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A Guide To Provisioning, Billing And Nurturing Users Of Web Applications And On-Demand Solutions
White Papers A confluence of factors is driving customers to adopt a new generation of web-based, on-demand business applications. Broad-based acceptance of consumer-oriented, on-demand services Growing frustration among end-users and executives with the costs...
[May 2, 2008, 0:00]
Furious Redbus Users Demand Honesty
Talkback I don't know if this has crossed anyone else's mind, but if one power distribution system in one core hosting facility can cause this much disruption to this many people, can you imagine what a coordinated attack (9/11-alike) would do to the UK's...
[March 9, 2005, 23:06]
Furious Redbus Users Demand Honesty
Talkback Redbus have a very poor track record, in particular with their use of low-skill staff and in some cases untrained (the security guards are sometimes used to restart equipment etc). On the point of the guards, we have had one of our Redbus racks...
[March 13, 2005, 14:09]
Web Users Demand More Protection From ISPs
News The majority of Web users believe that Internet service providers should bear the burden for protecting their customers from spam, viruses and other malicious attacks, latest research has found. Most people realise but don't say that they expect...
[December 6, 2004, 11:50]
Dell Users Demand More Linux Options
News Thousands of Dell users have contacted a user forum to call for PCs to be shipped with a Linux operating system and the OpenOffice application suite. Nearly 40,000 users have used the Dell Ideastorm website to promote the suggestion that Dell...
[February 20, 2007, 16:03]
Mobile Users Demand Better Batteries
News Mobile TV and MP3 players are all very well, according to mobile phone users, but longer battery life is top of their feature wish-list. A survey of global mobile users by research firm TNS found that two-thirds of phone and PDA owners said the...
[September 22, 2005, 9:30]
Ballmer: Microsoft May Keep XP If Users Demand It
News Microsoft could rethink plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system by 30 June if customers show they want to keep it, but so far they have not, chief executive Steve Ballmer has said. XP will hit an end of life.
[April 25, 2008, 8:18]
Furious Redbus Users Demand Honesty
News Irate Redbus customers have responded with scorn to chief executive Mike Tobin's pleas for them to stick with the company, following problems at one of its London data centres which knocked many companies offline for hours last week.
[March 8, 2005, 13:35]
Half UK Businesses Expect Database Problems
News Nearly half of UK companies are expecting their core databases to suffer serious performance degradation over the coming year as business users demand more from them. Denis Howlett, chief operations officer, Isocra, said: "The research shows there...
[January 16, 2003, 14:13]
Bootstrapping The Long Tail In Peer To Peer Systems
White Papers The provision of digitized content on-demand to millions of users presents a formidable challenge. This paper describes an efficient incentive mechanism for P2P systems that generates a wide diversity of content offerings while responding...
[January 6, 2007, 23:00]
ON DEMAND CRM - Nucleus Research Shows Siebel CRM On Demand As Hosted Leader Download Free Report
White Papers Once an impulsive reaction against expensive extensive software implementations, on-demand solutions continue to grow in size of deployment, level of functionality, and demands of users. And users are finding that on-demand is not a no-brainer: if...
[January 17, 2006, 23:00]
Yahoo Contemplates New Messenger Features
News It's just the best way for us to capture what our users demand from us. Yahoo is gauging demand for new instant-messaging features that would allow people to listen to music while chatting, or manage a single address book from IM.
[January 13, 2004, 8:15]
The Man Behind Free Net Access - Exclusive (Part 2)
News ZDNet News UK: So you did not underestimate demand and yet demand outstripped supply. Demand has been more than we predicted. Isn't that a definition of underestimating demand? It's demand. Either let's go on or, give us 30 days to put into place...
[November 16, 1999, 14:44]
Friaco Not To Blame For Broadband Fiasco, Says AOL
News The study demolishes the ideas that there is little demand for broadband, and that users are so happy with flat-rate dial access that do not want to move to broadband, said AOL communications officer Matt Peacock, at the Last Mile Europe...
[December 5, 2001, 9:43]
CallNet Ditches Its Free Service
News Registration was suspended after the ISP was overwhelmed by demand and since then many users have encountered problems registering and logging on. CallNet, one of the first ISPs to provide unmetered Internet service in the UK finally admits it...
[August 7, 2000, 16:50]
Telewest SurfUnlimited Buckles Under Over-demand
News SurfUnlimited, the unmetered Internet service for £10 from cable firm Telewest, is buckling under demand. In what looks like a rerun of the CallNet fiasco, Telewest has underestimated demand. The extent of demand was amazing.
[March 3, 2000, 15:32]
US Report: VCR-PC Hybrid Adds Up To Interactive TV
News A poor man's video-on-demand service? It is video on demand without having to have a 2-way cable system. The Californian company next week begins testing its ReplayTV service which allows users of its appliances to pause, rewind, and fast forward...
[December 18, 1998, 10:58]
Vendors Urged To End Open-source Confusion
News Gartner is therefore urging users to demand the right to modify code and redistribute software without restriction when vendors attempt to enforce their own definition. This uncertainty around vendors could make sourcing and architectural decisions...
[May 21, 2007, 13:36]
Dell Brings Back XP Amid User Demand
News Dell does not have plans to launch Windows XP for home users as the preference, and demand is for the 'latest and greatest' technology, which includes Windows Vista," Tom West, director of small-business marketing at Dell, said in a blog posting...
[April 20, 2007, 17:22]
Linux Users To Get RealOne Port
News Asked about an SDK that would let developers build an application for Linux that was able to play content protected by Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology, Huggers said: "If that is what our users demand then we would treat it the...
[October 29, 2001, 16:58]
