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How to Manage Your Team for Sales Success
As I was refilling my bookshelves I found the following bullets from Dale Carnegie & Associates, copyright 1967 and updated 1981. All the information is highly pertinent for today’s biggest sales management challenges; my white paper on The Job of Sales Management that is located on my Website is somewhat similar but specific to the…
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WatchGuard Strengthens Email Security Appliances
WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of business security solutions, released a software update to its extensible content security family of Web and messaging security appliances. This software release allows businesses to employ data loss prevention features, content and policy controls for accelerating Web traffic and spam and phishing prevention technologies. For more granular data loss prevention…
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Acer’s Aspire Ethos Notebooks Sport Removable Touchpads
Acer America has designed its latest notebook PCs — the Aspire Ethos AS8951G and AS5951G — to deliver a high-definition personal theater experience for a range of activities, including graphic-intensive gaming, video streaming and viewing of high-definition DVDs, photography and videos. This is aided by the notebooks’ detachable touchpad that doubles as a remote control.…
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Itanium Battle Between HP, Oracle Heads to Court
Hewlett-Packard’s rapidly disintegrating relationship with Oracle is threatening to spill over into the courtroom again, now that HP is suing the software giant over its abandonment of Intel s Itanium processor platform. A week after HP officials sent a demand letter to Oracle essentially warning of a lawsuit over the issue, they followed through June…
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Citigroup Reveals More Than 350,000 Cards Affected After Data Breach
Citigroup officials are saying now that 360,083 credit card accounts were accessed in the data breach this month, far more than the 210,000 they originally estimated. Citigroup released the revised tally in a letter to customers June 15. The release came after Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said the company was not giving out enough…
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RIM Revenue Down for Q1, 500,000 Playbooks Shipped
Research In Motion earned $4.9 billion in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2012, down 12 percent from the previous quarter. Net income also declined, and RIM executives on a June 16 earnings call acknowledged that the BlackBerry maker is undergoing a turbulent period in its long history. RIM s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, a…