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Google has opened up a new sandbox for developers designed to entice them into building richer social networking gadgets for iGoogle iGoogle is basically a customizable home page for individuals that uses Web-based "gadgets" to deliver content to the page. The new sandbox will let developers continue to build gadgets for individuals too, of course,...
Sony Computer Entertainment pushed back its open beta test for the launch of Playstation's Home, a 3-D virtual world, from the summer to the fall, marking the second time the company has delayed the launch of the product Unlike traditional games, Home is a sandbox world designed to allow players the flexibility to build, create and interact with ot...
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that people have an expectation to privacy online and that the authorities can't just demand citizens' Internet protocol (IP) addresses from their Internet service providers without a grand jury warrant The ruling was handed down in the case of a woman who was charged with hacking into her employer's computer ...
AT&T's wireless business unit was the main driver behind the telecom's eye-popping 22 percent increase in net income this past quarter In line with analysts' expectations, AT&T registered US$3.5 billion, or 57 cents a share, in Q1 earnings. Nonrecurring charges for the quarter included costs associated with a number of mergers and $374 million in e...
AT&T's wireless business unit was the main driver behind the telecom's eye-popping 22 percent increase in net income this past quarter In line with analysts' expectations, AT&T registered US$3.5 billion, or 57 cents a share, in Q1 earnings. Nonrecurring charges for the quarter included costs associated with a number of mergers and $374 million in e...
AT&T's wireless business unit was the main driver behind the telecom's eye-popping 22 percent increase in net income this past quarter In line with analysts' expectations, AT&T registered US$3.5 billion, or 57 cents a share, in Q1 earnings. Nonrecurring charges for the quarter included costs associated with a number of mergers and $374 million in e...
PlayStation 3 owners may soon be able to watch movies without ever leaving their living rooms In an official PlayStation blog entry dated April 15, the game maker hinted at plans for the PlayStation Network in 2008 and a recent revamp of the PlayStation Store. A senior marketing executive also mentioned that a video service was in the works for the...
Big business likely will be spending US$4.6 billion a year on Web. 2.0 technologies by 2013, according to a new study by Forrester Research Spending on Web-based enterprise technologies, including social networking, RSS (really simple syndication), blogs, wikis, mashups, podcasting and widgets, will grow by 43 percent each year within the next five...
Creating videos in-house means corporations have to either hire contractors who have their own equipment or sink thousands or millions of dollars into hiring trained staff and leasing or buying equipment. Then they have to spend days, if not weeks, editing the videos Not any more: Veodia offers a live video broadcast service offered as Software as ...
The big CRM news of the week was Salesforce.com's tie-up with Google to embed its CRM application in the search engine provider's productivity suite. Plenty in the industry were wowed by the development -- not all, though Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu can be counted among the latter. Zoho is an on-demand provider of many applications, including several pr...
Malware creators are taking advantage of the controversy over the upcoming Olympic Games to spread their wares for illicit financial gain. Latching onto the Free Tibet political demonstrations that have spread around the world, would-be thieves have embedded a piece of rootkit malware that logs keystrokes in an executable Flash movie file called "RaceForTibet."
Etelos has released a limited beta that provides access to offline data -- a chief requirement for any on-demand vendor. The feature,called "Apps on a Plane," allows any browser-based application from the Etelos Marketplace to exchange data with any other AOP-enabled app, CEO Jeff Garon told CRM Buyer Last year, the firm announced it would deliver ...
Internet service providers that serve advertising when a user requests a Web page that doesn't exist are exposing their users to a giant security breach, according to security researcher Dan Kaminsky The vulnerability resulting from the practice, which is an increasingly common way for ISPs to make money from users' typos, was identified last week ...
As if stepping on the Linux community's toes when they first teamed up wasn't enough, Microsoft and Novell have announced a joint push into the China market to attack the Linux installed base there They have launched what they call "an incremental investment in their relationship" that will focus on "converting unsupported Linux users to supported ...
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based network security company Blue Coat Systems has reached an agreement to purchase Cupertino, Calif.-based bandwidth management company Packeteer for approximately US$268 million, or $7.10 per share -- a 15 percent premium on Packeteer's closing price Friday of $6.18 The acquisition and the subsequent combination of operations ...
Western Digital is now shipping the next generation of its 10,000 RPM (revolutions per minute) "Raptor" series drives. The new drive doubles the previous capacity to 300 GB and picks up a 35 percent performance increase Aimed at PC and Mac enthusiasts as well as users of professional-grade workstations that can benefit from high-performance drives,...
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service provider Skype announced new and expanded calling plans Monday. The new offerings will enable subscribers to make calls to more than one-third of the world's population for a single monthly flat rate, the company said The three new subscription plans come with no long-term contracts and provide users with...
I am an information junkie, and I suffer from information overload There, I've said it! And even though sometimes it seems like a momentous task to wade through the virtually endless supply of information to find and view the information that I want without wasting hours each day, there is hope. The truth is there are great tools and technologies n...
Since 2005, millions of citizens have been affected by reported and unreported data breaches at payment processors, banks and retailers -- but the nation was still stunned when news broke out about the TJX data breach This has indeed been a larger problem than most recognize, with some 88 million consumers affected by data breaches in the past two ...
In a year of consolidation in a hot business intelligence (BI) marketplace, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP secured leading positions in 2007. This has cleared the way for a new generation of BI specialists to emerge and take root "We like to compare the massive consolidation we saw in 2007 to a forest clearing. As the older, taller trees are choppe...
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