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Are you a bad customer?

These patrons spend too little, complain too much or tie up too many company resources. The worst of these customers, says Larry Selden, a corporate-profitability expert and a co-author of “Killer Customers: Tell the Good from the Bad — and Crush Your Competitors,” can eat up the earnings generated by the best.

Profitability experts say wireless and banking companies routinely discover that 100% or more of their profits are attributable to just 30% of their customers. An additional 50% or so are break-even customers, while 20% actually create losses that offset some or all of the gains created by the most profitable clients.
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Mio announces 4 GPS units: the P360, P560, C620, and C230

It sure took ‘em awhile but the Mio P360 and P560 GPS / WinMo 6 PDAs jobbies have been announced for IFA. They’ve even got few friends: the 4.3-inch C620 (and C620t with TMC traffic receiver) pictured above and C230 chubster. Judging by the machine translated text, we expect all five to sport the same 400MHz processor and SiRFstar III GPS receiver. We’ll update you with more as it rolls in. For now, peep the pics after the break.

Riedel Amadeo Lyra Decanter

Many of our oenophile readers will dig this Riedel Amadeo Lyra Decanter, a gorgeous crystal vessel that will embrace your prized vintages in complete elegance. Now we can stop drinking that rotgut straight from the bottle, and maybe pour it into a glass or two. Or we could still quaff it straight from this curvaceous container, which resembles a Spanish porrón, spilling out a thin jet of wine for oodles of hands-free, group-drinking fun. But this carafe is much too swank for such vulgar activities.

This blown glass crystal decanter is made by skilled Austrian artisans, and it’s so substantial, the sucker weighs 3.4 pounds. Sized just right for a standard bottle of your favorite Cabernet Sauvignon, it decants 59 ounces, which would be enough swill to last your besotted Gizmodo editors about five minutes. Sure as hell beats those beer bongs we’ve been sucking on all these years.

We especially like that this Amadeo Lyra Decanter shares our hero Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s middle name—this limited-edition glasswork was created in celebration of Wolfie’s 250th birthday last year. All that elegance commands a dear price, but hey, it’s on sale for $287.

Daewoo’s portable DVD and iPod dock rocks DivX on 8-inch LCD

Daewoo is set to show their new DPC-8099PD-I portable DVD and iPod player at IFA on Friday. Should you care? Well, you might if you’re in the market for a portable DVD player with full iPod integration and 8-inch LCD. You know, if Philips’ gear just won’t cut it. Specs include integrated stereo speakers and headphone jack; DVD/VCD/CD and CD-R/RW media support; MP3, JPG and DivX formats; and USB and multi-format memory card reader for slotting in additional media. No pricing or release information but we’ll be sure to give her a spin while taking in the show later this week.

Pano Logic’s Pano: virtual XP or Vista in a box

Check it CIOs, Pano Logic just announced their new Pano virtualization device which brings XP and Vista to your users without the need of a PC. According to the fiesty startup, their new virtualization solution can cut your Total Cost of Ownership by 70% for a promised savings of $3,200 per desktop over three years. While you can ace the desktop PC, you’ll still have to make the initial investment of $20 per month per device (one per user) with perpetual licenses available. The Pano device has no CPU, memory, operating system or drivers — at least not in the way those items are typically perceived by your IT staff. A “Pano Logic chip” manages the virtualization. In other words: no client-side malware or hiccups for fewer deskside visits — everything is managed centrally from your VMWare Server installation. The device does pack the required jacks for a VGA display (up to 1600 x 1200 pixels supported), USB keyboard and Mouse (3x total USB), 10/100Mbps Ethernet, and a pair of mini-jacks for audio in/out. Of course, the system is entirely dependent upon lickity quick, uncongested pipes so if you’re sporting a latency above 5-ms, you can forget about Pano’s virtualization. Check out the business minded, ass-end of the Pano after the break.

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Play TV and DVR On PS3 Explained

You’ve read how the PS3′s Play TV works, but reading only goes so far, doens’t it? We all love pictures, we especially love moving pictures, so here, watch as David Reeves & Mark Bunting take you through the PS3′s PVR setup.