As brick and mortar and online retail channels merge, store operations executives are struggling with two key issues: visibility into incoming online demand and aligning this demand with in-store labor. To overcome these issues, early ...
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This year Packaging Digest is celebrating its 50th anniversary.Over the decades,we've seen quite a lot—new equipment,innovation in materials,bright new designs and other exciting developments. However,none of the stories we've ...
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Farewell,phone numbers.Plingm,the Swedish mobile VoIP app,takes the innovation lead on smartphone communication and introduces free phone calls for LinkedIn's 151 million users.Without a single digit,Plingm users with an iPhone can call ...
IDG News Service - Zoho continues to flesh out the feature set of its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) application, adding a new document library, advanced email filtering and location-aware mobile applications. The ...
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(Pound 6.8bn). So say financial researchers at Greencrest Capital. While this speculative estimate might be little more than a post-Christmas 'what-if', it nonetheless opens an interesting window into the fortunes of the enduringly ...
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What is ‘The Hub’? The Hub is an interactive resource center that offers multiple social media and informational opportunities for ProMat visitors. Located in the center of the ProMat 2013 show floor, The Hub features a social ...
A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time,charges the CTO of DataStax,a company that manages the open source Cassandra ...
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Oracle on Monday said it has agreed to acquire SelectMinds, a maker of "social talent sourcing software," in a bid to flesh out the capabilities it gained through this year's US$1.9 billion acquisition of Taleo. Terms of the deal, which ...
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Three federal agencies and a group of state attorneys general have filed more than 70 civil and criminal cases against defendants offering allegedly bogus business opportunities, with some of the defendants offering to help customers set up ...
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Watch out, LinkedIn. Facebook is getting in your space. The social network announced Wednesday that it's launching an app to help users find jobs. The app, as of Wednesday afternoon, included 1.7 million job listings, in areas including ...
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Intranet Connections announces the launch of their new eBook "101 Intranet Ideas" Social intranets are a vital commodity for enterprise business. Company productivity and employee performance are interlinked with staff morale, employee ...
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A consortium of UK universities will research the challenges associated with the use of IT as a utility as part of a£1.5m investment by the Research Council. The University of Southampton will establish a research network of ...
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Microsoft yesterday pitched its Outlook.com email service to users of Gmail dismayed by Google's decision to abandon a popular enterprise synchronization service next month for new customers. Last week, Google announced it would phase out ...
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Online dating site eHarmony has also been hit by the theft of millions of passwords,some of which professional networking site LinkedIn confirmed corresponded to members'accounts. The confirmation came after reports that 6.5 million ...
New trends in computing, including social media and cloud computing, are challenging traditional approaches to computer security that will force organisations to adapt – or to risk marginalisation and extinction, according to Gartner ...
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