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NING a Lesson on How Not to Treat Your Customers

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Marc Andreessen financed NING is in trouble again, shedding 40% of its employees and dropping free, ad-supported social networks. But what brought the company down wasn’t just a turn in the economy but making a series of terrible decisions that would have a similar effect on any company. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Lynn Fredricks

April 16th, 2010 at 10:35 am

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Trend Micro Innovative Customer Service that Defeats Itself

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The quest for perfect anti-virus software continues. I am fond of Kasparsky Labs anti-virus, however after they inexplicably dropped support for Windows XP Pro SP 1 machines (there are plenty of machines out there that SP 2 will throw into chaos) I decided to give Trend Micro Internet Security a try (we didnt solve the XP SP 1 problem with Trend Micro, it was just an impetus to try something different). After a year put to the test, its sad that what I consider a major feature of Trend Micro to be one of its great failures. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Lynn Fredricks

November 27th, 2007 at 10:11 am