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IVR helps virtual shopping mall with seasonal hiring frenzy

When QVC, the world’s leading virtual retailer, ramps up for the holiday season, it supplements its call centers with up to 2,000 temporary employees to handle the enormous influx of phone orders. Telecasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week to 85 million households in the United States, the...

Tags: QVC, Debra Young, call-center, hiring, IVR

Technical articles 2003-06-23

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Tuning Into 24x7 Availability and Fast Scalability With a Server and Storage Management Solution From Symantec

At QVC Japan, fast growth and the processing demands of backup were putting great stress on the business-critical order fulfillment system. Implementing Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC for greater availability, they chose VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC to reduce backup time to two hours and CPU usage from 90...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Storage Management, Storage, Scalability, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management

Case studies

CKDS Web TV (exe)

CKDS Web TV offers more than 1,000 channels like 10tv Newsbreak, BBC Liquid News, BBC News 24, Solent TV, Solent TV Extra Extra, TTV, ABC Alaska, CCTV Chinese News, BidUP-TV 80k, Gems TV Gold, Gems TV Silver, Ideal Vitality, Ideal World, Nation 217, Price Drop TV, QVC, Thane Live 24/7,...

Tags: Web TV, British Broadcasting Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2006-03-20

How to tell if you are having Thanksgiving Dinner with geeks...

Signs You're Having Thanksgiving Dinner with a Geek 11. Dark meat is separated from white meat using a light probe. 10. Everyone mentions broadband, Linux or dual-core processors in their "I am thankful for..." speech. 9. A round of Counter-Strike: Source determines who gets to carve the turkey. 8....

Tags: dinner, game, geeks, Mickster269, off-topic, thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Dinner

Discussion threads 2005-11-22

Give an old Mac new life by turning it into an iWipe

MountingYou need to mount it on the wall. You're gonna fall of the seat trying to get to it.HilariousI have an old mac classic similar to that. I was just about to thro it out.. May change my mindiWipe-out!Need to be on a stool so you can reach...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, hardware, iWipe, paper, Seeker532@..., Stool, toilet

Discussion threads 2005-11-18