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Posted April 9, 2010 by Jeff V.
Posted March 22, 2010 by Jeff V.
The products made by midrange companies are neither exceptional enough to justify premium prices nor cheap enough to win over value-conscious consumers. Furthermore, the squeeze is getting tighter every day. Thanks to economies of scale, products that start out mediocre often get better without getting much more expensive—the newest Flip, for instance, shoots in high-def and has four times as much memory as the original—so consumers can trade down without a significant drop in quality. Conversely, economies of scale also allow makers of high-end products to reduce prices without skimping on quality. A top-of-the-line iPod now features video and four times as much storage as it did six years ago, but costs a hundred and fifty dollars less. At the same time, the global market has become so huge that you can occupy a high-end niche and still sell a lot of units. Apple has just 2.2 per cent of the world cell-phone market, but that means it sold twenty-five million iPhones last year.
Posted January 12, 2010 by Jeff V.
Fascinating article from Brad Stone stating that, quite simply, the unflagging rate of tech advancement is creating mini generation gaps whereby these mini-generations can be identified and grouped by what technology they grow up with during formative years. Makes perfect sense, because more than once I’ve observed that young kids today are familiar with an iPhone in a way that kids of eight years ago are not. My son, now 5, tries to touch, swipe and pinch the screen of every mobile phone he comes across. Eight years ago, kids would have been introduced to a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile phone or something from Nokia and then introduced to an iPhone.
Posted September 25, 2009 by Jeff V.
I am going to provide you two sets of links today. One set of links you should not click if you want to be anything resembling productive; the other you can click and still salvage your workday.
The first set comes to you courtesy of Jason Kottke, who has decided to post some of the most addictive Flash games on the Internet on a single page. Games like Hedgehog Launch 1 and 2, Shields of Gemland, Max Damage, and UPGRADE COMPLETE will devour your day faster than Usain Bolt tears through the 40. If you have willpower and can make yourself stop upgrading your hedgehog thrusters, check them out. If you’re prone to losing hours on end in good games, don’t go here. Here’s the bonus link – if you’re looking for a job in iGaming. It won’t be just a flesh wound.
The other set of links, however, is pure brilliance offered by the Internet, and you should click them if you’re interested in such mundane things as society, life and culture.
As experienced PeopleSoft Payables clients know, the system delivers the standard payment methods including paper checks printed by the system and EFT/ACH, in addition to globally-standard payment methods. Also, utilizing procurement cards have been a longstanding approach to decentralize payment processing and reconciliation to the user. Vendor ghost cards can be used to process payments per-vendor, per-card which, of course, requires the maintenance of multiple cards.
But, the exciting news is that a new settlement method gaining momentum is paying the vendor invoices directly from PeopleSoft Payables using a credit card through the VISA network to the vendor’s VISA account. This method works in lieu of exchanges between a client’s bank and vendor banks. In the eyes of many organizations, this is both more secure and convenient, with the added benefit of having the insulation and benefit of the VISA network. A lot of people is planning their holidays, some of them are planning on travel to another countries like Canada, if you like to know more about Canada visit this article https://www.canada-eta.ca/fr/trois-des-plus-grandes-entreprises-au-canada/.
Following is an strawman agreement for this settlement method. Every agreement of this nature will be different, but the following illustrates how it works.
Posted September 14, 2009 by Jeff V.
I love what Oracle has to say – and the attitude with which it says it — to Sun Microsystems customers in a recent print ad. This was placed on the front page of the European edition of The Wall Street Journal.
The only oddity is that there is no mention of MySQL’s future, which has been an outstanding concern since the Sun acquisition.
Nonetheless, this is quite the brazen ad for an enterprise software (and now hardware) company.
We’ve talked about PeopleSoft Real Estate Management (REM) before, but I want to take a moment to highlight an example of two common pains that many companies endure before realizing they need a full REM solution. Like everything else, this is an exercise in tipping points: your tools work well enough until one day, frustration and complexity and lack of functionality gain critical mass and you begin searching for something better.
Let me be clear: Microsoft Excel – what most companies use until they realize they have created a bit of an XLS monster – is a great tool, but it quickly crumbles under its own weight when its forced to keep track of buildings, valuations, depreciation and lease renewals across lots of physical locations.
Below is an illustration of only two pain points that I see very frequently with clients who are looking to graduate to a full REM solution.
Posted June 19, 2009 by Jeff V.
This was the question asked of over 50 people of different ages, races and occupations in New York’s Times Square. The wide range of answers is fascinating.
Posted June 4, 2009 by Jeff V.
Looks like the iPhone had better bring its game face to WWDC and OS 3.0, because the Pre isn’t kidding around. It gets high marks for its WebOS, which allows real app multitasking, and reviewers unanimously praise its OS speed, browser, screen and overall user interface/experience.
It gets nicked for a fairly poor keyboard, some random crashing/hanging issues (to be completely expected with first-gen OS and hardware) and a few memory management issues. Not to mention a nearly-nonexistent App Catalog to rival Apple’s App Store.
Bottom line: the Pre – especially once Palm offers an SDK and gets a robust App Catalog going – pushes the high-end touchscreen smartphone market forward in several big ways. The Pre might not be the iPhone killer (I’ll wait to see what comes out of WWDC before judging that), but it’s the closest we’ve seen so far.
Here is a roundup of the early Pre reviews on the web right now.

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