Pricing Strategy
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Mobile operators: It's time to get personal
Insight The recession is making life harder than ever for mobile operators. A U.K.-based analyst looks at how customer relationship management can help.
Tags: Development/design, Network infrastructure, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Mobile, Operator, CRM, marketing, average revenue per user, customer service
Azure evangelist tackles cloud doubts
Insight newsmaker Microsoft's Mark Taylor talks about issues ranging from risk and resilience to private clouds and interoperability.
Tags: Business applications, Cloud computing, Service level management, Cloud, Akamai Technologies Inc., Database, Azure, SLA, Community Technology Preview, Cloud computing
Virtualization: Get the contract right
Insight perspective Virtualization promises many business benefits--but only if you structure the agreement correctly. Lawyer Mark O'Conor offers some advice.
Tags: Virtualization, Software licensing, Cost control, Security, business continuity, intellectual property, Hardware, service provider, agreement, pricing strategy
Vodafone to sell the iPhone next year
News Operator has followed Orange in announcing it will stock Apple's smartphone in the UK market, as O2's exclusivity on the handset draws to a close.
Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, Networking, O2 Plc., Apple Inc., T-Mobile, Apple iPhone, Vodafone Group Plc., pricing strategy, incentive
Report: Apple eyes Mac pricing cuts
News Faced with a poor economy and demand for cheap netbooks, Apple could be considering changes to the price of its most popular Macs, according to a report.
Tags: Pricing strategy, Consumer Technology, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple Macintosh, Notebook, computer, Pricing strategy, ASUS, industry
Cutting costs sensibly
Blogs I've been quiet for a while, watching how people in our industry will react to the ongoing global economic turmoil. O...
Neverending cost cutting objectives
Blogs In the current economic climate, cost cutting measures are still at the top of the agenda for many firms, so I thought i...
Outsourced or not, demand must be managed
Blogs We all want to improve the economics of our cost centers, whether we insource or outsource them. Most of these cost ...
Complacency has no place in IT
Blogs It was on April Fools' Day at the turn of the millennium that the Singapore telecommunications market was fully liberali...
How to recession-proof IT
Techguide In the current economic environment, IT is well positioned to make a compelling case for strategic spending that can help weather the storm.
Tags: Strategy, Cost control, IT budgeting, Asset/resource/knowledge management, CFO, Fortune 500, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, CIO, recession
E-commerce sales: So far, not a disaster
News Online sales are keeping pace with last year--no small achievement considering the depth of the U.S. recession.
Tags: Search, Web browsers, Web sites, E-business, Sales, Digital Equipment Corp., CEO, recession, ComScore Networks Inc., Eric Schmidt
IBM takes on Google with LotusLive iNotes
News IBM's cloud-based email and calendar service is more than 10 percent cheaper than the rival Google Apps Premier.
Tags: Cloud computing, Google Inc., IBM Corp., Online Collaboration, contact management, Cloud computing, ZDNet, vice president, Google Apps, Google Gmail
McAfee may head into UTM space
News Security firm's acquisition of Secure Computing lent it "some elements of unified threat management", and there could be more related buyouts, says APAC head.
Tags: Network security, Security applications/tools, Antivirus software, Security, Secure Computing Corp., India, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Product Integration, McAfee Inc.
Fujitsu's IaaS keeps data in the UK
News A new U.K.-based infrastructure-as-a-service platform promises to alleviate worries about online services sending data overseas.
Tags: Cloud computing, Security, Storage, On-demand, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., high-performance, data protection, data center
EC cool on data-roaming regulation
News The European Commission's director general of telecoms says data usage should be easier for roaming consumers to measure, but says data-roaming price caps "should be avoided".
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile, Regulation, Europe, T-Mobile, Emerging Market, SIM card, VoIP, European Commission, consultant
