Anith Gopal

Dans la série découverte de l’écosystème Microsoft, je vous invite à redécouvrir cette vidéo de la société Decade qui témoigne d’une solide expérience avec des succès pour le moins significatifs.

Quick update on what we showcased at the 100th National Retail Federation tradeshow here in NYC. I still say “here” because I am experiencing a snow storm that might keep me stuck in NYC for some time. Bill Gonzalez talks about windows 7, windows phone 7 and other technologies that are impacting the retail industry

From kiosks to point-of-sale or digital signage, embedded devices surround you when you are shopping. The retail devices are more and more connected and more and more “intelligent”, able to adapt to the customer using it, able to access inventories easily, able to report a maintenance need

As we discussed yesterday , there have been quite a few instances where Apple’s retail plans have been re-evaluated or changed to meet the needs of the business or traffic in the store. Without further ado, here’s the final installment of my Top 10 Apple Retail Flops.

Microsoft is counting on a turncoat to help jump-start its recently-announced efforts to compete with Apple on the retail store front.

In May of 2001, Apple opened its first retail outlet store in Tysons Corner, Va. It was immediately met by critics and the typical roster of Apple-haters with predictions of doom and massive financial losses

This weekend featured the grand opening of Apple’s latest retail store, Scottsdale Quarter , in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona. As evidenced by looking at the front of the store, this particular store quickly stands out among the rest of Apple’s retail lineup

Apple is working hard to remodel 100 of its stores this year, according to a report in USA Today . The work will include creating more room for product displays and Genius Bar customer training. Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of retail, explained that new tables would provide room for twice the amount of products to be displayed while the average Genius Bar will see a 50 percent space increase.

More and more of Microsoft’s ISV partners are telling us that their customers across industries are striving to get value from their data.  In financial services, they want to do things like optimize portfolios, identify potential business risks and opportunities, and understand best business unit performance.   In Retail, they want a corporate-wide view of the business to optimize inventory levels, and provide faster and more accurate reporting to enable better business decisions.  In Manufacturing, they want to streamline supply chain operations, optimize relationships with partners and customers, understand their best performing divisions and control costs.  These are just samples – there are many other industry applications for Business Intelligence (BI).  If you are an independent software vendor (ISV) who serves these or other industries, you probably want to add BI to your software portfolio, if you haven’t already done so. ISVs have many options for addressing BI needs – you can: Invest in developing your own BI technologies with your favorite set of dev tools Form a partnership with a 3 rd party who already has BI tools that can work side-by-side with your software Adopt a hybrid approach, leveraging extensible BI code and customizing it to your specific application needs With Option 1, you could potentially maximize your revenue, but would also likely maximize your costs.  You could have the most control over the way your code is written, but would potentially be writing “plumbing” code that is not core to your business and might have a steep learning curve

If so, we want to hear from you! We have created a survey to help us better understand how developers and designers are using our tools and SDK to build Microsoft Surface applications. To make this worth your time, we are giving away over 80 prizes, including a $100 gift coupon to a major online retailer! To learn about the official giveaway rules and to complete the survey, visit the “ Survey for Microsoft Surface developers and designers ” page on the Microsoft Surface Community Web site.

If you’re still skittish about being locked in for a lengthy contract and don’t mind the fact that new hardware will almost undoubtedly be hitting the streets in only a couple of short months, and if you have money lying around not doing anything useful, Buy.com has a deal for you, for the low price of $799. That’s the price you’ll pay for a brand-new, in-box, unlocked Apple iPhone from Buy.com . In fact, it’s better than unlocked, it’s never been locked in the first place, so you won’t have to worry about sketchy jailbreaking/unofficial unlocking procedures if you’re not tech-savvy.

Commenter JohnCz recently suggested : Perhaps one day we’ll see WHS OEMs offer a free netbook with WHS purchase.  Or perhaps a WHS bundled with an extender is on the horizon.