Earlier this year, names and sensitive medical information for over 20, 000 Stanford Hospital emergency room patients were discovered to be available online, thanks to the carelessness of a vendor that Stanford worked with.
If trustees are not permitted to limit their liability to pensions or pension participants, why should any vendor to a pension be so permitted?
By integrating all these parts of the company, HP hopes to be known less as a hardware vendor, and more as a higher-margin strategic partner on big projects.
The Internet may not be about to take over, but at these prices, it's hard to imagine how a PC vendor can be a sales leader without an Internet distribution strategy.
Video can be a great way to give a reference for an employee or vendor.
It's a little like the urban legend about a garment vendor who sent a designer coat overseas to be copied, only to get back 10, 000 coats with an identical stain on the sleeve.
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There will be some required purchases: some items, you will be required to procure from a specified vendor.
Can any other IT vendor that claims to be a serious cloud-computing player IBM, SAP, Salesforce.com, Amazon.com, etc.
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Samsung appears to be the primary vendor in the Android ecosystem which continues to grow share with a comprehensive product portfolio and aggressive pricing.
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As buyers are searching for solutions and information around these new technologies, they may not be turning to us a trusted vendor until much later in their decision process.
Essentially, through these types of affiliation agreements, a vendor can be considered to have established an in-state sales force.
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At GM, he consolidated SAP systems, which should give him more clout with customers "Microsoft has wanted to be viewed like IBM--a strategic enterprise vendor, " Helm says.
To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.
It will roll out a service this fall, so any Indian with a mobile phone and a Visa card can transfer funds domestically to any other Visa cardholder for a 2% fee (to be split by the card-issuing bank, mobile phone vendor and Visa).
Of course, getting into a vendor tent Saturday afternoon is proving to be a challenge.
The dream is that, eventually, everything about you--name, address, Social Security number, credit card accounts, medical history and more--will be instantly recognized and ready for secure delivery to a vendor with whom you'd like to do business.
"From a vendor's perspective, it's good to be in the top five and better to be in the top three, " says Milanesi.
It is vital that they are built in a such a way that they can be deployed according to user needs, not vendor dictates.
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As a result, the Hearsay Social Enterprise Architecture is thought to be the only vendor with proven scale, for brands with high volumes of social media pages.
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But Mr. DeBlasio also cast doubt on the rationale for which Deputy Mayor Robert Steel said the city would be willing to consider a private operator: the chance that a for-profit vendor would more readily embrace new technologies and parking systems.
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SlideRocket, an online presentation vendor just bought by VMware, can be used as a tripwire to indicate whether a consumer viewed a presentation.
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Even after the fraud detection third party vendor flags a transaction as fraudulent, every attempt should be made to ensure a wrong denial is not made.
On Tuesday shares in Akamai Technologies, a software company that helps media to stream quickly, fell 4.8% on speculations that it would be dropped as a vendor by Netflix.
In fact, Cisco is the only networking vendor to make its lawful intercept architecture public, a move that should be applauded given that other vendors keep theirs secret to avoid exactly the sort of scrutiny that Cross has applied to the system.
Linux might be doing well to hold its ground on the smartphone, but being so reliant on a single vendor makes it vulnerable.
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As a vendor of wildly popular, high-end consumer gadgets, Apple would seem to be particularly vulnerable.
But, tomorrow there will be mobile payment wristbands you can wave across vendor terminals to buy all sorts of things, maybe even a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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So critical are NGFWs that solutions from different technology vendors are often layered one vendor on top of another to ensure that everything that can be done to isolate a company from the threat of malware has been resolved.
UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.
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