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As people head off to enjoy the last holiday weekend of the summer, few are thinking about the next stretch of holidays ahead: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah and New Year's. Rest assured, though -- retailers are giving the matter plenty of consideration Labor Day weekend signals the start of the holiday e-mail season, according to a new report by...
Making use of distributed computing, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and integrated Web application services, means greater complexity and security design challenges for organizations and IT managers Open standards play a big role in developing and making better use of efficient and effective security measures as computing becomes more ...
Many of us have thought of "locking up" a killer domain name or Web address. Then, all we'd have to do is find a buyer. Some people with whom I speak tell me that all of the good domain names have been registered. Personally, I think that an enterprising and savvy person can still make a big score in online "real estate." Through the first half of ...
The Electronic Frontier (EFF) on Wednesday issued a report critical of the music industry's litigation campaign to reduce digital piracy "Today, downloading from P2P (peer-to-peer) networks is more popular than ever, despite the widespread public awareness of lawsuits," the report declared. "At the same time, the lawsuit campaign has enriched only ...
Electronic payment systems create an ecosystem -- the actions of one participant have an impact on all. This has been seen repeatedly when a single organization fails to protect consumers' payment data, resulting in increased costs for all retailers and banks Each time there is a breach, such as the one impacting TJX, all card issuers must increas...
Sony unveiled two new Walkman music players Thursday, the NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610. The two new players bring video storage and playblack capabilities to the iconic Walkman brand in the U.S. and are the first in the digital players from the company not tied down to Sony's ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) audio format "Our Walkman products of...
TomTom unveiled a new top of the line in its GPS (Global Positioning System) product set Thursday featuring the addition of voice recognition The TomTom GO 920 T global positioning system comes preinstalled with complete maps of Europe, the United States and Canada on 4 GB of internal memory, and it includes new enhanced positioning technology for ...
The Taiwanese firm Hon Hai Precision Industry -- the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, whose clients include HP and Apple -- reportedly plans to invest US$5 billion in Vietnam in the next five years Hon Hai previously said it would spend up to $1 billion in the country, but now plans to spend five times that much to build factor...
Microsoft has acquired one of the few providers of persistent, or group, chat functionality, a niche enterprise tool that is gaining rapid adoption, especially in the financial services areas The software giant boughtParlano, best known for its MindAlign application, for an undisclosed sum. Parlano provides real-time online communication and collab...
As Yahoo struggles to compete with Google and other big Internet players for ad revenue, its management team keeps experimenting with new structures. A leaked memo revealed this week that the company's longtime global head of advertising sales is leaving in the latest shuffle In the confidential memo sent to Yahoo employees and leaked to the media,...
The video download site that media heavyweights News Corp. and NBC hope will become a YouTube alternative for commercial downloads finally has a name: Hulu The long-anticipated site also has a delayed launch time frame, with an October "private beta" launch. The two companies had previously said they hoped to have the site operating by this summer....
Aruba and Motorola have joined the now legion number of tech companies engaged in legal patent disputes. Motorola's subsidiary companies Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Aruba Networks in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware Aruba infringed its patents relate...
Gone are the days of promotions strategies that begin and end with heavy discounting. Today's savvy retailers know their promotions strategies must be innovative, creative and customizable to specific consumer segments. Since the online channel often contains the most comprehensive set of retail products, it makes sense for retailers to use the Web as the channel of choice for overall promotions management...
The pharmaceutical industry has garnered more than its fair share of media attention following headlines exposing the recent Vioxx drug recall, elderly American patients purchasing drugs from Canada, accusations of drug manufacturers price gouging in the face of the AIDS epidemic and Fen-Phen anti-obesity drug lawsuits Consequently, speculation con...
Targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Zmanda on Wednesday introduced an advanced enterprise-class release of its open source backup software called "Amanda." Proprietary backup and recovery software vendors haven't had to worry much about open source competition up to now. After all, they could argue, where's the training, where's the...
Software designers and developers are being challenged to build efficient security measures into their project work as computing is increasingly distributed via Web application services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) Research recently conducted by the Ponemon Institute and CipherOptics found that only 12 percent of IT professionals surveye...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced details and a timeframe for the release of Vista's first service pack, giving a heads-up to businesses waiting on information needed to plan possible deployment of the company's latest operating system "Now is the time and the time is now: Let's talk about Windows Service Pack 1 (SP1)," Nick White, Vista product man...
SAP clearly wants an out-of-court settlement of Oracle's suit against it for intellectual property infringement, based on a joint SAP-Oracle case management conference statement filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California In March, Oracle filed suit against SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary, alleging that over the cours...
In an attempt to combat what it views as illicit activities, the Chinese government announced Tuesday it will deploy two virtual police officers to patrol the Internet, according to reports from the state-run China Daily The cartoon cops, one male and one female, will hit theirbeat Saturday and will be on duty 24/7, safeguarding Beijing's gateway W...
A day after struggling Internet service provider (ISP) EarthLink announced a major restructuring, the company's leader said the decision to lay off about 900 employees was painful to make but necessary if the Internet pioneer is to survive The cost cuts announced Tuesday should help the Atlanta company stay afloat, EarthLink President and CEO Rolla...
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