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Aerospace IT Company Improves Flexibility, Enhances Support Services With New System

Umeco Supply Chain is a division of Umeco, a leading supplier of products and services to the aerospace, defence, motorsport, and automotive industries. The Umeco Supply Chain IT team of six must work very hard to ensure the company's workforce can access IT systems on demand. Umeco Components enlisted the...

Tags: Team, Support Services, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace, Umeco Supply Chain, Team Management, Aerospace & Defense, Management, Manufacturing

Case studies 2007-04-01

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Dell repair adventure, conclusion

Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

Dell is reportedly trying to dump its manufacturing facilities across the globe in a turnabout that indicates it has no discernable edge in making PCs anymore. According to the Wall Street Journal: Dell has approached contract computer manufacturers with offers to sell the plants. One person...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Manufacturing, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...

Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-09-04

HP ditches the box for Walmart notebook promotion

Which notebook would you rather buy as a consumer, one that comes home with oodles of styrofoam and cardboard and plastic. Or one that ditches the cardboard altogether and even comes with its own messenger bag for you to carry it home in? Both Hewlett-Packard and...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Linksys Inc., Notebooks, Home Networking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Where WiFi succeeds

Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

News to know: Google Chrome; WinMobile's future; WiFi's big success; VMware

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Google Chrome One day after Google inadvertently discloses the impending release of Chrome, we get to see the browser first-hand. See my gallery tour...

Tags: Google Inc., VMware Inc., Wi-Fi, Virtualization, Web Browsers, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Sales, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Magic Crystals (exe)

Drag a chain of 3 or more crystals of the same color. Dozens of levels with animated backgrounds and amazing bonuses. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: MyRealGames

Software downloads 2008-09-03

Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forward

Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forwardHere's what's going to happen:Here's what's going to happen:Someone will turn on a switch and we'll learn something new. What's going to happen in the LHC happens [i]trillions[/i] upon [i]trillions[/i] of times every day. If the...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, move forward

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

So during lunchtime today I got to play with Chrome a bit. It's got a nice clean implementation, and it's fast. Sure, it doesn't do everything that either Firefox or Internet Explorer does yet, but hey, it's a beta. I like it. The...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-02

What's hot, what's not, in energy land

What's hot? Wind says the MSM and all the ads being sponsored by former oilman T. Boone Pickens. Pickens is going to get lots of play because he can spend lots of money. You may have seen some of his ads. Pickens...

Tags: U.S., Clean Technology, Natural Gas, Pickens, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw

Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flawjust proves that no software can ever be without any flawsntmore typical ZDnet FUDChrome prevents access to user folders including the desktop using permissions. R-E-A-S-E-A-R-C-HRE: Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw"Raff's code shows how a malicious hacker can use a clever social engineering lure...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, SECURITY, Google Chrome, Google Inc., carpet-bombing flaw, flaw

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Infosys: Moving up the consulting food chain

An Infosys executive reiterated that the offshore outsourcing business is holding up amid an economic slowdown and outlined plans to continue to move up the technology food chain to offer consulting services. Speaking at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York, Ashok Vemuri, head of banking and...

Tags: Food, Consulting, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Axon Group, Game Plan, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Google's Chrome browser: It's all about the ads and cookie files stupid!

Google's Chrome browser: It's all about the ads and cookie files stupid!Yes, it is about ads and cookies, but also a whole lot more.With this, Google can bring us into the 21st century all based on standards and open source. Microsoft wants to keep the browser in the 20th century,...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., cookie, Google Chrome, Web browser, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

OMNIA gallery image 1 (Image Gallery: First impressions of the Samsung OMNIA WM 6.1 Pro device)

OMNIA gallery image 1 (Image Gallery: First impressions of the Samsung OMNIA WM 6.1 Pro device)Yawn...Nothing exciting for me to see...I prefer QWERTY devices more than non-QWERTY devices.I like HTC Diamond and HTC Touch Pro better than Omnia.I am only impressed as this is more interesting than the Palm WM.You...

Tags: Cellular phones, Samsung OMNIA, OMNIA gallery image, gallery image, Samsung OMNIA WM 6.1 Pro device, Samsung OMNIA WM 6.1 Pro, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Image Gallery

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Dell repair adventure, day 3

Dell repair adventure, day 3dell next day serviceI had to use the service back in February for my XPS 1330 as it had the Nvidia Issue. I have to say that as for the repair, they turned it in about 2 hours (according to the tracking numbers.) It...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Is open source labor or management?

Is open source labor or management?WOW, do you really understand open source?Open source is neither, at best it flattens the cost of operations, and creates a stable IT software environment that benefits workers more productivity and management lowers costs. Like any other IT function, bad decisions, bad management, bad out...

Tags: Big Corps, open source, OSS

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy

Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economyEconomic TerrorismThe purpose of the CAPTCHA is to ensure fair access to internet services in a manner that is consistent with the license agreements of those offering the services.Employing humans to purposely solve CAPTCHA should be considered economic terrorism because it has no other purpose than...

Tags: CAPTCHA

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins

Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, marginsBetter Prices / Horrible ServiceDells prices may be becoming more competitive again but there service has gone downhill. The aggravation of speaking to someone who does not understand you and explaining yourself 3 or 4 times is something I can do...

Tags: Investment, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas

The priciest rental car? It's a hybrid, of course. Expensive and in short supply as travellers try to cur down on gas use. Not only is there a waiting list to BUY a hybrid car in many parts of the U.S. It is equally difficult to...

Tags: Car, California, New York, Hybrid, Florida, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-26