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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud services and sales of SaaS applications boosted Oracle revenue for its last fiscal quarter, but the price of keeping up with the leading hyperscale cloud providers dragged down overall profit. For example, in comparison, Microsoft reported $22.1 And Oracle has tough competition ahead. R&D, service expenses increase.

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Global comparisons: Why bandwidth drives Internet participation - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Demonstrably, low bandwidth Internet means people use it less, and for a narrower range of applications (there is specific data on that). Recently commented on The Future of Sales is Social (the rise of social CRM) (3) Brian Vellmure (@CRMStrategies) wrote:Ross,Good stuff as always. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Tapping the Zeitgeist: Powerful tools for spotting online trends - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The information is also available as an RSS feed, so can be incorporated into other applications. Conversation Tracker follows conversational threads and Featured Trends are editorially-selected trend comparisons. Resources: Andrew Pipes comparison of Google Trends and Yahoo!Buzz Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: SPC 2008 -- BillG Keynote

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

" Also notable was Bills expectation-setting about Microsofts "Software + Services" vision, how we were naive in the late 1990s with our expectations about SaaS, and the fact that it has turned out to be hard work in software ( my thought: "especially when your legacy is in desktop user productivity applications" ).

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

Does this person like to buy only after having interacted on social media with his/her friends? They evaluate their CC approach using real data provided by an established mobile social networking site, with a primary focus on prediction of churn in chat activities. Does this person like to buy only when there are discounts?

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

A variety of person-to-person social interactions that are less competitive and goal-oriented than stereotypical games. A more cynical spin is that “metaverse” lets companies dodge negative baggage associated with “the internet” in general and social media in particular. “As Social 3D spaces like CyberTown long predate Second Life.

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Domestic “Drones” Are the Latest Object of Threat Inflation

CTOvision

For example, some compared the 2007 denial of service attacks against Estonia to nuclear war when, in reality, a more “ real-world comparison might be if an army invaded a country, then all got in line in front of people at the DMV so they couldn’t renew their licenses.” Recent research even indicates that Stuxnet, the joint U.S.-Israel

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