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July 2009

Yahoo set to align with Microsoft to take on Google

Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO for about six months now, has reportedly said that provided price is right and Yahoo gets access over surfers’ profile, Yahoo would be interested in aligning with Microsoft to take on Google. According to com Score, Google has virtual monopoly over search advertising with close to 65% market share. Yahoo ranks [...]

Approaches in ERP implementations

When an organization decides to take a call on ERP implementation, it is believed that organization has grown big and operations have become unmanageable. ERP implementation is not an implementation of a software program rather it is an implementation and management of change.  Statistics will have you believe that for an every successful ERP implementation [...]

Upload a doc for Google to translate

Google had this option of converting WebPages or pasted text in to language of your choice. Though there are some gaffes but keeping the enormity of task in mind, Google has been doing the job fairly well. At least the word by word translation was being done, though some time found wanting in meaning.

Google maps can help you get rid of many hassles

How many times you have turned to your rugged old map lying in some drawer looking for directions? Road maps were mandatory companions of all adventurists who were out on sight seeing trips not so along ago. In fact even for the business traveler who frequently travels by road, road maps were must.

Project Management software tools

There have been arguments and counter arguments over which Project Management tool are the best for an organization. Needless to say that there is no straight answer and it depends upon your requirement, the industry segment you are in, complexity level of your projects and so on. Project Management requirement of a manufacturing unit, software [...]

Right time to buy a netbook

One of my acquaintances asked me recently, Is this the right time buy a netbook? I looked at him quizzingly and tried to figure out what’s there in his mind. The question reminded me that netbooks sales are still rising sharply and probably its the only segment in PC market which is registering the positive [...]

Default search engine Bing or Google

Its war out there. After initial positive response which bing has received from users worldwide. Microsoft armed with its ubiquitous Windows OS has been trying to change default search engine in browsers. A lot many users have reported receiving Google notifications which suggests that there have been attempts to change default Google search engine.

CRM in core sector companies!

I have interacted with many experts in CRM/ERP development and implementations. Almost all of them opine that CRM has limited scope in Capital goods industries. They are not quite right. CRM, Customer Relationship Management was developed primarily to focus on customers of consumer goods, Telecom and Banking industry. Today also the almost 80-90% CRM implementations have [...]