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Dell commits to green dream

News Environmental group Greenpeace has said manufacturers should look to use more durable materials, in products that could be upgraded, and sell services to support and upgrade existing technologies. Dell has committed to improving the energy...

Tags: laptop, pc, dell, green

[16 May 2008]

View the World From Your Customer's Shoes

whitepaper This not only applies to prospects but also applies to existing customers when one is trying to "Up-sell" or cross-sell new products and services to them. Customers act in their own interests, not others.

Tags: business management

[16 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 9: The Defining Element of SOA - A Different Look at Governance

whitepaper Many of the people talking in this vein are doing so because they want to sell one something. One has probably been hearing a lot about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM and others in the IT industry: about its inevitability as an...

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[16 May 2008]

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News Combining those pieces of corporate software with a large consulting arm would be a head-on attack on IBM Global Services' ability to sell consulting services around packages such as the Tivoli management software.

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Prepare to Sell a Business

whitepaper Small companies that are confronted with the possibility of a merger or acquisition may not have the luxury of an investment banker at their disposal. As a result, a small company's controller may need to wear many hats during this complicated...

Tags: business management

[13 May 2008]

Sell Your Clients on Integrated Accounting Software

whitepaper Financial management and accounting are critical to the success of one's clients' business. Yet for many small business owners, limited finances and limited number of employees mean that owners must manage most of the day-to-day tasks of running...

Tags: accounting applications

[13 May 2008]

PCI Data Security Standard: The Risk Mitigation Challenges of the "12 Commandments"

whitepaper The stakes are high for organizations that rely on heavy use of credit card processing to sell products and services, especially on the Internet. Payment Card Industry's (PCI) is designed to safeguard credit card data from the time it is received...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

How To Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation

whitepaper In other words, you have to be able to "sell" your ideas in order to make changes in your favor and, in a win-win situation, provide the other side with a fair deal. In order to be successful, you must master the persuasion process, which will...

Tags: outsourcing, persuasion, deal, actions

[13 May 2008]

Recruiting Specialists: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions

whitepaper The job posting needs to sell to potential employees one's group, one's mission, and the key function that the job plays in the company's success. As a hiring manager, one may have recently been given the okay to hire new people for the team.

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[12 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn - and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Vodafone plugs iPhone gaps

News Mobile operator Vodafone has struck a deal with Apple to sell its iPhone smart phone in 10 markets around the world. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South...

Tags: italy, vodafone, iphone

[06 May 2008]

iPhone out of stock after £100 price cut

News The mobile operator, which won the race to sell Apple's iPhone in Blighty, said it does still have stock of both iPhones in some of its retail stores, though it added availability of the 8GB device is "limited".

Tags: carphone warehouse, o2, iphone

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Burger King

whitepaper Equity Marketing, promotions agency for Burger King, approached Microsoft to produce three Burger King-branded Xbox games to sell exclusively at company locations in North America for only $3.99 each - a fraction of the typical cost of a retail...

Tags: software engineering

[02 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Except the PC manufacturers who sell the machine with one OS and have to support and provide drivers for a different OS. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive

News Other computer makers tell silicon.com sister site CNET News.com they are still exploring what to do but also want to sell XP beyond 30 June. Facing a 30 June deadline to stop selling PCs with Windows XP, the world's largest computer makers are...

Tags: xp, vista, hp, dell

[28 Apr 2008]

Security breaches down - but at what price?

News Survey sponsors claim it is independent, yet it is financed by major IT and security vendors such as Symantec and HP, who sell software to the security market. The latest Information Security Breaches Survey, published yesterday to coincide with...

Tags: breach, data

[23 Apr 2008]

Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?

News to sell. In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! takeover bid, the software maker has set a Saturday deadline for Yahoo! to come to the bargaining table or else face a proxy fight. Colouring the state of things will be profits reports from both...

Tags: microsoft, aol, time warner, yahoo

[22 Apr 2008]

Google reports sterling quarter

News get a better price for its company if it does decide to sell to Microsoft. Google's hard-hit shares surged 18 per cent above $500 - a level last seen in February - as the company showed signs of better cost control and earned more revenue abroad...

Tags: profits, google

[18 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! ad-share gaining ground on Google?

News is conducting a two-week test of whether to use Google's system to sell web-search ads instead of its own. New industry data out this week shows Yahoo! may have started gaining share in the web-search ad market against Google, even as Google's...

Tags: ad, yahoo, google

[17 Apr 2008]

Online Liquidator Launches a New Auction Site in 28 Days

whitepaper More importantly, the company is rapidly reaching a point at which Bargainland will be able to scale out the site at will, as required to support strong demand from dozens of other large eBay sellers that also want to sell on Bidtopia.com.

Tags: programming languages, auction, ebay, sellers

[14 Apr 2008]

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