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MTV and MySpace are partnering to give voters greater access to the politicians running for U.S. president in 2008. They plan to hold a total of 11 hour-long dialogues from September through December, held on college campuses nationwide People will be able to e-mail, instant message or text message questions during the events, which will be streame...
Employers are denying a growing number of workers access toFacebook, the now ubiquitous social networking site, a Sophos survey shows. The poll queried 600 visitors to the Sophos Web site over a period of weeks earlier this summer Some 43 percent said they had been denied access to Facebook at work. Another 7 percent said that access to the site wa...
Avaya has made a significant upgrade in three self-service offerings that it introduced at the beginning of last year Introduced at SpeechTEK 2007 in New York City, the three products are Avaya Voice Portal 4.0, its flagship self-service software; Interactive Response 3.0, a self-service platform; and Avaya Dialog Designer 4.0, a tool for developin...
MTV and RealNetworks have formed a joint venture that will utilizeVerizon Wireless' distribution capabilities in an effort to dislodge Apple's vise-like grip on the online music space As part of the iTunes-killer venture, MTV is merging its Urge music service with RealNetworks' Rhapsody. One of the distribution channels will be Verizon Wireless' V ...
Sage Software released a new version of its long-standing ACT! application -- a release timed to coincide with the application's 20th anniversary The biggest change in this application is the introduction of a Dashboard -- a popular type of user interface -- as well as new productivity enhancements and features that make the data more transparent t...
Skype said that a Microsoft patch downloaded on Patch Tuesday triggered a bug in its software that eventually resulted in the IP (Internet Protocol)-based service going dark for nearly two days The disruption in the free, peer-to-peer (P2P) network began unexpectedly on Thursday. Service was completely restored by late Friday....
Dell and SAP are collaborating to offer retailers an easier way to buy computer hardware and SAP for Retail. It is offering hardware certified to be used on SAP for Retail, specifically, Dell's Retail OptiPlex 745 POS systems and Dell PowerEdge servers The end result is that a customer can order a complete POS (point of sale) retail system through ...
Sony has partnered with a U.S. waste management company to provide customers with an easy way to recycle their old TV sets and other Sony-branded products. The Japanese firm has tappedWM Recycle America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, for the Sony Take Back Recycling Program Starting Sept. 15, Sony customers can take their unwanted ...
Software as a Service (SaaS) pioneer Salesforce.com exceeded analyst expectations for its second quarter, registering net income of US$3.74 million -- a 3 cent per share increase -- and revenue of $176.6 million. The Street had been expecting it to bring in just $174 million in sales By all measures, Salesforce.com performed well. Total revenue for...
Microsoft has fixed six critical and three important desktop application vulnerabilities in this month's Patch Tuesday release Patches for flaws that directly affect desktop application users have been showing up more frequently in Patch Tuesday releases over the last eight to ten months, noted Amol Sarwate, manager of the vulnerability research la...
Google may be No. 1 in terms of overall usage of its search engines, based on a number of recent surveys. However, it appears to be falling short in one very important, non-tech metric: customer satisfaction For the first time, Yahoo has overtaken Google to claim the top spot in this area, according to the University of Michigan's American Customer...
IBM upgraded the functionality in its RFID (radio frequency identification) technology tailored for the pharmaceutical industry that it introduced in December The company's WebSphere RFID Information Center version 1.1 will now help pharma companies comply with the ePedigree laws going into effect in California and elsewhere. The application also h...
ReachForce, an on-demand provider of marketing databases, is making the jump into a related software niche Last month, it made available on a limited basis Fountainhead, an on-demand marketing predictive campaign engine customized for the Salesforce.com portfolio of products. Next month, according to CEO Suaad Sait, the firm will make this version ...
A group of hackers infiltrated the United Nations' Web site over the weekend, defacing the page of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with antiwar political graffiti Hackers reportedly replaced portions of recent speeches made by Ban with accusations that the United States and Israel are killing children. An Italian software developer first reported the...
A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for linking to images of its content that have been published without permission by other Web sites The company,Perfect 10, has filed similar suits seeking injunctions against Google and Amazon.
IBM and Linux distributor Novell are strengthening their partnership in order to encourage cross-adoption of their respective platforms and products, especially in the small to medium-sized business space The companies hope to erode market share inroads recently gained by Microsoft and Red Hat with their Exchange software and JBoss application serv...
Federal prosecutors have drawn first blood in the stock options backdating scandal. Following a five-week trial, Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy and fraud in Federal District Court in San Francisco Reyes could receive a sentence as steep as 20 years in prison, as well a mu...
Recent events have raised questions as to whether San Francisco's municipal WiFi project will ever reach completion. The latest twists in the saga are leading some industry watchers to wonder whether the deployment of WiFi technology across a city may ever reach its full potential Indications both from the city and from EarthLink, which is develop...
Minutes before a looming midnight deadline,California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Friday night decertified e-voting machines manufactured byDiebold Election Systems,Hart Intercivic andSequoia Voting Systems and adopted for use in 39 California counties. The vendors will have 30 days to submit their products for recertification Bowen also issued ...
An Ottawa-based provider of CRM for small and medium-sized businesses,The Long Reach Corporation has a surprisingly far-flung customer base, with clients in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan That is likely due to the special niche it fills for SMBs, a corporate constituency that does not typically have a wide selec...
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