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Salesforce.com has announced its first move in what is likely to be a larger push into the content management space: the acquisition last month of Koral Technologies. Salesforce.com is leveraging the small company's technology and content management platform as the building block for Apex Content, its own content management initiative Apex Content ...
An application currently in beta on Salesforce.com's AppExchange is designed especially for politicians in campaign mode. To be called (what else?) "CampaignForce.com," the product will be available in a few weeks, according to Dan Burton, senior vice president of global public policy at Salesforce.com "We see that campaigns are realizing what busi...
Google has apologized toSohu.com after the Chinese Web portal accused the search giant of illegally incorporating its data in a recently released Google tool that aims to make inputting Chinese characters easier The tool, called the "Pinyin Input Method Editor," is similar in concept to the autofill function in many applications, which suggests a w...
Welcome to the new frontier of Web 2.0 Imagine sitting in your living room and pulling up a favorite TV show to watch online. Easily distracted -- who isn't these days -- you simultaneously begin a chat with dear friends you've never met in person who live across the country. One tells you about a new gadget you decide you must have, and with a few...
Aiming squarely at the SOA/BPM (service-oriented architecture/business process management) market niche, Germany'sSoftware AG has announced it is buyingWebMethods for approximately US$546 million, or $9.15 per share The announcement was hardly unexpected, as it was clear that WebMethods needed to do something to address its scale issue, as well as ...
The Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling has environmentalists jubilant, and if they are willing to admit it, Bush administration critics indulging in a bit of Schadenfreude, or gloating In a 5-4 decision, the Court found that the EPA in fact does have the authority to regulate automobile emissions, contrary...
Intervoice has just introduced new self-service voice products based on SCXML (State Chart XML) -- a dialogue language that can be used in multiple contexts and, most intriguingly for vendors and end users, multiple modes In Intervoice's case, it has incorporated a runtime-service-orchestration engine based on SCXML in its latest iteration of its I...
It didn't take long for the U.S.EPA to react to the Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency ruling The agency announced that California can move forward with its plans to reduce tailpipe emissions from cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles -- in effect, setting the nation's first standards in this area. Prior to the...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate automobile emissions, contrary to the Bush administration's position While rooted in a technicality -- a state's challenge to a federal agency's interpretation of the law -- the decision in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency is being lau...
Xerox has announced it will acquireGlobal Imaging Systems, a provider of automated office equipment, network integration services, and electronic presentation systems, for US$1.5 billion, or $29 per share, in an all-cash transaction The deal is structured in two steps: a cash tender offer for all Global Imaging Systems outstanding shares, followed ...
For the third time, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- the overseer of the Internet's domain-name address system -- has rejected a proposal to create a top level .xxx domain, and opponents of the adult-themed suffix hope three times is the charm "This decision was the result of very careful scrutiny and consideration...
When Wal-Mart imposed its seemingly -- to the suppliers at least -- draconian RFID mandate, it also held out the future promise that the cost of the technology would someday be quite affordable, perhaps as low as 5 US cents per tag. That day hasn't come -- at least not yet Currently, the cost of passive tags range from as low as 11 cents to as much...
President George Bush cited the observations of two Iraqibloggers who have been making positive posts about the changing situation in Baghdad as evidence that U.S. activities there are finally having the intended effect "Displaced families are returning home, marketplaces are seeing more activity, stores that were long shuttered are now reopening,"...
WhenRoyal Caribbean tappedSteelcase Applied Research to help it outfit a new call center in Oregon, the cruise line had done its due diligence It didn't require any guidance, for instance, on what chairs it wanted its reps to use. In fact, the company had given a great deal of thought to what might seem to outsiders to be the most basic of all cont...
In the first month of its availability, Microsoft Vista sold more than 20 million licenses -- more than double the number of first-month sales of Windows XP. In January 2002, the company announced sales of Windows XP licenses had exceeded 17 million after two months on the market The 20 million figure includes licenses sold to PC manufacturers, upg...
The stagnant telecom equipment market received a major boost with Verizon Wireless' award of a three-year, US$6 billion contract to its primary network infrastructure provider, Alcatel-Lucent Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will supply a range of equipment, software and services to support Verizon Wireless' transition to an all-IP (Internet prot...
Open source CRM vendorSugarCRM is adding service-related capabilities into its product line now that it has solidified its hold on marketing and analytics The firm just released Project Management for its Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise product lines. In April, it will be announcing the availability of a self-service portal and a knowledge ...
A federal judge has overturned the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a 1998 law that was designed to keep children from viewing pornographic materials on the Internet. Although it was signed by President Clinton, it never took effect In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a temporary injunction against the law based on the expectation that it w...
Adobe Systems posted better-than-expected guidance for the second quarter, causing its shares to rise by some 5.5 percent Adobe expects to realize revenue of some US$700 million to $740 million in Q2. Non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) earnings, it said, should come in at 34 cents to 36 cents per share....
Cerberus Capital Management has put an offer on the table to takeAffiliated Computer Services private in a US$5.9 billion buyout. That translates to $59.25 per share, a 15.5 percent premium over the ACS closing price on Monday ACS, a provider of business process outsourcing and information technology solutions, has been a likely acquisition target ...
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