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Savings Company Performs Complex Analysis With Familiar Business Intelligence Tool

Park Group bases its £300 million (U.S.$600 million) business on a distinctive business model. The financial services company specialises in Christmas savings - helping people budget for this expensive time. The company's Microsoft SQL Server 2005 data warehouse contains the details of around 5 million current, previous, and potential customers...

Tags: Payment, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Analysis, Park Group, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Office Suites

Case studies 2008-01-01

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Comcast keeps promise, launches data usage meter

THERE SHOULD BE NOOOO CAP.PERIOD. If less than 1% are using that much bandwidth... WHO CARES?They are just trying to impose a limit on "UNLIMITED" service. They should be forced to stop calling it "UNLIMITED" if there is a 250GB cap and they should have had this in place...

Tags: Backups, Cable, Comcast Corp., bandwidth user, data usage

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Microsoft drops 'Family Guy' special

Viewers watch Family Guy because they want tonot because it's forced in to their cubicles at work.That doesn't fit with the Windows brand, indeed.MSFT tried to alter the content of the show"Microsoft sent MacFarlane and Fox several notes expressing their concern over the show's content but ultimately decided just to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Family Guy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

News to know: Palm ads; Microhoo SEC filing; U.S. Marines; Bing; Skype; Clunkers

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. Larry Dignan: Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about them Andrew Nusca: Palm's creepy Pre ads:...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Advertisement, SEC Filing, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Projectors, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Microsoft sets pointless 25-PC upgrade limit for Windows 7

Microsoft sets pointless 25-PC upgrade limit for Windows 7Come on Adrian: Yet again another W7 limitation?Well that is what it looks like. There's the word right at the top of the page in the title of this story even.Can't wiggle out of this one Windows Folks.Of course, I will...

Tags: KMS, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Real Estate Success Tracker - REST 3.7 Rev. B (Windows)

Just starting your career in real estate or a full-time veteran? REST is the perfect solution to build your business the right way from the beginning or to get control of the success youre already having. Move your real estate business into REST and give it a secure place to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Real Estate Success Tools, B, REST Multi User, Real Estate, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-05-29

Real Estate Success Tracker - REST 3.7 Rev. B (Mac)

REST Single User Just starting your career in real estate or a full-time veteran? REST is the perfect solution to build your business the right way from the beginning or to get control of the success youre already having. Move your real estate business into REST and give...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Real Estate Success Tools, REST Multi User, Real Estate, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-05-20

Senators cry

Senators cry wow that senator is so funny how much do you think that 2 years retention on data is gonna cost ..... tape back up and everything wow intelligence at a pure state wow RE: Senators cry I call total BULLSHYTE! It's...

Tags: child pornography

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Girl arrested for texting in class

Girl arrested for texting in classSo...Other than thinking the whole thing is absurd, what would be the procedure for dealing with such a lame kid as this in dear old Massachusetts? In particular, what would you personally do with such a miscreant?RE: Girl arrested for texting in classIs texting a...

Tags: jammer, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Newspapers in peril: NYT ad revs tank, looking to sell Red Sox; Media News forces furloughs

If you though the newspaper industry was in bad shape in 2008, it doesn't look like the battered print industry will do any better in 2009. This morning, the New York Times Co. said that total revenues were down almost 11 percent in the fourth quarter, compared...

Tags: Revenue, Layoff, Advertisement, Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Advice for Obama: Keep the Blackberry; Get a Mac

The newly sworn-in leader of the broadband generation and his faithful staff of Facebookers, MySpacers, YouTubers and Tweeters (Twitterers?) showed up for work yesterday to discover that the White House is still living in a dial-up world. Among the findings: computers with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software, a scarcity of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Barack Obama, White House, RIM BlackBerry, Federal Government, Social Networking, E-mail, Handhelds, Government, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Monster Turbine In-Ear Speakers

Monster may be new to the headphone market, but it's off to a good start. The company recently introduced the Beats by Dr. Dre, a full-size over-the-ear headphone, which was codeveloped by the master hip-hop artist and producer. That headphone received its fair share of rave reviews and was...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Monster, turbine, headphone, in-ear headphone

Product reviews 2009-01-16

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureGreat post Paul.It gave me an idea. We should make a concerted effort to inform all business managers everywhere that disgruntled employees sometimes shop their employer/ex-employer for unlicensed software, and it is as important a consideration as having software that actually works. The solution can...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Desktops, information technology, software, Murph, PC, PC environment, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.  So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...

Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Paranoia, tin foil hats, and the EMP threat

Paranoia, tin foil hats, and the EMP threatPaul are you ok this morningyou seen stress a bit you should put down the coffee and lay a will ... take vacation a nice bottle of wine ...you working to much at this moment :)Of course EMP is a...

Tags: Tin Foil Hat, Paul, EMP

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

Green tech an integral part of new California Academy of Sciences building

When I still lived in the San Francisco Bay area, I would often wander up to Golden Gate Park and the museums and exhibits nearby. One of my favorite “historic” buildings in the city was the California Academy of Sciences, which now has been completely overhauled with a green bent....

Tags: Green Technology, Museum, Construction, Collaboration, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-19

IBM considering financing IT project partners because of banking crisis

I recently ran into Drew Clark, head of IBM's Venture Capital Group, based in Menlo Park, California. I asked him about the financial crisis and what IBM could do in response. "We would never make an equity investment but we are looking at financial help in projects where we partner...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Financing, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself

With New York planning to put in another 3,000 surveillance cameras and monitor all license plates coming into the island of Manhattan at 20 entrances with its Operation Sentinel, travelers and residents should not only get over any indignation at being snooped on to this extent...

Tags: Camera, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2

Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, App, Melodies, Medialets, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-03