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Partnership Working Pays Off in Getting U.K. Hospitality Trading Online

whitepaper The United Kingdom hospitality and licensed trade industries are enthusiastically embracing online ordering. As a result, the leading Web site operator for the trade, barbox, is netting sales of around £320 million (U.S.million) a year since it...

Tags: customer support services

[12 May 2008]

Italian Institute for Foreign Trade Improves Business Processes With Integrated Financial Infrastructure

whitepaper The Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE) is a public sector organization responsible for developing, facilitating, and promoting Italy's international economic and commercial ties - with a special focus on the needs of smaller enterprises and...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Architectural Trade-Offs for Collaboration Services Supporting Contextual Collaboration

whitepaper Contextual collaboration services seamlessly integrate existing groupware technologies into a single consistent interaction model. This model is usually implemented by a contextual collaboration infrastructure that needs to efficiently cope with...

Tags: collaborative web

[11 May 2008]

Application Architecture Essentials, Part 2: Getting Started With Design Patterns

whitepaper In this paper, one finds out how to identify recurring patterns in the designs and to document their characteristics, advantages, and trade-offs. Over time, the patterns of the domain become a language in which to communicate about design trade-offs.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

The Changing Face of Online Fraud

whitepaper The Federal Trade Commission as recently as December 2006 published a "State of spam" report, citing research indicating spam had leveled off or even dropped during the previous year. Not that long ago some officials were declaring the war against...

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

Develop a Marketing Communications Plan

whitepaper Marketing communications (marcom) include customer-facing materials such as brochures, press releases, Web sites, and trade show presentations. The proximity of marcom planning to the customer makes it one of the most important activities that a...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information

whitepaper The Federal Trade Commission received more than 685,000 complaints of fraud and identity theft in 2005, totaling more than $680 million in stolen assets. Fraud and identity theft are on the rise. The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data...

Tags: security standards

[10 May 2008]

Premise IP-PBX Checklist

whitepaper With this information, you can lay out your business requirements up front, thoroughly assess trade-offs, and prepare for future possibilities. Everything you'll need to know before talking with a premise-based PBX provider.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, provider, locations, pbx

[10 May 2008]

Microsoft making a move on Facebook?

News Shares of Microsoft were up 5 cents at $29.75 in afternoon Nasdaq trade. Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after the software giant's failed takeover attempt of Yahoo! the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

Tags: facebook, yahoo, microsoft

[08 May 2008]

Vodafone plugs iPhone gaps

News Speaking at this year's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona in February, CEO of Vodafone Arun Sarin made reference to the impact of the iPhone on the mobile phone market: "Apple has raised the bar to the iPhone and we all now know how...

Tags: italy, vodafone, iphone

[06 May 2008]

What Every Retail CIO Needs to Know About PCI Compliance and Secure Seamless Mobility

whitepaper Fortunately, retailers are not forced into a trade-off between the efficiency of wireless technology and the enhanced security of wired networks. Concerns about security have prevented retailers from realizing the full return on their investments...

Tags: network security

[06 May 2008]

Are you prepared to meet the January 2009 California Pedigree Law?

whitepaper Vendors, trade partners and the industry offer conflicting information -- and California's new drug tracking requirements only add to the confusion; they're clear about what needs to be done, but not how.

Tags: legal

[03 May 2008]

Credit crunch failing to hold tech back

News More than half (53 per cent) of SMEs surveyed by tech trade body Intellect, forecast double-digit growth this year. Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008.

Tags: growth, globalisation, intellect, credit crunch

[02 May 2008]

Multiple network access becoming mobile norm

News Speaking to silicon.com earlier this year, wi-fi trade association The Wi-fi Alliance said wi-fi is increasingly being added to mobiles, as having wireless and cellular radios offers advantages for both users and operators.

Tags: networks, mobile, wi-fi

[02 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News IBM is also extending - to a further 27 countries - a programme begun in seven countries last year that lets companies earn and trade certificates awarded for verified energy savings. IBM has launched tools to reduce computer energy consumption as...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment Today, I look at my slide deck from Milan and see that we have entire internet relay chat networks controlled by the criminal underground economy, that cyber crime could be almost as big as the value of the global illegal drug trade - no one...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Butler Group Technical Audit: Sterling Commerce Managed Services

whitepaper Long considered as only appropriate for large organizations, such solutions are providing organizations of all sizes the ability to trade and collaborate electronically via various methods. Read Butler Group's report about Business-to-Business (B2B...

Tags: back-office, commerce, managed, trading

[28 Apr 2008]

Hacking 'goodies' get industry body

News Member companies are part of the new Crest trade body, which will govern the Crest professional body that provides for individuals who are not employed by the member companies, in areas such as exams.

Tags: body, industry, hacking

[25 Apr 2008]

Ballmer on Yahoo!: Microsoft prepared to walk away

News Shares of Microsoft were up 98 cents, or 3.24 per cent, to $31.23 in afternoon Nasdaq trade. Microsoft is prepared to walk away from its $43.6bn bid for Yahoo! if the two sides can't agree on a price, chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.

Tags: steve ballmer, microsoft, yahoo, google

[24 Apr 2008]

Argentinean Exchange First to Trade Financial Derivatives Thanks to New Server Platform

whitepaper ROFEX became the first company in Argentina to trade financial derivatives after upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server System, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and deploying Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.

Tags: customer support services

[24 Apr 2008]

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