March 8, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
In its glory days, nobody ever thought eBay would hit a slump — especially not in a recession when everybody needs a good deal or wants to unload stuff and raise cash. But eBay did, slump that is, in recent months. And with profits sinking and its market share shrinking, the company’s recasting its online presence: It’s going green.
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Tags: Ebay, green, Greenpeace, marketing, technology
February 10, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
American consumers aren’t buying fewer consumer gadgets and technology items, but they are spending less on tech. That’s the word from NPD group, an organization that keeps track of such things.
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Tags: consumer, electronics, Gadgets, NPD Group, spending, technology
December 21, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
One of the biggest hassles of travel has to be keeping track of those pesky hotel key cards and then trying to remember which way to fit the darned things in the wide variety of door locks. But that may soon change.
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Tags: applications, hotel, key card, marketing, Openways, replace, technology
July 7, 2009 by Sam Narisi
Dell has decided to throw its hat back into the handheld device arena.
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Tags: Blackberry, iphone, technology
April 1, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Talk about building a better mousetrap. Seems like GE has done that in spades — and just in time for all the economic stimulus money to start flowing their way.
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Tags: baggage scanning, certified, GE, General Electric, security, technology, Transportation Security Administration, TSA
February 11, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Most IT managers know really safe computing is tough to pull off. And they probably understand that absolute security is absolutely impossible.
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Tags: computers, cyber security, obama, technology, Web sites
February 3, 2009 by Sam Narisi
You’ve probably made a long list of the tech items you’ll pass up while the economy’s down, but there are some items that are a good
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Tags: benefits management, human resources, intvest, Software, technology
January 19, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
In most cases, budgets are relative. They get trimmed when times are tough and expand when there’s more to spend.
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Tags: bill, broadband access, Economic, health records, stimulus, technology
November 25, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck
Wondering if the “green” efforts many companies are touting these days actually have any impact? A new study released this week is the first to put hard numbers behind those efforts to help the environment.
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Tags: business, green, Smart2020, study, technology
November 24, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck
While it took a little more time than in other industries, the economic slowdown’s hit the tech sector, and orders for both business and consumer tech products have collapsed.
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Tags: Cicso, Intel, sales, spending, technology
