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RSS frictionIT Manager Webcast: Platform Solution Blueprints - Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) (Level 200)
White Paper Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) is a practice that helps businesses to manage the process of custom software development and reduce the friction of information flow within every stage of a project. [31 Jul 2009]
Three-tier iTunes pricing to save digital music?
News The previous 'one price fits all' strategy has long caused friction between Apple and the music labels, who argued songs should be priced differently to reflect their perceived value by consumers. Apple and major music... [07 Apr 2009]
Integrating Automated Cash Collection with ERP Solutions
White Paper Each step in a process involving a manual touch point causes friction that costs time and money. Esker DeliveryWare reduces this friction, helping companies maximize profitability by automating and... [18 Mar 2009]
Integrating Automated Cash Collection with SAP Solutions
White Paper Each step in a process involving a manual touch point causes friction that costs time and money. Esker DeliveryWare reduces this friction, helping companies maximize profitability by automating and... [18 Mar 2009]
Using ITIL to Drive Business Innovation
White Paper At best, this is a recipe for friction between IT and the Business. While Information Technology has become increasingly essential to continuing business operations, IT environments have simultaneously increased in both... [10 Feb 2009]
Tribology and Nano-Tribology Problems in Data Storage on Hard Disks
White Paper At a spacing of 3 nm, severe tribological problems will occur with respect to friction, wear and lubrication of the head/disk interface. In current "State of the art" disk drives, the flying height between slider and... [06 Feb 2009]
From Firefox to Chrome: Why I made the switch
Comment But using Chrome removed a bit of friction from the web I hadn't realised was there. The browser wars are heating up, especially with the introduction of Google's Chrome. But has it got the steam to compete? [25 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment Conceived in a traffic jam on Interstate 80, written the next day in a coffee shop at Lake Tahoe CA and sent via a free wi-fi service. I can't remember the moment or place when my interest in science fiction was first ignited. [28 Aug 2008]
EC: Oracle-BEA gets the go-ahead
News The acquisition of BEA by Oracle, announced in January, followed friction between the two companies over the purchase price. The European Commission has approved the acquisition of BEA Systems by Oracle. [01 May 2008]
Nortel Network Case Study: The Timken Company
White Paper The Timken Company is a leading global manufacturer of friction management and power transmission products and services. Each of Timken's nine North American call centers was operating independently. In 2003, the... [15 Jan 2008]
Intel waves goodbye to OLPC
News The Classmate PC was one of the sources of friction between Negroponte and Intel before they joined forces in July. Intel has announced it is leaving the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The news, first reported... [04 Jan 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Design for Operations Using AVIcode Intercept Studio and MOM 2005 (Level 100)
White Paper AVIcode Intercept Studio and MOM 2005 provide the foundation for "Friction-free" application health modeling and operational monitoring of distributed Microsoft .NET applications. Application development and application... [22 Jun 2007]
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Visual Studio Team System (Level 200)
White Paper This webcast details an end-to-end software development lifecycle scenario that demonstrates major components of Team System and illustrates the value to the team of having a customizable integrated process in breaking down silos of... [15 Jun 2007]
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Visual Studio Team System - Level 200
White Paper This webcast will detail an end-to-end software development lifecycle scenario which will demonstrate major components of Team System and also illustrate the value to the team of having a customizable integrated process in breaking down... [15 Jun 2007]
Could Vista corrupt iPods?
News The company cited a variety of compatibility issues that may cause friction between the media player software, its accompanying iPod player and Vista. Apple has warned Windows users running its iTunes software that they... [05 Feb 2007]
