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Siebel acquisitions show ambition
News The company said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire software-as-service company UpShot for up to $70m (£42m) in cash and has bought the assets of business applications maker Motiva for less than $3m.
[October 16, 2003, 9:35]
Microsoft jumps into CRM market
News Microsoft said it's looking to compete with FrontRange Solutions' GoldMine, Interact Commerce's Sales Logix, and products from SalesForce.com and Upshot.com. An Upshot representative said his company's own model is more economical because it...
[July 12, 2002, 9:13]
Siebel planning major online CRM offensive
News Siebel also acquired UpShot, which has a similar service to CRM OnDemand that Siebel will eventually assimilate. During a press conference, Siebel said that the company's goal is to combine the best from CRM OnDemand and UpShot into a new service...
[November 19, 2003, 9:20]
Mobile banking: ease-of-use is more important than trust, really?
Blog The upshot of this encounter was that I ended up debating the single most important factor governing the adoption of mobile banking services. I attended a meeting this week with a company called Vasco that works with authentication software.
[October 30, 2008, 18:20]
CRM rivalry heats up
News Salesforce.com and Salesnet each launched campaigns on Friday to lure customers of software rival UpShot into their respective folds following news of Siebel Systems' intended acquisition of UpShot. Salesforce and Salesnet are separately offering...
[October 20, 2003, 15:25]
The Business Implications of Implementing IP Telephony on Enterprise Networks
White Papers The upshot is that IP Telephony is becoming ubiquitous - in carrier and service provider networks, and in enterprise networks. By all accounts, carriers, service providers and enterprise network architects are adopting IP Telephony at a brisk pace.
[August 30, 2006, 1:00]
AEP
Downloads The upshot of this is that you can compress files by just adding the ".zip" to them, or ".tgz", decompress them by removing that extension. AEP, the active extension processor, is a freeware Applescript Studio based application that lets users of...
[July 3, 2002, 7:00]
HP Case Study: GARDENA
White Papers The upshot was a decision to roll out mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) with SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO), SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), along with the SAP R/3 Sales & Distribution (SD) and Customer Service (CS) components.
[November 17, 2005, 23:00]
BT, Siebel to launch on-demand CRM service
News Siebel's OnDemand is essentially a rebranded version of a CRM package made by Upshot, a company that was acquired by Siebel in October 2003. UpShot was a direct competitor with Salesforce.com, which has been successfully taking customers away from...
[December 2, 2003, 16:35]
Concierge
Downloads The upshot is that Concierge intrudes into Safari's process far less often, boosting Safari's performance. Concierge is an integrated bookmark assistant for Safari, Apple Computer's Web browser.
[July 26, 2005, 16:31]
Uncommon Sense: Out of the Box Thinking for an In the Box World review
Reviews The upshot is that the columns he writes for (ZDNet UK's sister site) Silicon.com, which form the basis for this book, are both futuristic and provocative. In Uncommon Sense, Cochrane critiques the 3G auctions that have left mobile network...
[May 4, 2005, 13:25]
AOL-Microsoft deal bodes ill for Netscape
News That's one upshot of Thursday's settlement between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, according to industry analysts who predict that the Netscape browser -- currently at version 7.02 -- will now move from a neglected orphan of AOL Time Warner to a...
[May 30, 2003, 7:41]
Psion shows off Bluetooth smarts
News That was the upshot of Friday's announcement that Psion (quote: PON), best known for its handheld computers, will supply wireless Bluetooth technology to PC giant Dell Computer. Psion isn't just Symbian.
[May 9, 2000, 11:20]
Xbox losing the numbers game
News That's the upshot from the Electronics Entertainment Expo, the game industry's main trade show, where new games for Microsoft's Xbox have largely been limited to "me too" titles -- games already appearing on other consoles.
[May 27, 2002, 14:44]
Red Hat and RealNetworks join forces
News The immediate upshot of the agreement is that RealNetworks' RealServer 7, will now be bundled with Red Hat 7.0, and will also be available from http://www.realnetworks.com. US Linux distributor Red Hat and RealNetworks have hopped into bed together...
[February 23, 2000, 9:57]
Wireless tech may hinder holidays
News That's the upshot of a report released on Wednesday by staffing firm OfficeTeam. In the future, you may not have to work at the office, but that doesn't mean you won't have to work as much. The firm's "Office of the Future: 2020" study concluded...
[June 16, 2005, 10:15]
Transmeta unveils software-based microprocessor
News In introducing the first two in what will be a family of chips, company CEO Dave Ditzel said the upshot will be faster microprocessors that use less energy. Transmeta took the wraps off its long-awaited Crusoe chip on Wednesday, saying it...
[January 19, 2000, 16:30]
New AMD chip set to boost Athlon PCs
News Company officials say the upshot will be improvements in the performance of PCs based on the new Athlon chip set over current models based on the Athlon chip. Advanced Micro Devices Monday moved a big step closer toward realising its promise to...
[October 31, 2000, 8:58]
Nvidia, ATI rev graphics engines
News The upshot is that ATI will have skipped a full generation ahead of Nvidia, said analyst Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research, an awkward but hardly crippling situation for Nvidia, given the company's sizable market share lead.
[March 6, 2003, 7:29]
AMD announces dual-core Opterons
News The upshot of this is that the new chips will fit into the existing server designs. AMD on Tuesday detailed performance results for its forthcoming dual-core Opteron processor, showing a speed boost of 30 percent to 55 percent, compared with today...
[October 6, 2004, 8:50]
