Dore Gold discusses the Iranian nuclear threat on David Frost, Al-Jazeera
Voice of America
Harvard negotiation expert Robert Mnookin gives a grim prediction of Iran’s nuclearization over the next 20 years. He says the United States should try to engage Iran, but posits that there is “no good military option.”
How would a US-Iran war begin?
Beneath the hype Pt.5: Ray McGovern and Greg Thielmann on the potential catalysts to armed conflict in Iran.
WHY CRM?
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Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with customers and sales prospects.
It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales related activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support.
The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new customers, nurture and retain those the company already has, entice former customers back into the fold, and reduce the costs of marketing and customer service, while improving the customer experience, and boost the productivity of customer-facing staff.
It generally denotes a company-wide business strategy embracing all customer-facing departments and even beyond. When an implementation is effective, people, processes, and technology work in synergy to develop and strengthen relationships, increase profitability, and reduce operational costs.
Customer relationship management tools have been shown to help companies attain these objectives:
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Check out this link which points out the great marketing hype with questionable financial payback by Forbes who considers the HYPE angle…
“Company’s chief, K.R. Sridhar, said on 60 Minutes, suggests the company’s cell costs $9,000 to $10,000 per kilowatt of capacity. Compare that with roughly $2,000 for wind and $5,000 for solar, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration.”
Without question when Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invests it must know something beyond our dreams, click this link and now watch:
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the CBS 60 minute segment.
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Developing solid oxide regenerative fuel cells (SORFC) – renewable electrical energy generated from hydrogen and the oxygen in ambient air.
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NetWitness a firm tracking the latest cyber assualts reports a massive coordinated attack.
February 18, 2010 | NetWitness Discovers Massive ZeuS Compromise
“Kneber Botnet” Targets Corporate Networks and Credentials
“HERNDON , VA – February 18, 2010 – NetWitness, the world leader in advanced persistent threat detection and real-time network forensics, announced today that its analysts have discovered a dangerous new ZeuS botnet affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizations around the world. The newly-discovered infestation, dubbed the “Kneber botnet” after the username linking the infected systems worldwide, gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information to miscreants who can use it to break into accounts, steal corporate and government information, and replicate personal, online and financial identities.”
Source: NetWitness
State of Enterprise Security
Symantec. 2010. State. Enterprise. Security. IT Study Results
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