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Food Manufacturer Improves Customer Service and Reduces Operating Costs

Ubiquity Brands is a successful food manufacturing holding company, but its outdated IT infrastructure could not keep pace with its rapid growth. Ubiquity Brands had no effective to way communicate or share data with its subsidiaries, and the IT staff was so busy reacting to end-user complaints that they had...

Tags: Food, Customer Service, Brand, Information Technology, Ubiquity, Microsoft Corp., Ubiquity Brands, Branding, Food & Beverage, E-mail Servers, Strategy, Marketing, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

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The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed

On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-10-06

To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You

To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Vizio VO32L

Vizio made its name by charging less than all the big brands, but savvy buyers may have noticed that Vizio doesn't really have the price advantage that it used to. While the 32-inch Vizio VO32L sells for a reasonable $650 as of press time, other entry-level competitors like the Panasonic...

Tags: Vizio VO32L, Vizio, picture mode

Product reviews 2008-09-30

On energy drinks Terrell Owens is not your doctor

Lead researcher Roland Griffiths notes that energy drink brands like Red Bull, Rockstar and Monster contain 10 milligrams of caffeine per ounce, 14 times more than in a can of soda, or 7 cups of coffee. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Caffeine, Beverage, Energy Drink, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo)

Has Lenovo lost whatever mojo the ThinkPad had? That simple question raised a lot of discussion at TechRepublic and it's worth pondering. The problem: Gauging Lenovo's performance depends on a lot of anecdotes with few concrete  answers. As background, John Sheesley asked a simple question: Has Lenovo...

Tags: Consumer Reports, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Best platforms for book on "tape"

Best platforms for book on "tape"They could use their ownAs an example, in our ninth grade the students study four novels. Three of the four are available through the Central Mass Regional Library System in a format that allows storage/playback on MP3 players including the iPod as well as burning...

Tags: Digital music, Branding, Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Best Wine Screensaver (exe)

Best Wine Screensaver gives you a unique chance to become a real wine expert. It offers you not only to learn the best world wine brands but also shows the right and original ways to serve wine. From Best Wine Screensaver you can get to know what food, dessert or...

Tags: Wine, 3D ScreenSaver Download

Software downloads 2008-09-25

Will netbook growth hurt Apple's Macbook sales?

Will netbook growth hurt Apple's Macbook sales?Most likely it will notas anyone that would want a netbook would be better serverd with a MacBook Air. ;)RE: Will netbook growth hurt Apple's Macbook sales?I was not looking at MacBook Air but at similarly thin and light Lenovo and other brands. Until...

Tags: Notebooks, sales, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, netbook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

IBM stresses the green-ification of product design and management

About a week ago, I mentioned an alliance between Autodesk and Sustainable Minds aimed at helping designers reate greener products from the drawing board stage. Now, IBM Global Business Services has introduced a set of product lifecycle services intended to help companies apply that sort of thinking not just...

Tags: Product Lifecycle, Product Design, Compliance, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM Corp., IBM Environmental Product Lifecycle Management Service, Hittner, Design, Product Marketing, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Ford to run ad using film from Web contest

Ford on Wednesday will run an ad featuring a short film that won an online competition, reflecting how companies are seeking to cut costs while boosting their brand awareness. LOS ANGELES--Ford on Wednesday will run an ad featuring a short film that won an online competition, reflecting how companies...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Brand, Ford Motor Co., Filmaka, Branding, Marketing, Reuters, Ford, autos, advertising

News items 2008-09-24

News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, BEA Beehive, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Open World, Help Desk, Java Development Tools, E-books, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Software

Blog posts 2008-09-23

NBC To Internet: TV Is Still King

If NBC had to choose a single platform on which to base its business for the next five years, it wouldn't be the Internet or mobile phones. "Sorry, guys, it would be television,'' the president of NBC Universal research said Monday. That is the conclusion of NBC's...

Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands

Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brandshow are they measuring this?I'm curious just what they are measuring when coke is number one and Microsoft is number three, but apple is forty-something on the list?It's certainly has nothing to do with quality, and appears to be entirely about quantity. http://www.learnucd.com/kevlar/why-is-the-iphone-popularRE:...

Tags: Branding, brand, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

What memory technology is Samsung after?

Samsung Electronics recently made public its $5.8 billion offer for SanDisk, a major manufacturer of memory cards. There are plenty of possible business motives behind this bid including the hefty royalties that Samsung pays to SanDisk to use its flash technology, and SanDisk's strong retail brands and distribution. But I'll...

Tags: 3D, NAND Flash, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NAND, Technology, Toshiba Corp., Cell, Chip, Flash Memory, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands

The iPhone maker languishes in 24th place in the Best Global Brands 2008 survey, while tech companies including Microsoft and Google chase the No. 1 brand, Coke. Apple may currently be king of consumer gadgets but the company is failing to hit similar heights in a list of the...

Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Interbrand, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., iPhone Maker, Branding, Marketing, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, brands, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Google

News items 2008-09-22

Virgin Mobile Shuttle - red

While we were fans of Helio handsets like the Ocean and the Kickflip, we knew that Helio as a company was struggling. Indeed, Helio was shopping around for a buyer, and in late June, Virgin Mobile stepped up to buy the fledgling MVNO for $39 million. There were many questions...

Tags: Cellular phones, Shuttle, Virgin Mobile, Helio, handset

Product reviews 2008-09-19

Microsoft's "Phase 2" ad campaign - No mention of Vista anywhere

Microsoft's "Phase 2" ad campaign - No mention of Vista anywhereMy guess is......they're touting the Microsoft and Windows brands, not a particular product.Carl RapsonRE: Microsoft'sOh boy, I'm sure these ads will be just as over analyzed and picked apart in every minute detail like the first two. The point...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), advertisement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Adrian, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.

Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.In fairness......no-one likes you at all.re: I WAS a PC[i]I WAS a PC... And I am in my daily life. Got tired of the constant care, feeding, and BS associated with it.Now I'm a Mac and make my living fixing the PC mess.[/i]Ohh,...

Tags: Desktops, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, advertisement, PC, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Web 2.0: Don't forget the business risks

Web 2.0--or its business cousin Enterprise 2.0--sounds great on the surface. Who doesn't like lightweight applications, users who become de facto developers and content creators and authentic market intelligence? Businesses would be silly to not jump head first into these newfangled technologies right? Not so fast. There are big risks...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-18