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National Construction Estimator 2009 (Windows)

Craftsman's National Estimator program is quick to learn and allows you to create construction estimates using any or all of Craftsman Book Company's national cost databases - framing & finish carpentry, general construction, electrical, plumbing & HVAC, renovation & insurance repair, repair & remodeling, home improvement, painting and concrete &...

Tags: Estimate, Craftsman Book, Craftsman, Costs, Construction, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Taxes, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2008-12-14

Amazon feeling first pinch of holiday economic slump

The uncertainty surrounding the economy is starting to impact brand names that have become synonymous with online holiday shopping - notably Amazon. Lazard Capital analyst Colin Sebastian lowered estimates for Amazon's Q3, FY 2008 and FY 2009 this morning, noting in an investor's report that, despite its gains in e-commerce...

Tags: Holiday, Estimate, Amazon.com Inc., E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Estimate 2.02 (Windows)

M8 Estimate is a generic costing and estimating system suitable for any trade or profession. It is based on these simple principles: You create a price list. You create a simple estimate by choosing items from your price list and inserting the quantity. Once estimates have been saved, they in...

Tags: Estimate, U.K., M8 Estimate, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-05-24

Cashboard Timer 1.1 (Windows)

Easily track your time and submit it to an online estimate and invoicing solution. Bring up the widget, press start and go do your work. The timer keeps running in the background. When youre finished, come back to send the time directly into your Cashboard account. This version is the...

Tags: Estimate, Subimage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-08-01

Demystify software estimation to achieve better control over your project and meet your project goals

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome, but to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them. Problems arise when the gap between the business targets and the schedule and effort needed...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Press, Estimate, Tools & Techniques, Management

Book chapters 2007-06-28

5-Minute Estimate Construction Version 5.07 (Windows)

5-Minute Estimate for the construction industry, the standard version coming with the Craftsman's National General Construction Cost book database containing over 28000 accurate costing items, that can be localized to your postal area, all at the click of a button. 5-Minute Estimate is a feature-packed, easy-to-use estimating tool. 5-Minute Estimate...

Tags: Estimate, Westsoft Business Solutions, 5-Minute Estimate, Sales Strategy, Productivity, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Windows, Sales, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-30

Bid-n-Invoice Lawn Care 2.2 (Windows)

Bid-n-Invoice Lawn Care is an estimate and invoice program for the Lawn Care professional. No expensive forms to buy just use blank computer paper. This software program allows you to print estimates, invoices, work orders, credit/refund statements and past due notices. Flexible billing, you can invoice customers weekly, bi-weekly, monthly,...

Tags: Estimate, Bid-n-Invoice Software, Bid-n-Invoice Lawn Care, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-19

Bid-n-Invoice Office Cleaning 2.2 (Windows)

Bid-n-Invoice Office Cleaning is an estimate and invoice program for the office cleaning professional. No expensive forms to buy just use blank computer paper. This software program allows you to print estimates, invoices, work orders, credit/refund statements and past due notices. Flexible billing, you can Invoice customers weekly, bi-weekly, monthly,...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Estimate, Bid-n-Invoice Software, Bid-n-Invoice Office Cleaning, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-19

Estimation Blues

Both while preparing estimates for bidding in a competitive process or for inclusion in a business case (justification report, etc.) for internal projects, the project manager is faced with the challenging task of providing time and effort estimates based on a fuzzy, high-level description of the project scope. At this...

Tags: Estimate, Productivity

White papers 2005-10-17

EstimatesPlease 1.2.0.1 (Windows)

If you make client estimates, estimate current or future sales, estimate amounts of items or go through complex scenarios then EstimatesPlease is the calculator for you. Just enter what you know for an estimate, or an approximate amount. Just click and you have your lowest possible-case estimate, your highest possible-case...

