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Trust remains a critical component of today's online economy. By its very nature, the Web 2.0 phenomenon factors into consumer or enterprise trust, as it can cloud judgments over what is and what's not trustworthy online Web 2.0 applications are typically lightweight and nimble, with slick user interfaces that can bridge consumer and professional w...
Growing concerns over migrating to Vista may push companies to adopt alternative operating systems. A study released in late November revealed that 90 percent of the Windows users polled reported concerns about migrating to Microsoft's newest operating system Forty-four percent of those polled said they would consider deployment of alternative oper...
Facebook has modified its Beacon ad program by making its off-site broadcasting capabilities more obvious to users and easier to opt out of -- at least, in some cases. However, that adjustment hasn't quelled privacy concerns on the part of users and at least one security vendor Facebook has been tracking user actions on affiliate sites, claims a CA...
Two years after a merger that helped herald the coming blogging revolution, Six Apart has agreed to sell its LiveJournal counterpart to a Russian media company LiveJournal had already been operating a Russian-language version through a partnership with the buyer, a firm called "SUP." Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Six Apart said the proc...
Yahoo revealed its top searches of 2007 on Monday, but rather than presenting another year dominated by Britney Spears, it focused instead on topic categories, taking the spotlight off overall leaders Britney still leads the list of celebrity searches, to be sure, but Yahoo sliced and diced the data a little differently this year to allow other lea...
Users of AOL's fledgling video download service may be in for a surprise the next time they visit the site. The one-time Internet leader has shuttered its 1-year-old video service and is now funneling users to Amazon.com's Unbox video download site The shutdown follows AOL's decision to reinvent itself as an ad-supported business, Jaymelina Esmele,...
VeriFone, a provider of secure electronic payment systems and consulting, lost almost 50 percent of its market value after the company said Monday it will need to restate its financials for several reporting periods -- going back to January The restatements, resulting from an internal review, will include a correction to its reported revenue of US$...
NASA launch crews were making final preparations Monday for this week's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, which will install the European Columbus science laboratory on the international space station (ISS) Mission STS-122 is slated to lift off at 4:31 p.m. EST Thursday from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Countdown is scheduled ...
In a three-year deal worth US$4.5 billion, Dell is consolidating its far-flung advertising efforts into an integrated "new marketing model" that involves partnering with one agency: London-based WPP Group Dell officials have been calling the new arrangement "Project DaVinci," a name intended to reflect its goal of blending art with science. The com...
French media giant Vivendi will buy a sizable stake in video game publisher Activision and merge the company with its own successful gaming unit, creating a game-development powerhouse The deal will produce a new company, known as "Activision Blizzard," that will have US$3.8 billion in combined revenues this year and may put pressure on other publi...
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Amdocs has rolled out Smart Agent Desktop, a new product that gives contact center agents visibility into back-end applications and provides guidance on decision making processes related to calls It is the combination of both factors in one product that makes this rollout unique in the industry, Hollie Halpin, senior product marketing manager for A...
With all the buzz about Android starting to settle down, and the respite from it all afforded by Thanksgiving, the last few weeks have felt a little more mellow in the Linux blogs One topic that did generate some passionate attention, however, was the question of whether Asus' new eeePC subnotebook might violate the GNU General Public License (GPL)...
I've been looking at the early numbers from the Black Friday sales and -- as expected -- flat screen TVs are flying off the shelves and you can't find a Wii at anywhere close to retail price if you can find it at all Products that sold through were the Amazon Kindle, the low-end Toshiba HD-DVD player and the 80 GB Zune. I kind of expected the Toshi...
The holiday shopping season is upon us. Import prices are up as the U.S. dollar continues its descent, oil prices are hitting record highs, and the American economy is still struggling to absorb shocks from mortgage market problems, falling home values and tighter credit conditions Given a backdrop of rising inflation and a slowing economy, what ar...
Zonbu, maker of the Zonbu Mini desktop, unveiled a new addition to its line of PCs -- the Zonbu Notebook computer. The inexpensive, Linux-based laptops include a service contract, billed monthly, that takes over the tasks of backing up data and monitoring the system's security The new notebook PC will be manufactured by Everex and will be available...
The price tag on the largest database breach on record moved higherFriday with TJX agreeing to pay nearly US$41 million to settlewith credit card companies and banks that were forced to issue new cards to customers of the retailer to prevent or recover fraudulent charges TJX will pay $40.9 million through Visa and Visa USA to cover the costs associ...
A New Zealand cybercrime police force nabbed an 18-year-old this week who goes by the cyber ID "AKILL," officials said. While the New Zealand officials haven't arrested the man, he is being interviewed in conjunction with a wider botnet crackdown involving the FBI and Dutch authorities The FBI said AKILL is believed to be the ringleader of an elite...
Wall Street gave Dell the smackdown early Friday, a day after the company issued a third-quarter report that showed solid revenue and earnings but acknowledged clouds on the horizon The company's shares took a nosedive largely because, despite reporting Q3 revenues that were up 9 percent year-over-year and operating income that was up 13 percent, D...
Motorola CEO Ed Zander will step down from his post at the end of the year, a victim of a long and deep post-Razr market share slump at the top U.S.-based maker of mobile handsets The Schaumburg, Ill., company -- which last week fell from second to third in terms of worldwide market share behind Nokia and Samsung -- said Zander would remain in his ...
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