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- What SaaS can teach us about customer service
- In the SaaS model, the power is with the customer and vendors need to take a very different approach to both sales and service, here's how to do it says Archie Black, President and CEO of SPS Commerce. Commentary--Software-as-a-Service SaaS is one of the fastest growing segments of...
- News items 2008-08-20
- American Airlines kicks off in-flight Internet service
- The world's largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can get Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami. CHICAGO--American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full...
- News items 2008-08-20
- Windows 7 wishes
- Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 2
- The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved for attendees only, but I will try to gather as much information as...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Can sites violate net neutrality?
- Can sites violate net neutrality?I would say .."not exactly"This isnt the same case of outright blocking as we all know and have come to love Comcast for doing...however this is adding a perceived "added-value" to an overpriced pipe. IF the ISP decided to tier this and add in a method...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining
- Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 1
- The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Toshiba soups up traditional DVDs
- Toshiba soups up traditional DVDsactually, you are wrong...HD dvd has the higher capacity, and better technology, like BetaMax in the past was superior to VHS but still lost the war. I would love to be able to use HD DVD rather than blue ray for data backupsThis is a first...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Sanyo Katana Eclipse - silver (Sprint)
- The Katana series of phones have changed quite a bit since the original Katana, which was nothing more than a Razr clone with its slim and wide style. Two years and a couple of Katana models later, it appears that Sanyo has decided to go in a very different design...
- Product reviews 2008-08-17
- Motorola VE20 - silver (Sprint)
- Just when you thought the Motorola Razr was dead, Moto has brought it back for another round with the Razr VE20 for Sprint. Before you start grumbling about Moto never having anything new--a sentiment we've no doubt shared--we advise you to give this Razr a chance. Sure, the design is...
- Product reviews 2008-08-17
- 2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
- Photo gallery:2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMGMercedes-Benz's smallest U.S. sedan, the C-class, continues to impress us, this time with the sport-tuned 2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG version. We previously reviewed the C300, and found that its updated electronics put to shame the tech in more expensive models from Mercedes-Benz. With the AMG version...
- Product reviews 2008-08-15
- Edirol R-09HR
- When Edirol introduced the original R-09 in 2006, it was one of the smallest, lightest, high-quality stereo audio recorders made with swappable SD flash memory. In the wake of the R-09 came many handheld audio recorders boasting slimmer designs, enhanced features, and lower prices. To keep pace, Edirol has come...
- Product reviews 2008-08-15
- 1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts
- With the increasingly common spamming as a service underground propositions relying on botnets, and services offering thousands of pre-registered accounts at popular email providers, it would be logical to consider that old school techniques consisting of compromising accounts and abusing them to send as many spam emails as possible in...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Smart WhoIs (exe)
- Lets say you're chatting with someone on IRC or you got an email from someone anonymous and you want to know the location of that person then all you have to do is get his IP, paste it in to Smart WhoIs prompt and press Enter. It will then give...
- Software downloads 2008-08-15
- Webcast: Solution Spotlight: Making the Grade with Unified Communications
- Converged IP networks are ushering in a whole new era of advanced voice and data communications. And while many of us tend to think of Unified Communications from the perspective of the boardroom, its impacts are equally important in places like the classroom. In fact, many of the...
- Webcasts 2008-08-15
- Sunvoice Complete (Marie, English) (zip)
- Everyday a friendly voice in the tram reminds us of the next station. There are some alarm clocks with voice response that tells us at the touch of a button the time. Just this is now possible with your computer and mobile phone. Modern operating systems and countless applications have...
- Software downloads 2008-08-15
- ZTE C79
- ZTE is a little known brand in the U.S., but the Chinese manufacturer is slowly but surely making its presence felt in the U.S. cell market. It kicked off its U.S. debut earlier this year with a couple of entry-level phones, such as the ZTE C88 for MetroPCS, and now...
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- Garmin Nuvi 500
- There are many uses for GPS beyond in-car navigation. After all, there are times you could use some route guidance no matter what mode of transportation. Yet, you don't see too many multiuse GPS on the market, and we're beginning to see why. A while back we took a look...
- Product reviews 2008-08-14










