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Today's savvy consumers want products from a business they can trust, learn from, relate to and "be friends" with. The two most popular social networking sites on the Internet -- MySpace and Facebook -- are potential springboards for friendly lead generation These sites give online business owners the ability to place their products and services in...
The United States Federal Trade Commission recently began a formal antitrust investigation into Intel's business practices. This action is not simply a problem for Intel, but should serve as a wake-up call for the entire technology industry and anyone who values innovation Some of the drivers behind the Intel inquiry are complaints by its competit...
Palm and Verizon Wireless announced a deal Thursday that brings the device maker's popular Centro smartphone to Verizon subscribers The Centro's debut on Verizon comes some nine months after Palm launched the device on Sprint's wireless network and about five months after it became available to AT&T customers. The handset, which is available to Ver...
Two U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday accused China of hacking into their office computers, bringing a swift denial from the Chinese government the next day U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R.-Va.), a frequent advocate of human rights causes, said that in August 2006 an outside attack was made on four of his office computers that contained "information about all of...
Last week, a US$30 million weapon made a transition from movie trilogy hero to video game star. Sierra Entertainment has now given gamers a "license to kill" with its newest release, "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy." Action, adventure, intrigue, deception and violence litter the Bourne landscape; sadly, though, this new edition to the franc...
If you've ever wondered what goes on in the inner sanctum of a prospective employer or wondered how your salary compares with others in your field, a new Web site launched Tuesday could have the answer. The site, Glassdoor.com, allows current and recent former employees to anonymously report their salaries; provide detailed company reviews and rat...
"Rock Band." "Guitar Hero." "SingStar." These music-oriented video games have become fixtures in popular culture, appearing in movies and on television, and sparking a new musical movement. Younger players are not only gaining exposure to a wider variety of genres and artists, but also getting a basic music education. Although no one will argue th...
NASA has launched a new mission to unravel some of the universe's most intense mysteries. Scientists sent GLAST -- the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope -- into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center. A Delta 2 rocket catapulted the high-tech scope to its destination Wednesday in a meager 90 minutes. Now, the effort to answer centuries-old questions begins...
The variety of financial, business and operational risks inherent in the highly competitive global market, as well as the large and continually growing number of cross-industry mandates, governmental regulations and industry-specific regulatory guidelines have significantly impacted how organizations make business-critical decisions. With the rapid advancement in communications and mobile technologies, the "speed of business" is consistently rising.
Despite repeated pleas of "Do you hear me now?" from customers the world over, few companies have done much more than turn a deaf ear. As a result, consumer frustration is at an all-time high while brand loyalty has hit an all-time low The technologies that were supposed to open lines of communication across many channels merely cut the line on all...
It's an interesting question: Why would large, established companies like Adobe and others embrace open source strategies? In some ways, it seems counterproductive. After all, releasing a software application's source code to the community could be viewed as letting an organization's competitive advantage walk out the door. However, as anyone involved in the open source community knows, this shortsighted view fails to acknowledge the true benefits of open source development...
High-profile data breaches continue to spotlight the growing risks consumers face of identity theft and credit card fraud. Four highly visible data breaches disclosed in the last 18 months are particularly worrisome because they show a systemic failure in the procedures that both the public and regulatory agencies expect companies to get right One ...
Virtually no one objects to the concept of adopting laws and policies to stem the tide of child pornography proliferating on the Internet. So, the announcement on Tuesday that Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel have agreed to block access to Web sites that harbor such content was uniformly welcomed -- even if the end result will be to keep just a small percentage of child pornography offline...
A high-ranking European Union official urged the use of open standards and open source software Tuesday during a speech in Brussels at a conference Tuesday hosted by OpenForum Europe In order for companies to compete fairly against each other in the technology industry "standards are more important than ever," said Neelie Kroes, European Union comp...
Google cofounder Sergey Brin on Wednesday became the first person to put down a deposit of US$5 million toward a future orbital spaceflight through a new program from Space Adventures Brin's reservation uses one of six spots initially created in Space Adventures' new Orbital Mission Explorers Circle, which allows individuals to reserve seats on fut...
The ground battle in the proxy war between Carl Icahn and Yahoo has begun in earnest, with Yahoo directly urging shareholders to back the board's slate of directors and ignore Icahn's pleas for change Yahoo filed a copy of the proxy solicitation notice it sent to shareholders with the Securities and Exchange Commission, urging them to vote to keep ...
A vulnerability found in utility control software is raising serious questions over municipal security. The issue, revealed Wednesday morning, could have let attackers take control of water treatment plants, natural gas lines and potentially even nuclear power plant equipment Security firm Core Security Technologies discovered the problem and says ...
Oracle has released the third in a series of small, plug-and-play Web 2.0 tools designed to enhance specific features of its customer relationship management platform Oracle Sales Prospector, previewed Monday at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, recommends prospective leads, rating the likelihood those leads will close, and then aggregates ...
Microsoft has fired off a slew of federal lawsuits -- 21, to be exact -- against resellers in 14 states. In the suits, Microsoft claimed the resellers are engaging in the sale of pirated software. Some of the lawsuits include eight possible repeat offenders that may not have learned their lessons the first time around after settling previous lawsuits with Microsoft.
All over the world, with so many different meanings and perceptions of the word "branding," it appears that it has lost its true meaning; the terminology is more like a walk through a museum with a glorious past Loose words like "economy" carry different meanings that speak differently to different people. To some, economy may refer to money, while...
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