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Web Time Consumption Trends

Have you wondered how people use their online time? Apparently it looks like this:

  • Viewing content: 47% (was 34% in 2003)
  • Searching: 5% (was 3% in 2003)
  • Online shopping: 15% (was 20% in 2003)
  • Emailing: 33% (was 46% in 2003)

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Living In A Client-Server Era

Everyone in the civilised world knows that we’re living in the age of the Internet. Information about virtually anything is available just by entering words in a form field. Upon clicking the Search button, thousands of search results appear on our monitors almost instantaneously.

All these my friends, is made available to us by the client-server model.

Clients are computers requesting information from a resource. Servers are the information resources. Most of the time there will be a whole lot more clients requesting information than servers that actually dishes them out.

Hence, running a server properly requires investment not only in infrastructure, but also in technical know-how. Servers should be properly configured, well tuned, and robust enough to perform under load.

Regardless of who you are, as long as you use a network of some sort, chances are that you’ll interact with a server one way or another. Bear in mind that servers are not purely hardware. Software are just as important an equation when it comes to server. All the best hardware are useless without properly written software to make use of the resources.

Servers are so prevalent nowadays that server news are not only followed by techies but also managers, analysts and entrepreneurs. Frankly, I’m not surprised. At this exact moment, there’s probably trillions of dollars worth of data stored in servers around the world… and I don’t see this trend reversing any time soon.

Email Is Dead! Long Live Email!

Almost every new shiny web tools pop up somewhere on the Internet using terms like productivity booster, streamlined communications, one-stop contact point and the like. All claiming to be the next best thing since email.

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Alcatel-Lucent launches OmniTouch Contact Center

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Kuala Lumpur, July 3, 2007Alcatel-Lucent (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today launches the Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch Contact Center Premium Edition, a contact center solution designed to answer mid-market businesses needs. This latest contact center solution bundles the industry-leading Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX platform with Genesys 7 software, taking a “user-centric” approach that provides an advanced multimedia contact center with a fully centralized, graphical management environment that simplifies deployment and boosts customer value. Its features include call qualification, management of real-time business conditions, and innovative collaboration capabilities that link agents, experts and customers.

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Alcatel-Lucent Bags Third NGN Infrastructure Vendor Of The Year Award

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Kuala Lumpur, June 18, 2007 - Alcatel-Lucent (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today announced that it has been named the 2007 Next Generation (NGN) Infrastructure Vendor of the Year in Asia Pacific by global growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan. This is the third time Alcatel-Lucent has received the prestigious award which recognizes the exceptional growth that Alcatel-Lucent experienced in the area of NGN in 2006. The award was presented at the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards banquet, held in Singapore. Alcatel-Lucent also received this award in 2004 and 2006.

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