Wednesday, February 23, 2011

ZenDesk: Customer service goes iPad

Start-ups offer cool tools to ease IT's pain | Google ups speed of Chrome 10

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ZenDesk: Customer service goes iPad
Customer service is hard. Good customer service is very hard. Great customer service? As rare as unicorn $#!%. Read More


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Start-ups offer cool tools to ease IT's pain
If you want to know what IT tools and technologies you'll be using in a few years, it pays to keep an eye on enterprise technology start-ups. Read More

Google ups speed of Chrome 10
Google has released the first beta of Chrome 10, touting the new version's faster JavaScript engine. Read More

Iron Mountain wins email archiving test
In the opening round of this two-part series, we tested seven leading e-mail archiving products. This time, we're applying the same test methodology to four additional products. Read More


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Maximizing UPS Availability
This white paper explains why, contrary to popular belief, modular UPS designs provide superior availability even though they typically contain more parts that could potentially fail. Read More

Will cloud backup services finally put tape backups in trash can?
While technologies exist to vastly improve backup and recovery processes, many enterprises have delayed modernizing their backup infrastructure. Now a confluence of factors - greater storage demands, the need for faster disaster recovery, and the availability of cloud-based backup services - is spurring action. Read More

Dumbest tech marketing stunts of all time
Two Dell employees last week put the maxim "There's no such thing as bad publicity" to the test after a hostage-themed marketing stunt focused on the Dell Streak tablet went about as badly as you'd expect. Read More

SlideShare aims to simplify Web meetings
SlideShare has added Web conferencing to its site for posting, viewing, rating and commenting on business presentations, documents and videos. Read More


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Control & Automate Application Performance Management.
This report by Forrester Research discusses how to handle IT complexity using application performance management converged with Complex Event Processing to produce a closed-loop automation solution for application management. Learn More

Microsoft IE9 not a 'modern browser,' Mozilla exec claims
Microsoft says IE9 is "the world's fastest browser." Mozilla claims IE9 doesn't even qualify as modern. Read More

Sentiment analysis comes of age
Sentiment analysis is not a new concept. Business, marketing and investment strategists have long been scanning newspapers, industry publications and the like to scope out how the public, consumers and influential pundits view a particular company, brand or product. Read More

Bulk of browsers found to be at risk of attack
About eight out of every 10 Web browsers run by consumers are vulnerable to attack by exploits of already-patched bugs, says a security expert. Read More

Yahoo to open-source cloud-serving engine
Yahoo is developing an internal cloud-serving engine to boost its own productivity, and intends to release the code as an open source this year. Read More

IPhone users get access to Argon augmented reality browser
An iPhone version of the augmented reality Argon browser, which lets users scan places and objects with the phone's video camera and see Web content overlaid on the screen, is now available. Read More



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