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1. Integrating Medical Information With Open Source - 2007-06-27 07:00:00-04
   The Open Source Health Care Alliance believes that open source software is the path to follow when it comes to integrating systems and sharing various medical-related information in the local healthcare industry. Its secretary Joseph D. Dal Molin said the legacy or proprietary systems in healthcare make it difficult to share medical information and integrate systems, despite many years of top-down standardization efforts.
   
2. Search Advertising Campaign Management - 2007-06-27 07:00:00-04
   Search advertising is like an onion, simple on the outside but increasingly complex inside. Online advertising is discussed today the way bandwidth was discussed during the 1990s. Everybody is talking about it, nobody can get enough of it and much of people say about it is either nonsense or wishful boasting.
   
3. Government Customer Service: No Longer an Oxymoron? - 2007-06-27 07:00:00-04
   Next year, when taxpayers call the IRS for help answering questions as they fill out a return, they will know how many minutes they will have to wait on hold before they can speak with an agent. Earlier this year, constituents may not have known how long they would be holding, but some may have noticed a far shorter wait time than in previous years.
   
4. Laws Needed to Protect Personal Data on RFID Chips - 2007-06-27 11:20:37-04
   Slap a chip costing a few cents on a clock radio or a bottle of Prozac, and you can track it from its manufacturer to the cash register at Wal-Mart. Build a chip into a special windshield tag, and it allows drivers to zip across the Golden Gate Bridge without stopping at a toll booth. Put one in a corporate identification card and all of a sudden it becomes an electronic door key.
   
5. Visa, Wells Fargo Launch Mobile Payment Pilot - 2007-06-27 11:44:14-04
   Visa USA is teaming up with Wells Fargo & Co. in an experiment aimed at transforming mobile telephones into electronic wallets. As part of a pilot program to be announced Wednesday, up to 50 Wells Fargo employees soon will begin paying for some products and services with specially equipped phones instead of credit and debit cards.
   
6. Oracle Breezes Past Q4 Estimates as Acquisitions Pay Off - 2007-06-27 12:36:11-04
   Oracle extended a run of strong financial performance with a blockbuster fourth quarter, outpacing estimates for growth and profit as CEO Larry Ellison's strategy of aggressively buying up applications vendors continues to pay off. Oracle earned $1.6 billion in the quarter that ended on May 31, compared to $1.3 billion in the year-ago period.
   
7. SaaS in East Asia, Part 1: Breaking Ground - 2007-06-28 07:00:00-04
   Software as a Service, also known as "on-demand software," is making inroads across East Asia as organizations large and small become comfortable enough with Web services and network application delivery to risk using them for a variety of business functions. The regional SaaS market will grow more than 80 percent at a constant annual rate between 2006 and 2010, predicts Springboard Research.
   
8. Verizon Billing Issue Tough to Fix From Overseas - 2007-06-28 12:07:30-04
   Tired of ringing customer service just to find your call rerouted to India or the Philippines? Nancy Claxton has news for you: It's just as frustrating to call back to the U.S. from overseas. The Chicagoan, currently helping tsunami victims in Sri Lanka, has tried for months to resolve her billing problem with Verizon back in the states.
   
9. Home Depot Aims to Speed Up Supply Chain - 2007-06-28 12:27:04-04
   The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement store chain, sees improvements to its centralized distribution system as one of several ways to focus on improving shareholder value, an executive said on Tuesday. Mark Holifield, Home Depot's senior vice president for the supply chain, said that Home Depot is working to improve customer service, product innovation and availability and stores' shopping environment.
   
10. Google Makes Enterprise Search Play With Ingram Deal - 2007-06-28 14:48:02-04
    Google has struck a deal to have the international technology supplier Ingram Micro distribute its enterprise search tools. The agreement is the search giant's most aggressive bid yet to foster growth in its relatively fledgling corporate search division. Ingram Micro will sell both the Google Mini and the Google Search Appliance hardware and software solutions.
    
11. Web Site Content Extras: Beyond Bells and Whistles - 2007-06-29 07:00:00-04
    As e-commerce firms invest heavily to develop Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 generation content, the development of unique advertising-related content has lagged. The good news is that some Web sites are approaching their advertising-related content in a more thoughtful manner, taking into account the likelihood that today's Web users are more content-savvy than those of the previous online generation.
    
12. Oracle Releases Contact Center Anywhere 8.1 - 2007-06-29 07:00:00-04
    Oracle has released Contact Center Anywhere 8.1, an application that builds on its acquisition of Telephony@Work, an on-demand provider of IP-based software infrastructure for hosted contact center services, made exactly a year ago. Essentially, what Oracle has done is link the telephony layer to the CRM application -- a task that has not been traditionally easy to master.
    
13. UPS Offers Wireless Tracking via SMS - 2007-06-29 08:00:00-04
    As wireless communications technology becomes embedded in the lifestyles of consumers, small businesses are seeking ways to catch the mobile wave. Gaining an advantage with younger shoppers online and off can be daunting to small businesses that would rather not manage technology -- but instead exploit it.
    
14. Telemarketers Use Loopholes to Ignore National Do-Not-Call List - 2007-06-29 11:25:27-04
    Four years ago this week, consumers got the chance to join the National Do Not Call Registry to end a deluge of dinner hour interruptions by telemarketers. For many, the list spelled relief, but not for everyone. Firms that use telemarketing say that with more than 100 million marketing calls placed daily in the United States, there are bound to be some mistaken violations.
    
15. Flexing Muscles in the Open Source CRM Ring - 2007-06-29 13:01:52-04
    After seven years of slowly building its business, Centric CRM is suddenly on a roll. Earlier this month, Centric -- an open source software development company -- announced that it had received an infusion of investment funding from Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of technology titan Intel. On Thursday, the company introduced its second product, an Internet-based social networking tool designed for business uses.
    
16. Promoting SaaS to Management - 2007-06-30 07:00:00-04
    Some SaaS providers are targeting IT/network professionals with hosted management services. They figure that IT departments will prefer SaaS solutions over the cost and complexity of traditional network and systems management products. Many business units and small companies are using on-demand applications to replace traditional enterprise software from companies like Oracle and SAP.
    
17. Enterprise Software: Not Just for Big Firms Anymore - 2007-07-01 07:00:00-04
    A growing number of small and medium businesses are waking up to the potential benefits of enterprise software that would have been used previously only by much larger organizations, according to new research. A study from AMI-Partners categorizes and analyzes SMBs in four distinct tiers based on IT behavior: adoption; needs and attitudes for customer targeting; product positioning; and focused offerings.
    
18. Dynamic Web Content: Giving Customers What They Want - 2007-07-02 07:00:00-04
    Effective Web content provides targeted messaging to attract customers onto a Web site followed by consistent, timely and relevant information to guide them through the online experience. The goal of these actions is to culminate in a desired result such a sale, qualified lead or submitted application.
    
19. ATG Commerce Service Center Debuts - 2007-07-02 07:00:00-04
    ATG has introduced a service center application for its e-commerce suite, ATG Commerce, that builds on some of the company's previous acquisitions. The Commerce Service Center contact center application integrates e-commerce functionality with back-end order administration, sales support and customer care.
    
20. Credit Card Companies Ramp Up Services to Duck Restrictions - 2007-07-02 11:04:25-04
    Itz time 4 U 2 stop spending. UR 2 close 2 credit limit. A text message from a credit card company? It is one new strategy that could help college students and others avoid getting socked with hefty fees and higher rates. This summer, Chase credit card holders will even be able to get a $10 credit when they sign up for three such tools -- free alerts, automatic payments and online statements.