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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologized to the social networking site's user base in response to a rising crescendo of complaints that its advertising platform, Beacon, is too intrusive More importantly, Facebook is now letting users opt out of the service -- a step that it has clearly been reluctant to take....
Red Hat announced Tuesday the release of the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging Real-time Grid). The open source developer's latest offering is an add-on for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other third-party operating platforms used by financial organizations and government agencies. As the name implies, the software combines messaging, real-time and grid functionality...
Novell announced Wednesday that it has decided to postpone the release of its fourth quarter and full-year 2007 earnings reports, both of which were scheduled for Thursday The cause, it said, was an inquiry from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with which Novell has had a series of exchanges regarding some of its recent filings....
HP has expanded its BladeSystem product line -- popular among enterprise customers -- with a carrier-grade version The platform is "optimized" for the heavy-duty requirements of telecom service providers and network equipment vendors, the company said. The BladeSystem Carrier-Grade Platform is intended for wired and wireless telecom service provide...
Nielsen and Digimarc on Wednesday announced a new service designed to let media companies, social networks, peer-to-peer services and user-generated content sites monitor and manage the distribution of media content The Nielsen Digital Media Manager, slated to be available in mid-2008, will use digital watermarking and fingerprinting to provide a m...
The Department of Justice is siding with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), saying the US$222,000 in penalties levied against a file-sharer after a rare jury trial is not unduly excessive Jammie Thomas, who became a celebrity for refusing to settle with the RIAA after being sued for posting music on Kazaa, was found to have knowi...
Consumers are enamored with HD entertainment devices. What consumers abhor, however, is the quagmire of cabling that tethers their HDTVs, high-def DVD players, gaming consoles and surround sound systems together Hudson, Mass.-based Radiospire Networks is banking on consumers clamoring to its breakthrough technology to replace that cabling nightmare...
Sales 2.0 is a big deal both because it is causing us all to take a new look at selling -- along with all of the social networking ideas and technology that is changing our work habits -- as well as for what it says about marketing To be frank, Sales 2.0 is actually more about marketing than selling. However, the reality is that marketing solutions...
Intel is working on a new low-power microprocessor apparently designed to run basic laptops in to be sold in developing areas of the world. However, the company is talking very little about it "We are not discussing the timing or the specifications of the Diamondville product yet. The target market will be emerging markets." Connie Brown, a spokesp...
Like two baseball card collectors trading player cards they already own for ones they don't, AT&T and Verizon are swapping wireless assets. The two wireless service provider giants have agreed to trade licenses, network assets and subscribers in an effort to help manage separate acquisitions made by each of the companies AT&T's extra assets and swa...
Like two baseball card collectors trading player cards they already own for ones they don't, AT&T and Verizon are swapping wireless assets. The two wireless service provider giants have agreed to trade licenses, network assets and subscribers in an effort to help manage separate acquisitions made by each of the companies AT&T's extra assets and swa...
Like two baseball card collectors trading player cards they already own for ones they don't, AT&T and Verizon are swapping wireless assets. The two wireless service provider giants have agreed to trade licenses, network assets and subscribers in an effort to help manage separate acquisitions made by each of the companies AT&T's extra assets and swa...
A U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday hauled credit card companies onto the mat for their practice of using credit scores to increase the interest rates cardholders must pay "Credit card companies go too far when they hike the interest rates of consumers who are faithfully paying their credit card bills, just to squeeze more finance charges from th...
Fox Entertainment Group (FEG), a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., announced Tuesday it has acquired Beliefnet, a leading religious Web site. The purchase expands the media mogul's marketing and advertising reach into a demographic that provides the company with a balance to its other online properties such as MySpace Beliefnet, founded in...
Users of Windows Vista caught running afoul of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software verification program will retain use of the operating system (OS) following the release of Vista's first service pack (SP1) early in 2008, Microsoft announced Tuesday Rather than disabling Vista's features, Microsoft will set the OS on nag mode when ...
If you're in the U.S., the next time you place a bid on eBay you'll have new competition from Japan. The online auction giant said Tuesday it will join forces with Yahoo Japan, the largest online auctionsite in that country The move is seen as eBay's attempt to expand into the Asian market by working with a local, established entity, rather than go...
Living up to a promise it made investors, Dell announced Tuesday it will return to buying back its stock now that an internal accounting investigation is concluded The stock repurchases will begin this week with the buying back of US$10 billion worth of shares, the Round Rock, Texas, computer giant said. The announcement preceded the company's annu...
SAP rolled out a new version of its SAP CRM application -- its first major release in a year Significant changes to the platform include a new user interface that allows business managers to make changes that previously would have required more extensive customization and new functionality in a number of areas, such as trade promotions, real time o...
Bidz.com is successful now, but it had very humble beginnings. I started Bidz in 1998 with no computer experience. I had no preconceived notions of how e-commerce should look and feel to customers. I didn't know how an e-commerce company should be run I had owned many different types of businesses since I immigrated here from Moldova as a teenager ...
Who would have thought that it would be so easy to get PC and network users to install viruses, worms, application-downloading Trojan horses and other forms of malware on their PCs? Through a simple form of social engineering -- sending out enticing, unsolicited e-mail spam -- Internet users are doing just that. Part 1 and Part 2 of this series di...
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