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Financial software maker Intuit's longtime CEO Steve Bennett will leave the company at the end of the year, the company said Wednesday as it announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year earnings. The firm named the general manager of the company's small business division, Brad Smith, to replace him. Bennett has held the posts of CEO and president since 2000...
MTV and MySpace are partnering to give voters greater access to the politicians running for U.S. president in 2008. They plan to hold a total of 11 hour-long dialogues from September through December, held on college campuses nationwide People will be able to e-mail, instant message or text message questions during the events, which will be streame...
AMD's head of sales and marketing will leave the company next month, the company said, as the chipmaker finds itself struggling to regain market momentum it enjoyed as recently as last year Henri Richard, whose title is chief sales and marketing officer, will exit the post sometime in September. Richard decided to leave on his own, AMD said, and de...
Nokia users in 11 countries can now access Windows Live services on their mobile devices, thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Nokia The pairing of the king of software and the world's largest mobile device manufacturer is a move toward "empowering the 'mobile lifestyle,'" according to the companies. The venture will bring Windows Live ser...
How to draw the advertising industry into the secondary market for domain names is preoccupying the domain name industry this year. Domain industry convocations have been grappling with the issue, seeing it as providing an opportunity for the secondary market to scale up and achieve sustained profitability and liquidity The most recent major confe...
To many, sales is an art form, one that takes years or even decades to master If you head to your local bookstore or search Google for "sales," for example, you'll find a myriad of books, training classes and podcasts teaching sales techniques "guaranteed" to help you make your quota....
Pimply faced pranksters and lone profiteers who poison computer systems have been replaced by organized criminals of a different breed "These guys are professional organizations. They are fully funded and they're writing specifically for profit," David Frazer, director of technology services at F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld. "Notoriety virus writers...
Although Google didn't get everything it wanted regarding rules for the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming auction of 700 MHz (megahertz) wireless spectrum, it will likely participate in the auction anyway, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday Asked by a T-Mobile executive at a conference if Google would still participate, Schmidt told th...
Employers are denying a growing number of workers access toFacebook, the now ubiquitous social networking site, a Sophos survey shows. The poll queried 600 visitors to the Sophos Web site over a period of weeks earlier this summer Some 43 percent said they had been denied access to Facebook at work. Another 7 percent said that access to the site wa...
Ingres on Wednesday announced the launch of its Icebreaker BI Appliance, a solution for business intelligence (BI)customers The Icebreaker BI Appliance is actually a tightly woven combo of the Ingres database integrated with Linux business intelligence software from open source-based JasperSoft, and Linux-enabling technology from application builde...
Rumors are flying that E*Trade and TD Ameritrade are again discussing a possible merger, a long-contemplated move that would create an online stock trading powerhouse The companies have been in talks for several weeks, but it's not likely that a deal is imminent, according to the Wall Street Journal. Current discussions are focusing on creating a u...
Google Earth turned its gaze upward Wednesday with the debut of a new feature that allows users to view the best images of the sky captured by astronomers around the globe Called "Sky," the new feature lets Google Earth users view and navigate through 200 million galaxies. The images presented are a combination of those from numerous scientific thi...
Visitors to YouTube will now find advertisements temporarily appearing at the bottom of some videos as the Google-owned site experiments with ways to draw revenue to itself and to those who produce the clips Initiated with little fanfare, the advertising program currently involves only videos created by some "select partners," said YouTube. These t...
Avaya has made a significant upgrade in three self-service offerings that it introduced at the beginning of last year Introduced at SpeechTEK 2007 in New York City, the three products are Avaya Voice Portal 4.0, its flagship self-service software; Interactive Response 3.0, a self-service platform; and Avaya Dialog Designer 4.0, a tool for developin...
Mind mapping software is hot From freeware like FreeMind to elaborate corporate planning tools like MindManager to Web 2.0 offerings like Bubbl.us, Mindomo, Kayuda and MindMeister, software developers are busily introducing new mind mapping variations or updating old ones....
A data theft revealed over the weekend of some 1.6 million records from Monster.com does not raise issues of identity theft, the employment Web site asserted "[T]here have been reports of this as an issue of 'identify theft,'" Monster Vice President of Compliance and Fraud Prevention Patrick W. Manzo said. "We are not aware of any cases of identity...
Open source software -- think Linux, Firefox, Wikipedia, Apache, Ajax and a host of other projects -- has introduced a radically different development model -- and mindset -- to the stream of high-tech innovation. It is one that is having repercussions in the corporate world that go beyond how software, telecommunications and other information technologies are developed...
In an effort to bump up gameplay in the online realm of its "World of Warcraft" (WoW) massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORP), Blizzard Entertainment two years ago introduced a new villain, known by the colorful moniker of "Hakkar the Soulflayer." Little did the company know that the virtual plague Hakkar would spread to avatars in t...
Wal-Mart, the world's largest music retailer, has entered the DRM (digital rights management)-free music download fray. Its decision to sell unrestricted 256 kpbs (kilobit per second) MP3 songs from record giants EMI and Universal may well be the tipping point that lets consumers easily buy popular, legitimate online music capable of playing on most any modern device...
Adobe Systems has upgraded its Flash Player with support for the H.264 video-encoding standard and improved audio-compression technology, the company announced Tuesday Dubbed "Moviestar," the upgrade permits the playback of video encoded using H.264, the same standard deployed in Blu-ray and HD DVD high-definition video players for increased compre...
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