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Should we do strategic planning for our supply chain?

...eneral Motors is especially troubling as they speed to make decisions with respect to international outsourcing, dealer closures and according to new GM Chairman Edward Whitacre, Jr., "a shutteri...

Sprint Says All Smartphones Will Have Wi-Fi

In a surprising move, Sprint has said that it is requiring all of the smartphones it carries to come equipped with Wi-Fi capabilities. This will include an updated version of the much-anticipated Blackberry Tour, which was released for the Sprint network on Sunday. In effort to keep up with ...

Amazon.com Launche Wireless Superstore

If you were to look at the cellular phone market as a graph, there would be some periods of rabid growth, followed by periods of leveling off but the overall pattern would be continued expansion. Sensing the opportunity such a business model presents, Amazon.com, one of the world's largest...

Jackson Memorial Service Internet Viewing May Match Obama's Inauguration

...f experts around the world - LiveWork • Prezi - The zooming presentation editor • Massively • CollegeClassifieds.com - College Classifieds Textbooks, Jobs, Apartment Rentals, Carpools, Roommates...

T-Mobile To Begin Pre-Selling New Android Phone

In effort to reaise up some well needed capital, struggling wireless carrier T-Mobile today began pre-selling the myTouch 3G, its second Google-powered smartphone. T-Mobile, which currently sits in fourth-place in terms of sheer size among US carriers, is feeling the pressure amid a busy summ...

Animoto Releases Updated iPhone App

Animoto has released an update to their popular music video creation app for the iPhone and iPod touch, Videos 2.0 . The Animoto Videos application allows users to easily create and view professional-quality music videos on the go. With nearly 500,000 videos created through the application ...

Satellite Hopes To Make Deadzones a Thing of the Past

The world's largest commercial satellite has been launched into earth orbit with the goal of providing mobile phone service to "dead zones" all across North America. Owned by Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, the satellite is designed to pick up and relay signals from mobile phones. ...

Outsourcing Trends

... © laura padgett Here's an interesting article on outsourcing trends (made more interesting because I am quoted in it). In any case, I believe that outsourcing could be at the leading edge...

Verizon and Sprint to Launch Blackberry World Phone

You could say that with the help of Verizon, RIM's latest Blackberry is going on world tour. In fact, that's exactly what's going on in the latest word that Verizon Wireless will launch the BlackBerry Tour on July 12 for $200 with a new two-year contract. The Tour is loaded with m...

Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa

...ting examination early this month of what may be the biggest problem faced by the H-1B visa: Indian outsourcing. A bill currently before Congress, the Durbin-Grassley visa reform bill, would probably...

Sony Next to Release an iPhone Killer

We often talk about attempts to dethrone the immensely popular iPhone and it looks like consumer electronics giant Sony is about to take a stab at it next. Sony has released word that it is considering setting up a project team as early as July to make a new device that combines the functions...

Verizon's New Global Smartphone Aims for the Ozone

Tired of worrying about whether or not your cell phone will work when traveling abroad? Verizon understands where you're coming from and, with HTC, are planning on bringing a true global handset to the market. Set to run Windows Mobile 6.1 this new smartphone will run on both CDMA and GSM...

Motorola Karma Has Texting in Mind

AT&T and Motorola are working on a device with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard aimed at consumers looking to use their phones to send text messages and access social networking sites like Facebook. Calling this new handset the Karma, Motorola says that the design will be especially pleasing t...

T-Mobile's New Android Phone Coming Soon

T-Mobile's got an ace up their sleeve in the ongoing struggle to dethroning the Apple iPhone coming out this August. Calling it the myTouch 3G, its new Google Android equipped phone is a more equipped version of the popular G1. It will feature a built-in 3.2-megapixel camera, music player...

T-Mobile Aims High with the Dash 3G

T-Mobile has apparently stood-by and watched RIM and Apple dominate the market long enough. The company has announced its plans to enter the hotly contested smartphone scene with their Dash 3G, which is set to hit streets next month (July). T-Mobile says that the Dash 3G, which was designed b...

Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law

Apple today officially released the iPhone OS 3.0 software, updating 45 software patches to address rare security vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. The company said the new features include cut, copy and paste, MMS, and push notifications. Analysts expect ...

Nokia Announces Successor to the E71 Smartphone

Nokia has answered the question on the minds of business users all around the globe today by announced its E72- an updated version of its top-selling E71 business phone. The company says that the E72 builds on the successful E71; its hot selling QWERTY- equipped smartphone, by adding performa...

