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RSS biddingAerospace Firm Moves From Mainframe to Microsoft SQL Server, Saves Time and Money
White Paper Bidding on new contracts requires drawing on millions of rows of accounting and inventory data, which had been stored on an IBM 3090 mainframe computer that was difficult and expensive to maintain. L-3 Vertex Aerospace has more than 11,000 staff at... [05 Jul 2008]
Wireless in the Enterprise - the Future Market for Corporate Mobile Services
White Paper Falling share prices, heavy debts incurred by over-exuberant licence bidding and growing disappointment with WAP services have plunged the sector into unprecedented gloom. Next generation services cannot come fast enough for the mobile industry. [03 Jul 2008]
Electronic Purchasing System for Public Administration Transactions
White Paper It can reduce prices paid for materials and services through an Internet-based public bidding process. WBC Public by Paradigma Absolute e-Business is an electronic purchasing system designed to support public administration transactions. [03 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks break down
News The process is nonexclusive, meaning others could join in the bidding to place ads, a factor that could make a deal easier to pass regulatory approval. finally, formally failed and Yahoo! said it would let Google sell search ads on its site. [13 Jun 2008]
NHS brushes up on Itil
Case Study Pink Elephant, one of the four training companies bidding for the contract, suggested making use of the NHS' large estate of buildings to bring the training to staff, rather than having them travel elsewhere. [11 Jun 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News But shadow home secretary David Davis said: "Along with growing evidence of the risks and costs of ID cards, we have seen declining commercial interest, reflected in the dwindling numbers bidding for contracts. [23 May 2008]
Managing Customers' Inventory
White Paper Driven in part by technology - but more so by shifts in customers' ordering patterns - these converters see VMI as a means to decommoditize their product and service offerings, eliminate bidding wars, and focus on improved quality and customer... [15 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment There is a whole unseen, murky hinterland of bidding and trading on keywords that is helping to fund a billion-pound search marketing industry. This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing trademarks. [30 Apr 2008]
Google pledges 'wi-fi on steroids'
News The search giant had committed to bidding $4.6bn for the "open-access" spectrum block, but last week, the FCC announced it was Verizon Wireless, not Google, that had won those licences. The company, joined by other heavyweights like Microsoft and... [25 Mar 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News We generate a much stronger image for bidding for local contracts, which is also important. Indian IT giant Wipro is set to create hundreds of new jobs in the UK by taking advantage of government tax breaks and opening a low-cost regional software... [20 Mar 2008]
Microsoft and Yahoo! in 'informal' merger talks
News s possible white knights, News Corp, indicated it had no interest in entering into a bidding war with Microsoft. Microsoft and Yahoo! are holding informal merger discussions, marking a shift from the "radio silence" that previously existed between... [14 Mar 2008]
Optimal Bidding Strategy for Keyword Auctions and Other Continuous-Time Markets
White Paper This paper models continuous-time mass bidding markets, such as key-word auctions and market-based resource allocation systems, as a stochastic dynamic system that fluctuates around an average value under the influence of its users. [14 Feb 2008]
Why outsourcing divorce can end in tears…
Comment For example, when the service is retendered, all parties bidding for the contract will need access to information previously only privy to the original supplier. But public sector organisations considering going elsewhere next time have a number of... [04 Feb 2008]
Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Comment Auction or bidding systems that allow dealers and investors to bid direct on new issues. Fixed-income markets in Europe have been slow to adopt electronic trading. So what impact will a downturn have on the technological future of these markets... [30 Jan 2008]
Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition
Case Study Up until this year, beatthatQuote.com has spent a minimal amount on brand awareness in the market, so bidding for key search terms has been a key touchpoint to the customer. beatthatQuote.com is one of the increasing numbers of financial services... [29 Jan 2008]
