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- TealMealDB: Zurich, Switzerland Restaurant Guide (Mobile)
- A database of restaurants in Zurich, Switzerland; Submitted by Erik Poly. View this restaurant database with TealMeal, the PalmOS personal restaurant database and chooser by TealPoint Software, available for free trial download elsewhere on this site.
- Tags: Mobile, Switzerland, Zurich, TealPoint Software, Palm OS, Storage, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- Microsoft won't bother with EU hearing
- Microsoft wanted the European Commission to reschedule a hearing at which Redmond would be be able to defend itself against the EU's conclusion that tying IE to Windows is anticompetitive. The reason: Microsoft's top antitrust staff would be attending a big conference in Zurich. The EU declined....
- Tags: Commission, Zurich, Microsoft Corp., European Union, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?
- At the upcoming Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, "platform" will be the watchword of the day. I'm going to be interested to see which cloud platform of the many that Microsoft is expected to unveil will get top billing. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Platform, Zurich, Microsoft Corp., Mesh Platform, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition
- Microsoft archrival VMWare announced this week a set of future technologies called the "Virtual Datacenter OS" that some are comparing with Windows Server 2008. But Windows Server 2008 and its integrated Hyper-V hypervisor aren't what Microsoft is going to be pitting against VMware, Google and Amazon in the brave, new...
- Tags: Data Center, Zurich, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision
- A new white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by the always entertaining consultant David Chappell, provides more clues about what the Softies are planning to unveil at this October's Professional Developers Conference. For anyone looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data...
- Tags: Zurich, Operating System, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Service, David Chappell, Red Dog, SQL Server Data Services, Application Service, EC2, EC2 Customer, Windows Live ID, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktop Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 24. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Zurich, Ray Ozzie, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, SQL Server Data Services, Data Centers, Retail, Financial Accounting, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Rahn & Bodmer Ensures High Availability and Disaster Preparedness With Dynamic Data Infrastructure
- Rahn & Bodmer Banquiers, Zurich's first private bank, is characterized by its complete independence. For several generations, the company has been under the sole ownership of the Zurich families of Rahn, Bodmer, and Bidermann, from which the five partners come. It needed to ensure high availability and disaster management for...
- Tags: Electronic Banking, Oracle Corp., Zurich, High Availability, Disaster Management, Disaster Recovery, Banking, Data Management, Financial Services, Finance
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- The City of Zurich Simplifies IT Management With New Operating System
- The City of Zurich is optimizing its IT infrastructure by bringing its 15,000 PCs and notebooks spread across 60 service departments in line with one common standard. Previously, the various service departments decided for themselves which operating system and applications to install. As part of the city's new IT strategy,...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Zurich, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Service Department, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- The City of Zurich Simplifies Management by Standardizing on New Operating System
- The City of Zurich is optimizing its IT infrastructure by bringing its 15,000 PCs and notebooks spread across 60 service departments in line with one common standard. Previously, the various service departments decided for themselves which operating system and applications to install. As part of the city's new IT strategy,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Zurich, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Service Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Daily Picture Of Zurich 1.0.1 (Windows)
- Daily Picture Of Zurich displays a new picture of Zurich every day, or even more often. The pictures are taken on the countryside of Zurich and the city of Zurich. For all that don't know where Zurich is, its in the north of Switzerland. This version is the first release...
- Tags: Zurich, Sam, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-07-10
- Transnavicom Satellite Map of Zurich 1 (Windows)
- Demo-version of Satellite Map of Zurich is an example of how a person living in a megapolis today can use space technologies. A Quick Bird satellite shot is used as the cartographic basis. Face the reality. Your dreams are coming true with satellite maps from Transnavi.com. In the demo-version you...
- Tags: Zurich, Microsoft Windows, Satellite, Transnavicom, Network Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-03-02
- Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab
- Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.
- Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.
- Image galleries 2006-07-20
- Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab
- Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.
- Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.
- Image galleries 2006-05-23
- Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab
- Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.
- Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.
- Image galleries 2006-05-23
- Lanier Cuts Costs, Streamlines Workflow for 15-Year Customer Zurich North America
- Zurich North America is a leading property-casualty insurance provider in the United States and Canada, and a Lanier customer since 1987. For more than 15 years, Zurich has turned to Lanier to keep a wide range of document costs under control, find new ways to reduce total cost of ownership...
- Tags: Ricoh Corp., Zurich, Workflow, Zurich North America, Fleet Management, Process Improvement, Roi/Tco, Quality, Business Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies
- Zurich in North America Realizes Substantial Savings Using Best Practices for Software Asset Management
- For years, Zurich, a leading commercial property-casualty insurance provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices, watched its budget for mainframe software rise rapidly. This alarming increase in software costs did not go unchallenged. Zurich needed to increase operational efficiency and reduce expenses to help keep insurance premiums low....
- Tags: Software, Zurich, Best Practice, Tools & Techniques, Asset Management, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Zurich in North American Anticipates U.S.$25 Million Gain With SQL Server 2005 Solution
- Zurich North America Commercial ("Zurich"), a commercial property-casualty insurance provider serving companies in Canada and the United States, is part of Zurich Financial Services, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich includes 600 risk engineers who inspect sites and recommend changes to help minimize their customers' risk of loss. The risk engineers...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Zurich, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services
- Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...
- Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Keeping Banking Infrastructure Secure With Tripwire Software
- Members of the British and French Rothschild families set up Rothschild Bank AG in Zurich in 1968. The challenge was to attain visibility across a multi-location, multi-platform IT infrastructure, to implement an automated, cost-efficient method for monitoring change activity and to establish accountability through more stringent change and access control....
- Tags: Banking, Tripwire, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- Works of Hans Christian Andersen. FREE Author's biography & stories in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile, MobileReference
- Software downloads 2009-09-15
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