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- Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader (exe)
- Class is in Session - let's check, how much you have forgotten since grammar school. Step up to the podium and put your smarts on the line to see if you're smarter than a 5th grader. Fast forward to the next round with the help from your 5 classmates. Enjoy...
- Tags: Class, Pressure, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-29
- The Way To Work
- No one can predict the future, but we are under more pressure to try to prepare for the future than ever before. The world of work is changing more rapidly than at any other time in our history. Private, public, and third sector organizations are experiencing shifts that make the...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Pressure, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-06-07
- The Lean Contact Centre
- The Contact Centres are facing a seemingly impossible challenge: Call volumes are rising, for seemingly no particular reason; There is increasing competition, which means that one needs to provide a better customer experience; Whilst at the same time - there is an ever-present pressure to reduce costs. In this white...
- Tags: Author, Pressure
- White papers 2006-01-27
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- Insurers place first bid made in health reform game
- Right now insurers can pressure hospitals into forcing that decision on families. Should government have it? Can we set a standard for it? How would you split that baby of cost vs. life? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Game, Insurance Company, Health Care, David, Insurance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Salesforce.com: Recession resistant or just late to the pain?
- On the surface, Salesforce.com's third quarter was impressive. The company hit or exceeded its targets and noted that its "value proposition" was resonating among enterprise software buyers. But worries abound under the surface. Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Recession, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A guide to cutting IT costs
- Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...
- Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com
- News items 2008-11-21
- Flash coming for WiMo, Android, ... iPhone?
- Apple isn't exactly known for bowing to pressure, but Mr. Jobs had to be sweating just a little under his turtleneck Monday when Adobe demonstrated Flash Player 10 running on Nokia's Symbian operating system, Microsoft's Windows Mobile, and Google's Android. Real Flash, not Flash Lite. That leaves the Blackberry and...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Brian X. Chen, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief Yahoo
- Jerry Yang, co-founder and CEO of Yahoo. will step down as CEO as soon as the board of directors finds a replacement, sources told All Things Digital's Boomtown blog today. Techmeme The company made a formal announcement shortly after the blog posting went live. ...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Merrill Lynch downgrades SAP and Oracle
- It should come as no surprise that investment research at Merrill Lynch sees downgraded assessments of both SAP and Oracle's near terms results. In the last month, Merrill has conducted research among European CIO's and finds that a full 40% are less bullish on IT spending than they were three...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out
- Yahoo's stock is struggling to stay above $10, the ad deal with Google is in the history books and Microsoft has been quick to say "Not interested." And CEO Jerry Yang has turned into the Internet whipping boy over it. But Kara Swisher over at AllThingsDigital poses...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Motorola Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- VMware follows in Virtuallogix's footsteps
- My friends at VMware recently sent me a note telling me 1) that they had acquired Trango Virtual Processors and 2) they were jumping into the mobile device virtual machine market.Trago VMware has chosen to rename Trago's product as VMware Mobile Platform. This isn't the only entry into this market,...
- Tags: Phone, Handset Company, Mobile, Operating System, Handset, VMware Inc., Hardware, Virtual Machine, VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, Mobile Virtualization Platform, Telecom & Utilities, Desktop Virtualization, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- AMD: Does the resurrection start with 'Shanghai'?
- AMD on Thursday launched its Shanghai processor family--the successor to the much maligned Barcelona. The goal: Close the gap on server chips with Intel. The challenge: Convincing customers, shareholders and others in the peanut gallery that a turnaround at AMD is underway. Later today, AMD will try...
- Tags: Shanghai, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Asset Management, Manufacturing, Balance Sheets, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Live Webcast: Taking the Next Step in Secure Access - Achieving Granular Control
- In tough economic times, businesses need to be efficient, flexible and productive. IT is under pressure to ensure that applications and other business-critical information resources are broadly accessible. To drive topline growth and achieve bottom line efficiencies, virtually everything should be accessible to everyone regardless of their physical location...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Webcast, SonicWall, Ssl/Tls, VPNs, Network Security, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-11-13
- VMware's MVP brings virtualization to mobile phones
- VMware provides a full line of virtualization software for the data center and down to the desktop. Now it is reaching down to an even smaller form factor: mobile phones. On Monday,  the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization pioneer unveiled its new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform MVP, based on technology it acquired fom Trango Virtual...
- Tags: Phone, Virtualization, Mobile, Operating System, Handset, Cell Phone, VMware Inc., VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Getting the most value out of Collaborative Technologies
- I'll be speaking at a breakfast briefing in London UK on the 20th November on the subject of ‘How to get the most value out of collaborative technologies‘ for Fujitsu Services, whose Graeme Mackay, Business Manager of Corporate Information Systems, will also talk about Fujitsu's experiences...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Unit, Tool, Productivity, Strategy, Collaboration, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Hypertension and my black neighbors
- I like my neighbors and want to keep them around a long, long time. If you're one of my black neighbors take care of your blood pressure, OK? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Neighbor, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn, Blood Pressure, Mustard
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- PowerDock perfect fit for multi-iPod households
- If you're a multi-iPod/iPhone household (and who isn't these days?) you probably fight a constant battle to find somewhere to charge your gadgets. I know that I do. Griffin Technology has released what may be the perfect solution for poly-iPodic households – the PowerDock. The PowerDock features...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, PowerDock, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Sprint: Subscribers continue to bolt
- Sprint continues to lose customers to other carriers as the company reported a third quarter subscriber tally of 50.5 million, down from 54 million a year ago. The company lost 1.3 million wireless customers on a net basis in the third quarter including 1.1 million post-paid. Wall...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, WiMAX, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Maybe CRM for Facebook Does Make Sense :)
- Maybe CRM for Facebook Does Make Sense :)Lazy JournalismThis article reeks yet again of anti-salesforce.com propaganda. (No I’m not an employee; check out my ZDNet user ID!)Consider some facts before posting this sort of drivel again.Facebook is the largest social media site in the world.In the United States, 85% of...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Facebook, CRM
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- The Connected President
- There has been a lot of attention paid, of course, to Obama's use of the Internet in fundraising and volunteer coordination. But now that he's been elected, an even more intriguing possibility arises: The connected president. I received an email in Barack's name...
- Tags: President, Connected Corp., Internet, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
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