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Marketo upgrades or somehow tweaks its revenue performance management application roughly every other month, but its latest release is special. Specifically, many of the features included in this release have been more than a year in the making, Gaurav Kotak, senior director of product marketing, told CRM Buyer. "This is more than just a six-week ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that found Microsoft unlawfully infringed on i4i's document-editing patents by incorporating its technology in some of its Word products. The US$290 million penalty is small change for Microsoft, but the verdict could have more troubling implications for the company, as well as for fellow tech...
Spending on online advertising is expected to jump 20.2 percent over last year's spending, according to new figures from eMarketer. If this category of ad spend does indeed reach US$31.3 billion, as the company has projected, it will return to pre-recession growth levels and be accompanied by steady increases for the next four years. By 2015, near...
Daily Discount Coupons: Pay Dirt or Raw Deals? - Part 1 On a single day in March earlier this year, The Orange County Register's website generated US$188,000, mainly by selling nearly 5,457 customers on its daily deal: a Catalina Flyer catamaran round-trip ticket for $34. A portion of the revenue was generated by a side deal....
At this writing, the start of World IPv6 Day is a few short hours off, but if it's June 8, and you're reading this after having accessed it via a Google or Yahoo search, then World IPv6 day has been a success. Not that the chances are big that you'll be stymied in your attempts to navigate the Web. With the giants of the Internet prepping for this...
Once upon a time there was an online group called "The Point." It was a nebulous organization with the vague goal of using the power of social media to to do such things as crowdsource a design for the Chicago Stadium or launch a petition. One day, one of its members got the bright idea to use its numbers to subscribe to The Economist for a volume...
A legal dispute between Oracle and erstwhile client Montclair State University illustrates that despite the steady evolution of ERP technology and implementation methodologies, these projects can still turn ugly. The two have filed suits against each other over a failed project, called the "Bell Tower Initiative." Montclair has accused Oracle of v...
Business Process Management provider AuraPortal has added a new module to its product lineup -- Marketing Campaigns, or MC. It is based on template-oriented pattern processes -- as all of AuraPortal's applications are -- which means it can be easily tailored by end-users. MC is able to follow up on any type of campaign, explained Scott Rich, gener...
It seems Microsoft doesn't want to take any chances with rollouts of future Windows tablets. The company is reportedly asking a special favor of each chip maker with which it will be working on tablets. It wants the chip suppliers to each partner with one -- or possibly two, according to some accounts -- hardware maker, to which it will supply it...
An end to Sony's PlayStation woes is presumably in sight: The company has announced it will restore full functionality to the PlayStation Store by the end of this week. That includes in-game commerce, the ability for players to redeem vouchers and codes, and full functionality of Music Unlimited as well as Media Go Sony Computer Entertainment did ...
DemandResults is getting set to release version 2.0 of its SEO for Salesforce.com app. This iteration builds on the premise of the first app, founder and CEO Howard Brown said, which was essentially a basic insertion of Google Analytics into the Salesforce.com platform. ...
After much rumor and speculation, Twitter and TweetDeck announced what many had already concluded: the popular third-party client has been acquired by Twitter. The terms of the deal were undisclosed but various news reports put it between US$40 million and $50 million Of perhaps greater interest, at least to its users, are Twitter's plans for Tweet...
Square, a startup founded by Twitter alum Jack Dorsey, has rolled out revamped versions of its iPhone/iPad and Android apps. The company is positioning the offering as an alternative to NFC (near field communication) technology, the next-generation standard -- once it is finally settled -- for mobile contactless payments.
Salesforce.com is participating in a social media project with Toyota Motor, in what could launch the CRM company into an entirely new industry -- telematics. Or not. The agreement between Salesforce.com and Toyota to collaborate on this offering, called "Toyota Friend," is still very much in its early days, Robin Daniels, director of product mar...
Verizon Wireless is planning to cancel its unlimited data offering for smartphones this summer, replacing it with tiered packages including a family plan, according to comments made by CFO Fran Shammo at the Reuters Global Technology Summit. It will be a blow to some heavy users accustomed to the flat fee of US$30 -- but not too great a shock, as ...
Amazon has reached a momentum milestone: Its customers are purchasing more Kindle books than print books -- hardcover and paperback combined. This day was clearly coming. In July 2010, Kindle book sales surpassed hardcover sales. By December of that year, Kindle books overtook paperback books, becoming the most popular format on Amazon. The compa...
Aplicor rolled out Cloud Suite 7 last month -- the latest update to its flagship suite -- with some significant changes. One, the user interface, backed by new Microsoft Silverlight technology, is now completely customizable depending on the end-user's needs. ...
If the Internet is the equivalent of our solar system, then Netflix would be Jupiter, its largest planet. That, at least, is the imagery that Sandvine evokes in its latest report, "Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight." Netflix has ascended to the No. 1 Internet traffic spot, the firm found, accounting for 29.70 percent of all peak-period downstre...
The leak of a memo from HP CEO Leo Apotheker describing a tough upcoming quarter prompted the company to deliver its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, a day earlier than planned. Despite the beating the stock took after the memo was leaked, shareholders might just as well have waited for the originally scheduled date: The results for the second quarter were actually in line with expectations, but the company lowered its guidance for the rest of the year, citing soft demand for personal computers, a slowdown resulting from the natural disasters in Japan, and the need to make additional investment in its services business.
At 8:56 a.m. EDT Monday morning, 19 years after its first launch on May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour left NASA's Kennedy Space Center for its 25th and final flight. ...
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