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AVG changes its stance on LinkScanner: A few days ago I wrote a story about AVG's LinkScanner causing a massive amount of additional traffic on the net in the name of protecting customers... yeah.Â Well, here's a quote from the original article to give some background: ApparentlyÂ AVG is spamming the Internet withÂ traffic that looks to...; Tags: Web, Web Site, Whirlpool Corp., Search Result, Slashdot, AVG, LinkScanner, Web Site Development, Search, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Whirlpool Corporation Enhances Customer Service and Saves Millions Optimizing Marketing Programs: Whirlpool Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with more than 70 global manufacturing and technology research centers. The company wanted to centralize customer information to optimize business processes. The challenge was to allow the organization to manage marketing campaigns internally and align customer data...; Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Whirlpool Corp., Call Centers, Marketing Research, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Manufacturing, Operational Planning, Sales Strategy, It Operations, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Sales; Case studies 2007-07-01
Whirlpool screen saver (zip): This screensaver shows you an animated unreal scene. Your display cracks and you see a whirlpool of the clouds. Lightnings flash between the clouds. Beautiful meteors with nice video effects complete the picture. Version 2.2 has configuration for meteors.; Tags: Screensaver, Whirlpool Corp., Cloud; Software downloads 2006-04-04
IBM Case Study: Whirlpool Corporation: Whirlpool has its home base in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Whirlpool's processing methods, particularly for its middle-tier trade partners-which comprise 25 percent of its total partner base-were inefficient and costly in time and money. Following the guidelines of the IBM Application Framework for e-business, Whirlpool built its portal with IBM WebSphere...; Tags: Whirlpool Corp., IBM Corp., Application Servers, Middleware, Web Servers, Portals, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet; Webcasts
Webcast: Whirlpool and WebSphere Portal: This webcast explains how Whirlpool has embraced Websphere Portal to maintain and enhance their leadership position within their industry.; Tags: IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Webcast, IBM WebSphere, Whirlpool Corp., Portals, Middleware, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Leadership, Application Servers, Internet, Software, Management; Webcasts

Whirlpool: Quality Means Loyalty: Whirlpool Corp., the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, envisions the day when its products are in every home, everywhere. To reach that goal, Whirlpool's Global Quality Division is incorporating innovation and analysis to its warranty approach. Using SAS as its Business Intelligence foundation, Whirlpool looks for...; Tags: SAS Institute, Whirlpool Corp.; Case studies
Avaya Case Study: Whirlpool Corporation: Whirlpool Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances. Whirlpool had two Customer Interaction Centers - in Benton Harbor, Michigan and Knoxville, Tennessee - to respond to consumers for all its brands. The two centers were modeled with functions aligned: service requests and new product information...; Tags: Whirlpool Corp., Avaya Inc., Call Centers, Real Estate, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Whirlpool Corporation Transforms Its Business With Avaya Solutions for Communications Enabled Business Processes - Reduces Human Latency, Improves Responsiveness: Whirlpool Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales of approximately $18 billion. In the retail marketplace, where time to market is critical, Whirlpool Corporation must continually reduce manufacturing cycle time. Imagine the impact if the company could take processes involved in its...; Tags: Business Process, Latency, Whirlpool Corp., Avaya Inc., Manufacturing, Operational Planning, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing; Case studies

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VMworld is bringing out the vendors: Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...; Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-05
Five reasons Chrome will take over the world: Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...; Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-09-03
What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?: What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we’re afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-09-02
Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?: Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...; Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-01
Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated: News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-08-28
Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot: So, EDS is gone again, subsumed by HP. But, lo and behold, H. Ross Perot is back, just in time for the presidential elections. Now, you can view his slides about the dangers of the federal deficit and debt online, any time you want. Or, hear him posit...; Tags: Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-08-26
Highest-paid US public company executives: Associated Press published a list of highest-paid public company executives out of S&P 500 index. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. ORCL, $84.6 mln John Thain, Merrill Lynch & Co. MERPO, $83.1 mln Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. CBS, $67.6 mln Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., $65.3 mln Bob Simpson,...; Tags: Company Executive, CBS Corp., GPS, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, Hardware, AM; Blog posts 2008-08-21
Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality: Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...; Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2008-08-20
Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover: If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...; Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-20
3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage: Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming. Flashback When I bought my first external hard drive - 30 MB for $300 - I...; Tags: 3D, Phone, Killer Application, Storage, Cell Phone, Video, Terabyte Notebook, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-08-14
Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates: Robert Meltzer, CEO of VisaNow offers this guest blog post on the questions we should be asking the candidates on the ever-contentious H1-B issue. Consistently throughout U.S. history, immigration has been a divisive topic. Cultural biases, misconceptions, racism and fear continue to influence both opponents and...; Tags: U.S., H-1B Visa, Immigration System, H-1B, Government, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-08-13
MySpace lands official presidential debate gig: News Corp.-owned MySpace is continuing its push to become the online destination for U.S. politics amongst the social networking generation. by Steve O'Hear; Tags: Network, MySpace, MyDebates.org, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-08-06

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Whirlpool Corp.: Whirlpool is a manufacturer and marketer of a line of appliances and related products, primarily for home use. Co.'s principal products are laundry appliances, refrigerators,...; Whirlpool Corp. company page on BNET »