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Consumers Looking at iPad More than Kindle, Says Survey

March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

While the iPads features extend beyond e-reading, when consumers were asked which e-reader they planned to purchase in the next three months, more named the iPad than the Kindle, according to a comScore survey. Also considering a purchase were equal numbers of iPhone and non-Phone owners.
– A new survey of consumer sentiment toward the Apple iPad hints that Amazon.com may be right to worry for its Kindle sales.

Among the 2,176 Internet users surveyed in a March 22 report from
comScore, 6 percent already owned an Amazon Kindle, 4 percent had a
Sony Reader, 2 percent a Barnes …

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series Could Draw Consumers, Says Analyst

March 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft could attract consumers to its Windows Phone 7 Series, once the new smartphone operating system is released later in 2010, according to Jefferies Co. analyst Katherine Egbert. In her March 9 research note, Egbert suggests that devices running Windows Phone 7 Series could appear on the market as early as 2010, and that Microsofts decision to restrict its partners ability to customize the operating system, and thus present a consistent user experience, will also help it gain mobile users.
– Microsoft could renew its presence in the mobile consumer market with the
release of Windows Phone 7 Series devices later in 2010, according to a March 9
research note from Jefferies amp; Co. analyst Katherine Egbert.

Egbert apparently met with Mindy Mount, CFO of Microsofts Electronic and
E…

CRM online for professional services companies. Posted By : JamesWong

March 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Maintaining healthy relationship with customers is primary need of each and every business. All businesses are dependent on consumers, so they make each and every effort to attract customers attention and increase their number.

Apple Tunes iPad Tablet Apps to Make Consumers Say iWant

January 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple’s iBookstore joins the App Store and iTunes Store to provide applications and content for the iPad. The iWork applications Numbers, Pages and Keynote further help to differentiate the Apple iPad from Amazon Kindle and other book reader devices. Apple CEO Steve Jobs claims that between Apple iTunes, App Store and now iBookstore, 125 million credit cards are enabled for one-click shopping on Apple devices, a big motivator for application development in the Apple world. Heres a look at some of the applications as shown during the iPad launch event on Jan. 27, 2010.
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Online Consumers Are Savvy Shoppers, IBM Survey Finds

January 12th, 2010 | No Comments

IBM launches a Center of Competency (CoC) for retail to help cost-conscious businesses better tailor their online offerings through self-service reporting and faster access to their store performance.
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A global survey conducted by IBM of more than 32,000
consumers found technology is giving shoppers a new source of power — pushing
retailers to engage them more directly via increased use of personalized
promotions and offerings. The study also revealed that while shoppers are
s…

Futuristic Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built, Consumers Interact with Their PCs and Personal Devices

December 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 2, 2009 – Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or “single-chip cloud computer,” that rethinks many of the approaches used in today’s designs for laptops, PCs and servers.

Opera CEO: Browser Ballot Is Good for Consumers

October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

In an interview with eWEEK, Jon Tetzchner, CEO of Opera, which brought an antitrust case against Microsoft in European Union courts, talks about some of the latest developments in the case.
– LONDON Jon Tetzchner has led
Opera in many battles. Currently, the CEO of
Opera Software is leading the company’s fight in the European Commission
antitrust courts against Microsoft, claiming the software giant illegally bundles
its Internet Explorer browser with the Windows operating system. Th…

Nokia Tightens Ovi Store for Developers, Consumers

October 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Nokia acknowledges that its Ovi Store application marketplace could use a lot of work, but the company also says the platform has moved quickly in the five months it has been in existence.
– LONDON — Nokia acknowledges that its Ovi Store application
marketplace could use a lot of work, but the company also says the
platform has moved quickly in the five months it has been in existence.
Aapo Bovellan, director of developer platform marketing at Nokia,
said he is aware of the various…

Consumers Love the iPhone, but Not ATandT, Says Report

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

The Apple iPhone ranked highest in customer satisfaction in a new CFI Group report, but AT T received no such love. CFI found that customers who switch carriers for a device are more likely to be unsatisfied with their service, and AT T customers without iPhones like the carrier more.
– Customer satisfaction with smartphones and with the mobile carriers that
support them are very separate sentiments, concludes a Sept. 30 study from CFI
Group. Nowhere was the discrepancy found to be greater than between the iPhone
and its exclusive operator, AT amp;T.
In ranking customer sati…

10 Ways Consumers, Companies Can Prepare for iPhone Ubiquity

September 28th, 2009 | No Comments

NEWS ANALYSIS: There is a good chance that the iPhone won’t be trapped on AT T’s network much longer in the United States. So, as we all get ready for that release, both consumers and companies should start preparing now for the day when more than one carrier offers Apples iPhone.
– iPhone exclusivity could soon be a thing of
the past.
France’s Orange telecom announced on Monday that it will be
bringing the iPhone to U.K. shores once Telefonica’s O2 exclusivity deal with
Apple and the iPhone expires. For the first time in Great Britain,
those looking to buy the iPhone wil…

UK Business Credit Availability Is Hitting Consumers Too

August 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Nine-year lending low forces businesses to cut investment The Bank of England’s (BoE) quarterly review of lending trends found that many firms still experiencing the effects of the credit crunch, with business lending suffering its biggest drop in nine years. Thinking Money highlights that net lending to private non-financial corporations also fell by 5.4 billion [...]

10 Ways Open Source Can Save Your Company

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

NEWS ANALYSIS: Open-source software is coming to the enterprise in a big way. Is it time for companies to start considering it? What does this mean for Microsoft Windows?
– Open source. It’s the fruit
of much labor by many people. It follows the tech world’s latest trend of
wanting everything and anything to be quot;open. quot; It could also be a boon
for the enterprise.

Open source, by its very nature, makes a program’s code available to companies,
consumers, …