Business Process Outsourcing

Travel, Transportation and Hospitality outsourcing grows

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:49:21 +0000

While the 2Q10 Global TPI Index shows a 13 decline in the global outsourcing market over the past year, it does indicate impressive gains for outsourcing in the Travel, Transportation and Hospitality industry.

As Telegenisys has been supporting this industry from day one we are well placed to grow along with this market segment.

Google accounts key to e-book scheme

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:28:33 +0000

Google Editions Allies with ABA in Ebook War vs. Amazon, Apple

Readers will use their Google accounts to purchase the books directly from Google, whose Google Checkout system will serve as the payment platform.

This is the point that seems to being overlooked by the media. The real battle is between the consumer’s iTunes account and their Google account. Apple and Google own their customers in a way that Amazon can’t match.

Cisco prescribes tablet for Health Care industry

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:04:19 +0000

Cisco is attempting to avoid a direct comparison with the iPad by targeting their Clus tablet as a vertical market platform.

“Cius is aimed at markets in technologically transitional stages, such as education and healthcare.”

The advantage of not having thousands of “cool” apps for your platform is that the worker bees will be less tempted to use them for non-work activities.

Video enhanced eBooks for the iPad

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:29:41 +0000

As PC World notes, the first video enhanced ebooks “are similar to special features you’d find on a DVD.”

Pity that Amazon’s own devices can not support the rich content they can offer on the iPad.

Limited language support in iBooks forces books to be delivered as apps.

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:37:24 +0000

The limitations of the EPUB standard are forcing publishers to offer ebooks for the iPad as apps.

The other obvious advantages are that your catalog is searchable by keywords directly from iTunes and you don’t have to worry about running your own bookstore.

The obvious disadvantages are that since there are no private shared libraries each book is delivered with the entire overhead of an app (even if they all use exactly the same code), your library of books will clutter up the iPad’s “homepage” and each book will have to go through the Apple app review process.