November 2009 Entries
Now that Thanksgiving has passed and increased Black Friday sales are showing hope for the economy - especially for retailers and e-commerce sites this holiday season - it may be time for these businesses to consider some of the biggest issues of high volume shopping: deliverability and consumer fraud/identity theft.
The good news is profits are up and we may just be rising out of this brutal recession. The bad news is fraud and identity theft are also up - by approximately 22% (10 million victims).
Take measures to protect yourself and your customers by instituting some form of verification process in your...
New features on www.cdyne.com for the benefit of our site visitors!
We added a live chat interface for customers to talk to us. Everyone seems to have enjoyed interacting in this new format. Now if we could just get the off-duty staffers to stop pretending to be John Stamos looking for a phone API….
We also decided it was important to highlight our two Web Service packages – Communications and Data Quality – to provide a more simplified view of CDYNE services. We still have all the same services, but they are now categorized by usage. Each package page has a customer...
Got ideas? Need an outlet for your creativity?
Most interesting (CDYNE defines "interesting") idea for use of our Phone Notify! API wins a Dell Mini loaded with Windows 7! No programming is necessary. Free testing of CDYNE's Phone Notify Web Service is available to try out your ideas.
Visit www.cdyne.com/mini for rules and resources. Contest ends December 31, 2009.
The CDYNE Phone Notify Idea contest is also featured on ProgrammableWeb.
In his October 29th blog entry on ZDNet: Cloud cuts everyone's cost of ownership, Phil Wainewright explores the truth behind cloud superiority. Here's a basic summary of the two main points:
The Cloud Trumps Single-Company Performance
The cloud operates on a very high standard, maintaining stellar uptime with increased redundancy and protection from outages. A cloud provider will go to great lengths to ensure that it has value over proprietary systems because of the nature of competition in the marketplace - there is more incentive to be the best.
Aggregate Savings Are Key
Cloud computing infrastructure saves money for individual businesses sharing resources...