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- U.S. Postal Service to Netflix: You're killing us on labor
- U.S. Postal Service to Netflix: You're killing us on laborOf course the post office is inefficientThat's why postal prices keep increasing. Their workforce is overpaid, that's why costs are so high, but I guess it is easier to blame your customers. If customers are causing an increase in...
- Tags: NetFlex, U.S. Congress, U.S. Postal Service, NetFlix Inc., mailer, post-Office
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- U.S. Postal Service to Netflix: You're killing us on labor
- Netflix's return DVD mailers are apparently costing the U.S. Postal Service $21 million in annual labor costs. And the Postal Service wants some of its money back. Simply put, Netflix's return DVDs clog the postal machinery and require manual sorting. When Netflix subscribers open their mailers the...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., U.S. Postal Service, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Partner Relationship Management (PRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- eBay, Netflix a boon to Postal Service
- The Internet was supposed to be the death knell of the Post Office. With everyone paying bills online, writing emails and capturing documents as PDFs, the amount of snail mail would slow to a crawl. So what happened? eBay. Amazon. Netflix. The New York Times' Katie Hafner reports that the...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., eBay Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-03
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- Poll: Best personal finance software?
- A little while ago, before the massive recession threw everyone into the depths of their portfolios, I thought it would be prudent to graduate tracking my expenses from pen and paper to software. My parents have dabbled with Quicken, and I wasn't really impressed with Microsoft Money....
- Tags: Software, Quicken, Personal Finance, Mint, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Cast Iron takes 'integration as a service' to cloud-based or on-premises deployment
- This ability to integrate applications across hybrid deployment types is critical for enterprises to increasingly move to cloud-based and SaaS models. More than not, applications will come from several sources, and so the integrations becomes the enabler of the models ongoing use and success. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Integration, Cast Iron, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?
- Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...
- Tags: John Chambers, Web, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Are software megavendors too big to stumble?
- There's a good chance you get most--if not all of your software--from four massive companies: IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle. And their game is simple: Grab more of your so-called wallet share. The big question is whether these vendors are so massive that they can do no...
- Tags: Software, Gartner Inc., Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Live Webcast: Simplified IT with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- One of the most important functions of IT professionals is the never-ending process of updating, maintaining and supporting all of the various software services and applications that their companies rely on for business. It's a difficult job, even under the best of circumstances. But what if there was...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Webcast, Information Technology, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies
- Webcasts 2008-10-14
- Zmanda launches open source backup, recovery solutions for Windows
- Open source backup and recovery independent software developer ISV Zmanda formally announced two new products tailored for Windows users. Zmanda, of Sunnyvale, Calif. announced Zmanda Recovery Manager Enterprise Version 3.0 for MySQL and Zmanda Internet Backup ZIB. ZRM 3.0 is the first Windows edition...
- Tags: MySQL, Recovery Solution, Microsoft Windows, Backups, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech support
- Best Buy must get some huge margins from its Geek Squad tech support service, because it seems like everyone wants to copy that model of overcharging noobs for help with tech installations and troubleshooting. Circuit City has Firedog, and Office Depot has Tech Depot Services. Now LG Electronics is trying...
- Tags: Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., Cable, Wirewize, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0
- Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, On-demand, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Egnyte, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except...
- Tags: FCC, Airwave, Wireless Internet, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?
- What does it say about SharePoint when a presentation focused on whether you can survive it packs the house? Mark Gilbert's presentation--"Can the CIO survive Microsoft SharePoint?"--at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo filled up an auditorium. There are two ways to read this: There is...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Gilbert, MOSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords
- When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Enterprise web 2.0 costs set to plunge
- Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet, according to a new report from Forrester. Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet. According to a new...
- Tags: Software, Web, CIO, Tool, Web 2.0, Productivity, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Marketing, Management, Forrester, budget, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-13
- Negotiating with your hardware vendor 101
- Squeezing the most out of technology budgets seems to be a running theme these days, but customers frequently give up leverage in negotiating hardware deals. According to Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering most hardware negotiations go wrong early on. A customer's maximum leverage occurs when a company is...
- Tags: Leverage, Hardware Maker, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad
- Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...
- Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)
- Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., McDonald's Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile
- Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...
- Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste
- Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...
- Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
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