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Photos: Giving old PCs new life

At a factory in Bogota, Colombia, workers refurbish computers to benefit more than 9,500 of the country's public schools. by CNET News.com

Tags: news, pc, colombia, public schools

Image galleries 2008-04-11

Photos: Tech comes to Bogota in small doses

Tech cafes and flat-screen TVs dot Colombia's capital, but you don't have to go far to see a different side of the city. by CNET News.com

Tags: news, colombia

Image galleries 2008-04-09

Colombian University Students Prepare for Global Economy With HP Mobile Computing Grantneeds

When universities cultivate reputations for excellence, they naturally place a high value on technology. That is certainly the case with The School of Management, Finances, and Technology EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia, which has made technology a cornerstone of its academic strategy. EAFIT University is one of the only colleges...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile, Colombia, EAFIT University, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies

Advanced Call Center Solution Improves Efficiency, Delivering Premium Services to Rural Farmers

Juan Valdez is the face of the Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia The National Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers and Cafe de Colombia. The 100% Colombian Coffee logo was developed by the Federation in March 1981. They needed an advanced contact center solution that could handle thousands of calls...

Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Premium Service, Contact Center, Colombia, Juan Valdez, Nortel MPS 500, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-04-18

SAP Project Management Services Seamlessly Integrate Information Assets

ISAGEN S.A, one of Colombia's largest energy companies, is a public utility that generates and distributes electricity, natural gas, coal, steam, and other industrial-use energy to the country's biggest businesses. Energy demand is covered through four hydroelectric plants and one thermoelectric plant. Colombia's top energy company needed to integrate its...

Tags: Asset, Energy Company, SAP AG, Colombia, Project Management, Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2007-03-01

Colombia Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

Screensaver of the beautiful country of Colombia. Pictures from Cartagena, Cali, and Bogota. This screensaver is to fill you desktop with pictures from Colombia. No need to speak Spanish to view the beauty of Colombia.

Tags: Colombia, TIGERSAVER, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-08-25

Policia Nacional de Colombia Systematizes Information to Improve Visibility and Citizen Service

Policia Nacional de Colombia wanted to implement an integrated IT infrastructure to provide quick access, visibility, and information transfer throughout the organization and develop customized software to enable the agency to respond to emergencies and easily replicate the software to all cities The challenge was to systematize emergency calls for...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Colombia, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

Additional Resources

Avaya Case Study: Avon Colombia

Avon Colombia was born in Medellin, the second most populated city in Colombia, South America, where it is dedicated to the development and distribution of cosmetic products via direct sales which gives the company an effective marketing approach with its clients. Change was needed in order to grow the business...

Tags: Avaya Inc., VOIP, Sales Strategy, Telecommunications, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-09-01

Latin America's Printer Online Outperforms the Competition With WebEx

Founded in 1998, Printer Online is a leading provider of full-service printing solutions in Colombia. With five employees servicing customers across Colombia, Printer Online required an efficient way to address the needs of a geographically widespread market. To better serve it's geographically dispersed customers, Printer Online decided to find an...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Printers, Hardware, Peripherals

Case studies 2007-10-01

Destroying a Hard Drive

I have two hard drives I am trying to dispose of. One is from a laptop CTX I had since 1996 - 1GB hard drive!!! And another from a Dell laptop I currently use, which just went bad. I was able to run FDISK on the first one and deleted...

Tags: platter, hard drive, FDISK, Glass Platters

Discussion threads 2008-05-04

Well as I've seen a few people asking about disposing of HDD's recently

I thought that this item that arrived from On Track in my In Box tonight would be interesting.Apparently On Track was given a Drive from Colombia and they managed to recover 99% of the Data on the drive. No mean feat when you consider just what that drive was exposed...

Tags: hard drive, Col, Full-article

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Epicor Software Case Study: AGFA Gevaert

Established in Colombia 9 years ago, AGFA Gevaert Colombia invoices more than 2.5 million dollars per year. As part of a global process of technological actualization, the Belgian firm specialized in the graphical segment, AGFA Gevaert, needed to integrate its information systems located in different databases, under a single system...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Agfa-Gevaert N.V., Strategy, Management

Case studies 2009-03-26

Cyber Quiz: Freedominfo.org Global Survey 2004 reviewed by Dr D.C.Misra

This is an ongoing survey of the state of freedom of information in countries which have adopted comprehensive national laws on access.This version was originally released in September 2003 and amended in April-May 2004 to include four additional countries.This report,third in the series to an updated global survey, shows that...

Tags: freedom of information

Discussion threads 2004-10-22

Bill Clinton

Bill ClintonIf President Bush can say nice things about Bill Clinton, how come no one at this website can ever say anything good about the man?November 19, 2004US President George W Bush paid tribute to predecessor Bill Clinton today as "not the kind to give up a fight", putting aside...

Tags: Bill Clinton, Bush, George W. Bush, jardinier, off-topic

Discussion threads 2004-11-19

Active Directory and Grace Login Limits

What is the limits for grace logins in an Active Directory. I need to change the value to permit more logins and more opportunities to login without lock the account.Thanks,Jairo CardenasColombiagrace? meaning unsuccessful log on attempts? its whatever the admin sets it as and that users arent unduly...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Active Directory, jcardenas, windows, grace

Q&A 2005-04-01

The everything server

The everything serverI am an IT consultant for small buisnesses. I am working with a company that wants: vpn connection to a remote office, their specialized database to run better, get their printers out from under their desktops so that they can shutdown a computer and still be able to...

Tags: cat1service@..., cost, hardware, Linux, server, vpn

Discussion threads 2005-08-15

Hiccups cause death

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-01-25T144522Z_01_N24163507_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLOMBIA-HICCUPS.xmlNo Comment... This one is just way to easy.Like you said ... way too easyI dont know whether to laugh or to laugh ...]:)CarefulSometimes excessive laughing can causehic-cupshiccupsI find this story to be a little offensive as my 30 year old sun had intractable hiccups caused by a botched operation....

Tags: Jaqui

Discussion threads 2006-01-25

Review: A new way to make VoIP calls

There are a number of ways to make telephone calls using theInternet instead of the traditional telephone company network PSTN. You candownload soft-phone software such as Skype to your PC and use your computer'smicrophone and speakers or a headset to make calls through its service.For home or small business use,...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Deb Shinder, Jajah, telephone, VoIP

Technical articles 2007-03-09

Human chips more than skin-deep

Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest e-newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...

Tags: Network technology, SECURITY, RFID, chip, privacy

Technical articles 2004-08-23

Answers to your burning career questions

Tim Heard answers your career questions about .NET training and finding a work-at-home contract.We often get career questions from the Builder.com community. Tim Heard has some answers.Question: What kind of job can .NET help me get?I’m software engineer in Oregon, where the job market is extremely soft. I’ve been working...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Tim Heard, Microsoft .NET, software, career

Technical articles 2002-06-14