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Take stock for tough times
Comment Complex ranges confuse customers and typically lead to higher markdown levels. History suggests those retailers that continue to focus on innovation now will emerge as winners, says Ged Keogh-Peters. For retailers, now is the time to be looking at... [24 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! profits dip - yet claims 'strong' Q2
News chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen said: "Despite a difficult economic environment, we posted solid results in line with the ranges we indicated in April.Our diverse advertiser base and compelling value proposition for our customers were key... [23 Jul 2008]
Comparative Performance Analysis of RDMA-Enhanced Ethernet
White Paper Today, the span of interconnect options for a cluster typically ranges from local-area networks such as Gigabit Ethernet to system-area networks such as InfiniBand. Since the advent of high-performance distributed computing, system designers and... [10 Jul 2008]
Analytic Modeling of Load Balancing Policies for Tasks With Heavy-Tailed Distributions
White Paper This analysis indicates that a size-based policy that reserves specific servers for specific ranges of incoming task sizes greatly outperforms a policy that simply assigns an in-coming task to a randomly selected host. [10 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment It is a pro-user move because it means we can actually run what we want and use software that ranges from free right up to a few hundred dollars. Written on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted Express and dispatched via my home LAN later the... [02 Jul 2008]
Climatologist Douglas Hardy Travels to Glaciers in the Highest Places on Earth, Where His Dell Latitude ATG Works Every Time
White Paper The primary goal of the expeditions is to glaciers at 19,000 feet and higher on mountains in tropical ranges expose equipment to harsh working conditions that include physical shocks, vibration, dust, moisture, extreme temperatures, and low... [02 Jul 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News Online shopping is continuing to grow steadily across many ranges in May but the lack of a home nations team in the Euro 2008 football championship means sales of electrical goods and alcohol has fallen by around 10 per cent in the UK. [20 Jun 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News He said: "It ranges from individual hackers right through to state sponsored issues. Security minister Lord West told the House of Lords that the UK continues to be targeted by a "large number of attacks" and that the government is "taking action... [16 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Here is Europe and Africa in 2099 where the temperature increase ranges from about three degrees Celsius up to about 12 degrees. Here is the Beijing National Stadium - also known as the 'Bird's Nest'. [30 May 2008]
Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo Here is Europe and Africa in 2099 where the temperature increase ranges from about three degrees Celsius up to about 12 degrees. Google Earth is painting in stark colours how climate change will affect the planet and its people over the next century. [22 May 2008]
Mothercare web sales boom
News Much of this growth was down to big a increase in the ranges available. Mothercare is also expanding the clothing ranges and is considering ways of extending the Direct business into international markets. [22 May 2008]
TJ Hughes buys into email to slash admin costs
News The technology provides managers at the retailer's 49 stores around the country with a central digital repository where they can pick up information about fast-selling ranges or merchandising changes on a daily basis. [14 May 2008]
A New and Flexible Approach to Security Management Using a Combination of People, Processes and Technology
White Paper Internal threats are also an issue as authorized account holders (e.g.employees, customers, partners, and suppliers) engage in behavior that ranges from mischievous to malicious. Businesses today don't operate in a "One-size-fits-all" world. [01 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment This ranges from individuals managing banks accounts online and tracking the progress of goods ordered online, to whole groups of businesses sharing centralised supply-chain management systems. But actually measuring how distributed a business is... [24 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: i'm Campaign
White Paper These issues don't care about salary ranges, job titles, stock portfolios, or rush hour traffic. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their... [16 Apr 2008]
