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Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment Of course many companies - especially established brands in the retail and leisure space - are tweeting: from Starbucks to Sainsbury's, Harrods to Habitat. As the hype around microblogging builds, should your business... [16 Nov 2009]
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Creates Highly Available and Easily Managed IT Foundation
White Paper Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.is one of the world's leading hotel and leisure companies with approximately 850 properties in more than 95 countries. The challenge was to create an IT infrastructure with the... [30 Oct 2009]
After Optimizing, GPSworld.com Grew Google AdSense Revenue 100 Percent
White Paper GPSworld.com is a publication web site of Questex Media Group, a global business-to-business integrated media provider serving a variety of industries - technology, beauty, travel, hospitality, leisure, home... [22 Jun 2009]
Swiss Safety Council Expects 220 Percent Return on Communications Investment
White Paper The Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (bfu) works to improve safety in the fields of road traffic, leisure, and sport. Most of its 130 employees work in Berne, with the remainder in nine regional offices. [30 May 2009]
With ZXTM, Bourne Leisure Enjoys No Downtime During Holidays
White Paper Bourne Leisure had a limited web farm hosted in-house with most of their servers being hosted with third parties. To accelerate the online applications of Bourne Leisure's multiple websites, they chose... [30 Apr 2009]
D-Link Wi-Fi Helps Attract Guests to Exclusive Waterfront Resort
White Paper To attract business and leisure travelers as well as business groups, the hotel's general managers knew it was vital to offer Internet access. For an exclusive waterfront resort near Houston, delivering superior service... [03 Apr 2009]
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Comment First, bricks and mortar shopping is a large leisure activity, so malls are a draw as much for entertainment as for spending. Last year I wrote a column saying that for some retailers international expansion is a welcome... [24 Mar 2009]
Online Travel Company Empowers Remote Workers With Messaging Solution
White Paper Expedia is the world's leading online travel company, providing business and leisure travelers with tools and information to easily research, plan, book, and experience travel. Based in Bellevue, Washington, Expedia... [18 Mar 2009]
37 million Brit shoppers doing it online by 2014
News Books, DVDs and leisure travel are the most common online purchases in the UK, the report reveals. Brits' love affair with online shopping is set to continue despite the economic gloom. The UK's ecommerce market is the... [02 Mar 2009]
Location, Location
White Paper Along with GPS devices for leisure applications, in-car navigation and the emergence of mobile phones and handheld devices that offer GPS services, they are being exposed to a wealth of location-based information. [01 Mar 2009]
Winter Olympics tech on track for gold
News Atos Origin, the company overseeing the installation of the Games' IT, says that systems are in place and are being put through 100,000 hours of testing.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and... [13 Feb 2009]
Design, Construction, and Testing of a Novel Robotic Workstation
White Paper These configurations allow users to define their physical workspace as well as to situate computer and analogue tools precisely to support a broad range of work-and-leisure computing activities. This paper describes the... [05 Feb 2009]
IT rollover as National Lottery gets touchscreen revamp
News The terminals were offline for most of Sunday as part of a planned upgrade to implement a gaming system that includes a new graphical user interface and touchscreen technology.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [02 Feb 2009]
London: Britain's card fraud capital
News According to a survey by insurance company CPP that quizzed 1,600 individuals, one quarter said they had suffered from some sort of card scam in 2008.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and... [29 Jan 2009]
Ramblers get better navigation
News According to Cotswold online marketing manager Michael Austin, the combination of free Google Analytics and a bespoke analysis package from the retailer's web development agency was no longer sophisticated enough to produce the depth of... [28 Jan 2009]
