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RSS hertzIn brief: Hertz drives the future of call centres
News Hertz's virtual call centre for Europe went live this week. The worldwide car rental company has been migrating its European reservation call centres to a greenfield site in Dublin, Ireland, since October last year. [14 Aug 1998]
Customer Satisfaction Soars when Car Rental Company Implements an Instant Return WLAN
White Paper Hertz, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company, is the largest car rental company in the world, providing service for 80 years. The Hertz Corporation had a problem. Hertz... [25 Feb 2004]
Conventional and Low Cost RFID: The Smart Label Revolution
White Paper For example, one type of REMOSO chipless RFID tag works at only a few hertz (modulated on 2.45 GHz). Others work at a few hundred Hertz. Nowadays Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a term used for... [10 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check
Comment In contrast, a hi-fi music system typically spans 18 to 20,000 hertz with a dynamic rage of around 100 decibels. Roughly speaking telcos deliver a bandwidth of 300 to 3,400 hertz and a limited dynamic... [26 Mar 2007]
UPS Technologies: Take Your Pick - What is a UPS?
White Paper Electricity suppliers distribute what is known as alternating current (AC), at a voltage of 230 volts and a frequency of 50 Hertz. The only way of storing electricity, in a battery for example, is to convert the... [25 Feb 2004]
True On-Line versus On-Line Technology: the Truth About UPS Topologies
White Paper A total interruption service typical of normal building operation -- or a minimum of one cycle of 60 hertz power and up to 800V narrow impulses -- generally can be tolerated without damage or interference with normal... [25 Feb 2004]
Microsoft tech tapped by mobile web start-up
News ZenZui CEO Eric Hertz said: "If you try using the web on a mobile phone, you would probably agree it's, at best, a painful experience. Hertz said ZenZui does have agreements with several companies to let... [28 Mar 2007]
AT&T puts UK business up for sale
News The business includes network and service provision for some of the UK's largest firms - including Hertz, ICI and United Airlines. US telco, AT&T has put its UK business up for sale as a prelude to its $10bn joint... [25 Mar 1999]
AMD: New chips still haven't caught up with Intel
News AMD has always maintained that its processors deliver more bang per hertz than its rivals, with benchmark tests rating it approximately equivalent to a 2.2GHz Pentium 4. AMD has taken the wraps off its desktop chip built... [10 Jun 2002]
BT trumpets its progress in IT services
News BT has won around 1,000 international networking plus IT contracts in the past 15 months including deal with Hanjin Shipping in China and Hertz, which was won alongside sometime-partner HP. BT Global Services CEO Andy... [14 Sep 2006]
"Centrino, Nokia, come here this instant your dinner's ready"
Comment Today we published a story about the very real possibility that we are to see a surge in infants named after well-known tech brands. Just as children are commonly named after towns, regions, states or indeed luxury goods and football... [05 Jan 2004]
Nice computer but can it fry an egg?
News One gastronomically-minded techie has taken computing to new heights by equipping his system to cook while he works, using nothing more than the heat generated by his high-tech box of tricks. Using little more than a sheet of kitchen... [20 Sep 2002]
Boffins aim for clockless chip
News A team of researchers at Manchester University is aiming to develop a new version of the ARM chip without a "clock". The project is lead by Steve Furber, Professor of Computer Engineering at Manchester University, is to develop the Acorn... [26 Oct 2001]
Google climbs to top of UK brand pile
News Hertz Google has topped a poll of the most powerful brands in the UK, closely followed by its chief rival Microsoft at number two. The web search giant has moved up from the fifth place it occupied in the Superbrands... [25 Feb 2008]
Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth
Case Study Hertz car rental is one of those suppliers it has recently migrated to the Amex system. Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has streamlined its travel and entertainment programme through strategic alliances... [03 Oct 2007]
