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Having watched its shares lose nearly half of their value in the last year and its cell phone business continue to languish among the also-rans in a crowded field, Motorola said Wednesday it will split into two publicly traded companies, separating its mobile devices business from its broadband and mobility solutions group Motorola, whose Razr phon...
Will you add me? Have you written on my wall? Are we LinkedIn? Social networks are not only changing the way we speak to our friends, they are influencing our actions and behaviors There is no question that social networks are becoming the networking standard as e-mail replaced snail mail years ago. Today, there are more than 350 million social net...
Every year,Beagle Research Group scours the tech landscape in search of a few good companies that are developing technologies not only novel to the customer relationship management industry, but also likely to reinvent business processes in their particular niches Since launching the WizKids report four years ago, Denis Pombriant, principal at the ...
WiFi features are as standard on today's portable computers as built-in modems used to be. Laptop users have become accustomed to the ability to connect to the Internet from practically anywhere to reach e-mail, Web sites and music download portals. Consumers even use wireless routers to connect to the Internet from anywhere in their homes The prob...
Google, Yahoo and MySpace are forming the nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation to support Google's OpenSocial platform, which allows developers to build software that can run on different social networks The companies want to "ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications ...
Yahoo shares moved higher by more than 3 percent Tuesday after an analyst upgraded the stock, suggesting that Microsoft was likely to sweeten its offer for the Web portal Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney upgraded Yahoo shares to a buy on Monday, arguing that the strategic value of Yahoo made a more lucrative offer worth the software giant's money....
Having induced the Federal Communications Commission to open up the C block of wireless airwaves at the recent wireless auction, Google is now seeking access to another set of airwaves in pursuit of openness This time, it wants to open up the unlicensed parts of the TV broadcast spectrum, the so-called white space, for wireless broadband Internet a...
IBM has bought into New Jersey-based startup EnterpriseDB, an open source rival of MySQL and Oracle EnterpriseDB closed a US$10 million round of Series C venture capital financing with IBM, as well as Charles River Ventures, Fidelity Ventures and Valhalla Partners, the company said at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco....
An Australian WiMax operator -- or rather former operator -- reportedly lambasted the technology last week at the WiMAX World Asia 2008 international conference held in Bangkok, Thailand. Buzz Broadband's CEO Garth Freeman told the audience the technology is a "disaster" which, when deployed, "failed miserably," according to a report from telecom publication CommsDay Australasia...
The U.S. Department of Justice has cleared the way for competing satellite radio services to merge into one company amid fears that the combined service would create an unstoppable monopoly Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio first announced intentions to merge in February of 2007 -- 10 years after the inception of satellite radio -- in o...
Don't open that Word file attached to your e-mail; it might contain malware And don't click on that e-mail or Web site links from strangers. Heck, don't even open Word e-mail attachments from trusted sources unless you're expecting them....
Content and advertising have enjoyed a longstanding, symbiotic, codependent relationship -- although not necessarily in the unhealthy sense of the word. Content publishers need advertisers to pay the bills while advertisers simultaneously need content to create traffic they hope to draw to their goods and services However, most publishers are makin...
Having your customers comment on your policies, products or employment practices is one thing. Having them suggest ideas for improving said policies and products -- in a public forum where participants can vote on these ideas, no less -- is an entirely different matter How well a company can handle customer participation in its business -- beyond,...
The Linux operating system is not immune to virus infections, although Linux-specific viruses are extremely rare. Linux servers face more risk of virus attack than Linux desktops That said, IT security and control firm Sophos recently issued a warning about potential virus infections targeting Linux servers that could pose risks to the Linux operat...
As corporations increasingly virtualize their environments, they are finding that traditional physical security and network applications are not adequate for their needs "Most network security solutions are based on custom-made ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) running customized software, and don't provide adequate security in a vir...
A storm building around a 15-minute online Dutch film critical of the Quran is emblematic not only of the growing ability of cyber forces to banish divergent views -- but also, more specifically, the utter unwillingness of domain name registrars to stand firm against those viral tides of protest One of them,Network Solutions, has temporarily suspen...
Google has quietly unveiled a search-within-a-site feature on its main Web search engine, giving users the ability to refine searches before going to a merchant or publisher's page The company launched search-within-a-site on March 5 after several days of testing, according to a posting to the official Google blog. The tool grew out of observations...
Flush from its high-definition DVD format war victory over Toshiba, Sony is beginning to enhance its Blu-ray platform with new interactive features and discs that take advantage of them The company's movie division, Sony Pictures, plans to release its first two Blu-ray discs April 8, enabled with new technology it calls "BD-Live." "Walk Hard: The D...
In the midst of its hostile takeover bid for a rival company, video game firm Electronic Arts is losing one of its key executives EA's chief financial officer, Warren Jenson, is leaving the company and will be replaced shortly, the company said.He has been with EA for six years....
Opening a new front in his yearlong push to prompt major changes at the top U.S. mobile phone maker, activist investor Carl Icahn is suing Motorola, asking a court to force the company to give him access to strategic plans and other documents Icahn, who fell short in his effort to strong-arm his way onto the Motorola board of directors last year, a...
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