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Intel will begin rolling out motherboards next month that support Remote Wake technology -- the ability for a computer to be turned on from sleep mode remotely. Applications that have already been designed around this technology include PC-based phone service and content delivery Users of computers with Remote Wake will not have to keep their compu...
Nvidia this week released second-quarter earnings that its CEO deemed "disappointing." However, future projections of growth, as well as an increase to its stock buyback program, boosted its stock price by about 10 percent on Wednesday as Wall Street decided to focus on the firm's future prospects. In Q2, which ended July 27, revenue sank to US$8...
Many Google Gmail users who tried to access their accounts Monday found the service dark. For a period of roughly two hours, users would log on to be greeted with an error message. The outage was caused by a temporary glitch in Google's contacts system, which was preventing Gmail from loading properly, according to the company. Google did not retu...
Microsoft will be rolling out eight CRM "accelerators" for its Dynamics CRM product line in the second half of 2008. On the Javista blog, Microsoft's Reuben Krippner gives readers a thorough update on what they will offer customers. On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog, he shares information for the analytics add-on Krippner promises to blog abo...
IBM has rolled out a mobile software and service offering that builds upon several announcements it made earlier this year at the annual RIM Wireless Enterprise Conference The offering, called "Mobility@Work," is a package of new software tools that allow developers to run existing desktop applications on a mobile device, together with new mobile c...
Rackspace Hosting, a provider of enterprise-level managed hosting services, went to market with the tech industry's first initial public offering in six months, winning, at the very least, karmic points for its bravery in forging into a dismal equity environment. The company, which began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "RAX...
When Jeffrey Spencer prepared for his college exams, he would tape his notes to the handlebars of his bike and ride to school, studying all the while To him, it made perfect sense. "I am a kinetic learner, which means I learn and mentally perform best when I am moving," he told LinuxInsider....
The Department of Justice has charged 11 people with the theft of millions of account numbers from a long list of U.S. big box retailers including TJ Maxx, OfficeMax, Barnes & Noble, Boston Market, BJ's Wholesale Club, Forever 21, DSW, Dave & Buster's and Sports Authority. Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez was the ringleader, according to the indictments, ...
A Type 2 diabetic for more than 14 years, Sherman, N.Y.-resident John Morris thought he had everything he needed to manage and treat his disease. He was wrong. It wasn't until he became a member of the recently launched social networking Web site Diabetic Connect that he realized how essential the support of like-minded people was in dealing with diabetes.
By now, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang must be feeling as though he simply cannot catch a break. He has weathered a succession of setbacks over the past few months, since Microsoft launched its unsuccessful bid to acquire the portal. Now it turns out that he doesn't have as much shareholder support as he thought A tabulation error by an outside company resul...
Dell has successfully navigated through a considerable stretch of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office maze in its quest for ownership of the ubiquitous technology industry term "cloud computing." On March 23, 2007, Dell filed an Intent to Use application with the PTO; its request was published and went unopposed. Earlier this month, the company r...
The latest enhancements to Landslide's sales application sparked the interest of Chris Bucholtz, who blogged about it at InsideCRM. "Here's what Landslide provides in the new release: a single-screen interface that walks its users through the standard tasks that CRM fulfills -- gathering data on customers and leads -- and then beyond that into a s...
IBM has sharply increased its commitment to cloud computing by slotting US$400 million for new data centers in North Carolina and Tokyo. The bulk of the investment, $360 million, is earmarked for a center in Research Triangle Park, between Durham and Raleigh A new $40 million data center planned for Tokyo is the company's ninth cloud computing proj...
By a vote of 3-2, the Federal Communications Commission has sharply rebuked Comcast for its network management practices. It found not only that Comcast's practices were invasive, but also that the company was likely motivated by anticompetitive issues "The Commission found that Comcast monitors its customers' connections using deep packet inspec...
Motorola performed better than analysts had expected in Q2, delivering net earnings of US$4 million on Thursday. Revenue was $8.1 billion, beating expectations by Wall Street analysts of $7.5 billion for the handset manufacturer Motorola's Home and Networks Mobility and Enterprise Mobility Solutions segments were among the best performing divisions...
Storage vendor Fabrik has introduced an external hard drive with a manufacturing process focused on reducing its impact on the environment. Fabrik claims its SimpleTech [re]drive is the world's most eco-friendly hard drive....
The British House of Lords has decided to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who hacked his way into several U.S. military, defense and NASA computers, to the United States to stand trial. McKinnon has been fighting extradition since the discovery in 2002 that he was the one who broke into the U.S. government's most sensitive networks -- reportedly from a friend's aunt's house -- between 2001 and 2002. He allegedly caused US$900,000 in damages to computers located in 14 states...
Yahoo, HP and Intel are collaborating on an ambitious research endeavor called "Cloud Computing Test Bed" -- designed to support cloud computing research and education at universities. Users will be able to develop and test software, data center management, and hardware associated with cloud computing on this large-scale grid The three companies a...
SAP turned in a strong Q2 financial report on Tuesday with results mitigated only by a drop in profits due to its acquisition of Business Objects. SAP's net profit for the quarter was 408 million euros (US$634.9 million), a 9 percent decline from the same period last year. Revenue was 2.86 billion euros ($4.45 billion), a jump of 18 percent from Q...
Computer forensics gave Michael Fiola his life back. Fiola is the former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents who found himself summarily dismissed after an IT check uncovered pornographic images of children on his laptop's hard drive. Criminal charges followed. It was only after a defense-sponsored forensic inves...
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