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Divine tackles global content management. New features in its Content Server include localized interfaces and expanded language support. [Computerworld News] 6:55:28 PM  comment
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Q&A: Sun VP lays out company's plans for Web services, Java. Sun Microsystems' Mark Bauhaus discussed the company's latest efforts in the areas of Web services and Java and on whether Java eventually might be turned over to the open-source community. [Computerworld News] 6:42:10 PM comment
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Good Technology rolls out e-mail pager hardware. Good Technology rolled out its own e-mail pager hardware today and announced a 1,200-unit order from a Los Angeles law firm that chose Good over Blackberry based on ergonomics and cost of ownership. [Computerworld News] 6:38:03 PM comment
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In the foreword of Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?, Louis V. Gerstner Jr.'s memoir of his nine years as CEO of IBM, the author confesses that he isn't one for reading the kind of book he's written. After a twelve-hour day at work, he asks, "who would want to go home and read about someone else's career at the office?" Apparently a lot of people do, if book sales are any indication. Although he has his critics, Gerstner tells how he turned IBM from a potential dinosaur into a dancing pachyderm. 3:16:01 PM comment
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Many Western companies are considering moving back-office operations such as call centers to low-wage countries likeIndia. While this approach can result in significant savings when the project is handled right, potential pitfalls can undo the benefits. Knowledge@Wharton spoke with two executives who have undertaken such projects for their organizations to understand where the pitfalls lie and how to avoid them. 3:14:21 PM comment
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Despite its stature as a global mega-brand, with 30,000 restaurants and 46 million customers a day, McDonald[base ']s can[base ']t seem to supersize its earnings. Sales and profit growth at the pioneering global fast-food business has stalled and the company[base ']s shares are trading at seven-year lows. OnDec. 17, 2002, McDonald[base ']s announced it would record its first quarterly loss ever, following a disastrous price war withU.S.burger rivals. The question now for McDonald[base ']s is how to build on the formula that has made it king of the fast food business for more than 40 years. 3:09:51 PM comment
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Though online sales are not yet important economically, they are important to economists because they offer a rich source of economic data. It is much easier to collect online prices than offline prices, and with a little bit of ingenuity, you can even harvest data about costs and sales volume, information that is awfully hard to come by in the real world. 2:37:41 PM comment
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Leading Economic Indicators Rise 0.7%. A yardstick of U.S. economic activity rose markedly in November in a sign that the nation's financial situation is improving. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Business] 2:34:22 PM comment
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Professor Clayton Christensen at the Ford Hall Forum. Real Player required. 2:19:31 PM comment
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DIVX. Blockbuster's video rentals are way down, and use of high-speed Internet is way up. Do you think the two news items are related? It's interesting to see how storage is evolving, though. I find myself wondering why people would pay $1/GB of DVD+RW media and another $400 for the burner when they can just pay $400 for 250GB of 5400rpm external storage. That's enough storage for nearly 500 full-length movies. Four of those things stack to hold 1TB in the size of a Nintendo Gamecube. Akashic Records, here we come. Too bad all of the video screens and speaker systems on the market today still depend on wires. I would love to just buy a 1TB datacube and stick it in a closet somewhere, and never have to worry about CDs or DVDs again.
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USA Interactive, uDate.com to get hitched. The Internet company announces that it will acquire uDate for $150 million in stock, a deal that should strengthen its growing online dating business. [CNET News.com] 12:30:02 PM comment
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Marriott to add Wi-Fi in 400 hotels. Service to be available in hotel obbies, meeting, rooms, restaurants [InfoWorld: Top News] 12:29:04 PM comment
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Microsoft to bump Apple into sync-hole?. Apple would love to corner the hot market for software that syncs up PCs with cell phones and other gadgets. But then there's Microsoft--and its pesky bundling habit. [CNET News.com] 10:21:42 AM comment
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CNet. $200 new PCs are selling. A PC for the rest of the world. I would also argue that the power behind a model in this price range (on up to $400) is more than sufficient to run almost any productivity app, browse the Web, and communicate via IM/e-mail. Combined these PCs with a cheap wireless network and low cost browser-based corporate apps (CRM, etc. -- that run mostly on the desktop but connect to thin servers for data, either through Web Services or RSS) and things may start breaking loose everywhere. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 10:18:14 AM comment
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Intel invests in Wi-Fi VOIP and hotel access companies. Intel disclosed an initial investment in a Wi-Fi Internet telephony company and a second round of funding for a company that provides Wi-Fi public-access service in hotels. [Computerworld News] 10:15:44 AM comment
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New set of Web services specifications unveiled. A consortium led by IBM, Microsoft and VeriSign today released a set of specifications designed to help companies securely share information with business partners using Web services. [Computerworld News] 10:10:07 AM comment
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BEA pushes convergence for app development, integration. The middleware vendor hopes to make it easier for companies to connect applications and build more integrated business processes. [Computerworld App Development News] 10:07:56 AM comment
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