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- Spanish Hotel Chain Boosts Web Sales by 200 Percent With Flexible Online IT Solution
- Sol Melia owns 350 hotels in 30 countries, making it the world's largest chain of resorts and Spain's largest hotel chain. Sol Melia wanted to increase international sales and customer retention by offering a quality and personalised service while also simplifying the booking process for partners and travel agents. The...
- Tags: Web, Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., Sol Melia, Model-Driven Development, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Sales
- Case studies 2007-04-16
- Largest Resort Chain in the World, Sol Melia, Boosts Website Sales 200% Using CA's AllFusion Gen
- Sol Melia is the largest resort chain in the world. It is the leading hotel chain in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the biggest resort hotel company worldwide. The company wanted to expand internationally and needed a web-based marketing and sales system. Using AllFusion Gen from Computer Associates...
- Tags: Web Site, Computer Associates International Inc., CA AllFusion, Sol Melia, Sales Strategy, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Will notebooks ever replace the desktop PC?
- Will notebooks ever replace the desktop PC?one word noSurely people will say ha i wanna have portability, mobility but when you have to work and mostly repair those toy because they are not computer they are toys ...replace a screen on a laptop if its out of warranty...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Desktop Hardware, notebook, desktop, laptop computer, desktop computer, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- App Store "duplicate functionality" forced underground
- App Store "duplicate functionality" forced undergroundAnti Competitive monopolistic behaviorThis is typical anti-competitive behavior. Locking operating system to hardware platform and then killing off all competition by controlling what gets installed. What if Microsoft didn't allow firefox or any other to be installed on windows because it duplicated Internet Explorer's functionality....
- Tags: Web browsers, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Orwellian, App Store, Ford Motor Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- LIVE from the Apple event
- LIVE from the Apple eventiPod NanoI'm glad I just bought my son a 4 GB Nano for $199 from the Apple web site. OUCH!Apple events are better than Sleeping pillsAnother Yawn event from Apple, there will be a day when no one comes to hear Steve Jobs pamper his ego...
- Tags: Games, Apple Events, MP3/MP4 Player, LOL Here, accelerometer, Apple Inc., Apple Event, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Seinfeld target is not open source
- Seinfeld target is not open sourceIrrelavant comicIs that site supposed to be relavant or something?Seinfeld's from Massapequa?I grew up the other side of Boundry Ave. in F'dale.:)Well, the ads may not target Apple or open source, but, they sure are aresponse to Apples successful ads and increasing market share, and...
- Tags: Apple Ads, Seinfeld, advertisement, Apple Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!RE: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux![url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/08/nbcolympicscom-linux-users-sol.html]Hate it.[/url]Sticks in the kraw of Open Source folksas they can't stand working with anything MS related.What OS were you using?I was watching...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NBCOlympics.com, Linux!, video, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- iPhone VoIP apps and services
- VoIP-sol.com has assembled a list of the various VoIP applications and services that are currently available for the iPhone, including iCall, fring, iPhoneGnome, JAHJAH, Talkety, sipgate, Raketu and Ringfree. Some require a jailbroken iPhone and others do not. Have you had succes with VoIP on iPhone? What is your app...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, jason D. O'Grady, Networking, Telecommunications, Telephony, VOIP, VoIP-sol.com
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Thinner, better, already sold out—the new new thing in solar?
- Solar energy can seem like a green tech fantasy. Energy free for the collection. Found in some of the emptiest spots on earth: deserts, parking lots, urban rooftops, open ocean, airplace wings, at 50,000 feet above the earth. Think about all that sunshine. And a company down...
- Tags: Dr., Polymer, Global Solar Energy, CIGS, BUSINESS Global Solar, I-sol, Indium, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- 'Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA; give them BPM'
- 'Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA; give them BPM'That's what I have been saying all alongI wrote a post in response to this article. I agree that BPM is key to SOA initiatives.http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/without-bpm-soa-is-sol-22704Business people will never care about SOAIt shouldn't be any surprise that business folks get...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Operational planning, Business process automation, Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, Strategy, SOA, BPM, business process
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Some systems showing incredible SP1 performance boost - Day 6
- Some systems showing incredible SP1 performance boost - Day 6Nothing to be impressed about ...Vista's performance was ridiculous, so any fix would show up as significant improvement.Now, the real question is how does the performance compare with the previous MS OS version (ie: XP). Base on what has being...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance management, tech world, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, performance, SP1 performance boost, SP1 performance, incredible SP1 performance, SP1, Day 6, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Some+won%27t+have+to+wait+until+March+for+Vista+SP1%2C+after+all
- Some+won%27t+have+to+wait+until+March+for+Vista+SP1%2C+after+allIf the code is final, why not release it? ntnt = no textWhat a comical bunch of carp...NTWhy not just get from the web:?No link, this will be deleted. If you are truly that anxious to get RC1 though, you don't have to wait.TripleIIMS: we hate windows usersthey hate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Saving Internet freedom - for users - from telcos
- Saving Internet freedom - for users - from telcosA little thing called competitionTelcos have to compete with cable broadband providers. Competition is the best regulator. Government regulation never works. We pay way to much for our phones due to government regulation, taxes and fees all meant to...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, QoS, telecommunications company
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- Apple set to report fruits of busy summer
- Apple set to report fruits of busy summerwho cares about the I-PhoneI'm more curious to see the numbers of Apple computers sold in the light of Vista. I know I've seen more Mac computers around among friends and family. Used to be I knew 1 Mac user, just 1 but...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-22
- Is Grandma's Linux called Mac OS X?
- Is Grandma's Linux called Mac OS X?if mac os x is for computer-illiteratesthen why can i crack open a shell; code, compile and debug in any number of languages; script the os; create apps with direct access to system-wide frameworks that provide low-level access to graphics, audio, animation, and data;...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-22
- The mystery continues: Why are Windows machines automatically updating themselves?
- The mystery continues: Why are Windows machines automatically updating themselves?If MS actually was doing something sneaky......would you really expect the "Microsoft Update Program Manager" to admit it?Stop whining, be thankful...Microsoft knows what is best for you. If left to their own decisions, the average consumer would be overwhelmed by the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Windows Machines, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- Apple blacklisting hacked iPhones?
- Apple blacklisting hacked iPhones?if you hack it, you don't have any right to complainIf you hack your phone - especially changing the carrier - I don't think you have any right to complain about almost any part of your iPhone not working anymore. I've hacked mine - for 3rd party...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- American Express mulling iPhone return policy
- I received this from a colleague: American Express has a Return Protection line (1-800-297-8019) in which customers (I think limited to gold and platinum, tho not sure) can return products they're unhappy with for any reason within 90 days of purchase. I took advantage of this to exchange an...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, American Express Co., Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- iPhone's recessed rationale
- iPhone's recessed rationaleRE: iPhone's recessed rationaleYep - headphone jacks, firewire connectors, power supply connectors, they are invariably the failure points on this sort of stuff. I've been using Apple laptops since the Powerbook 100, and the only things that have ever broken on them have been the power connectors. My...
- Tags: Engineering, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, headphone, rationale
- Discussion threads 2007-09-09
- The 'undo' problem is why web applications aren't there yet
- I just screwed up. I accidentally marked all of my Google reader items as read when what I intended to do was mark a specific folder as read. If this was a desktop application I could hit undo and I'd back up, have all of my data the way I...
- Tags: Desktop, Web, Web Application, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
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