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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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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Wyeth's Prescription for Business Process Management Success
For a pharmaceutical company like Wyeth, no function is more important than research and development-the process of finding the new drugs that will lead to patents and profits. And for the information systems group that supports R & D;, business ... [... more]
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1. Be the kind of boss you'd be excited to have.
When Eugene Nizker, then CIO of Custom House Currency Exchange in Vancouver, first met Jessica Raichl, he doubted her ability to be a great assistant. For one thing, she seemed young for the responsibilities of the job (she was 24). For another, ... [... more]
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Typing Shortcuts
Margaret Genet knows BlackBerrys. Though officially dubbed "operations analyst," she's the first Aflac employee to hold the unofficial title of "technology concierge." Genet's job number one: Teach executives how to be more efficient [... 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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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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