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- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast sets 250GB ceiling
- Now, it's official. Comcast will impose a 250GB monthly cap on its Internet customers, as the SF Chronicle reports. Violators will get a notice and a warning. If you do it twice in a six-month period, they may terminate your account. What's more, Comcast...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Netbooks just want to be free
- At a trade show in Berlin, T-Mobile confirmed that it will sell an Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with built-in 3G. If the prices on these bundles come close to what's been rumored, they could start to catch on. In the UK, Asus already offers a free...
- Tags: ASUS, Bundle, T-Mobile, 3G, Modems, Microsoft Windows, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Microsoft Windows XP, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- US online households pay 11 bills a month online
- 63.1 mln US households are paying their bills online rather than writing paper checks, according to Fiserv. 13% of respondents cited online security as the top reason for not using the online bill payment service, down from 17% in the 2007 survey. Overall, online security ranked third among barriers to...
- Tags: Online Bill Payment, Survey, Online Bill Payment Adoption, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?Beef it upWhy Comcast should beef up their network:Imagine its 5:00 PM on a normal Friday evening, you get home hoping to relax in front of the TV to watch a movie or two. You turn on the TV only to discover that...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Strategy, Web, Comcast Corp., bandwidth, network
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
- On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., broadband cap, broadband, stat
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast will implement a 250 GB data monthly cap on customers starting Oct. 1. The move, reported first by DSL Reports, was confirmed by Comcast today Techmeme. On its site, Comcast posted its amended user policy: We've listened to feedback from our customers who asked that...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Broadband, Customer, Carrier, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- What SaaS can teach us about customer service
- What SaaS can teach us about customer serviceGood Advice!As someone actively engaged in the software as a service industry, I can confirm that Archie Black's advice is spot on. I work for PayCycle, an online payroll company that embodies the SaaS model. Our customers don't make distinctions between...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Product marketing, customer service, software-as-a-service, customer satisfaction
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?Hype is not necessaryCustomers are not turning to SaaS for the financial merits of cheaper software licensing. The cost of the software is about the same as traditional software, it is the cost of maintaining the software and the hardware that...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Tools & Techniques, IT Services, Service-now.com, SaaS Model, software-as-a-service, software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...
- Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), pricing strategy, window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launch
- Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launchWiMax and GPSThe service isn't GPS yet, they use radio signal strengh to estimate user position.See: http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=162552Dan JonesUnstrung.com
- Tags: GPS, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX, Sprint Communications
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launch
- With the launch of its long-hyped WiMax service XOHM scheduled to debut in September in Baltimore, on Thursday Sprint announced a set of location-based personalization features that will enhance the user experience of WiMax subscribers by allowing them to, for example, quickly look up restaurants, check traffic and weather, and...
- Tags: Sprint Xohm, Privacy, Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled intoI agree "One OS to unite them all""One price to keep all happy" In the end it's just a marketing ploy different versions each with their own "missing" pieces. In many ways it looks like double dipping...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, marketing, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- An IE8 Beta 2 Q
- An IE8 Beta 2 QWhat if you uninstall beta 1 first?Will you fall back to IE7 then be able to install beta 2 with a fallback to IE7?Can I uninstall IE8? Yes ... unless ...... you downloaded and installed IE8 Beta 1 prior to installing Windows XP SP3, in which...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, IE8 Beta 2 Q, IE8, beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummatedHP-EDSI am sure all of the customer service jobs will go to India. How many of the rest of the jobs will follow?
- Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Microsoft to ship new Windows XP beta
- Microsoft to ship new Windows XP betaXP is terrible!This is crap. XP is a memory hog. Now I need to upgrade my desktop to 256 megs of RAM! No compatible drivers for my Diamond Speedstar VESA video card! Why should I need to upgrade my computer for a fancy new...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, XP IS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
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