Posts Tagged ‘web solution’

Google, Facebook Wrangle Over Data Sharing

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Google and Facebook continued to wage their public war of words over openness, as Facebook engineer Mike Vernal posted a blog comment responding to a work-around that makes it easier for Facebook users to avoid Google’s recent move blocking Facebook from capturing information about users’ contacts in Gmail.

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“Facebook Platform and the Graph API enable everyone to bring their own information to millions of sites and applications, including even Google’s YouTube. It’s still a work in progress and there’s more to do, but in practice Facebook Platform is the largest scale initiative to help you move your information between services that exists today,” Mike Vernal, a member of the Facebook engineering team, wrote in response to a TechCrunch blog. “Openness doesn’t mean being open when its [stet] convenient for you. We strongly hope that Google turns back on their API and doesn’t come up with yet another excuse to prevent their users from leaving Google products to use ones they like better instead.”

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Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta Available for Android

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Norwegian company Opera Software has made available for download a new version of its Opera Mobile browser, one designed specifically for handsets running under Google’s Android operating system, namely Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for Android.

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The application was made available for download for free, in an attempt to enhance the mobile browsing experience of even more users out there, the company notes.

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CRM Software History

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a widely-implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new clients, nurture and retain those the company already has, entice former clients back into the fold, and reduce the costs of marketing and client service. Customer relationship management describes a company-wide business strategy including customer-interface departments as well as other departments.

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We’d like to present you a project about the history of CRM: CRM Software History Timeline by Software Advice. The creation of this timeline came about when they were researching the history of CRM and found that there wasn’t really a comprehensive account of the CRM software industry’s history available online. CRM is an established segment of the software industry, having been around for nearly 30 years. Several innovative technologies have arisen from CRM that have changed the way companies conduct business, specifically in sales, marketing and customer service. So, Software Advice wanted to aggregate the information they found into one place to make it available to the general public.

For today the timeline includes 18 key events that have shaped the CRM software industry over the last 30 years. The CRM Software History Timeline is interactive in that people can submit dates and events that they deem to be important in the history of CRM software.

The company Software Advice wants to add another 20 events and dates. May be you can help them with this project?

Silverlight, HTML5, and Microsoft’s Opaque Development Strategy

Friday, November 5th, 2010

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At the Professional Developers Conference 2010 (PDC10) last week, a Microsoft executive misspoke, or at least over-generalized, regarding the software giant’s plans for HTML 5 and Silverlight, kicking off an online debate about the viability of the respective technologies and a hasty public statement on Microsoft’s corporate website. But this episode underscores a much deeper problem around compatibility that is going to dog businesses of all sizes for years to come—a situation that will only be exacerbated by the popularity of heterogeneous smartphone platforms.

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Yahoo Mail Gets a Refresh Beta, Adds Twitter

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

yahooSpeed and spam topped the list of what Yahoo was trying to improve in its next version, a beta of which will start rolling out to users Tuesday night. The redesigned version takes inspiration from Yahoo’s iPad and Android clients for the market-leading, Web-based mail service, and not only adds the speed and spam reduction, but also brings Twitter into its fold and, like Microsoft’s updated Hotmail service, can now display photos and videos within users’ inboxes.

David McDowell, Yahoo’s senior director of product management for Yahoo Mail, about the new mail version: “People spend more than 30 billion minutes a month on Yahoo Mail, so if we make a change, it’s significant,” said McDowell. “If you were to stack up users lists of complaints about e-mail, speed and spam would be at the top of the list, and we’ve tackled both head on with this release. Yahoo Mail’s been re-architected from the ground up with speed and performance in mind, and it’s actually two times faster than our existing version—much faster to load and much faster to navigate.”

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