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Mozilla Flies High on Google's Coattails

Mozilla's revenues for 2006 were up roughly 26 percent from 2005, reaching US$66.8 million, the company said Monday In a report including both the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation, the maker of the Firefox browser also said that expenses for the year were just $19.8 million, leaving it with a rosy financial outlook in 2007....

Verizon's New FiOS Breaks Upload Speed Limits

A new FiOS (fiber optic service) from Verizon features upload and download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second (Mb/s), the company announced Tuesday Using a 20Mb/s upstream broadband connection, the symmetrical service could enable a consumer to upload a 250 MB file of 200 photos in about 90 seconds, Verizon said, compared with about 47 minutes ...

IBM Offers New Ways to Store Ginormous Amounts of Data

IBM has announced improved storage virtualization offerings for disk and tape, including a new product and enhancements to its Virtualization Engine TS7520 tape solution The goal in making the changes is to increase the efficiency of its storage virtualization products and bring cost savings to its customers, the Armonk, N.Y., computing giant said....

Microsoft Slashes CRM Live Pricing for Partners

Microsoft has cut by almost half the cost of its CRM Live application for partners, bringing its price point down to US$15 per user per month The price cut, of course, is part of Microsoft's ongoing support for its partner network that the company must leverage to make inroads in the Software as a Service space. A drop in price would also encourage...

OPINION

America the Haunted?

Countries are like little homes; they house a nation, hold ideologies and provide shelter and comfort to their people in hopes that the occupants will nurture better ideas for themselves and further advance humanity. These are the primary desires and goals of most countries on this small planet, and America is no exception For decades, billions of ...

Feeding the Cash Cow: Beefing Up Mobile Business Services

Business users of mobile services create more revenue for the industry than personal users, according to a New York market research firm Based on a survey of more than 1,200 wireless subscribers, the average revenue per user (ARPU) for mobile business users is 24 percent higher than personal users, according to a report from ABI Research....

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Getting Specific

I have been anticipating the Sales 2.0 conference coming up in San Francisco for many reasons. As a certified, bag-carrying sales guy for a number of years, selling is part of me and though I am an old dog, I do enjoy at least hearing about new tricks I am also an avid fan of the game and many of my clients have sales-related issues -- if not prod...

Enterprise Web App Platform Maker UnCurls Code

Curl plans to release much of its code for the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform to the open source community to enhance the development of Web 2.0 applications The company announced Monday the first step in its open source strategy -- the creation of a common repository of open source component libraries to support the rapid developmen...

A Plethora of One-Stop Shops for Small Biz Tech

One by one, major technology vendors are rolling out programs meant to offer small businesses the chance to source all of their tech needs, from desktop and mobile PCs to printers, servers and software to support it all The trend is unmistakable and, in recent months, everyone from Dell to IBM to retail chain Best Buy have rolled out programs offer...

Report: Cheery Outlook for Holiday E-Shopping Season

Online retail sales for this holiday season are expected to increase by 20 percent over sales from the 2006 season, surpassing US$39 billion, according to JupiterResearch's U.S. Online Retail Holiday Forecast for 2007 This growth will be driven not only by veteran online shoppers -- who are projected to increase their holiday spending by 13 percent...

Microsoft Eyes Enterprise With New Mobile Server

Setting its sights squarely on Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft announced Tuesday its first dedicated mobile device management server aimed at enterprise users The Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is a new mobile-dedicated server solution that helps companies manage Windows Mobile phones much the way they do Windows-based lapto...

MySpace Pens Formal Agreement for Casual Games

MySpace is breaking into the casual gaming world, and it's tapped casual games company Oberon Media to get the job done. In early 2008, MySpace will launch MySpace Games, which will let users choose from hundreds of games for free online play "Bringing entertainment in the form of fun, social, casual games will enhance our user experience," Amit Ka...

BEA Balks at Oracle's Ultimatum on Buyout Offer

Hoping to turn up the heat on BEA's board of directors, Oracle on Tuesday set a deadline for the company to accept its US$6.7 billion buyout offer In a letter to BEA's board, Oracle said its current offer of $17 per share in cash would expire at 5 p.m. on Sunday. The BEA board has rejected its offer three times now and has declined an offer to mee...

Xbox Elbows In on Wii Crowd With Arcade Package

Maintaining a solid lead among hardcore gamers in its competition with Sony, Microsoft has seemingly decided to train its sights on Nintendo and the threat posed by the Wii. On Monday Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the Xbox 360 Arcade, a bare-bones system that includes the Xbox 360 console as well as five best-selling arcade games, a package that appears to target the Wii in both price and content...

AT&T Rides BellSouth Buy, iPhone to $3.1B Profit

AT&T grew its business strongly in the past three months, delivering its tenth quarter in a row of double-digit earnings-per-share growth The San Antonio-based telecommunications giant, the nation's biggest, reported quarterly revenues of US$30.1 billion, almost double from a year ago, and net income of $3.1 billion....

AT&T Rides BellSouth Buy, iPhone to $3.1B Profit

AT&T grew its business strongly in the past three months, delivering its tenth quarter in a row of double-digit earnings-per-share growth The San Antonio-based telecommunications giant, the nation's biggest, reported quarterly revenues of US$30.1 billion, almost double from a year ago, and net income of $3.1 billion....

AT&T Rides BellSouth Buy, iPhone to $3.1B Profit

AT&T grew its business strongly in the past three months, delivering its tenth quarter in a row of double-digit earnings-per-share growth The San Antonio-based telecommunications giant, the nation's biggest, reported quarterly revenues of US$30.1 billion, almost double from a year ago, and net income of $3.1 billion....

Shopping Cart Options for SMBs, Part 2

There's a wealth of opportunities available for aspiring and small to medium-sized business (SMB) e-tailers looking for shopping cart technology, as Part 1 of this series points out While this makes it easier than ever to find this important piece of the e-tailing puzzle, it also means startup and SMB e-tailers face greater challenges when it comes...

Twine: Stringing Together the Semantic Web

Friends, colleagues, organizations and teams will soon be able to use a new service designed to help them share, organize and find information with Twine.com, Radar Networks announced Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Twine is the first mainstream application of what the company called the "Semantic" Web "We've worked for several years...

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The Increasing Complexity of the New Spyware Landscape

Spyware was originally designed to observe users' Internet patterns and deliver pop-up ads based on their individual browsing and shopping preferences. Now, although pop-up ads continue to be a nuisance, hackers are far more focused on spyware as crimeware: computer programs designed expressly to facilitate illegal activity online This change in ap...

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