Monday, February 09, 2004

Marketing Wisdom For 2004 - From MarketingSherpa Free PDF from MarketingSherpa containing  99 real-life stories and tips from marketing, advertising, and PR pros who reveal what they learned in 2003. 4:04:00 PM    comment []

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Free Microsoft Windows XP 64bit 1 Year Trial A 360 day trial of Windows XP 64Bit is now available for a download from the Microsoft website. You will need to register first, a CD can also be ordered for those on slow connections (shipping charges may apply). Please note, you will need a PC running a 64 Bit processor such an AMD Opteron or Athlon 64 in order to run this version of Windows XP. [Lockergnome's Technology News] 3:29:05 PM    comment []

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Free Marketing Wisdom eBook MarketingSherpa.com has a free PDF ebook for downloading called Marketing Wisdom for 2004: 99 Marketers Share Real-Life Tips. No registration or anything. Just download it. The ebook contains 89 real-life stories and tips from marketing, advertising, and PR pros who reveal what they learned in 2003. [Lockergnome's Technology News] 3:22:49 PM    comment []

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MAID technology Challenges Tape - Infoworld Staff Although tape has reigned supreme in storage archiving for some time, the exaggerated reports of tape’s death keep on coming. The latest affront to the ageless media comes from technologies designed to power down disk drives when not in use. [InfoWorld: Storage] 3:06:23 PM    comment []

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Macromedia Updates Web Conferencing Product The applications maker adds new collaboration features to its Breeze software, as the Web conferencing market gains renewed attention. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 12:28:32 PM    comment []

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EMC Upgrade Boosts Storage Hardware The company rolls out new storage systems with increased capacity and faster data access, along with better network connections. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 11:52:08 AM    comment []

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Wireless Finds a Welcome in Hospitality (BusinessWeek Online) BusinessWeek Online - It's not quite Star Trek, where food can be made to materialize just by talking into a machine. But restaurant guests at a new Holiday Inn in Duluth, Ga., can now place their meal orders electronically. The so-called Emenu -- really a tablet PC connected wirelessly to a computer in the hotel -- provides photos and nutritional info on menu items. Customers can tally the calories, carbs, and price of their meals before they order, then zap the request to the kitchen. The Emenu also translates that data into Spanish and into euros.   [Yahoo! News - Technology] 8:27:42 AM    comment []

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Going Mobile on a PC Is Risky Business (Reuters) Reuters - In any local coffee house, airport lounge or hotel lobby, technophiles and technophobes alike can be found hunched over their notebook computers. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 8:26:04 AM    comment []

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Chile IT's still awaiting takeoff "In Chile, we have great potential, even though, in some ways, we have not exploited it. Chile's digital economy has the capability to compete on an equal basis with nations outside Latin America that are on a technological level similar to ours, such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel and Greece." [CNET News.com - Front Door] 8:22:32 AM    comment []

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HyperTransport group ups data transfer speeds A new version of the HyperTransport specification comes out Monday that will, ideally, boost performance in PCs and communications equipment over the next year. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 8:18:28 AM    comment []

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Has telecom's 'next big thing' arrived? Hyped for years, technology known as multiprotocol label switching is finally hitting the mainstream amid growing demand for services that marry voice, video and data on a single network. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 8:16:25 AM    comment []

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