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Comment Re:Reinventing the wheel, and getting $$$ for it (Score 5, Informative) 251

by CIANCHAMBLISS on Monday November 26, 2007 @05:37PM (#21484397) Attached to: Football Field-Sized Kite Powers Latest Freighter

The difference between conventional sails and the kite (from the article) - the wind 1000 feet up is going to be stronger than the wind at the surface. Also, with this technology, it looks like it is easier to retrofit the existing fleet of ships with a sail than to add a conventional sail.

Symantec CEO Says Bad Service Fix Only Temporary 116

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 02, 2007 @07:23PM from the better-and-better dept.

Lucas123 writes "Symantec's CEO John Thompson says the company is still struggling with its consolidated ERP system and that it has only thrown bodies and not technology at the post-Veritas buyout issues that created poor customer service. 'I've kind of lost track where we are timing-wise...but we threw an awful lot of head count at this wait-time problem. Wait times from their peak of well over an hour are down to now under two minutes,' he said."

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