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Property Services Firm Implements CRM Tool, Generates Return on Investment in Less Than Three Months
White Paper Customer satisfaction increased, client churn decreased, and salespeople increased cross-sales revenues along with their sales closure rate. Low usability of the firm's existing SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM)... [02 Oct 2009]
The A to Z of wireless
News Despite the closure of Connexion, analysts are predicting that in-flight wireless will take off in a big way this year: a recent report from analyst house In-Stat predicts the number of aeroplanes enabled for in-flight... [11 Aug 2009]
Visio Partner Uses Process Visualization to Cut Sales Engagement From Months to Days
White Paper Now, with Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and its process modeling capabilities at the core of all Bluespring process modeling efforts, the company has been able to decrease the length of its sales engagements from several weeks or months to... [30 Jul 2009]
HP to axe 5,700 Europe jobs
News The factory closure in Scotland will affect 710 workers at the enterprise, storage and server plant in Erskine, an HP spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Thursday. The spokesperson declined to say how... [29 May 2009]
Yahoo! shuts the doors on GeoCities
News You don't need to change a thing right now - we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. Yahoo! is closing its GeoCities personal homepage service, and with it will go an era of... [24 Apr 2009]
Nokia to slash 1,700 jobs
News The company announced the closure of its Turku site in November in the wake of disappointing profits. Nokia is to lay off approximately 1,700 staff around the globe, the handset manufacturer said on Tuesday. [18 Mar 2009]
CIO Job Report: February's movers and shakers
News Housing group AmicusHorizon is seeking to appoint a new director of technology following the closure of applications for the post in early February. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves... [24 Feb 2009]
CIO Job Report: Movers and shakers
News Leeds Metropolitan University is set to appoint a new head of technology services shortly, following the closure of applications for the post. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and... [27 Jan 2009]
Buffering in Query Evaluation Over XML Streams
White Paper All known algorithms for evaluating advanced XPath queries (e.g.ones with predicates or with closure axes) on XML streams employ buffers to temporarily store fragments of the document stream. In many cases, these buyers... [04 Dec 2008]
Lycos Europe barks bye bye
News The closure of Lycos Europe's portal, which includes search, online communities and content channels, comes as it faces increased competition from Yahoo! Lycos Europe announced on Wednesday plans to shutter its portal... [27 Nov 2008]
Cairo Communication Spa Rapidly Adopts New Business Models and Reduces Costs
White Paper Cairo Communication adopted a single, centralized Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform for all group companies with Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications as well as shortened accounting closure times and... [06 Nov 2008]
A Full On-Chip CMOS Clock Data Recovery IC for OC-192 Applications
White Paper The measured RMS jitter of the recovered data is 0.74ps with a Bit-Error Rate (BER) less than 10-12 when the input PRBS data pattern has a pattern length of 215-1 and a total horizontal eye closure of 0.54 UIpp due to... [22 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up There are around 12,000 red phone boxes in the UK, of which 4,500 are under threat of closure and through BT's 'adopt a kiosk' scheme, councils can pay £1 to retain the red phone boxes earmarked for removal in their area. [26 Sep 2008]
BT extends 'save a threatened phone box' deadline
News According to BT, there are around 12,000 red phone boxes in the UK, of which 4,500 are under threat of closure. BT has given local authorities more time to step in to save thousands of iconic red phone boxes that the... [22 Sep 2008]
£1 will save a red BT phone box
News A spokeswoman for the telco said some 12,000 red phone boxes remain in the UK, with more than a third - around 4,500 - under threat of closure. A plan has been hatched that could save iconic red BT phone boxes for as... [29 Aug 2008]