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Word of mouth marketing: It's all about love

I do my food shopping at Stop & Shop a East Coast chain -- mainly because I can flip through the online weekly sales flyer. I click on the items that I want and they are added to my shopping list, which I then print. Now that you know, you may do your...

Tags: blog, blog post, Blogs, Customer Service, E-communications, Maurene Caplan Grey, Stop & Shop, Web 2.0, Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMM), Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Blog posts 2007-06-05

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AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise

In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...

Tags: Facebook, America Online Inc., Shop Logic, Business World, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Google gives you movie showtimes in a fraction of a second

Google just announced some updates to their feature that lets you get movie times for movies playing in theaters near you. This feature isn't exactly new, but they have made some pretty great enhancements that make it even better. Search for a movie that you want...

Tags: Google Inc., Movie, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?

ProbablyA microsoft programmer probably used code he found in the net(IE code-plex...) instead of developping his own code...At school the programmer would have failed his course, here MS will face, once aggain, the wrath of Stallman's little cultists.if true they should get penalize ntnt It was a CodePlex project?Well...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, tool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., GPL

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

With Zapatec Funambol has one stack to rule mobile open source

With Zapatec, Funambol believes it can create a one-stop shop for building mobile applications that run as well as native apps across multiple platforms. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-04

A visit to Microsoft's first store

I missed an explanation as to why...I should shop there."Three rows of tables displayed hardware from Dell, HP, Sony and Lenovo."The big chains sell those already. Why would I go to a Windows store to buy Dells, HPs, Sonys and Lenovos, when there are several sources for those same computers...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., 64-bit, Microsoft Windows, computer, GPU, Microsoft Windows 7, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Juniper eyes midmarket, aims for Cisco

Going by a slew of announcements the company unveiled this week, Juniper Networks appears to have set its eyes on new markets. Going by a slew of announcements the company unveiled this week, Juniper Networks appears to have set its eyes on new markets, in particular, segments currently dominated...

Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Juniper, Cisco, networking, Victoria Ho ZDNet Asia

News items 2009-10-28

Parents would rather talk drugs than math/science with their kids

You've seen the commercials: It's never to early to talk to your kids about drugs. Parents role play how to talk to their son about pot. It's cheesy, but not a bad message, obviously. However, Intel announced last week that they found parents were far more willing...

Tags: Parent, Math, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...

Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Are today's new iMacs and Minis game-changers?

It's been a logn time since Apple was ...... competitive at these retail price points but that day may finally have come! Good for Apple and good for the rest of us. Still, EdTech has always enjoyed extremely aggressive enterprise-level discounts from the top tier of PC vendors...

Tags: Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, Apple Inc., keyboard, mouse, Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

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. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

CTIA: Android and Apps everywhere

Locked UpWe'll only see real growth the market liberalises, and real competition is given a chance -- when I can buy an iPhone/aPhone outright and use it only any network.@leegeeUnfortunately, without those kinds of lockdowns and gaurantees of profitability for the producers & telecoms, there is no incentive for a...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CTIA

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Intuit and Mint promise "no changes"; but maybe a few would be OK

I would disagree Sam...You are missing the point of Mint then. This is a financial aggregator - nothing more, nothing less - to get a birds-eye view of your financial status. These features you want, would be better served by using the Quicken Online product for a nominal fee or...

Tags: Financial services, Intuit Inc., bank

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

More electronics salespeople recommend Samsung, not Sony LCD HDTVs

Why Samsung?Inquiring minds want to know.Is it just because Sammy makes Sony's panels?RE: Why Samsung?Good question. MAYBE - Samsung reaches out to them more? Just speculating, but when I did retail computer sales (15+ years ago) we had vendors reps that were in the store all the time. They did...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sales force management, Salesmen, Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., electronics salespeople, Sony LCD, Sony LCD HDTV, HDTV, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech

Better that it is entirely unavailablethan to make it available to anyone who cares to search for it. I have seen nowhere that the Google project will prevent any other source from digitizing books, or from keeping them in print. This is quite possibly THE stupidest argument I have heard...

Tags: Google Inc., American Civil Liberties Union, privacy, Google Book, Vegas, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

MaxScheduler 4.0 (Windows)

Scheduling software that lets you step-up from using manual tools like spreadsheets, wallboards or piles of paper. Well suited for manufacturing and warehousing. MaxScheduler is a desktop program that lets you import jobs, create a graphical schedule from those jobs and share it within your business as a set of...

Tags: Job, Microsoft Windows, Schedule, Spreadsheet, MaxScheduler, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-09-06

Corel releasing Digital Studio 2010 for PC

Corel Corporation introduced the CorelR Digital StudioTM 2010, a software suite for handling both photo and video projects. Promoted as one-stop shop, the Digital Studio allows photographers to organize, edit and upload projects all in one place. (Users can upload projects directly to YouTube, Flickr and Facebook.) With quite a crisp...

Tags: Software, PC, Video, Corel Corp., Corporate Communications, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Dell partners with Brocade to compete in data center war

The latest developments in the data center wars comes this time from Dell and Brocade, which are announcing a partnership today that includes Dell reselling Brocade networking equipment under its name as part of an "end-to-end" data center offering. In today's competitive data center landscape, the networking...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Network, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-01