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Subscribe to Backblog  Mind Your P's and Q's to Control Outsourced Costs September 30, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing Historically, the general focus of our outsourcing clients has been to use an RFP process to get the best price for the services that they procure. The primary driver is to improve the economics of the cost center involved in the outsourcing effort. However, in a price times quantity model ("P x Q”)... CMA pushing aggressively for EMR implementation September 29, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Pat Rich - Sept 3, 2009 - The CMA's new president, Saskatoon FP Anne Doig, would like to see all Canadian physicians using electronic medical records (EMRs) by 2011. IT related resolutions at the annual meeting included the following: •Join provincial and territorial associations in working... Need Help Coming up with a Suitable Research Area September 28, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Web 2.0 Just two weeks into my PhD studies and already I will soon have to submit a research proposal. It's a class requirements to help us submit for grants, so we're not tied to it. Still, I've been frantically trying to narrow down my areas of research interest to prepare for my grant submissions.... Globalization and Signs of Optimism September 25, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing Economists may call it a “V” shaped, “W” shaped or any other shaped recovery of economic growth, but the reality is most providers have expressed signs of optimism recently about the business scenario going forward. Further, there seems to be a consensus that the downturn has hit bottom and that... Court Allows Suit Against Bank For Poor Online Security September 24, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General Security I saw this article on Finextra. Since I’ve been working with BrandProtect (www.brandprotect.com), I’ve become extremely aware of identity theft scams as well as the bank’s role in providing a sufficient level of security. The whole story is available here (http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=204... StreamInsight – pulling CEP upstream? September 23, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Software Companies Last month Microsoft StreamInsight went public. This software provides a platform for developing and deploying complex event processing applications based on recognizing patterns and enabling an organization to act upon them. "Its high-throughput stream processing architecture and the familiar .NET... Guestlogix (GXI.V) and Abanco settle lawsuit. Positive outcome September 22, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Stemming from GXI's first contract with American Airlines a few years back, this is a long-term legal action that cost several hundred thousand dollars per annum in legal expenses for Guestlogix. The dismissal of the suits should have a small but immediate beneficial impact on earnings , and also... Implications for Sales Productivity of Aberdeen's 2009 Sales Automation Report September 21, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General Aberdeen's 2009 Sales Automation Report reveals conditions with important implications for firms looking to gain a sales productivity advantage via uses of technology. Their survey of over 200 firms reveals that: •being a Best-in-Class firm using sales automation tools is lucrative; such firms... A move to tap into the computing environment around us? September 18, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General A while back I mentioned how today we live in an "and" world where people want it all. This is true in the mobile space as well. We'd like to have small, portable and yet capable systems. In order to do this we need to overcome mobile device limitations and enable sharing multiple resources between... IBM or Microsoft for your business needs? September 17, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security Which technology is better for your business, IBM's or Microsoft? Security Channel News has a great overview of the different features of Lotus Domino and Microsoft Small Business Server for the SMB market. As we always say, the technology you choose has to be based on the business process you're... Webinars from ZoomInfo September 16, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General If you have some time on Monday, Sept 21, 2009 Time: 1–2pm EDT / 10–11am PDT this ZoomInfo webinar featuring Ron Karr, Author of Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way looks interesting. Karr will talk about the seven critical traits all sales leaders share. https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/14635014... Bridgewater Systems (BWC.TO) On A Roll - Announces Major New Contracts September 15, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment As mobile data usage continues to grow exponentially around the world, Bridgewater Systems' suite of policy and data management solutions should continue to become more popular among carriers as they attempt to meet the increasing demand from consumers and businesses. On Friday, Bridgewater Systems... The Need For A Better Balance Between Information and Attention September 14, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General Peter Nicholson, President of the Council of Canadian Academies, notes how profoundly we've become information rich: the costs/unit of capturing, storing, and transmitting data have declined 10 million fold since the early 1960's. "It's as if a house that cost half a million dollars in 1964 could be... Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens? September 11, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General A week or so back I did a blog entry on augmented reality possibilities, and in this month's IEEE Spectrum there is an article on the placing displays right on the eye. This is done by having the display and possibly sensors integrated with a contact lens. Although Terminator view displays can't be... Online Security Not an Oxymoron, Part 2 September 10, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security At the beginning of this year, we discussed some online security measures ordinary Internet users can use immediately to protect their computers and the data they contain from predatory hackers. Social networks are increasingly being exploited to commit ID theft and fraud, so it's time to add a few... R and D subsidies do not create wealth: How do we modernize policy to incent innovation? September 9, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment I have spoken to hundreds of Canadian entrepreneurs and investors in the tech sector over the past dozen years. A common lament among all stakeholders is that Canadians are good at R&D, but poor at commercialization. Based on current thinking, this is a decidedly bad thing, becoming worse. What... Authentication and automation possibilities September 8, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General This seems to me the week that I'm thinking about interfaces and interaction. About a year ago I did a blog entry on interface shifts. One area I had not thought about at all was the use of the security interface hardware as a more general interaction method. This article in IEEE spectrum talks about... 12 Steps to Setting Up Your Small Business Wi-Fi Network September 4, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security An excellent overview on all the basic procedures for setting up your Wi-Fi network for your business, courtesy of Eric Geier. Still a bit too technical for your typical SMB owner, but that's why they outsource these things. Great resource. Vaclav Vincalek Pacific Coast Informer Blog 3D visualization to a desktop near you September 3, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Circular polarization has been used in more movies lately to display 3D content with inexpensive polarized glasses. The ability to display polarized content is available today in a number of different monitors and TV screens, although I've not seen much common office software take advantage of it... Augmented reality moving into general availability September 2, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General The BBC has an article: Mobile phones get cyborg vision that got me thinking about the number of times I've seen examples of augmented reality demonstration projects recently. This article states: "Via the video function of a mobile phone's camera it is now possible to combine a regular pictorial... Want to Make Office Better? Now’s Your Chance September 1, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Software Companies Some Microsoft employees have partaken of the crowdsourcing koolaid and are looking for input on ways to improve MS' flagship product, Office. At the Make Office Better website, the top suggestions right now are: 1. Improve the HTML support in Outlook 2. Read PDF in Office 3. Detach Outlook UI from... Please select a category:
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