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Telecommunications giant Verizon Communications reported a strong profit boost for its first quarter as growth in its wireless business and its fledgling video service helped compensate for losses in its traditional home phone segment The numbers from Verizon and those from competitor AT&T, which reported strong results last week, suggest the major...
A large number of teens feel that language more appropriately used in e-mails, text messaging and online postings has made its way into their school work, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project About 50 percent of teenagers said they write something for school nearly every day. More than one-third reported h...
Data management rules and regulations have become a major concern for businesses, due in large part to increasing oversight that often requires organizations to invest in new technologies in order to address compliance issues However, the promise of enterprise technologies as a solution to the demands of data management compliance will go unmet abs...
Part 1 of this two-part series introduces a group of entrepreneurial business intelligence (BI) software providers that are emerging following a year of industry consolidation Combining in-memory data management, visual analytics, social networking and rich Internet applications, Software as a Service (SaaS) and open source software development, co...
Microsoft has just brought out the physical representation of its fifth major evolutionary change, and this one may turn out to be the most dramatic. The technology, Live Mesh, may actually both help Microsoft's customer satisfaction issues and help move Apple and Linux onto desktops everyplace Speaking of Apple, it bought P.A. Semi, a processor te...
Identity theft, a cyber-crime causing inestimable damage for scores of ordinary citizens, has prompted passage of the federal FACT Act Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, issued this year. Part of the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, the rule aims to combat the scourge of identity theft, which each year victimizes 8.3 million Americans for a total of US$15.6 billion in losses, according to the Federal Trade Commission...
Look closely at any effective customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Look beyond the technology, beyond the hype, and what will you see? What you'll see is a company that knows how to effectively communicate with its customers Ask yourself, "What do CRM solutions actually do?" To put it very simply, they collect and manage customer inform...
When it comes to properly managing and protecting critical enterprise data and information resources, Corporate America is stuck between two strongly opposing forces The Rock: Cyber-Crime...
Costco and Sam's Club arerationing rice. Friday's reported incident in the Persian Gulf probably has more than a few individuals of a paranoid persuasion stocking up on gasoline. And to top it all off, Microsoft's cutoff date for Windows XP is coming in two months, a decision that's left over 165,000 fans of the OS so upset that they were willing to devote a full three seconds of their lives to sign an online petition to save XP...
The amount of click fraud decreased slightly in the first quarter, thanks in part to actions taken by Google and Yahoo, according to the latest Click Fraud Index by Click Forensics The overall industry average click fraud rate was 16.3 percent in the quarter, which was down slightly from the 16.6 percent rate reported in the previous quarter but up...
Yahoo wants to tie all its various services together so each user needs to log in just once to access and manage its services, and will be able to do so from one central site To do this, it is rewiring its architecture from the inside out and opening up its platform to third-party developers, Yahoo chief technology officer Ari Balogh said at the We...
Microsoft's Q3 earnings report is a mixed bag: Net income beat Wall Street expectations by 2 cents, and the company's projections for fiscal 2009 look solid. However, its Windows and Office sales were muted, and its outlook for the current quarter is disappointing The result, perhaps not surprisingly, was a 5.6 percent drop in share price early Fri...
Japan-based Toshiba reported a 95 percent drop in profit in the January-March fiscal fourth quarter, blaming its loss in the high-definition format war that pitted its HD DVD format against Sony's Blu-ray Toshiba reported a 1.25 billion yen (US$12 million) profit for the quarter, compared with 26.17 billion yen ($250 million) a year earlier. Its qu...
The hottest gadgets of today will look old and tired a year from now. Sellers of mobile handsets, smartphones, MP3 players, gaming consoles, camcorders, digital cameras and laptops constantly push the latest and greatest technology, leaving yesterday's choice items in the dust Then there's the fact that this stuff is pretty easily broken....
After Best Buy lost the laptop Raelyn Campbell had brought in for repair, the D.C. residentfiled a lawsuit demanding US$54 million from the company. That eye-popping claim -- and the publicity it engendered -- was the culmination of a long blog campaign during which Campbellrelated her frustration with Best Buy's evasive behavior and enlisted friends and family to contact the retailer on her behalf...
While Wikipedia may be the best known example, wikis are not only becoming the first place people turn when conducting online research, but also when they're looking to build specialist online communities It's not surprising, then, that wikis dedicated to real estate are emerging. InmanWiki -- part of the Inman media group -- the aptly named Real E...
Have you seen the recent television commercial that shows the Pentagon and says, "This building gets attacked 3 million times a day." The sad news is that it's true Cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks have now become a reality. Ever consider how your business would be impacted if the Internet went away for an hour, a day or an even a longer period of t...
Shares of Motorola tumbled as the company reported a first-quarter loss on Thursday, based largely on lean mobile phone sales and an eroding share of the competitive sector Motorola shares have lost more than half their value in the last year. On Thursday, they were trading at US$9.23, down 3.35 percent from their previous close on the New York Sto...
Months of eager anticipation came to an end Thursday with the long-awaited release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron Both desktop and server editions of Ubuntu 8.04 were released as free downloads, and both are Long Term Support (LTS) releases, meaning that they come with commercial support for five years on the server and three years on the desktop....
Google unveiled its mobile image ad service, which allows publishers to create rich-media ads along with more traditional text ads for the relatively untapped mobile advertising market The service, Mobile Ads, can also be tied with AdSense and like other Google products will use keyword targeting to display relevant advertising for users. The cavea...
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