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Submission + - Dell's "Direct model" extends to FMCG.

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Michaeltt8

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @02:11AM

Michaeltt8 writes: "Do check out this interview article to read about how Dell's model of "Direct virtual integration" is now being utilized for the FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) industries to compress workload, increase productivity using technology and costs savings to consumers.

Moreover with the ever increasing prices of petrol, unnecessary shipping and logistic arrangements can add to unnecessary cost for customers.

Finally a turnkey system of an Online Hypermarket known as "Demandby.com — Make IT happen" which merges 3 categories of users — buyer, seller & marketer.

from which marketers can assist sellers to get buyers.

marketers offer the personalized touch to add greater trust which is non existent in ecommerce for more trade success.

After marketing, buyers get to deal direct with seller source and the "direct model" actually reduces costs of administration, hence cheaper pricing to buyers.

What Dell has pioneered for the hardware industry, Demandby.com is pioneering the virtual integration for the entire mass market. Click here to read more."

Submission + - *nix systems more likely to be targeted by malware

Submitted by

Jerry Smith

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @02:06AM

Jerry Smith writes: "A Senior Virus Analyst from Kaspersky Lab writeshttp://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=2 04791938: "It's also likely that there will be a significant increase in the number of malicious programs for other operating systems, primarily for MacOS, and for other *nix systems. Gaming consoles such as PlayStation and Nintendo are also likely to be targeted, as the increasing number of such devices and their ability to connect to each other and the Internet will make them a juicy potential target for virus writers." I guess there's software waiting to be sold?"

Submission + - Google Unveils Universal Search

Submitted by

marcog123

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @01:54AM

marcog123 writes: "Google has been expanding its collection of products enormously over the years. A large chunk of these products are search engines, each refined to work well with a specific content type. There's Google News, Maps, Scholar, Code Search — the list goes on. Today Google started combining the efforts of the separate search engines and packaging them into the so-called Universal Search. So now when you search for Steve Jobs you get a mixture of web, image, news and video results all on one page. The upgrade is gradually spreading out, so you might have to wait before you get the new results."

Submission + - "We're halfway there": Sun on Open Source

Submitted by antistrophe on Thursday May 17, 2007 @01:34AM

antistrophe writes: Builder AU has just posted a video interview with Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps of Sun Microsystems. He covers the possibility of forks in Java, GPL v3 and why Sun is living on the prayer of Open Source. Phipps says: "I believe that open source is going to be come the dominant way that software is going to be created over the coming decade."

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