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Microsoft has cut by almost half the cost of its CRM Live application for partners, bringing its price point down to US$15 per user per month The price cut, of course, is part of Microsoft's ongoing support for its partner network that the company must leverage to make inroads in the Software as a Service space. A drop in price would also encourage...
Online retail sales for this holiday season are expected to increase by 20 percent over sales from the 2006 season, surpassing US$39 billion, according to JupiterResearch's U.S. Online Retail Holiday Forecast for 2007 This growth will be driven not only by veteran online shoppers -- who are projected to increase their holiday spending by 13 percent...
Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements The suit centers around a patent filed in 1996 by AT&T that describ...
Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements The suit centers around a patent filed in 1996 by AT&T that describ...
Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements The suit centers around a patent filed in 1996 by AT&T that describ...
AT&T is revamping its policies to allow consumers to prorate their early termination fee according to how long he or she has been on the plan The company is also allowing customers who switch plans or change phones during the course of their contract to maintain the same contract instead of re-starting with a new commitment....
Google has launched a beta version of video identification technology designed to flag unauthorized content on YouTube. The move follows its implementation of audio fingerprinting software from Audible Magic earlier this year By filtering out pirated videos, Google aims to further cement YouTube's compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Ac...
CorraTech, an open source software services firm, introduced Opensuite, a pre-beta release of its latest open source endeavor The project is an open source-based integration of -- for now -- three of the leading open source applications in rich e-mail, document management and CRM....
Two men have been successfully prosecuted for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mail messages promoting pornographic Web sites, and reaping millions of dollars as a result Jeffrey A. Kilbride of Venice, Calif., was sentenced to six years, and James R. Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Ariz., was sentenced to five years and three months, to be served...
Microsoft has added a new feature to its Windows Live platform that lets users take advantage of the Web to send invitations to parties, business meetings or other happenings Similar toEvite, Windows Live Events provides an array of graphical templates and other tools, such as maps and calendars, to design the invitations. There are templates for a...
Oracle announced it wants to acquire BEA Systems, a provider of Web-based business productivity and integration software, for US$6.7 billion, or $17 per share in cash. BEA has already rejected the offer, according to news accounts, saying that Oracle's bid seriously undervalues the company's overall worth The market apparently shares that view, des...
Half a year after its first rollout of a passenger imaging security scanner in the Phoenix airport, the Transportation Security Administration is testing another form of this technology there Its latest security machine is based on millimeter-wave technology, which is similar in function to the X-ray backscatter technology TSA began testing in Febr...
Social networking technology. Blogs. Evite applications. Discussion forums. These, of course, are the heart of what has come to be called "Web 2.0." Now, what was once strictly a toy for consumers is transforming itself for corporate use. In the case of the sales function, that would be Sales 2.0 A typical example might be an invitation sent to a p...
Journyx, a provider of Web-based time tracking and project accounting applications, has released a stripped-down version of some of this functionality for the consulting industry Called the "Customer Cost Tracker," the Software as a Service (SaaS) tool's primary purpose is to help consulting and other service-based organizations understand the cost...
Once the software industry absorbed this week's news that SAP would be acquiring the French business intelligence vendorBusiness Objects for close to US$7 billion, speculation immediately shifted to what would happen to Cognos. With Oracle's digestion ofHyperion complete and the Business Objects sale looking very likely to occur, Cognos is the last of the large, independent BI vendors left standing...
Interactive Intelligence introduced a new iteration of its flagship contact center automation and enterprise IP (Internet protocol) telephone software platform. Customer Interaction Center (CIC) and Vonexus Enterprise Interaction Center (EIC) version 3.0 include upgraded security, new deployment and integration technologies -- it introduced a public API (application programming interface), for example, that allows users to create custom apps -- as well as enhanced mobility features...
Google is introducing ad-supported video clips from YouTube -- what it calls "video units" -- to its AdSense advertising platform, one of many steps in a strategy designed to glean a return on its massive investment in the video-sharing Web site Google is working with select YouTube content partners, including TV Guide Broadband, Expert Village, Mo...
The uninsured and underinsured in this country will be a top focus in the run-up to next year's presidential elections as competing candidates face off over who has the best plan to solve the burgeoning problem One doesn't have to wait until the primaries are held, though, to know that whatever candidate -- and his or her plan -- is nominated, the ...
SAP has announced it will acquireBusiness Objects for about US$6.78 billion. The French business intelligence vendor is one of the few assets on the market able to go head to head withHyperion, which Oracle bought earlier this year for $3.3 billion The acquisition will allow SAP to move into the BI marketplace and offer an integrated package to cus...
A compromised Marin County, Calif., Web site apparently prompted the U.S. government to temporarily shut down all of the state government's Internet sites this week Last month, the Marin County transportation authority Web site was reportedly hacked to redirect traffic to a porn site. Following several unsuccessful attempts to remedy the situation ...
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