eye -opening report advises enterprizes on telecom management expenses

Technology research and consulting firm Aberdeen Group is out with a powerful study entitled " The Cost of Not Acting: The Total Telecom Cost Management Benchmark Report ." "The average Fortune 500 Company reports that telecommunications and related network services are a top-line item expenses accounting for 3.6% of their revenue<" The Report's Executive Summary notes. " Our survey respondents had an average of $30 million in annual telecom expenses ranging from $250 million to $450 thousand." As to the challenges: "Some of the challenges in managing these expenses include decentralized spending, continually changing inventory, complex billing for a wide ...
I'm sure that's welcome news- especially since that Lithium Ion battery technology in your notebook PC may not have all that much room for improvement. That's according to experts cited in a major new Wired magazine piece entitled " Building A Better Battery ." The problem, writer John Hockenberry explains, is that the size and performance of Li-ons, as Lithium-Ion batteries are often referred to, is set by inevitable chemical reactions necessary to make the batteries run. And Moore's Law-which has led to smaller chips and smaller devices, doesn't apply here. The key, Russian-born scientist Tom Krupenkin believes, is something ...
A Computerworld survey of 352 influential decision-maker/readers at enterprise data centers finds that Visual Basic yielded some interesting findings. Perhaps the least surprising of these is that Visual Basic is the most commonly used programming language- in use by companies representing 67% of respondents. Given VB's event-driven nature as well as its superior ability to convert information stored in databases into data displayed in Graphical User Interfaces, Visual Basic's presence in 67% of respondent companies is almost to be expected. The next three runners-up are a lot more surprising-especially since the usage percentage for each of them implies some organizational ...
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by Russel Shaw