http://www.silicon.com Results for business en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39674579,00.htm Companies like Cisco and Nokia are not just shifting R&D to India, they are also shifting R&D management to India and that is the game-changer, says Navi Radjou, executive director of the Centre for India & Global Business at the Judge Business... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60842993p,00.htm Things-4-You- a thriving online business, which had a poor record in converting online visitors into buying customers. With geolocation technology, you can know a web user's real world whereabouts. This report examines the benefits from the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:15:06 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39671619,00.htm More than half of the 157 marketing managers surveyed by the DMA Email Marketing Council said their business did not restrict the number of messages that could be sent to an email account in a given period. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:09:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39665926,00.htm Only a fifth (21 per cent) of respondents to the 2009 survey said their business has IT positions it is unable to fill, compared to 40 per cent last year. The importance of having both business and technical skills to succeeding in IT continues to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:03:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39668399,00.htm That's according to customers attending the SAP UK and Ireland SAP user group conference in Manchester this week when asked what the business software company could improve on. SAP needs to better communicate with customers about the products in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:34:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39668397,00.htm The Payment Card Industries Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), which any business taking credit or debit card payments should adhere to, recommends "auditing all privileged user activity" as well as avoiding the use of vendor-supplied defaults for... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/unified-communications/how-the-cloud-is-swallowing-your-comms-39668400.htm Unified communications implementations bring together a variety of digital communication tools to make it easier for users to collaborate and improve business processes. Unified communications is migrating to the cloud, new research has found. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:52:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39668394,00.htm Information loss matters for one of two reasons: if information is lost, either it's going to prevent the business from making money, or it's going to cost the business money to deal with the impact. Instead it's what on it that matters: from a... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:25:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39661655,00.htm Plumpton decided the best approach was to end its existing outsourcing deals, bring infrastructure management and business analysis roles back in house and to sign a deal with a single outsourcer Atos Origin to handle the rest. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms/0,39024659,39665923,00.htm Add to this the opportunity for duct and floor space rentals, and a plethora of new business opportunities, and the future doesn't appear so glum! Compiled at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi network in a... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60535077p,00.htm Business has grown increasingly independent upon web applications and they are becoming more difficult to secure. This paper explains what you can do to protect your organization and improve Web security. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:33:57 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39661659,00.htm One quarter of business applications will be created by citizen developers by 2014, according to analyst Gartner. Whether these predictions turn out to be true or not, there is no doubt the barriers to individual developers working in the business... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39658905,00.htm How does a business pay less for its IT services when it's already getting them at rock bottom prices? Under the 10-year deal, CSC's Prism Alliance, which also includes BT and Steria, is responsible for running RMG's datacentres, data networks... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:29:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39658903,00.htm Are smartbooks a business or consumer proposition? This week saw chipmaker Qualcomm taking the wraps off a range of hardware powered by its Snapdragon platform. Among the devices on show was this Quanta smartbook prototype (pictured above and below... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:08:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39656455,00.htm Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will bring the functionality of consumer technologies such as Facebook and Twitter to the business world. Salesforce Chatter, pencilled in for a launch in the second quarter of 2010, allows... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:20:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39646338,00.htm Companies looking for potential suppliers are still going to choose someone they trust to run their business and not someone just because they have some whizz bang piece of technology," he said. The result is that some areas of the consultation... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:07:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39890503,00.htm Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate flavour to a technology that has largely been for personal use. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:57:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/webservices/0,39024657,39653040,00.htm For decades IT has been a very capital-intensive area of the business. Smart CIOs will also look at how these payment models affect operational performance in your organisation and properly prepare the business for the true costs. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39655944,00.htm The E72, pictured above, is the latest addition to Nokia's business-focused Eseries line-up. Not every smartphone has a touchscreen - as Nokia's latest device shows. The device, launched today, will initially only be available through Vodafone in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:51:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60823449p,00.htm Getting the balance right between meeting the inbound call expectations of busy customers and optimising telecoms costs is the goal for many ICT managers. Technology now enables far more powerful and flexible contact centre platforms to be created... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:20:39 +0000