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On Monday, some BlackBerry users experienced their second outage is less than a year. For three hours, many -- but not all -- users were unable to access their e-mail accounts using their handhelds Exactly what caused the system failure is still unclear: Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion said it is looking into the problem and will provide mo...
I couldn't help but feel a bit of deja vu this morning as I enteredthe Desert Springs resort in Palm Desert, Calif., to attend eTail2008. After all, I reported on the event last year in the same venue,and the hotel's atmosphere is as oasis-like as I remember it This year's event is indeed similar to the 2007 gathering: Thesetup looks familiar, and ...
Struggling wireless carrier Sprint Nextel said Tuesday it would add an activist investor who has been agitating for changes at the company to its board of directors Sprint appointed Ralph V. Whitworth, founder and principal ofRelational Investors, to its board. Whitworth will take the seat immediately but will have to stand for election at the comp...
HP released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, which will allow companies to more cost-efficiently consolidate their legacy systems The HP Integrity BL870c, which is the latest HP BladeSystem server, uses a specifically engineered Intel Itanium processor to power the its four-socket server that doubles its processing and memory capabiliti...
A strong backlash from technical users of Windows Vista has forced Microsoft to revise its general release dates for Vista Service Pack 1, moving up the release date for technical users to the end of February Microsoft released Vista SP1 to manufacturing last week in the English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese-language versions. Release to ma...
Dell has added another member to its growing family of acquisitions, although this latest addition already had the Dell pedigree, in a sense The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker said Tuesday it had agreed to buy Austin, Texas-based e-mail services providerMessageOne for about US$155 million in cash....
Nokia unveiled a host of new smartphones Monday at the Mobile World Congress 2008 held in Barcelona, Spain. Among the handset maker's upcoming offerings is the N96, the follow-up to the phone maker's flagship N95 model Styled as a multimedia computer, the N96 sports a slightly larger screen at 2.8 inches versus 2.6 inches on the N95. The new model ...
The latest rumors buzzing around beleaguered Yahoo is that it is looking to restart merger talks with AOL, and might look at Google or Disney -- anyone but Microsoft According to the Times of London, Yahoo and its team of advisers from investment banks Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros. have been evaluating possible deals in a bid to fight off Microsof...
"Opportunity computing" is a term that Danny Kolke, founder and CTO ofEtelos, has coined -- or at least introduced into general use in the CRM community, thanks to his recent post,"Utility v. Opportunity." A partner recently asked Kolke about Etelos' move into the utility computing business. "My immediate reaction was to stare at [him] in amazement...
A big bugaboo standing in the way of making m-commerce a bankable asset is about to be squashed Until early this morning, enterprises had to crawl their way through hundreds of handset specs to develop mobile Web sites to fit each. Today they can hit the ground running. dotMobi has launched a low-to-no cost, comprehensive database of global mobile ...
AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new deal ends Starbucks' six-year partnership with T-Mobile, w...
AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new deal ends Starbucks' six-year partnership with T-Mobile, w...
AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new deal ends Starbucks' six-year partnership with T-Mobile, w...
Microsoft has made a bid forDanger, the mobile software and services provider that designed one of the slickest devices on the market: the T-Mobile Sidekick Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Raising the bar a notch or two higher in its rivalry with Android and the Open Handset Alliance, a newly enlarged LiMo Foundation on Monday rolled out the first LiMo-compatible handsets and announced its software development kit (SDK) strategy Orange and Access are among nine new members that have just recently joined the LiMo Foundation, which unv...
Sony Ericsson has debuted a new handset, the Xperia X1 -- its first to operate on the Windows Mobile operating system Microsoft announced the collaboration as the Mobile World Congress got under way in Barcelona, Spain....
Google's Android mobile phone platform has started to see the light of day. A handful of handset makers have been showing prototype mobile phones running Android at the GSMA (Global System for Mobile Communications) Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain, this week Android is heavily backed by Google, though it's actually being developed an...
Yahoo's board of directors has unanimously voted that Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid is "not in the best interests" of the Web portal, a widely expected move that could put pressure on Redmond to beef up its US$44.6 billion offer Yahoo's board met over the weekend to consider the $31 per share offer, which Microsoft announced on Feb. 1. Yahoo...
Salesforce.com has released its Spring '08 update, building on the Content and Ideas modules that debuted in its Winter '07 edition and boosting standard customer relationship management functionality The primary purpose of the Content and Ideas applications is to give users more tools to manage unstructured data directly in the Salesforce.com appl...
Growing at more than 25 percent per year, e-commerce gives consumers a lot of what they want: broad assortment and convenient shopping any time from anywhere. To successfully compete with the bricks, all e-commerce has to do is stock the "long tail," ensure order accuracy, ensure nearly instant gratification with overnight shipping and keep shipping costs down...
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