Wednesday - December 2, 2009
As we approach the end of 2009, the hands-down winner of the hot IT trends award continues to be cloud computing. Yet the reality is that for many, cloud deployment strategies remain somewhat ethereal -- part theoretical, part vendor/marketing hype, and part vaguely defined future model. At the same time, the intensity of interest in the cloud approach has been almost unprecedented. The promise of the cloud has struck a deep chord that resonates strongly, making it a phenomenon that IT organizations simply cannot ignore -- or do so at their peril.
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Wednesday - December 2, 2009
Just as the legal slapfest between Verizon and AT&T was put to rest in court, consumers rendered their own verdict -- the latest Consumer Reports customer satisfaction survey of wireless carriers ranks Verizon first and AT&T last. The ratings are based on more than 54,000 responses about contract and prepaid services from ConsumerReports subscribers.
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Wednesday - December 2, 2009
This just in: Females outnumber males on social networking sites. The site Pingdom did a survey and concluded that 16 out of 19 of the most popular social sites have more women populating them than men. The super geek sites Digg, Reddit and Slashdot have more men on them, but the more popular sites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, all have more women visiting them.
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Wednesday - December 2, 2009
Rumors that Apple is field-testing a new iPhone have begun making the rounds, and if they're true, shareholders could expect more largess next year. In the meantime, the iPhone appears to have found a reasonably warm welcome in South Korea, where about 60,000 units had been pre-ordered by the time the device went on sale Saturday, according to reports.
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Wednesday - December 2, 2009
Yahoo will lean more heavily on Facebook's popularity as it tries to give people more reasons to stay on its Web site. The expanded partnership announced Wednesday will enable Yahoo users with Facebook accounts to blend material from the two Web sites without having to leave one destination for the other.
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Tuesday - December 1, 2009
Online sales were up almost 14 percent year over year for 2009's Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving and traditionally a big selling day for online retailers. Shoppers spent over 38 percent more per order compared to 2008's figures, and they bought nearly 10 percent more items per order, according to market research firm Coremetrics.
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Tuesday - December 1, 2009
IBM's recent Connect 2009 analyst conference provided fascinating insights into one of the company's most valuable assets -- its software group organization. IBM has long been recognized as a purveyor of enterprise-class computing systems, but during the past decade, the company's global services organization has become its prime driver of revenue and profit.
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Tuesday - December 1, 2009
Earlier in my career, I covered the telecommunications industry. Nothing better prepared me for a career examining CRM than the sight of enormous corporations with immense customer bases failing to build any kind of relationship with their users and instead resorting to price as their major differentiator. Worse yet was the service aspect of these businesses.
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Tuesday - December 1, 2009
Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it has filed suits against several leading liquid crystal display makers -- including Philips, Toshiba, Sharp and Samsung -- for alleged price fixing. Nokia spokesperson Mark Durrant said the suits -- filed last month in the United States and Britain -- came amid international criminal investigations in the U.S., the European Union "and elsewhere."
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Monday - November 30, 2009
Online shoppers took to their computers in droves on Black Friday, spending 11 percent more than they did a year ago and buoying e-tailers' hopes for a bountiful holiday season. That's according to a report released Sunday by market research firm comScore, which counted $595 million in online sales on Friday, making it the second-heaviest e-commerce spending day this year so far.
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Monday - November 30, 2009
Amazon's e-reader device, the Kindle, experienced its best sales month ever in November, according to the company, which made the announcement even before Cyber Monday purchases were tallied. Amazon did not release any actual numbers to back up its claim, however. It is unclear whether it was taking into account Kindle sales made on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday.
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