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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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- On IT failure: IDC group vice president Mike Fauscette [podcast]
- IDC's Group Vice President, Mike Fauscette, leads a team of enterprise software analysts for one of the largest research firms in the world. To better understand IT failures, read this interview. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Vice President, International Data Corp., Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Michael Krigsman, Software, Software Company, Failure, Tools & Techniques
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring
- The Federal Trade Commission won a huge antispam victory in court yesterday, with a federal courts in Chicago's order to freeze the assets of a botnet spam group generally known as HerbalKing. The group used botnets to spread its poison around the globe. Just one botnet...
- Tags: Asset, FTC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Signs your company might soon go belly-up
- Before a company goes under, just about everybody knows it. And before everybody knows it, a bunch of people are already whispering in the corridors and around the water cooler, certain they see the writing on the wall. But what about you? Can you read the clues sprinkled like breadcrumbs...
- Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 80 ways to mix open source and business
- Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...
- Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Workout for brain just a few clicks away
- Researchers at UCLA studied people doing Web searches and found that it sharpened the memories of middle-aged and older people. CHICAGO--Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Researchers at the University of California...
- Tags: Brain, Internet Search, Internet, Search, Reuters, research, search, brain
- News items 2008-10-15
- High-tech manufacturers rev up Oregon e-recycling program
- The Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company is flipping the switch on its state-wide electronics recycling program in Oregon. The next three months will represent a pilot phase, funded by Panasonic Corp. of North America, Sharp Electronics Corp., Toshiba America Consumer Products and CRT Processing, which is an e-waste recycling...
- Tags: Oregon, Electronics, Manufacturer, E-waste, CRT, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ManageFusion 2008
- I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...
- Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Details on Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro updates
- After weeks of news leaks, there weren't many surprises left for Apple's event today, but the company gave its entire notebook line a badly-needed update. Major changes across the line included a stiffer, "unibody" aluminum case similar to the one used in the MacBook Air; LED-backlit displays; Nvidia graphics; faster...
- Tags: Keyboard, Hard Drive, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Graphics, Intel Corp., Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Google will appeal German copyright decision
- In a decision that directly conflicts with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' interpretation (Perfect10 v. Google, PDF), a German court has ruled that Google's display of a thumbnail image of a photographer's work violates his copyright. "It doesn't matter that thumbnails are much smaller...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsAnother Fishing Expedition ....... funded by the taxpayer and brought about by partisan politics. I suspect the rumors and the interest will subside shortly after the election.RE: Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsIf there was anything criminal in those messages, the Dems...
- Tags: Palin, Yahoo! Inc., e-mail, Yahoo Email
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- And speaking of Sun Microsystems
- Sun Microsystems is not a name we often associate with education outside of high-end technical fields at the university level. Of course, Sun is responsible for OpenOffice and has recently acquired both MySQL and VirtualBox, all of which (especially OO.org) have quite a bit of relevance here. ...
- Tags: K-12, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Facebook as social rule of thumb?
- Facebook as social rule of thumb?From a different perspective...In some respects, I think Facebook also lends itself towards those who were never woefully successful at being social in the real world, but could feel like they were in the virtual one. More real than IM with people you'll never meet,...
- Tags: Social networking, Facebook, social rule
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.So if the task gets sold to ONE bidder......what company is big enough to "connect" the entire country? And wouldn't that be creating a monopoly? Or wouldn't a monopoly exist, because the system is free?If it is free, where is the financial...
- Tags: Taxes, Wireless LANs, Free trade, WIRELESS, Internet, tax, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- More confusion on vitamin D
- More confusion on vitamin DUmmmSometimes I really wonder how we as a species made it this far! I mean come on! Vitamin D? Playing outside will result in skin cancer? How much more fear mongering has to go on?Yes I do acknowledge that excess exposure can potentially lead to skin...
- Tags: vitamin, Vitamin D
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- EU group demos quantum cryptography
- EU group demos quantum cryptographyi guess all that is left is to quantify its cost.LOLCan it be free. Tell me how to make Quantum Cryptography then send PHCan it be free. Tell me how to make Quantum Cryptography then send it to the PHilippines.
- Tags: Digital security, Quantum Cryptography, quantum cryptography
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- EU group demos quantum cryptography
- Under the auspices of the European Union, the world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, Silicon.com reports. It's the product of four years of work by 41 organizations from 12 countries, overseen by the SECOQC (Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication Based on...
- Tags: Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Cable, Network Technology, Digital Security, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Mobile software Monday: Handy Tools Pack for S60 devices
- I am working on getting Mobile software Monday reviews up and running here again on my ZDNet blog, but there are so many devices coming in that it is tough to find the time to write about all the great software titles. The Nokia E71 see my full review is...
- Tags: Software, Application, Device, Mobile, Utility, Tool, Handy TaskMan, Handy Profiles, Handy Keylock, Handy Converter, S60 Operating System, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- DOJ backs off ATI
- More good news for AMD. The Department of Justice has officially closed its antitrust investigation into ATI, the graphics chipmaker it bought in 2006. The Justice Department was investigating practices in the hot-and-heavy battle between ATI and Nvidia. Coverage at PCWorld. AMD announced last week saw its...
- Tags: ATI Technologies Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Debate around 'partial disclosure' heats up
- There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a period of time to fix the issue, or it may just be circulated amongst the underground without ever coming...
- Tags: Disclosure, Researcher, Vulnerability, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
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