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Motorola has selected David Dorman, a former AT&T chief executive, as its non-executive chairman Motorola, which has experienced a market share loss in the smartphone business in competition with rivals like Nokia and Apple, recently announced a plan to break into two independent publicly traded companies....
Microsoft has unveiled the public beta of its Forefront enterprise security product, known as "Stirling." This is a single product that delivers coordinated protection across desktop and server applications and the network edge. It comes with a single dashboard that shows all the systems protected by Stirling....
Archer Technologies on Tuesday launched the Archer Exchange, a virtual marketplace for on-demand application development wherein companies that have developed applications in-house can put them up on the exchange for sale to other corporations The company made the announcement at the RSA Security Conference, being held through Friday at San Francis...
Come Aug. 24, when the Olympic Games start with music and hymns and the torch lighting the flame, the global spotlight will land on Beijing, and when the athletes march in unison to their beautifully orchestrated national anthems, in the ultra-modern stadium, the whole world will witness a sleeping giant awaken to create a global shock wave Like a ...
Innovative retailers are breaking new ground through the use of cross-channel technologies. These companies are setting the stage for a new retail playing field where cross-channel techniques cannot be ignored So, what exactly is cross-channel retail? Cross-channel retail is all about delivering a seamless customer experience across multiple sales ...
Microsoft is continuing to make good on its promises of openness. The Redmond software behemoth posted an additional 14,000 pages of preliminary versions of technical documentation of Microsoft protocols that should help third-party developers -- including open source developers -- build more interoperable applications The latest round of protocols...
Fuel cell technology is often associated with cars, specifically the next generation of automobiles that won't run on gasoline, juice from a wall socket or any combination of the two. Instead, fuel cell cars will run on highly efficient hydrogen and put out next to nothing in the way of emissions Making that a reality won't be easy, though. Getting...
AnOpinion issued by the influential European Commission Article 29 Data Protection Working Party could have a major impact on the way search engines do business The group's recommendations include discarding personal search data after six months, giving consumers the right to see data that search engines have collected about them, and making Intern...
The federal government should step in and pass laws to ensure computer security, John W. Thompson, the CEO of Symantec told a security conference Tuesday In the last six months of 2007, nearly 50 million people worldwide were the victims of identity theft, and 70 percent of the most common malicious code used in attacks on computers targeted confid...
IBM unveiled a new research initiative intended to solve problems associated with virtualization and security Tuesday in San Francisco at RSA 2008. Code-named "Phantom," the project will be run jointly by IBM X-Force threat analysis team and IBM Research The project seeks to create virtualization security technology to efficiently monitor and disru...
Google and the UN High Commission for Refugees -- the United Nations agency responsible for tracking and caring for refugees from the world's conflicts -- unveiled a Web-based mapping tool Tuesday meant to help raise awareness of displaced populations The tool, Google Earth Outreach, will help to highlight efforts to help millions of people forced...
HP has jumped into the "mini-computer" market with an education-focused computer that costs less than US$500 The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC is part of a growing segment of the computing market that focuses on laptops that come with basic functionalities -- Web surfing, e-mail, instant messaging plus video and playback -- while keeping the price far below...
HP on Tuesday introduced a new line of imaging and printer services designed for the needs of the enterprise market. A major component of the company's new offerings is a business partner accreditation, certification and test program. The products help enterprises manage, secure and simplify their imaging and printing environments and improve workflows to reduce costs and enhance productivity, the company said...
Google unveiled a preview version of its new hosted Web application platform, Google App Engine, late Monday. The new service is more than a simple database-style platform; rather, it provides developers of Web apps with a hosted solution upon which they can write their applications Google App Engine is a way for developers to run their Web applica...
Amid a barrage of troublesome economic reports, a study released Tuesday suggests online sales are expected to take a dramatic turn upward in 2008 Purchases made over the Internet will shoot up 17 percent and account for 7 percent of retail sales of items ranging from clothing to televisions and computers, reports Forrester Research in "The State o...
The European Union, as a bloc, may be backing Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) as its preferred mobile TV technology, but whether European consumers embrace that platform remains to be seen There are other options that could in the not-too-distant future enable consumers to access TV in individualized, interactive formats such as podcast...
Much ink has been spilled about what, exactly, has been the secret of Barack Obama's overwhelming success. There is no denying his charisma or the appeal of his message, but a behind-the-scenes look at how his political machine operates -- namely, how it empowers its people on the ground to operate -- is worth a look as well Blogger Bill Ives has w...
Whether your company calls them "technical support technicians," "help desk representatives" or "strategic support analysts," in-house help desk professionals are an integral part of any business. Increasing productivity and satisfaction ratings while reducing costs and resources are the hallmarks of an effective IT help desk Finding fast, accurate...
Secure Web gateway products vendor Finjan unveiled version 9.0 of its Vital Security Web appliance on Monday at the RSA Security Conference This includes a new active real-time inspection technology that checks both inbound and outbound Web traffic and SSL (secure socket layer) traffic for malicious content to provide enterprises real-time informat...
Until recently, the closest Facebook users could get to playing Scrabble online was Scrabulous, the wildly popular application launched by two Indian brothers back in 2006 That game -- essentially a Scrabble impostor -- now attracts some 600,000 users per day, but in the last few weeks a new, official beta version of the popular board game was quie...
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