Nokia Comes with Music Comes to Market At Last
Consumers in the U.K. will be the first to try Nokia's Comes With Music on the 5310 XpressMusic phone, Nokia announced on Tuesday. The phone is expected to ship next month. The service, announced last December, packages mobile phones with a year ... [... more]
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First Look at Google Video for Business
Google brings video into its stable of Web apps with Google Video for Business, a new service that permits video sharing among employees. The idea is that anyone at a company--from CEO on down--can post a video, but the content will be accessible ... [... more]
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China Mobile has Nearly Covered Chinese Population
China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone service provider, has nearly covered China's vast population with its mobile phone network, its top executive said Tuesday. He said China Mobile's network now covers 97 percent of China's ... [... more]
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Social Networking Startup Goes Self-Service
Social-networking site provider Socialcast announced a "self-service" pricing model on Tuesday that allows smaller customers to get up and running without the need for a formal sales process. Smaller companies also face deployment challenges, .. [... more]
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Members of the House Homeland Security subcommittee are prepared to grill Charbo and other DHS officials on their information security budget and efforts to identify and fix vulnerabilities in the department's computer systems. According to ... [... more]
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ABC: An Introduction to ERP
How do on-demand and software-as-a-service ERP applications work? Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn't live up to its acronym. Forget about planning-it doesn't do much of that-and forget about resource, a throwaway term. But ... [... more]
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RFID: Thinking Outside of the Supply Chain
Wal-Mart and other large retailers have been a major driving force behind radio frequency identification (RFID) adoption, causing it to be viewed merely as a more effective alternative to bar codes where it saves billions through reduced labor ... [... more]
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After Theft, Tech Support Call Lands Man in Jail
Here's a tip: if you steal a printer, don't call the manufacturer asking for driver software. It's a lesson that Timothy Scott Short learned all too well this month, when he was arrested after placing a couple of calls to Digimarc Corp.'s tech ... [... more]
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CTO: A Dangerous Title
The chief technology officer (CTO) job title has been floating around the IT industry for at least a decade now, so it's had enough time to settle in. And the places that it's settled are rather unsettling. The title originated in technology ... [... more]
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Wal-Mart Buys SAP Financials
Wal-Mart's decision to purchase SAP's ERP Financials, announced on Oct. 18, provides another piece of evidence that the IT strategy of the world's biggest retailer is shifting in favor of packaged applications. An SAP press release said that ... [... more]
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Google Video Makes (Another) Google Pitch for Business Users
Google is attempting to bring YouTube to businesses by allowing users to upload, share and view video over its paid Google Apps suite starting Sept. 2, the company said. Google Apps is an online software package that costs companies $50 per ... [... more]
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How to Get Real About Strategic Planning
Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. MORE ON STRATEGIC PLANNING Anatomy of an IT Strategic Plan Four Strategic Planning Myths Debunked Eight Mistakes to Avoid In IT Strategic Planning Places where IT and the ... [... more]
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