Archive for June, 2008

Open-source CRM delivers more control, less cost

Monday, June 30th, 2008

A good CRM package does you no good if employees aren't willing to use it. Case in point: IMA Financial Group, a medium-sized financial services company based in Wichita, Kansas. IMA had installed a commercial customer relationship management system that "was flexible and configurable and attractive on the front end," ...

Netflix Changes Its Mind, Will Keep Profiles Feature

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Change writes "I too was disappointed at Netflix's decision decision to remove the Profiles feature, and let them know via email and telephone. I was surprised to find the following email in my inbox today: 'You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls ...

Algorithm Names Powell ‘Ideal’ Vice President Candidate

Monday, June 30th, 2008

CWmike writes "Turns out the ideal vice presidential candidate for Sen. John McCain is the same person as the ideal vice presidential candidate for Sen. Barack Obama, according to a sophisticated online survey based on technology developed at MIT. Mr. Ideal? Colin Powell, a former U.S. Army general and former ...

Microsoft Releases Pre-2007 Binary File Format Specs

Monday, June 30th, 2008

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has released the specifications for the binary file formats used by pre-2007 Microsoft Office applications. They're accurate this time! Honest! While the documents are enormous (Word alone requires 533 pages; Excel runs over 1000 plus another 850 pages for the Office 2007 binary format), they ...

What Do You Want On Future Browsers?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Coach Wei writes "An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas, such as security, Comet, multimedia, CSS, interactivity, and performance. The ...

LugRadio Decides To Call It Quits

Monday, June 30th, 2008

[vmlinuz] writes "After four years, 100+ shows and over 2 million downloads, the guys behind LugRadio, the irreverent Open Source podcast from England have decided to call it a day, with the desire to 'go out on a high.' The last ever show will be recorded at LugRadio Live UK ...

Google Apps Hacks

Monday, June 30th, 2008

stoolpigeon writes "It seems that it wasn't long ago that Google was just a search company. The number of on-line products that fly under the Google moniker, today, is impressive. Google has moved well beyond its office-suite-like applications and excelled with everything from mapping to blogging to 3-D drawing. Google ...

LugRadio Decides To Call It Quits

Monday, June 30th, 2008

[vmlinuz] writes "After four years, 100+ shows and over 2 million downloads, the guys behind LugRadio, the irreverent Open Source podcast from England have decided to call it a day, with the desire to 'go out on a high.' The last ever show will be recorded at LugRadio Live UK ...

OOXML projects bolster Microsoft’s interoperability efforts

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, including the design of a new translator for exchanging OOXML (Office Open XML) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) documents.

Cognos business intelligence software ported to System z

Monday, June 30th, 2008

IBM's Cognos 8 business intelligence software is now generally available for System z mainframes running Linux, the company announced Monday.