Tag Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft tries plan B with Hohm energy app
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.–Disappointed with the uptake of its Hohm Web application for home energy efficiency, Microsoft is shifting the product focus to emphasize electric-vehicle charging, according to a company executive. Microsoft launched Hohm almost two years ago as a free application for consumers to monitor energy use and get tips on how to improve efficiency. … Continue reading
Microsoft: IT industry not energy efficient enough
The IT industry is not doing enough to improve its energy efficiency, Microsoft’s chief environmental strategist has claimed. Speaking to the Guardian, Rob Bernard explained around 80 per cent of businesses are not addressing the issue of energy saving, blaming a lack of behavioural change toward energy efficiency rather than limited technology.Indeed, manufacturers are working … Continue reading
Microsoft Kin Gets a Price Cut from Verizon Wireless
By Marisa Torrieri TMCnet Editor In April, Microsoft (News – Alert) introduced a couple of great Kins, but it still doesn’t look like the computing giant making a big splash in the mobile phone world – at least not with consumers. In an article published Tuesday, Wall Street Journal reporter John Letzing noted that less than … Continue reading
Microsoft Reports Windows 7 Sales at 150 Million as it Launches Live Essentials
By Ed Silverstein TMCnet Contributor Microsoft (News – Alert) has sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses in eight months – representing more than 600,000 copies per day.“And, perhaps fittingly for a product called Windows 7, it adds up to 7 copies every second of every day since launch,” according to a blog post last week from … Continue reading
Microsoft Business Solutions Partner Leverages WebOps TMM on Microsoft Dynamics Ax Platform
By Madhubanti Rudra TMCnet Contributor In business since 2005, Olive-3 Technologies has made its mark as a provider of “on-demand” and “on-premise” operations management solutions to manufacturers and distributors. A Microsoft (News – Alert) Business Solutions partner, Olive-3 specializes in deploying Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP and its proprietary process-centric operations management software solutions that extend Microsoft … Continue reading
iProlog Helps Qchex.Com Introduce Check Creation Solutions for Microsoft and Adobe
By Raja Singh Chaudhary , TMCnet ContributorQchex.com, a provider of electronic document transmission and printing solutions for financial and non-financial applications, has announced the rollout of Word-Check-Form check templates for Microsoft (News – Alert) Word and PDF-Check-Form check templates for Adobe Acrobat. With the help of these check templates, a huge number of consumers and businesses … Continue reading
Microsoft Kick-Starts Dynamic Business Week
By Anshu Shrivastava, TMCnet Contributor Microsoft has announced Dynamic Business Week to help customers get the most from their investment in Microsoft Dynamics. The company’s vision of its Dynamic Business is focused on simplifying the user experience, bringing forth new innovations and delivering value through familiar business solutions. Based on the Microsoft (News – Alert) Dynamics … Continue reading
Seagate’s i365 Partners with Microsoft to offer EVault for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
By Hans Lewis TMCnet Contributor In order to create a heterogeneous solution that allows IT managers to extend DPM 2010 across non-Microsoft platforms and into the cloud, i365, a Seagate (News – Alert) Company, by using their EVault data protection software and Cloud-Connected storage solutions infrastructure announced that the company has joined the Microsoft System Center … Continue reading
VUE Software Moves Its SaaS Solutions to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform
By Nathesh, TMCnet Contributor VUE Software, a provider of industry-specific business technology solutions, has stated that they are moving software as a service (SaaS (News – Alert)) versions of the VUE Compensation Management and VUE IncentivePoint solutions to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. According to the company, VUE IncentivePoint, a Web-based incentive compensation solution with native … Continue reading
Health Plan Sales Solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM launched by Microsoft
By Calvin Azuri, TMCnet Contributor Microsoft (News – Alert) Corp. has announced the Health Plan Sales Solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, at the AHIP Institute 2010. The announced solution is a strategic sales and service-enabled customer relationship management (CRM) platform which will enable health plans to quickly and easily move their marketing and sales processes to … Continue reading