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Adware, shady marketing pays: Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder and sister sites

Penthouse Media Group has acquired Various Inc., a company that operates a stable of adult-oriented social networking sites such as AdultFriendFinder, Gradfinder and others. The New York Times reports: While the influx of free and low-cost video has hurt the sale of pornographic videos, the chief...

Tags: Adware, Marketing, Advertisement, Pop-up Ad, FTC, Penthouse Media Group, Various Inc., Various Obviously, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-12

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Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be Free

Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be FreeMS can't do it, they are a monopolyMonopolies are not allowed to release products for free. Intuit would have them in front of an EC judge within seconds and 3 years later, MS would be fined billions of euros for this move.It's not a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Money Just Wants, Be Free, Intuit Inc., Jason

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

MobiTradeOne for TD AMERITRADE 1.0.6 (Mobile)

MobiTradeOne gives you an opportunity to manage your TD AMERITRADE account, observe financial market trends, place new orders and execute current positions in stocks and options. MobiTradeOne enables trading securities listed on the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, as well as OTC Bulletin Board OTCBB securities, pink sheet securities, options and exchange...

Tags: TD Ameritrade Inc., Mobile, OLSOFT, MobiTradeOne, Financial Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-05

PhotoHype 1.1.0 (Mobile)

"PhotoHype iPhone app by Masaka Inc. turns your iPhone into your portable Photoshop." - AppCraver.com Have photos that off white balance, tilted skyline or under exposure? PhotoHype is all you need! Quickly rotate, crop, straighten or automatically correct color distribution with a few simple tap. Enhance you photos with various...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Photograph, MASAKA Soft, PhotoHype

Software downloads 2009-05-22

The Real Reason Why Acme Packet Bought Covergence

Last week the SBC market was shaken up when Acme Packet purchased Covergence, Inc. At first glance, this would seem to be a simple consolidation play with a large competitor purchasing a smaller rival. Yet behind the scenes, Covergence gives Acme Packet some important strategic technologies that could ultimately enable...

Tags: Acme Packet, Covergence Inc., Covergence Acquisition, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telephony, VOIP, Collaboration, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Apache or GPL?

Apache or GPL?Are pigs flying.This was an unbiased article and an excellent read.Name me one company that makes a LOT of moneyusing GPL'd code.Hint: $25 million a YEAR Red Hat earnings is NOT a lot of money.$9.74 billion a QUARTER Apple IS a lot of money.False Premise"On the other hand,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL, Apache Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Gallup, Inc. Ensures Reliable, Rapid Access to Critical Operational and Business Data

Gallup, Inc. wanted to provide a standard infrastructural solution that enables the presentation of research - such as industry-specific employee and customer engagement data - to clients and creates a data infrastructure that is scalable, reliable, secure, and accessible to multiple applications without need for a proprietary access layer. The...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Database Management, Databases, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Hardware

Case studies 2009-04-01

Facebook, Inc. Fine-Tunes Operations and Supports Global Growth With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Facebook wanted to automate and bring together key business processes to enable greater efficiency and visibility, and ensure that critical information is available to key decision makers at all times and coordinate management of the company's multiple and diverse sales channels - both direct and indirect - to ensure greater...

Tags: Billing, Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Sales Strategy, Operational Planning, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Business Operations, Finance, Software

Case studies 2009-04-01

Landry's Restaurants, Inc. Unifies Administrative Systems for Diverse Restaurant Properties

Landry's Restaurants, Inc. wanted to coordinate administrative processes for hundreds of individually-managed restaurants and unify on a single system for greater efficiency and streamline human resources and payroll for an employee base that is spread across 28 states and has high turnover rates. Landry's Restaurants, Inc. worked with Oracle Partners...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Landry's Restaurants Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Software, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

Case studies 2009-03-01

So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know

So what is the cloud, exactly? Industry experts would like to know, according to a panel discussion today at Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. The panel, which consisted of six industry leaders whose respective companies are...

Tags: Service, Cloud, JA, BL, PK, KH, AA, VC, MC, Hosting Industry, Cloud Computing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Novell chief: 'Our Linux performance did not meet our expectations'

Novell chief: 'Our Linux performance did not meet our expectations'The PriceNo doubt Novell is experiencing the results of months of negative public feedback from the community that they betrayed with their MS deal.With the recent Red Hat/MS agreement (which doesn't compromise the community) Novell has lost their "interop" advantage.Red Hat...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, performance, Novell Inc., Linux, SuSE, Linux performance

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

What BearingPoint

What BearingPointGood riddance?The Brits are finding out the hard way about digitizing medical records. Their own national IT project is way over budget and not very close to a solution (I know because I read the Register!). If the FBI can't even get their case file system working, what chance...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Outsourcing, Operational accounting, Financial services, Brits, BearingPoint Inc., acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Woz can code, but can he dance?

ABC announced the cast for Season 8 of its successful reality TV show Dancing with the Stars tonight and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is one of the contestants for this year's show. From the About the show page: A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades,...

Tags: Steve Wozniak, Apple Inc., Computer, Productivity, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-08

Welcome to Project Management 2.0

  This is a TechRepublic guest blog from Andrew Filev. Project managers should be leading projects not being project secretaries. Project Management 2.0 may be the way to reduce unnecessary, routine work. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- Let’s have a look at a typical...

Tags: Team, Project Manager, Project Management 2.0, Andrew Filev, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, E-mail, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. Deploys Trade Promotion Management in Less Than Five Months

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. GMCR wanted to move from a reactive, disparate trade management process to a more proactive, integrated approach to retain a leadership position in the highly competitive coffee industry and manage coffee and merchandise deals and promotions with insight into their overall impact on sales and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., Leadership, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales

Case studies 2009-01-01

eGrabber Case Study: King Technology, Inc.

King Technology, Inc. specializes in water treatment solutions for swimming pools and spas. King Technology uses Goldmine to maintain and share leads and customer requests among its sales and customer service teams. The company needed a fast, affordable solution that can completely automate the process of entering online leads and...

Tags: Software, GoldMine, eGrabber, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales

Case studies 2009-01-01

eGrabber Case Study: Chief Manufacturing Inc.

Chief Manufacturing Inc. is an industry leader in manufacturing total support solutions for presentation systems with sales offices and distribution centers across the world. The company always wanted to provide a quick turnaround to customer queries & Lead emails which will allow the customer support & sales team to respond...

Tags: eGrabber, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, E-mail, Sales, Online Communications

Case studies 2009-01-01

D-Link Case Study: Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc.

Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc., the largest beverage division of Cadbury Schweppes plc (NYSE: CSG), is the leading non-cola soft drink enterprise in North America. With a sizable field sales force, Dr Pepper/Seven Up wanted to increase the efficiency of this valuable asset and save time by implementing broadband access in...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Beverage, Home Networking, Food & Beverage, Sales Strategy, Networking, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Sales

Case studies 2009-01-01

SimpleCenter: Tested by Experts

Time and time again QArea Ukrainian offices are visited by the representatives of various companies based all over the world. The representatives of Universal Electronics, Inc. are the recent guests who visited QArea test division - BugHuntress QA Lab - and met with the experts working in their project. Since...

Tags: Representative, Expert, QArea, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Green Mountain Coffee Achieves 50% Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. GMCR wanted to expand information systems to keep up with global growth of innovative coffee company that is focused on ensuring quality from the tree to the consumer's coffee cup and support a complex, multichannel distribution model that includes sales through wholesale channels and direct...

Tags: Oracle Corp., TCO, Enterprise Application, Sales Strategy, Roi/Tco, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software

Case studies 2009-01-01