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Health Care Provider Cuts Patient Intake Time with Apple iPhone App
RehabCare Group has created a new application for employee Apple iPhones that has shortened the processing time for patient prescreens from as many as 18 hours to less than 60 minutes, the company reports. The application was created with Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform in four days, according to Salesforce.com, which offers its Force.com platform as a…
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Hiring Grade-A Talent
Everyone knows the tried-and-true business axiom: Grade-A managers hire Grade-A people while Grade-B managers hire Grade-C people. The logic is simple; weaker managers hire less competent people because they don’t want competition or conflict. Stronger managers look for people who are competent and motivated people who are able to catapult their organizations to higher levels. …
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Mobile Phone Buyers Flock to Smartphones
Looking for another recession-proof technology to sell or integrate into customer sites? Smartphone unit sales—including units from Nokia, the Apple iPhone, the Google Android-based phone from T-Mobile and RIM’s BlackBerry, among others—climbed to more than 36.4 million units worldwide, a 12.7 percent increase from the same period a year ago, according to a new report…
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Meraki Brings Wireless into the Cloud
Wireless networking provider Meraki has launched a breakthrough Enterprise Wireless local area network (LAN) product line that pushes wireless LAN capabilities into the cloud, allowing solution providers to offer wireless as a service to businesses of any size. The line consists of Meraki’s Enterprise Cloud Controller and two new high-performance 802.11n wireless access points (APs),…
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Tech Data Opens Apple Lab for iPhone, iPod and Apple Computers
While consumers may be the ones buying the iPod, iPhone and Apple computers, many businesses have become more open to integrating these devices into their IT environments, and that spells opportunity for resellers. That’s why IT distributor Tech Data is launching an Apple Lab to help its reseller channel partners and their end customers to…
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HP’s CEO: Not Ready to Call It Better
While Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) and Avnet’s (NYSE:AVT) CEOs have recently mentioned the word “bottom” when referring to the current economic crisis, that’s not a word that was in Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd’s vocabulary during the computer giant’s second-quarter conference call with analysts this week. Instead, HP’s CEO provided a more conservative outlook on the state…