad is a good way of advertising a product is a total idiot.So instead of hyping the features of your product, you advertise the don'ts for another product? If anything, you are telling people that the other product is...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, Apple iPhone, Droid, Apple iAnnoyed, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-18

Tealeaf: 80% report problems with online shopping, many tell their friends

online shoppingI do virtually all my shopping online and I have saved thousands of dollars, with so few negatives that they represent less than 1% of my online shopping experience. I do not like some of the "far east" web stores quite so much since they require a bit...

Tags: Sales channel, Branding, TeaLeaf Technology Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

CTIA: Android and Apps everywhere

Locked UpWe'll only see real growth the market liberalises, and real competition is given a chance -- when I can buy an iPhone/aPhone outright and use it only any network.@leegeeUnfortunately, without those kinds of lockdowns and gaurantees of profitability for the producers & telecoms, there is no incentive for a...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CTIA

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Ballmer: Testers didn't ring Vista warning bells; Could the same happen with Windows 7?

Your average beta tester is a power userYour average beta tester is a power user. You don't get the same feedback as you can from an average user. Therefore, you can't extrapolate how their experience would apply to the masses.Ballmer's trying to dampen expectations a bit so that when Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Verizon-Google changes mobile landscape; Customers have real options again

I had to take a moment to pause and think about this new Google-Verizon chumminess and their common, yet unspoken, quest to go after the Apple-AT&T relationship with the iPhone that includes today's partnership news and a new ad campaign. For those who don't know, I am...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06

HP Pavilion dv5-1235dx

Bad Experience with HP Pavilion DV5-1235dxHP Pavilion dv5-1235dx Notebook - For anybody thinking about purchasing a notebook computer, I would strongly recommend staying away from HP. About 6 months ago I bought a HP Pavilion dv5-1235dx Notebook and about a month ago the screen started flickering really bad. I called...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, HP Pavilion DV5-1235dx, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, Nikki

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

The Android-Cyanogen kerfluffle

The Day that Android Died.The applications that he was distributing sort of were applications that were already on the users phone.But in order to install the new rom you need to erase all and start from fresh, there is no easy way to leave them untouched on the phone, so...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Tinnitus Tamer 4.0.3 (Mac)

It appears only natural to assume that as our ears pick up sound waves, they convert them into electrical nerve signals that represent the sounds, a loud sound producing a large nerve signal, silence producing no nerve signal at all, and once these nerve signals arrive at the brain we...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Neural Network, Sound, VAVsoft

Software downloads 2009-09-19