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- Grow Your Business in a Recession
- This free whitepaper from Cisco offers top ten tips on how to grow your business in a recession.
- Tags: Recession, Cisco Systems Inc.
- White papers 2009-07-03
- Building high-performance, luxury computers in a recession
- Building high-performance, luxury computers in a recessionTheir systems are garbageThey only offer the completely outdated Rampage II, they use garbage ram, their build quality is shoddy and they advertise 'upgrade to win 7 free!' like it's anything special oem versions currently ship with a free upgrade cert.On top of this,...
- Tags: Building High-Performance, luxury computer, recession
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh
- Chip giant Intel urges small and medium-sized enterprises to avoid lengthening their PC refresh cycles as a cost-cutting measure during the recession. Chip giant Intel has urged small and medium-sized enterprises to avoid lengthening their PC refresh cycles as a cost-cutting measure during the recession, reiterating that security risk...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, PC, Virus, Intel Corp., Smb/Sme, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Security, Recession, Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia, Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2009-06-29
- Recession, what recession? Apple sells 1 million iPhones over the weekend
- Recession, what recession? Apple sells 1 million iPhones over the weekendOne step to ending the recession.There is allot of phycology with the current recession. A HUGE positive note is the savings rate is the highest it has been in almost 20 years. Figuring that in just 2006, it...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Sales strategy, Wireless and Mobility, Wht, Apple iPhone, 3G, Nokia Corp., recession, Apple Inc., sales
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- Recession, what recession? Apple sells 1 million iPhones over the weekend
- Despite being in the middle of a pretty deep recession, people are still more than willing to fling open their wallets and throw money at Apple for an iPhone that's slightly faster than the old one. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Recession, Apple Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Building high-performance, luxury computers in a recession
- When the world is caught in a global economic downturn, exactly how does one build a business around the fabrication of high-performance, luxury computers? I spoke with Chris Morley, chief technical officer of Maingear Computers, to find out. When it comes to external...
- Tags: Desktop, PC, Recession, High-performance, Gaming PC, Laptop Computer, Computer, ZD, Games, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- India's IT growth to slow down in 2009
- The global financial meltdown is expected to finally reach local shores this year, dragging India's IT and IT-enabled services ITES industry to its lowest growth in five years. INDIA--The global financial meltdown is expected to finally reach local shores this year, dragging India's IT and IT-enabled services ITES industry...
- Tags: India, Growth, Information Technology, Industry, International Data Corp., Financial Meltdown, IDC India, Swati Prasad, Strategy, Management, IT growth, recession, Swati Prasad ZDNet Asia
- News items 2009-06-22
- Schneier: Security neglected in economic gloom
- While it may seem logical to downgrade security, Bruce Schneier argues that security should be maintained or boosted, as systems become more business critical in a recession IT security has been neglected due to the economic downturn, according to security experts. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
- Tags: Bruce Schneier, security, recession, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
- News items 2009-06-22
- Bain survey finds tech and telecom execs are least worried
- Bain & Company released its 12th Bain’s Management Tools & Trends Survey results from interviews with 1400 top executives around the world. One of the findings was that tech and telecom execs were the least concerned about long-term impact from the recession and are the most...
- Tags: Bain, Recession, Telecommunications, Survey, Exec, Workforce Management, Productivity, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Are Services lifting the economy out of the recession?
- The folks at TechMarketView put out a nice daily newsletter. One of today's items contained this graphic: It would appear that the services market in the UK has bottomed out and is starting to rebound. Click here to see the entire...
- Tags: Recession, Economy, Strategic Planning, Sales Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Collaboration, Strategy, Management, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Recession, depression, and a graduate job market drought
- Recession, depression, and a graduate job market droughtI am glad i am not the only one who thinks degrees are worthless.If i had stayed in college i would have ended up at another company, probably still doing tech support or maybe junior admin. I spent two years in college,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, recession, Dear Leader
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- Recession, depression, and a graduate job market drought
- Summer is fast approaching and job vacancies are being snapped up faster than a fat person snapping up cake in a bakery. Undergraduates like me, but unlike me as you will see, are struggling to make it through the term through the lack of work and employment opportunities on the...
- Tags: Human Resources, Industry Connection, Job, Management, Recession, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Technology Industry, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Recession and employment: where does the student stand?
- Recession and employment: where does the student stand?Obama is going to socialize everythingWho needs an education, Obama is going to give you free_heatlh_care. Also, he is going to spread the wealth around so we do not have to work. He is going to tax everyone in the Middle class and...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, welfare, education, tax break, real welfare, Obama, Middle-Class, recession
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Recession and employment: where does the student stand?
- After listening to a podcast of my good friend Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show, when he was talking to an independent financial expert, something which was said makes more sense than anything else I've heard in a long while: "To put it simply, we as a nation...
- Tags: Job, Recession, Student, Debt, Industry Connection, Podcasts, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Linux Adoption in a Global Recession: An IDC White Paper and
- Learn what a recent IDC global survey revealed about organizations' plans to deploy Linux on servers and clients, how the economic climate will impact Linux adoption, why customers are accelerating Linux deployments and the opportunities ahead for Linux.
- Tags: Recession, International Data Corp., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- White papers 2009-05-18
- Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?
- Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?Given that the bleeding of local jobs has helped lead TO this recession,and if people are sincere about ending this recession, then we need to look at the larger scheme and not diddle around with huff'n'puff pieces like this. I mean, doing...
- Tags: Free trade, Taxes, Personal finance, recession, Obama, regulation, tax, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2009-04-26
- Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?
- Are businesses going to shift more work to outsourcers, or will they hold back to avoid business disruption, or moving jobs offshore? If you are involved in your organization's decisions to engage with third-parties for IT or BPO services, please spend a few minutes filling out my online survey...
- Tags: Recession, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Managed Hosting, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- RSA Conference: Taking security to the cloud
- Security-as-a-service was the big theme at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco. ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz, and security blogger Ryan Naraine about how companies are securing the cloud. They also discuss whether companies are spending on security in light of the...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Conference, security, RSA, cloud computing, SaaS, recession, economy
- Videos 2009-04-24
- Apple cuts 1,600 full-time equivalents (Updated)
- Despite blowout second quarter results and excellent survey results Apple recently shed 1,600 jobs full-time "equivalents" (from 15,600 to 14,000) at the end of Apple's first fiscal quarter, according to a SEC filing. As of March 28, 2009, the Retail segment had approximately 14,000 full-time equivalent employees and had outstanding...
- Tags: Recession, Apple Inc., Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Apple Q2 09 financials - Best non-holiday quarter, but signs indicate that recession is starting to bite
- Apple Q2 09 financials - Best non-holiday quarter, but signs indicate that recession is starting to biteGood article, Adrian...Apple have had an excellent quarter and it would be foolish to argue that, however market saturation is creeping in - Macs have plateaued, iPods have modest low single digit growth and...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Apple PC business, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, recession, Yoy
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23

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