Motorola Rival Coming to Verizon

Texters on the Verizon network have reason to celebrate in the form of the Rival from Motorola. Designed specifically for the challenges of texting, the Rival features a 2.2-inch screen and a backlit QWERTY keyboard that lights up either red or green depending on entry mode. The handset offer...

So profitieren Kunden und Versicherer durch IT-Consultants

...eiberuflicher IT-Consultant: "Aus Sicht der Unternehmen geht es weder um das komplette Outsourcing der IT-Abteilung noch um den Aufbau einer Parallelabteilung. Es geht lediglich um punktuelle Unt...

Worth Watching!

... © chucklin This video is a humorous poke at the Customer-Vendor relationship in outsourcing deals... does it remind you of any of your relationships? I just wish there was another one from th...

Nokia Hopes Cell Phones will No Longer Require Chargers

Quick- what's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of charging your cell phone? If you said a cord, an electrical outlet or even a docking station, you may want to read on. Nokia researchers are working on development of cellular phone charging by simply capturing ambient rad...

Outsourcing Your Dating Life

© annie.kisskiss A number of sources ( TechCrunch , Online Dating insider , VentureBeat ) have reported on a new service that lets you outsource all the stuff involved in online dating - for a mere $480 a month. VirtualDatingAssistants.com will do the work of creating your profile and scre...

Could This be the Future of Outsourcing?

...rket, but because of the underlying concept of reverse project auctions. I have long thought that outsourcing projects could be susceptible to reverse auctions. In commodity-level sourcing, a project...

Apple Slashes Prices on the iPhone

Apple Inc. slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half as well as lowered some of their laptop prices today; the company's first dramatic price cuts since the recession began a year and a half ago. The 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G, which came out last year, now costs $99, instead of $199. The 1...

Crowdsourcing

...urcing as "the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open c...

T-Mobile To Release Second Android Phone While Samsung Targets Photogs

T-Mobile, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier, is hoping to increase its rank by launch its second smartphone to run Google's Android operating system in a few weeks. While details aren't overly specific just yet, the new smartphone is slotted to run Google's codenamed "Cupcake&q...

Inq To Release Twitter Handset

It was only a matter of time… Let's face it, as a whole, the world is quick to adopt a trend, run with it, and then leave it for dead. First it was Myspace then Facebook. Now the world is Twitter-obsessed and to that end mobile phone maker INQ Mobile plans to launch a Twitter phone in time...

Palm Pre has Captured Wireless Carriers' Attention

Business users and smartphone fans alike are anxiously counting down the days until Palm's Pre hits the market. In a surprising move, the Pre will launch on June 6 for $200 exclusively for Sprint. As expected, the remaining domestic carriers have their sights set on the Pre as well. Earli...

Kinoma Introduces World’s First Mobile Social Media Browser

With today's release of Kinoma Play, the leading way to find, play and share media on a mobile phone is now also the best way to find, play and share media across social networks and media services like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa. The new release of Kinoma Play for Win...

Nokia Announces 6600i - Slimmest Camera phone to Date

Nokia, the world's leading handset maker, has announced the 6600i Slide, its smallest 5.0-megapixel equipped slider to date. The company said that tucked within the handset's brushed steel shell is an upgraded 5.0-megapixel camera with a dual LED flash. It features a hidden external...

LG Glance Coming Soon To Verizon

While the slim candy bar-style handset may not be the first form factor that comes to mind for business use, but apparently that isn't slowing Verizon down any. The company is set to launch an all-new candy bar from LG next month aimed at business users known as the Glance VX7100. The han...

Samsung's Affordable T349 Comes To T-Mobile

T-Mobile, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier, has launched the Samsung T349, a slim messaging phone with a 20-key, partial QWERTY keypad and XT9 enhanced predictive text for faster text messaging. Multiple messaging options include email, instant message, picture messaging, vide...

AT&T Considers Dropping Cost of IPhone Plans

AT&T is considering offering cheaper data plans with limited Web surfing as early as late May in hopes of significantly boosting iPhone sales. The possible price cut (to $60 a month; a $10 reduction off the current lowest plan) reflects the back-and-forth negotiations between AT&T and...

Infosys CEO interviewed

... Gopalakrishnan clearly sees the dangers in industry consolidation and in changes in the nature of outsourcing, with more businesses taking the same tack as they have with their internal IT organizat...

Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?

... EquaTerra highlighted its "Speed Sourcing" concept - an accelerated process to complete outsourcing deals. The practice, whereby the entire procurement and negotiation process is compressed...

Nokia Announces World's Cheapest G3 Phones

Hey times are tough here in the US- Nokia realizes that not everyone wants to break the proverbial bank just to enjoy the high-speed capabilities of the G3 network. As such he world's top handset maker has unveiled its 2720 Fold and 7020 series phones, including the 2730 Classic - the chea...

Sprint Follows Verizon with Personal Wi-Fi

...s plans to offer a personal Wi-Fi device, Sprint says that its ready to launch its own "Mobile Hotspot" gadget, a portable unit that creates a localized Wi-Fi cloud to share high-speed Inter...

Alias 2 Announced for Verizon

Verizon Wireless has launched the Samsung Alias 2, a dual-hinge clamshell with a morphing keyboard that uses the same display technology found on the Amazon Kindle. Rather than a jumble of keys with small labels, the handset's keypad actually changes depending on what users are doing. So ...

The Revolution

...ymore and why exactly you still need that plump budget, anyway. To be fair, Hackett discusses both outsourcing and offshoring in their cost control strategy, and both are among the techniques that I ...

Verizon Wireless Introduces MiFi Mobile Hotspot

... On May 17th, Verizon Wireless will release the $99 MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot, developed by Novatel Wireless . The device connects to Verizon's 3G network and creates a personal ...

Selling to Procurement Organizations

...rested in the issues that arise when selling to corporate procurement departments. A legal process outsourcing company that I'm associated with is cracking this nut, and the differences between th...

Facebook Comes to Windows Mobile

Software giant Microsoft has released a Facebook application that allows Windows Mobile 6 users create wall posts, share photos, send messages, update profile pictures and even upload videos. The free software, creatively dubbed Facebook for Windows Mobile 6 , is the first app to let users u...

BlackBerry Curve Dethrones iPhone

Oh boy, it seems like everyone under the sun has been scurrying to develop a smartphone that could dethrone the might iPhone and it looks like it finally happened, at least as far as the First Quarter of 2009 is concerned. According to market researchers at The NPD Group, Research in Motion&#...

HP to Get on the Blackberry Software Train

The BlackBerry line of smartphones is already known for being business-friendly but the software available for these phones is about to get a boost. Research In Motion (RIM) and computer giant Hewlett-Packard said they have agreed to a strategic alliance to design and sell business software fo...

Microsoft Plans its iPhone Killer

Don't for a minute believe that a company can have the type of success that Apple has had with its iPhone and not have everyone else gunning for them. The latest in a long list of handsets designed to steal a piece of the iPhone pie comes from none other than the maker of Windows. Softwar...

Introducing Truphone 3.0

... contacts," writes CNET's Rick Broida . "In other words, if you're in range of a hotspot, you can gab all you want without spending a penny." "The latest version of Trup...

Verizon Pushes for Apple iPad

Apple's iFamily is about to increase by a member if Verizon Wireless has its way. The wireless company is in talks with Apple to distribute a media pad device that would let users listen to music, view photos, watch high-definition videos and make calls over its Wi-Fi connection. The devi...

50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer

...ues, in an article posted on WhatPC yesterday, talked about the difficulties involved in exiting outsourcing arrangements. Mr. Jaques rightfully points out that offshoring and outsourcing relations...

Leyio UWB Drive is Going Fast

... of flinging your data around wirlessly at blinding speeds withouth the need for a computer or WiFi hotspot. Transfer between devices will, of course, require that both you and your friend have a Ley...

Samsung's First Android Phone Hits Europe

Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, today unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered smartphone. Measuring just 11.9mm thick, the I7500 features a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen display, high-speed 7.2Mbps HSDPA Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity. Additiona...

Future structural changes in supply chains

...son and Zeng suggest, we could see entire value-chains established within a geographic region. - Outsourcing and contract manufacturing changes: There is some opinion that contract manufacturers th...

New Nokia Handset That Thinks It's a Credit Card

Just when we thought we'd seen it all- Nokia announces that its latest handset can act as a credit card! Its 6216 classic may look like a regular cell phone but it has the ability to securely store a user's credit card information on the SIM card using NFC (Near Field Communication...

More job cuts ahead: Bain

... achieving their cost reduction targets. The other tools they plan to use to meet these targets are Outsourcing and Business Process Re-Engineering. All up, that's a sign that many more will lose...

