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At last week's Aging in America conference in Washington, attendees were greeted with multiple displays of technology aiming to help older people live better. A technological divide exists between the "oldest old" and the "recently old" baby boomers, but technologies developed for both groups may also be able to help younger generations fight aging...
Comcast is now delivering super high-speed Internet services to households in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. -- up to 50 Mbps (megabits per second), significantly faster than typical low-end broadband, which comes in at 1.5 Mbps or less The new speeds come courtesy of the company's next-generation Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (...
Oracle has gone to the debt markets to fund its US$8.5 billion purchase of BEA Systems. The company has priced an offering in three series of investment-grade notes for a total of $5 billion It is selling $1.25 billion of 4.95 percent notes due 2013; $2.5 billion of 5.75 percent notes due 2018; and $1.25 billion of 6.5 percent notes due 2038. The o...
Looking to fill what it says is a gap in the consumer's toolbox, real estate site Zillow.com has launched a marketplace to connect home buyers with mortgages Seattle-based Zillow -- best known for its home-price comparison offerings -- is hoping to do for mortgages what the Web has already done for other financial services products, including life ...
Sun Microsystems, one of the largest server makers, announced that it would increase the number of products certified for use with Ubuntu Linux, one of the fastest growing open source operating systems The upcoming expansion -- which is expected to be detailed in the coming days -- is the latest development in the two-year relationship between Sun ...
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega caused a stir at a press conference at CTIA Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas Wednesday when he expressed interest in Google's Android platform Some reports even had him committing to shipping phones running Android later this year....
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega caused a stir at a press conference at CTIA Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas Wednesday when he expressed interest in Google's Android platform Some reports even had him committing to shipping phones running Android later this year....
MySpace announced Thursday a joint venture with three of the world's four largest record companies -- Sony BMG, Universal and Warner Music -- to launch a new online music service. The service will add new features to the social network's existing music portal, MySpace Music MySpace Music will begin to offer users the ability to purchase music downl...
Research In Motion posted strong earnings and sales growth in its fourth quarter. The positive news signals that it has not seen the Apple iPhone cut into the market share for its BlackBerry device and that adoption may continue to grow even amid a weakening economy RIM beat Wall Street targets for the quarter ending March 1, shipped a record numbe...
Yahoo has launched its next-generation mobile search service and also appears determined to get a jump on competitors by making it readily available to third-party developers Yahoo's oneSearch 2.0, the new iteration of the company's year-old mobile search service, will deliver a number of improvements that will allow users to perform quicker, more ...
Using mobile devices running Windows Mobile operating system may become a little easier with the upcoming release of Windows 6.1 and a few changes to Internet Explorer Mobile (IEM) that Microsoft plans to make. The software maker unveiled new versions of its mobile OS and Web browser this week at the CTIA Wireless 2008 mobile show The updated softw...
If you consider the traditional quality assurance process -- in which QA is a set of tasks that occur in a serial fashion after development -- it becomes clear that many of the desired SOA (service-oriented architecture) benefits such as agility, cost efficiency and higher quality are placed at risk. These risks are compounded by four very distinct QA challenges:...
In recent years, First Call Resolution (FCR) has emerged as a critical element for contact centers looking to become more customer centric The FCR metric focuses on how well a contact center handles customer requests the first time, and most organizations agree that it is the only true metric that delivers a clear measurement of their effectiveness...
Companies evaluating iSCSI (small computer systems interface protocol over the Internet) are driven primarily by the need to lower the cost of their storage infrastructure. However, adoption of iSCSI storage solutions by large enterprises has been slow A recent study by Aberdeen, surveying more than 140 organizations, provides evidence that iSCSI i...
Intel on Wednesday unveiled the Centrino Atom family of low-power processors for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) It also announced a new class of inexpensive, simple Internet-centric computers, called "netbooks," which will hit the market later this year, and new developments in other chip families....
SAP has signaled its intention to hand the leadership reins to board member and deputy chief executive Leo Apotheker, naming him as co-CEO to serve alongside current chief Henning Kagermann, whose contract expires in 13 months SAP has traditionally groomed its chief executives in this manner. Kagermann and his predecessor Hasso Plattner both served...
EMI Music has recruited Google CIO Douglas Merrill to head up its growing digital music business, the company announced Wednesday As president of EMI Music's digital business, Merrill will head a new global function that brings together for the first time leadership responsibility for all of the company's digital strategy, innovation, business deve...
Surface, Microsoft's newly developed touch-screen interactive tabletop display, will be available beginning April 17 in select AT&T stores, including those in New York, Atlanta, San Francisco and San Antonio. The success of the initial appearance of the technology will determine how many of AT&T's 2,200 stores it eventually will reach, the companies said...
Amazon.com launched a text-message shopping option Tuesday that enables users to search for, compare and buy products via short message service, in addition to its existing browser-based mobile commerce offerings TextBuyIt, as the service is known, joins Amazon's mobile site and a site dedicated for access with the iPhone in Amazon's mobile arsenal...
HP has released a number of new offerings targeting the mid-market, including new Linux management tools, remote security access products and -- for companies embarking on a customer relationship management implementation -- two new additions to the HP ProLiant server line that include configuration blueprints for two popular applications: Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Oracle's Siebel CRM...
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