Savings windfall for firm that moved from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail

"Taylor Woodrow, a UK-based construction company, has switched its 1,800 employees' e-mail from Microsoft Outlook to enterprise Gmail. The company is also beginning to use other components of Google Apps, the suite of Web-based applications that includes, in addition to...

Vancouver police recruit with YouTube and Facebook

A video called "The Promise" on their Facebook page is the best irony-free homage to policing I've seen. The music sounds like a Superman outtake."The Vancouver Police Department is hitting the Internet in its latest...

Google warns of 'drive by downloads'

Just when you thought it was safe to not go out again..."The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack...

Ron Paul raises more than $4.2 million

There has been a lot of chatter about how the blogosphere is gaming the popularity of Ron Paul on sites like Technorati but behold the power of netroots.  Money talks..."WASHINGTON - Republican presidential...

Arrow Asia`s Web-based supply-chain tool delivers materials

""Arrow's consignment VMI program allows customers to delay ownership of inventory and reduce cycle times while increasing the availability of components. CARES provides a powerful, highly flexible yet intelligent system that supports just-in-time, lean and cell-based...

JAJAH user advisory -- eBay starts removing JAJAH Buttons from marketplace

"eBay's email to JAJAH sellers states: "The listing was removed because it violated the eBay Inappropriate Links policy...links or other connections to live chat systems are not permitted." "Our vision was simply to bring voice communication to one of the world's greatest...

Skype Low Franchise Leads To eBay Price Cut

"eBay will cut as much as $US1.2 billion off the $4.3 billion potential price it agreed to pay for web-based phone-calling service Skype two years ago. The writedown on the value of the deal came as eBay said Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis had resigned as...

Lusight finalizes agreement with Goldman Sachs

"Lusight is an independent investment research firm, with a focus on Global Emerging Markets. Lusight has taken a unique approach to the production and distribution of investment research by developing a web-based Research Platform that allows clients to access not only their...

Maybe You Should Back Up Your Own Email; Google, AOL, Yahoo All Losing Emails

Web-based email has made quite the comeback in the past few years thanks to massive increases in email storage offerings, as well as revamped user interfaces. However, it appears that all of the big players have run into some problems actually keeping email systems online....

The Great Workplace Wiki Divide?

article drew a line between employees who use Wikis and other Web-based tools (young) and those who don't (old), and asked if senior managers were ready for the influx of 80 million Net Generation workers. Their position:Wikis, blogs, and other tools will arrive in...

Borders shelving Amazon alliance

The gloves come off... Borders to now compete directly with Amazon

Amazon's Secret Price Guarantee

"Of the many responsibilities shouldered by this column, none is more solemn than its mandate to compel Web-based retailers to take phone calls from the public. But suppose you finally get one of these reclusive customer-service reps on the horn and become so flustered that...

Broadly Used Consumer Technologies Driving IT? :: MAXINE

"Off the shelf/over the portal" applications made easy ... too easy. "A contributor to SlashDot - fiannaFailMan writes to point out The Economist's reporting on the way consumer-driven software products are...

The Suggestion Box 2.0

Your secretary, mailroom clerk or a junior associate might have the answers to the company's biggest problems. But you’ll never benefit from their input, since they probably aren’t invited to your company’s brainstorming sessions. Software is trying to solve that...

NYTimes.com Announces New Tool to Enable Users to Share Times Content via Sel...

"NYTimes.com Announces New Tool to Enable Users to Share Times Content via Select Sites NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NYTimes.com today announced the addition of a new tool that gives readers...

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