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- Hey Skype, how about some phone-based customer service?
- Skype has some serious customer service and support issues. It was one thing to provide minimum four-day Web-based response when Skype was Web-based only. But now with Skype's video chat, third-party plug-ins and mobile devices, it is time for eBay owned Skype to grow up and act like a...
- Tags: Customer Service, Phone, Skype Technologies S.A., Watson, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Protecting genetic storage
- It ain't just bits on your laptop, buckoMIT's Technology Review blogger David Ewing Duncan writes about Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of DNA, James Watson.DNA is, of course, a very compact biotech storage medium - pure informationWatson agreed a couple of years ago to have his DNA sequenced and publicly released...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Watson (exe)
- You love your search box. You type in a few words and back comes a load of stuff. Now that you are ready to take search further, you need Watson by Intellext. Watson understands the context of what you are doing, finds relevant information, and then delivers these search results...
- Tags: Intellext, Watson, Social Networking, Search, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Software downloads 2006-11-30
- Dr. James Watson reflects on DNA research in the 21st century
- One of the highlights of AMD’s Global Vision Conference was an interview Paul Saffo conducted with Dr. James Watson, who along with Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA more than fifty years ago. In this new century, the full fruit of the Watson-Crick discovery is being unleashed in a...
- Tags: Watson
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Blinkx Pico - real -time contextual search
- I've been taking Pico the latest search tool from Blinkx for a test drive and it's a very interesting approach to providing information related to what you're currently reading. Results can come from the web, blogs, podcasts, and/or Wikipedia and are derived from a background scan of the e-mail or...
- Tags: Watson, Pico
- Blog posts 2006-03-08
- Move over Google Sidebar
- Move over Google Sidebarre: Move over Google SidebarSounds as if it's worth a try. Didn't like Google's sidebar. Currently testing "SPYDERBAR"by TGTsoft and "DesktopSideBar"(by Idea2, dsidebar.exe), and like both alot.Soon everybody and his brother will be releasing a sidebar application. So far, the two above meet my...
- Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Google Sidebar, Watson
- Discussion threads 2005-09-22
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- Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter
- Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so often
- Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so oftenYou failed to explain...WHY rebooting in necessary.It's because of the Windows architecture. It is so monolithic that it can't recover from simple application errors. When one thing goes wrong, it is a snow ball effect. Other OS's do not suffer nearly...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Other OS, reBoot Windows, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft
- Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to MicrosoftHe didn't dieYou guys make it sound like he died. As much as I bash MS, I do admire what Bill did by founding this company and guiding it to do what it's done for the world. I hope the company well in...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, UNIX, Strategy, Bill Gates, teary farewell, farewell, Billg, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- The mystery of the iPhone 3G SMS rates
- The mystery of the iPhone 3G SMS ratesmystery continuesSo do I add $30 to the selected voice plan to determine my final bill? Still not clear.???is this post unfinished? it doesn't seem to tell me much.So whats your point Jason ???NTRE: The mystery of the iPhone 3G SMS...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular phones, SMS, iPhone 3G SMS, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, AT&T Corp., 3G
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- The duopoly theory at work: Will Amazon and Google dominate the Internet?
- The duopoly theory at work: Will Amazon and Google dominate the Internet?"Dig Deeper Watson"Amazon already is. 2 examples; their TURK and Cloud servers.And those are just the start.For a time maybeThat's the thing with the web. Over night a startup can steal it all away. It's not like...
- Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., duopoly theory, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- The tattered history of OOP
- The tattered history of OOPCalling for Mom ..SOAP etc are not themselves messaging based, they're messaging protocols - i.e. message carriers that are not internally implemented using object messaging.OOP!Crieky, I had no idea OOP had been through so much! We're just about to start using Zend Framework PHP, I might...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Programming languages, Message Passing, object-oriented programming, Java, Smalltalk
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?
- For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...
- Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Looking for a dominant Semantic Web search engine
- Despite the continuing efforts of Microsoft, Yahoo! and others, Google remains the dominant horizontal search engine for most people, most of the time. In the United States, comScore reports 58.5% of searches during January were via a Google property. In the Semantic Web space, search is far less established and...
- Tags: Search Engine, Semantic Web, Search, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- With doughnut policies who fills the hole?
- The big trend in health insurance this year is the Consumer Directed Health Plan CDHP. It is, in essence, a doughnut policy. (Picture from Scooter's Doughnut.Net.) You're given so-called catastrophic coverage, in fact a ginormous deductible. Then you create a Health Savings Account HSA,...
- Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Screensaver (zip)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth film in the popular Harry Potter film series. Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley. A magical free screensaver for fans of Harry Potter to enjoy again and again. This version...
- Tags: Screensaver
- Software downloads 2008-03-11
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Screensaver (zip)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix it is the fifth film in the popular Harry Potter film series. The story follows Harry Potter entering his fifth year at the magic school Hogwarts. Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. This version is the first release on CNET...
- Tags: Screensaver, Phoenix Technologies, Story
- Software downloads 2008-03-11
- Can medical inflation be controlled?
- Everyone talks about medical inflation. But no one does anything about it. (Picture from Majorconflict.com, a liberal blog.) A quick look at the figures gathered by Watson Wyatt today make that point clearly. Medical inflation is a global phenomenon. Whether you run it privately...
- Tags: Health Care, Inflation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Did+Microsoft+really+think+before+making+its+Yahoo+play%3F
- Did+Microsoft+really+think+before+making+its+Yahoo+play%3FDinosaurs don't react to their environment.They go extinct.RE: Did Microsoft really think before making its Yahoo play?I don't see this deal being allowed.If it was just a big company taking over Yahoo, no problem.Microsoft on the other hand has so much power in the in computing. Having it as a...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Yahoo! Inc., Did+Microsoft+really+think+before+making+its+Yahoo+play%3F, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., server, General Electric Co., Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
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