A career in sales is supposed to be lucrative and fulfilling, not frustrating. Good salespeople consistently close deals and increase their earnings, developing wide networks of happy customers along the way. Why, then, do so many salespeople struggle to live out the professional success of their dreams? Drive, training, persistence, and empathy all impact sales […]
Tag Archives: Products
5 Ways Pinterest Can Make Products More ‘Touchable’
In a virtual world, physical retailers should pin like a boss.
Meet Hop The Robot Suitcase, Your New Travel Companion
Your next suitcase might follow close at your heels as you make your way through the airport. Tell Roomba to clear out space in the closet.
Aqua Notes: For When Inspiration Strikes In The Shower
If you do your best thinking in the shower, you either have soggy wads of paper on the floor or a lot of forgotten ideas. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Voice & Gesture Control: Beyond Touch With Windows 8
If Intel has its way, touch will be just one of the ways to control Windows 8 ultrabooks. The chipmaker is looking to add voice commands and Kinect-like gestures for what it calls “perceptual computing.”
Why the New Chromebook Still Doesn’t Cut It
Can a computer that is slightly more expensive than others with the same components, doesn’t run the software people are accustomed to, relies on users to store their personal treasures on someone else’s cloud, and may or may not recognize the devices plugged into it, really find success? Are we really asking this question as though the…
Easel.ly Makes Infographics Easy… But Should It?
Infographics are still a thing with a lot of companies, if my inbox is any indication. Easel.ly, a service that recently debuted in beta, is making it easy to create infographics online. Whether it should is another question.
The Rise of Beautiful Apps
A noticeable trend this year is beautiful apps or websites. It’s all part of a larger trend that I’m calling The Visual Web, meaning that images and video are becoming an increasingly important part of what we consume online. Pinterest is the best example of that larger trend. But by “beautiful apps or websites,” I’m specifically referring to…
Red Hat Storage 2.0 Could Bridge the File System/Big Data Gap
It could be the killer combination of server technologies: unified object storage with sharded, distributed big data. Imagine Hadoop clusters whose locales transcend both geographies and clouds, and whose contents can be addressed the same way as any other file. It could help bridge the current gap between big data clusters and regulated…
$700 Ultrabooks Won’t Challenge the MacBook Air
Steve Jobs, the late Apple chief executive, famously claimed that his company did not know how to make a $500 mobile computer that was not a “piece of junk.” That was in 2008, when cheap, mini-laptops called netbooks were all the rage and Apple took heat for not having a competitor.
Today, Windows PC makers are trying to use price to grab market…
Check Point’s ThreatCloud Blocks Browsers’ Access to Bots
If security engineers could simply pool their intelligence, wouldn’t that help thwart Internet clients’ access to known, malicious agents?
Check Point – the producer of security appliances and software that came to prominence after its acquisition of ZoneAlarm – takes a key step toward building a collective detour system for malicious agents…
MokaFive’s Secure, Cloud-like Data Vault for iPad, iPhone Aims to Please Users and IT
This morning, managed desktop provider MokaFive is launching a new approach to solving two of the most pressing issues facing IT and security professionals: the infusion of consumer devices – notably the iPad – into corporate data centers; and enterprise workers turning to consumer cloud storage services like Dropbox and Box.net to save and share…
Salesforce.com’s Desk.com Aims to Replace Outlook, SharePoint in the Call Center
Last September, a cloud-based customer-service session manager built on the Salesforce platform called Assistly made a big splash at the Dreamforce ’11 convention. Within weeks, Assistly found itself acquired by Salesforce, with the intention of making it the engine behind its Desk.com domain.
Now Assistly has become Desk.com, and in an…
3 Approaches to Securing Identity in the Cloud
There’s one big problem with the growing number of cloud-based applications and platform services, and it’s growing faster than its prospective solutions: They typically handle authentication for their users by themselves. And when they do enable OAuth or another method to share authentication duties between services and sites, their…
Lantronix Has iPad Print Server Solution
Once in a blue moon, I actually get a device that does what it says it does and works effortlessly out of the box. This is one of those rare times. If your company has iPads and other iThings on its network, one of the frustrations is not being able to print from them. In the past, you needed a printer that was designed for iPrint (such as the HP…
Become Your Own Techmeme: Curating Big Data in the Cloud
Easily the largest contributors to ReadWriteWeb’s overall traffic on any given day include technology news aggregation services, one of them being Techmeme. It’s a service that pulls interesting headlines from amid the ever-flowing sea of content, and compiles them into an amalgamated front page of what’s happening; it’s directed toward a…
Autodesk Uses Cloud Computing to “Fix” PLM
PLM is far from the sexiest acronym floating around the Internet these days. Short for Product Lifecycle Management, PLM is often thought of as an esoteric offshoot of the equally obscure PDM, or Product Design Management – the way engineers track control technical data related to a particular product.
PLM is like PDM on steroids, extending the…
SlideShark Becomes a Turnkey Mobile Preso Viewer for New Box Platform
Earlier this year, my colleague David Strom shared with you the sudden rise of a mobile presentation tool called SlideShark. It was a fairly simple concept to begin with: Upload a PowerPoint presentation to Brainshark’s servers, and then deploy that presentation to multiple recipients who can watch them from their mobile devices. Think YouTube…
If Windows 7 “Simplifies” the PC, What Does Windows 8 Do to It?
On the day that Windows 7 was generally released in October 2009, Microsoft announced that it was “simplifying” the PC. It was a long awaited, much appreciated response to nearly three years of wrestling with the sea of sloth that was Windows Vista.
My review of Windows 7 was both notorious and, even in hindsight, correct. I called it “Vista…
The New Blueprint for App Provisioning: VMware’s Application Director
The presumed “elasticity” of cloud technology tends to fall apart whenever the bindings change. That is, when a virtual machine or virtualized application relies upon the specific configuration of the hardware providing its infrastructure, it isn’t exactly cloud-like when you have to migrate that element to a new host. You often find yourself…