Tags: Estimate, Berdwire, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sales

Software downloads 2005-09-20

Anthropomotron 1.0.1 (Mac)

Anthropomotron is a program designed to help physical anthropologists calculate various estimates based on measurements of human bones. Anthropomotron streamlines the estimation of sex, stature, body mass, skeletal population estimates MNI and MLNI, and various skeletal indices.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Estimate, Chantastisoft, Anthropomotron, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-02-28

Gartner EMEA PC shipments report

Preliminary EMEA PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for Q1 2004 Thousands of UnitsCompany1Q041Q04 Market 1Q031Q03 MarketGrowth (%) ShipmentsShare (%)ShipmentsShare (%) 1Q03-1Q04Hewlett-Packard2,35015.8%2,07316.3%13.4%Dell Inc1,65611.1%1,2079.5%37.2%Fujitsu Siemens9776.6%7996.3%22.3%Acer9076.1%5194.1%74.8%IBM6504.4%5023.9%29.5%Others 8,32056.0%7,62259.9%9.2%Total 14,860100%12,722100%16.8%Note: Data Includes Deskbound, Mobile and IA Servers.Source: Gartner Preliminary Estimates, April 2004

Tags: Estimate, Shipments Share

Blog posts 2004-04-18

Doppler Spread Estimation for Wireless OFDM Systems

This paper presents a method for estimating the Doppler spread in mobile Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM systems. The estimation is based on finding the autocorrelation function of time domain channel estimates over several OFDM symbols. In OFDM systems channel estimation is popularly performed in frequency domain. Channel frequency response...

Tags: Estimate, University Of South Florida, OFDM, Wireless

White papers

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Firefox 3.1 beta 3 code freeze slated for Jan 13 -- maybe

The code freeze for the third beta of Firefox 3.1 is scheduled for next Tuesday but could slip if Javascript bugs are not resolved soon. During the team's weekly meeting, developer Rob Sayre flagged the Javascript engine blockers as a potential risk to the planned code freeze...

Tags: Developer, Team, Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Beta 3, Web Browsers, Team Management, Internet, Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Welcome to the Consumer Electronics Show. Sales Are Flatlining.

The semi-annual forecast of industry sales for consumer electronics makers just came out. And the projection is that, despite the transition to digital TV and lust for portable electronics of all types, sales are going down this year. Not by much. Percentage-wise,...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-08

2009: The year in preview

2009: The year in previewApple should acquire Yahoo!I think Apple should acquire Yahoo!This would essentially create three strong companies (Google/Apple/Microsoft) with similar technology, service & talent ecosystems. Excellent for competition!It would benefit Apple because:- they would gain excellent web assets (Flickr, Yahoo Mail/News/Finance/Music/Video, ...), to integrate with their current Mac/iPhone...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Item 5, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Meeting Minutes and Action Manager 3.4 (Windows)

Minute-Manager is a useful yet simple to use software tool for keeping track of minutes and actions of meetings. It allows you to set up company or department details including employees or attendees and their contact details. Minutes can be added by subject, edited and printed. Actions can be added...

Tags: Subject, Action, Bizeman Interactive Solutions, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Performance Management, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-01-05

Why "cheap" energy is really costly in the long run

The TVA coal sludge mess is like most disaster stories. In the first days estimates get continually worse until something close to realistic appraisal is reached. Then the lawsuits and finger-pointing begin. We've just hit that stage. TVA is now facing lawsuits. ...

Tags: Ash, Coal, TVA, Coal Ash, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Internet usage by a typical American user in November 2008

Sessions/Visits per Person 57 Domains Visited per Person 107 Web Pages per Person 2,345 Duration of a Web Page Viewed 0:00:55 PC Time per Person 66:58:56 Active Digital Media Universe 169,364,175 Current Digital Media Universe Estimate 225,273,090 ...

Tags: Internet Usage, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-29

The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing Awards

The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing AwardsWanna clarify...?[b]The 2008 Tyrian Silver Shekels go to the Wintel Customer Base - for increasing their purchases of Vista on Core Duo after the Wintel partners switched to marketing their yet undeliverable copies of the same Apple and AMD technologies they’ve been denigrating for...

Tags: Mainframes, Virtualization, Servers, mainframe, Apple Inc., server, Linux, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-12-29