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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up We've all made embarrassing mobile phone blunders as part of our busy modern lives. We've all done something with a mobile that has led to fingers pointed in mirth and mockery: a few years ago the Round-Up even had one of those Bluetooth... [27 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Wheezing. Coughing and spluttering. Unable to complete basic tasks without falling over. Due for a serious upgrade or a one-way trip to the skip around the back of the office. No, the Round-Up is not referring to that dodgy email server... [20 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up Warning to iPhone users: you may find the contents of this first part of the Round-Up upsetting. If you are of a nervous disposition skip to the second part of the Round-Up. Thank you. For the rest of you, here's what's been putting the... [13 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy of social networks; open... [11 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have in common? Answer: A shared love of getting a bit on the side. No, not that kind of 'bit on the side'. Well, maybe they do, but it's not what the Round-Up had in mind. [06 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up It's almost that time of year when nameless horrors not of this world crawl shrieking into the light, creating terror and provoking instant madness in all that see their horrible, bloated faces. No, the Round-Up doesn't mean consultants... [30 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.10.09
Round-Up We British love our broadband. We're compelled to hug it, to adore it, to nuzzle it lovingly. It is our North, our South, our East and West; our working week and our Sunday rest. It completes us. Broadband speed is now the number one... [23 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up How many times have you heard a tale of woe that features 1) an incriminating photo from an office party and/or 2) a comment on the skills of a co-worker along the lines of "witless, talentless buffoon of a man" and 3) ends with a shake... [16 Oct 2009]
Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
White Paper A new survey of 526 managers and professionals by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc.in partnership with Oracle Corporation, finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem, with at least three out... [15 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.10.09
Round-Up How often have you had the following conversations with your significant other? I've just been speaking to Tim, he's madly in love. Really? I didn't hear the phone ring. No, it was through instant messenger. [09 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News It seems to be feeling the benefit: on Wednesday Sainsbury's announced total sales in the first half of the year, excluding fuel, were up 7.1 per cent over the corresponding period in 2008 and its weekly transactions now... [09 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.10.09
Round-Up Over the years, the internet has been blamed for many of the world's ills. Sometimes fairly, though often not. The internet is corrupting the nation's youth! The internet is giving us terrible piles! The internet has led to a massive... [02 Oct 2009]
Burgmann Industries GmbH & Co. KG Cuts Processing Times by 50% With Performance Management Solution
White Paper The challenge was to enable centralized evaluation of master data from approximately 50 company subsidiaries, as well as the ability to re-assign data within the newly developed information system and provide the agility required to... [02 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Every once in a while an application comes along that defines a platform. For the Apple II it was the early spreadsheet VisiCalc. For the IBM PC it was another spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3. Later, sales of the Macintosh surged on the back of... [25 Sep 2009]
AmBev Bottles Up Demand Planning With SAS: Solution Offers 50 Percent Improvement in Production Turnover Rates
White Paper AmBev deployed SAS Demand Intelligence that combines data from all demand and replenishment planning processes and generates weekly forecasts for setting sales goals, production levels and distribution plans. [19 Sep 2009]
