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It's a dream scenario: A candidate aspiring to a pivotal job in the culinary arts field enters the virtual world Second Life, having never been an online gamer before. He attends an online job fair held by recruiting company TMP Worldwide and is interviewed by major food and operations services company Sodexho. As a result, he lands a job as an executive chef with the firm...
For decades, sci-fi writers have painted a picture of utopia as a crystal-domed city appointed with shiny-steel accents, ultra-modern furniture and gadgets ranging from food replicators to floor-hugging maintenance drones. Tranquility and efficiency extend from work to sex, and the human aging process is "curable," as is every other form of disease...
Security providerWebroot on Tuesday released its namesake e-mail security Software as a Service solution Targeted at small to medium-sized businesses, Webroot's new offering delivers better protection, lower total cost of ownership, and better value than perimeter security appliances or software, the company said....
Legions of Oprah Winfrey fans will have access to the talk show megastar 24/7 on "OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network," Winfrey and Discovery Communications President and CEO David Zaslav announced Tuesday. The joint venture will enable Discovery to repurpose its less-than-successful Discovery Health channel with Oprah's brand "Fifteen years ago, I wrot...
A group of public policy organizations has filed a petition and complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Comcast over the way the Internet service provider has managed its Internet traffic More specifically, the groups are comprised of the Free Press, Public Knowledge and Media Access Project organizations, and they allege that ...
A little more than two weeks into 2008, cyber-criminals are up to their same old tricks -- stealing users' private data -- but they have concocted a far more advanced and sophisticated method. They are now embedding their malicious code into legitimate Web sites using Web-hosting servers, according to a report released Monday byFinjan Software, a provider of secure web gateway products...
Applied Materials announced plans to reduce its workforce by 1,000 as part of a global cost-cutting move The company, one of the largest suppliers of semiconductor equipment, said the year-long reductions would come through job elimination and attrition. It will take a US$20 million charge for the reductions but expects an annualized savings of $15...
MySpace has introduced aggressive new measures to protect users -- particularly children and adolescents -- against sexual predators. Up until now the social networking site has made incremental changes to its policies, usually in response to parental or congressional outcry. This latest set of steps, however, are arguably the most aggressive the popular site has taken thus far...
At the end of 2004, it appeared the home networking phenomenon was bypassing Europe. Penetration rates were far behind North America and Asia, and only a few households (less than 5 percent) were interested in a home network. Broadband adoption was likewise lackluster. In many of Europe's leading markets, just one-fifth of all households had high-speed access, and without broadband, home networks are of limited utility...
CRM is all about the front office and those processes that affect or touch the customer. After 15-plus years of software development aimed at this space, you might think that there's nothing left to be said -- or, more precisely, done. You'd be wrong Dick Lee, principal of High-Yield Methods and writer of the blogCustomer Alignment, has been on th...
Many companies are running software on their Web servers that contains open source code with known vulnerabilities, a security firm has found Software risk management solutions firm Palamida has expanded its Vulnerability Reporting Solution detection capabilities to include 431 open source security alerts. The alerts include 148 that are considered...
When Warner Bros. Entertainment moved all its high-definition eggs into the Blu-ray basket a week and a half ago, tremors could be felt throughout the digital entertainment world HD DVD champion Toshiba canceled a press event in response, and all eyes fell on Paramount and Universal, the last major movie studios still committed to HD DVD....
Just months after it decided to stop its legal battles against a landmark European Union antitrust finding, Microsoft now finds itself facing two new inquiries into claims that it abused its market dominance in Europe The European Commission is looking into accusations that Microsoft used its power in the word processing and spreadsheet markets to ...
A government Web site meant to aid travelers in removing their names from the Do Not Fly list inadvertently exposed thousands of personal data files to malicious hackers, according to a congressional report released on Friday The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released areport on Friday that detailed serious flaws in the archite...
Windows Vista users who have been chomping at the bit to join the beta test of its first service pack (SP1) can now download the software thanks to an apparent reversal late last week by Microsoft After initially offering the latest beta version, known as "Vista SP1 RC Refresh," to its 15,000 beta testers last Wednesday, the company reportedly deci...
The Internet has become a key place to get news about the upcoming presidential elections, with almost a quarter of Americans now learning about the campaigns online on a regular basis That's one finding from a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Internet & American Life Project on campaign news and polit...
In a move to help it break free of the old-school DVD format, Netflix is beefing up its streaming video service. Instead of limiting the number of hours customers can watch movies online, Netflix is now offering unlimited video streaming from its entire video library With the change, customers can catch up on their favorite TV shows with marathon s...
IBM posted strong fourth quarter results Monday, beating profits and sales targets as it rode to the rescue of a sagging stock market by providing renewed optimism about technology earnings Big Blue's profit rose 24 percent to US$2.80 per share in the fourth quarter of 2007 while revenue increased 10 percent to $28.9 billion. For the full year, IBM...
All of the anxiety-producing statements that drove tech and telecom stocks up and down last week have me feeling like Chicken Little -- and I'm a mere mutual fund investor On Tuesday, AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson scared the bejesus out of investors when he said "We're really experiencing some softness on the consumer side -- from the ec...
Leading domain registrar Network Solutions is under fire for a controversial practice under which it briefly reserves domain names after it notices search activity on the names Network Solutions describes the technique as a way to protect legitimate interest in domains from modern-day cyber-squatters. Word of the approach spread quickly last week a...
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