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After years of relying mainly on its own Web site as an online sales vehicle for its airfares, discount carrier JetBlue changed course Monday, striking deals to allow third-party travel sites sell tickets for its flights JetBlue announced distribution deals with Travelocity, Orbitz, Expediaand Priceline, a move that will dramatically expand the num...
With brick-and-mortar retailers reporting a blockbuster Black Friday, Internet merchants looked to counter with a strong Cyber Monday, with at least one analyst firm predicting sales would set a record by exceeding 2006 levels Although Cyber Monday has come to stand for the virtual equivalent of Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, the first M...
The potential health and environmental consequences of nanotechnology are a source of greater concern to scientists than to the public at large, according to a new study published Sunday in the journal Nature Nanotechnology The research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin ...
A week before it hosts a number of big Asian companies for an Arab-Asian Investment Conference, private equity company Dubai International Capital (DIC) showed what's at stake by announcing it is buying a big chunk of Sony stock The unspecified investment is coming from the US$2 billion Global Strategic Equities Fund (GSEF) through NewDawn GSE Asse...
For some people, November is all about festivity: turkey, cranberry sauce and the start of the long ramp-up to the December holidays However, that's not always the case if you happen to be in IT security....
So you want to give the best this holiday season? How about a nice bundle of free software? Hold on, this isn't a lesson in Scrooge 101 but a way to give some really good software on a shoestring budget, or to lend a hand to charities, struggling college students, underprivileged kids, even help out the un-geeks who want to do more on their computer but haven't a clue about software...
Last week was a short week, and while you know the outcome of Black Friday, that is still in my future. We did have two big announcements, though Amazon made a run at the eBook market with what is the best eBook in the world; in addition, the Dell XPS One, which follows the Gateway One to market, is an impressive piece of work and probably makes Ap...
When billionaire Charles Simonyi blasted off into space for a visit to the International Space Station last month, he not only made history as the fifth private citizen to fly into orbit. He also fulfilled what for many is a lifelong dream: To explore the final frontier The prospect of traveling into space is one that has captivated people for ages...
In an effort to gain a competitive edge in the market, companies are implementing customer self-service solutions to address two distinctly separate business challenges -- improving the customer experience and cost reduction While the cost-related benefits of self-service are widely understood, and arguably self evident, new research by the Aberdee...
With the one-year anniversary of the launch of its Windows Vista operating system on the horizon, Microsoft for the past 10 months or so has been able to turn its attention to other projects. In particular, the software maker has been working to put out Vista's first service pack and a third service pack for its Windows XP operating system. The two software updates are designed to improve the performance and stability of their respective OS...
Personal data on roughly 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families in the United Kingdom have been lost, Chancellor Alistair Darling of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) office announced Tuesday The lost data includes the names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and bank account details of all people who receive a ...
PlayStation Portable (PSP) users will soon be saying good-bye to their old download service. Sony, maker of the PSP, announced Tuesday it has launched a new service, the PlayStation Store, for the PC from which PSP owners can purchase content directly The current PSP download service will reportedly go dark at the end of January to make way for wha...
The capability gap between personal computers and mobile phones continues to narrow and, from a convenience and productivity point of view, that's a good thing. But along with the benefits come risks, according to Symantec The Cupertino, Calif. company -- known mainly for its Norton brand of computing security products -- believes mobile devices ar...
Nokia Siemens Networks is introducing environmentally friendly products that offer end users not only a sustainable business model but also bottom-line savings Taking aim at the largest source of energy consumption in a typical telecom network environment -- the wireless network's base station site -- Nokia Siemens Networks has rolled out its so-c...
MoveOn.org, the civic and political action group best known for espousing Democratic ideals, has launched a campaign aimed at pressuring Facebook to change its privacy policy in the wake of a newly launched advertising program Using a Facebook page and its own Web site, MoveOn is collecting signatures on a petition demanding that Facebook "respect ...
The open source KDE Community has turned loose the first release candidate for KDE 4.0 Desktop, the next generation of the KDE Linux/Unix desktop application ...
As enterprises rush to assess how they can benefit from service-oriented architecture (SOA), many naturally but mistakenly focus on the technological aspects of the solution. As an architecture, it's unfair to paint SOA as a panacea to independent software vendors' (ISV) most daunting business problems In order to determine if SOA is right for your...
They pulled out all the stops at Oracle Open World last week to unveil a whole lot of advanced and interesting business technology. It was the 30th anniversary show, but the emphasis was clearly about the future -- not the past There was lots that was not CRM related -- though from my provincial perspective I can barely understand why -- and I will...
November marks the one-year anniversary of the release of both Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 as well as the second anniversary of the debut of Microsoft's Xbox 360. It has been a long year for the three console makers, one in which the former leaders, Microsoft and Sony, were blindsided by the phenomenal success of the Wii and nonplussed by the lackluster performance of the PS3...
Mozilla has posted the first public beta of Firefox 3. At the same time, however, Mozilla is warning that the beta is for testing purposes only and not for casual users. Because this beta is targeted at testing core functionality added to the browser, Mozilla notes that some of Firefox 3 Beta 1 is still a bit "rough around the edges." For example, many Firefox 2 add-ons don't work properly with this first beta...
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