PC Maker Acer Launches its Cellular Line

Computer giant Acer launched a complete line of smartphones for the Asia-Pacific region. The Taiwan-based company, best known for its PCs and laptops has finalized its ambitions to gain a share of the lucrative smartphone market. With its five new models, the company professes lofty ambition...

How Does Free Mobile TV Sound to You?

Of all the various mobile tech news subjects I come on and blog about, it's hard to imagine anything more exciting than announcements like the following. Broadcasters at the nation's capital have decided Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV for mobile devices. ...

Sony Ericsson Delays Android Phones

Although sony was hoping to adopt Google's hot new Android software as soon as possible, delays associated with trying to develop its own take on the operating system have resulted in their opting to use the tried and true Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms. This comes right as the ...

Microsoft Stops Mainstream Support For Windows XP

...uld Save $1+ Billion Per Year Outsourcing Search To Microsoft • Time Warner delays meter program • Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories • Tweet this: Rapid-fire media may confuse your moral com...

Apple About to Break Milestone

You know you're doing something right when you start posting numbers like Apple's been enjoying. The maker of the iPhone and iPod Touch is fast approaching a billion downloads for its online App Store. The company unveiled a Web page dedicated to tracking the number of downloads unti...

InfoSys's Sales Decline

... © JustinLowery.com Proving once again that the outsourcing marketplace is not immune to the recession, IT outsourcing giant, Infosys, has seen a downturn in its business - its first since 1981. ...

Google Updates GMail For Android Users

The good news about a single company, in this case Google, owning a whole line of related aps is that they can address issues directly. The company has released a new version of Gmail for their Android-powered smartphones (that also works on Apple's iPhone software) that is not only faste...

Virgin Mobile Slashes Prices on Plans

Tough economic times means a fear of getting roped into a commitment for many potential wireless customers. That said Virgin Mobile is revamping some of its service rates in effort to compete against intense price-cutting among second-tier wireless competitors. Beginning April 15th, Virgin Mo...

Apple's Plans to Keep Next iPhone Quiet Foiled

Taiwanese handset component suppliers have started shipping parts for the successor to the Apple iPhone 3G possibly launching in June. Apple has been just pounded by persistent rumors of new handset launches, with reports of a next generation iPhone gaining momentum recently. The rumors int...

T-Mobile To Bring Android Into Homes

Google's Android mobile operating system is about to get a hefty push that could potentially help it make up some of the ground between leading systems like iPhone and Windows Mobile. T-Mobile, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier, plans to aggressively push into consumer home...

RIM Follows Apple With New Apps Store

Everyone else is doing it so it's got to be a good idea. That's the logic anyway when it comes to Apps stores these days. Apple is credited as leading the way with their immensely popular iPhone Store with Microsoft playing catch up through a similar store of their own. Research in Mo...

Clearwire Introduces CLEAR Spot Personal Hotspot

... At CTIA Wireless this week, Clearwire introduced the $139 CLEAR Spot Personal Hotspot , manufactured by CradlePoint . It's a portable, battery-operated Wi-Fi router that connects to th...

LG Brings DTV To Its Phones

LG realizes that to rekindle slumping sales, innovations in the cellular industry have to be above and beyond the norm. That said, the company has unveiled a new line of handsets that are capable of receiving free digital TV transmissions over the air. LG loaded its ATSC Mobile Digital Telev...

A video on social efforts from Dr. Patrick Dixon

...st in social welfare oriented activities. In this video from Patrick, he talks about the effects of outsourcing on social welfare in poor countries and a sustainable solution to solve global poverty p...

Samsung Propel Comes to AT&T

With the Las Vegas CTIA show in full swing, there is just an overload of news to report. If there were trouble in the economy, you'd never know it based on this place! AT&T has been announcing just a flood of new models for the upcoming year. One of particilar note is the popular sam...

Asetek appoints new supply chain lead

.... According to Business Wire , Mr. Tang brings extensive knowledge of OEM and EMS manufacturing, outsourcing, materials and supplier management to the company. Tang also brings expertise in contrac...

Verizon Confirms Netbook Rumors

I'm not sure if the recent downturn in the economy is even to blame anymore, but there is definitely a pattern of manufacturers swapping roles of late. First we hear about laptop makers Dell and Acer planning to make up for lost revenue by building smartphones and now the nation's ...