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Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 01.02.08

Round-Up Podcast Funeral '2.0', email-free 'stress down' Friday, wearing slippers to work and a Rubik's cube-solving robot are all featured on the silicon.com Weekly Round-Up podcast this week. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Julian Goldsmith, Tim...

Tags: friday, web 2.0, funeral, email

[01 Feb 2008]

Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-Operative Society Creates an Efficient, Agile Communications Infrastructure Based on Avaya IP Office Solution

whitepaper The Society has deployed an Avaya IP Office solution across several sites in the area - spanning food retail, automotive, funeral, travel, property and childcare services, to optimise the efficiency of its operations.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, society, operative, avaya ip office

[27 Apr 2007]

Web-Based Solution Helps Death Care Service Provider Cut Costs, Scale Up

whitepaper SCI, a U.S.billion death care services company, assists more than 630,000 families each year through a network of more than 1,600 funeral homes and cemeteries across North America. As a global leader in the industry, it seeks to improve customer...

Tags: asps, care, north america, death

[31 Mar 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.07.05

Round-Up Doubtless he's just one of several million Russian email users who won't be taking the day off work to go to Kushnir's funeral. "The case is being treated as murder - what else is it going to be treated as?

Tags: round-up

[29 Jul 2005]

Pope's funeral broadcast online

News Today's funeral for Pope John Paul II will be available across a broad range of media, including online venues. XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio said this week they will be carrying live reports and special coverage of the funeral.

Tags: pope, online

[08 Apr 2005]

Carriage Services Softens the Loss of a Loved One With Commemorative Items Produced on HP Printers

whitepaper Houston-based, Carriage Services, Inc.is a death-care consolidator, owning 141 funeral homes and 30 cemeteries across 29 states; it serves families in need of, mortuary services and has gained a great reputation in the "memorialization" of an...

Tags: printers - plotters, volume, printing, color

[18 Sep 2004]

Disputed witnesses to take the stand in Oracle case

Disputed witnesses to take the stand in Oracle case

News He issued Friday's decision via teleconference - federal courts were closed in observation of Ronald Reagan's funeral. The federal judge hearing the Department of Justice v. Oracle antitrust case rejected motions from both sides to exclude all or...

[14 Jun 2004]

Enhanced Service to Customers Through Improved Efficiency

whitepaper Burial and funeral support services are also important elements of Batesville’s service to its customers. Batesville is the leading manufacturer of metal and hardwood burial caskets and a leading provider of cremation urns and caskets.

Tags: crm, edwards, manufacturer, implement

[24 Feb 2004]

Anti-patent groups act up in Brussels

News For the benefit of onlookers and the national news media, the protestors carried out a mock funeral before tombstones reading, "maybe you'll be next! Several hundred demonstrators assembled in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels...

Tags: directive, patent, protest, eu

[28 Aug 2003]

Beethoven coming out of your PC? - don't panic

Comment Suggestion for Mr B Gates: Could the blue screen of death be replaced by the stately sounds of the Funeral March? If your computer suddenly starts playing Beethoven at you, don't worry: it just means that it's on the verge of a breakdown.silicon...

[19 Apr 2002]

Working Title buys boo.com film rights

Working Title buys boo.com film rights

News Working Title, which produced a string of hits such as Bridget Jones's Diary and Four Weddings and a Funeral, has bought the rights to the story of the rise and spectacular fall of internet retailer boo.com.boo.com, set up by youthful...

[20 Dec 2001]

Blair gives techie-spice a job he really, really wants

Comment Politics runs in the family, Alexander's elder sister, Wendy, is Scotland's enterprise minister and their father, the Rev Douglas Alexander, was a friend of Scotland's first minister, Donald Dewar, and conducted his funeral service last year.

[12 Jun 2001]

Out of tune

Comment But we couldn't top the hospital casualty unit which wisely piped Chopin's 'Funeral March' down the wire to anyone on hold. Even more violent feelings are invoked when the hold music has clearly been composed by a five year-old on a cheap Casio...

[03 May 2001]

Music drives call centre customers to distraction

Music drives call centre customers to distraction

News For example it claims a hospital casualty unit was playing the funeral march by Chopin, a mail order firm playing hanging on the telephone by Blondie, and a clothing firm played Fat-bottomed girls by Queen.

[02 May 2001]

German bank merger threatens future of IT departments

News The traders have been singing Beethoven's funeral march all day. Only one IT department will survive the planned merger of German banks, Deutsche and Dresdner, Silicon.com has learnt. The banks have a strong overlap in their core business and plan...

[09 Mar 2000]

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