Nov 27, 2009
Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry According to the article posted on Businessweekly.com food banks all over the country are currently have a “high-tech revolution”. They are adopting advanced databases, GPS tracking, using bar codes, and other such technologies. The new technologies have help food banks come a long way from past years [...]
Nov 12, 2009
EU Fingers States prone to Accounts Errors According to the article on Businessweekly.com, Italy, Portugal, and Spain are the countries responsible for the mass amount of financial errors that were detected by European auditors. Apparently, 2.7 billion dollars were not even supposed to be paid out in 2008. This has been the 15th straight year [...]
Nov 12, 2009
How Business Is Adopting Design Thinking According to the article on Businessweekly.com companies such as GE and P&G have came up with a designed point of view for problem-solving decisions. The article mentions a course offered at the learning center in Ossining, N.Y. that provides the tools for managers to create design thinking. “For Lawrence [...]
Nov 12, 2009
How Europeans Are Using Data Mining According to the article businesses world wide are investing a lot of money and resources into what they believe are the necessary tools to help them make better decisions. One of the tools that are helping businesses around the world is data mining. Data mining is the process of [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Google, Verizon Wireless: A Potent Smartphone Team An Android mobile alliance between the two giants could soon result in formidable smartphone competition for the dominant iPhone and Blackberry According to the article, Verizon Wireless and Google stated that they will team up together to create mobile services, software, and devices for the operating system that [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Calif. unveils prescription database to spot abuse According to the article California has revealed a new database to help spot drug abuse. California law enforcement and doctors have now a new database they can use to help target prescription drug addicts who go see different doctors to supply their addiction. In the article Attorney General [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Microsoft’s Security Essentials Hits Back at Hackers According to the article, Microsoft has taken massive strides in its anti-virus software, but still recommends that whoever operates Microsoft Windows should and need anti-virus software. The reason is because Microsoft has been known for having its software hacked by hackers. The programmers at Microsoft work hard to [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Google Top Search Satisfaction, AOL, Trails According to the article, a recent report found that as consumers we have been satisfied with the steady growth of search engines and internet portals most importantly their improvement in the customer satisfaction. According to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index which compares customer satisfaction between several companies and ebusinesses, [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Why Coke Isn’t Buying Up Its Bottlers According to the article, PepsiCo introduced its plans to revamp its image by acquiring its two largest bottlers Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas. Coca-Cola which is naturally PepsiCo rival denies any information about it doing a similar thing. According to the chief executive of Coca-Cola Muhtar Kent, there [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Amazon’s Cloud Grows in Europe According to the article Amazon Web Services have been offering “on-demand computing and storage capacity”. It has been offering it in the form of its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) for the past three years now. Now Amazon Web Services wants to make it effortless for [...]
