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Gateway today announced that CompUSA, the nation's second-largest PC retailer, will begin selling Gateway-branded desktops later this week The systems will be sold across CompUSA's retail network of 226 stores nationwide and through the company's web site....
Oracle today announced release of the latest version of its sales-side customer relationship management (CRM) applications designed to help companies grow revenue by paving the way for effective enterprise selling The new versions of Oracle Sales, Oracle Marketing, Oracle Partner Relationship Management and Oracle e-Commerce 11i.10 provide technolo...
Most of you reading this have spent a significant amount of time building your brand equity through offline channels. Manufacturing goods that appeal to the target audience, marketing through catalogues, ongoing promotions and offers -- all contribute towards creating a strong brand. Moreover, significant due diligence has been conducted to ensure that the offline support staff -- be it store staff or customer service representatives -- has been made available to process all end-user transactions -- purchases, customer queries/complaints etc. -- smoothly and within a reasonable turnaround time...
One of the biggest questions a person will deal with in his or her life, regardless of the career path, is ethics. We make trade-offs when we "borrow" a stapler from work, take a sick day to go fishing or play golf, and take credit for something that was done by someone else. In the wake of the Enron, WorldCom and even Martha Stewart scandals, maybe its time we took a look at our own ethics and, by way of example, I'll focus this week on industry and IT analysts...
Reports streaked across the technology wires late this week as news surfaced that Jon Lech Johansen, a Norwegian programmer, had circumvented the encryption scheme used in Apple's AirPort Express, the latest hack at an Apple DRM The device, a mobile wireless unit that serves as an 802.11g gateway to the Internet for Mac users, also enables the stre...
Spyware is so prevalent that it is becoming nearly impossible to find computers that do not contain at least some intrusive code lurking on the hard drive or buried deep within the Windows Registry Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without the receiver's knowledge. On the Internet, spyware i...
Hewlett-Packard announced the firing of three top executives after reporting a dismal quarter and acknowledging that the company's failure to execute on its own internal computing initiatives left it vulnerable to competitors HP, which released earnings a week before they were expected, fell far short of targets and lowered its profit outlook going...
In an unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from a young hot star Real geodes are handball-sized, hollow rocks that start out as bubbles in volcanic or sedimentary rock. Only when these inconspicu...
UserLinux is due for public beta on September 1, but already some are questioning whether the distribution can survive in an enterprise market rife with competitors The project's leader, Bruce Perens, noted that the distribution will be free and will have the same functionality as other distributions currently on the market.
Hewlett-Packard announced the firing of three top executives after reporting a dismal quarter and acknowledging that the company's failure to execute on its own internal computing initiatives left it vulnerable to competitors HP, which released earnings a week before they were expected, fell far short of targets and lowered its profit outlook going...
PalmSource, provider of Palm OS, an operating system powering next generation mobile devices and smartphones, today announced Eric Benhamou will step down as chairman of the board of directors, further separating two parts of what had been PDA maker Palm Benhamou is expected to continue to serve as chairman of the board for palmOne....
Sedona Corporation, a provider of Web-based, vertical customer relationship management (CRM) technology for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), today announced its operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, with revenues doubling over the same period last year Nonetheless, the company said revenue was down 9 percent in the first six m...
It has become increasingly obvious that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reverse mergers and shells in its sights. Is this a temporary phenomenon? Will it pass? This column talks about what is happening in the small-cap industry that will affect companies that want to go public through a reverse-merger process In a previous column, ...
You have to love the irony. Manufacturing companies spend months and thousands of dollars to select a channel management application that will cure many of the ills that years of neglect have created These manufacturers -- fighting with inconsistency of policies, lack of channel focus and leadership, and being beat on deals by competitors who study...
It might seem hard to believe, but there was a time when Microsoft's Bill Gates was begging Apple's Steve Jobs to license the Mac operating system to PC vendors. Apple turned down the offer, and was later crushed by Gate's plan B: Windows That was in 1985, and thanks to Job's mistake, Gates doesn't need to beg for anything anymore.
Another one-two punch hit Wall Street Thursday as investors worried about the future of technology earnings and oil prices again tested record levels The latest blow came from Hewlett-Packard, which missed profit targets for its third quarter and issued an updated forecast that was also below what analysts had been counting on for the fourth quarte...
A Minnesota teenager accused of downloading the Blaster computer worm code, modifying it and releasing the damaging and debilitating variant on the Internet last year pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week to infecting computers. If convicted, Parson faces about three years and several hundred thousand dollars in penalties. When asked in ...
A Minnesota teenager accused of downloading the Blaster computer worm code, modifying it and releasing the damaging and debilitating variant on the Internet last year pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week to infecting computers If convicted, Parson faces about three years and several hundred thousand dollars in penalties. When asked in co...
The long wait for Google's IPO may be drawing to an end Google said yesterday that it would terminate bidder registration for its Dutch-auction style offering at 5 p.m. EDT today. That sets the stage for those registered to place their bids, a process that could take between a day and a week or more and one that should result in the actual price of...
Munich announced that patent concerns will not affect a planned migration to Linux for 14,000 of the city's desktop computers Although the city had unveiled a plan last year for the move, on August 4 it decided to postpone the program, nicknamed LiMux, citing legal and financial concerns over software patents that it wanted to clarify before procee...
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