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Microsoft will open a software development center in Canada by the end of the year, a move that will enable the software giant to hire more foreign workers without running up against the limitations of U.S. immigration law The center will be located in Vancouver, British Columbia, less than three hours away from Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond,...
It is quite common for people affiliated with a startup to receive Rule 144 stock in lieu of cash or readily tradable stock. This type of stock is usually issued by a company that is either about to go public or has recently gone public Rule 144 stock is often used as a form of reimbursement for services related to an initial public offering (IPO)....
Letting employees have unbridled access to free, consumer-level instant messaging applications running on their workplace computers is a security disaster waiting to happen Instant messaging applications are easy targets for hackers taking advantage of vulnerabilities. It is critical for businesses to pay attention to their employees' use of instan...
PHP (hypertext preprocessor) developer Zend Technologies announced Monday the release of version 1.0 of Zend Framework, an open source application framework for PHP Zend Framework 1.0, pre-released in beta versions since last year, is the result of collaboration from230 contributors comprised of individual developers and company-sponsored committer...
There's no denying that the Internet has changed the world for both good and bad, but few elements of its dark side inspire more fear than its use by terrorists Observers around the world were horrified when a video of the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl was disseminated on the Web, and other gruesome images have followed. It may...
An Irish technology development company Steorn claims it can produce free, clean and constant energy without taking the energy from an external source. In effect, the company claims it has produced an energy-making machine it calls Orbo. Despite apparently violating fundamental laws of physics, Steorn planned to demonstrate its machine to the public Wednesday at the Kinetica Museum gallery in London...
The notorious Norwegian hacker, Jon Lech Johansen -- better known as "DVD Jon" for releasing code that broke DVD copy protection in the late 1990s -- has drawn first blood with the iPhone Johansen has posted a workaround on the Internet that allows iPhone owners to use their devices in a limited fashion without having to first activate it with AT&T...
Officials from Motorola are working with authorities in China to determine what caused a cell phone explosion that killed a 22-year-old Chinese man Xiao Jinpeng, a welder at the Yingpan Iron Ore Dressing Plant in Jinta county in western China's Gansu province, was killed on June 19 when the battery in his cell phone exploded, according to an Associ...
With Nintendo's Wii continuing to set the pace for gaming console sales, Microsoft said it is planning an October launch date in Japan for the upgraded version of its Xbox 360 console Xbox 360 Elite -- a high-end version of the console that features a 120-gigabyte hard drive, a high-definition TV interface and other advanced capabilities -- will go...
After scoring a hit among the senior citizen crowd with its "Brain Age" line of games, Nintendo has taken its quest to help the aging remain youthful to the next level -- the face Named "Otona No DS Kao Training" or "Face Training," the game, according to reports, will include a camera that plugs into the portable Nintendo DS game system and takes ...
With nary a press release or even an announcement on its Web site, eBay has started offering its Kijiji free online classified ad service to people in the United States The rollout of Kijiji in the U.S. puts it in direct competition with free online classified ad pioneer -- and leader -- Craigslist. The fact that eBay owns a 25 percent interest in ...
After years of waiting and lobbying, Research In Motion (RIM) has finally won governmental approval to sell its BlackBerry mobile e-mail devices to users in China The company is preparing to start selling its handheld devices in China as soon as the end of August, and it has approximately 5,000 presale orders from Chinese customers, mainly multinat...
Social and community networks may be great hangouts for Web surfers who shop but not so great for retailers looking for virtual "ka-chings." That was one of the findings in a report released Saturday by JupiterResearch of New York, based on a survey conducted in March of more than 2,000 online consumers....
Although in its infancy, the market for on-demand application systems, including software as a service (SaaS), is taking root and growing rapidly in East Asia, as was seen in Part 1 of this series SaaS revenues in the region growing 80 percent annually between 2006 and 2010 from a 2005 base of US$80 million with customer relationship management (CR...
Years ago, endurance athletes spent a big chunk of their training energy mapping routes, measuring distances and figuring paces. That's because the only way to determine how long and fast they were running or cycling was to drive the distance in the car to establish mileage and then time the workout to calculate speed. Those same athletes would contort themselves to touch their neck pulse points during exercise, the other arm crooked to see a watch and track their heart rate...
In the not-so-distant future, the mundane will become borderline miraculous. The home washing machine will order its own repairs and the sprinkler system will call you on your cell phone to say the lawn service has broken one of its water spouts and it is now wasting water The car will tell you to pull over -- its left rear tire is low on air -- an...
If one were to conduct a survey of technology publications over the past decade or so, it's a good bet there would be at least one instance in each of those years in which someone declared that "this is the year of biometrics." Full of promise but long constrained by a diverse set of obstacles, biometrics -- or the use of body or physical character...
Looking for a franchise opportunity? The World Wide Web is overflowing with Internet-based businesses for sale An online search of the term "Internet franchising" will reveal dozens of Web sites promising both online business and franchise opportunities in a variety of Internet-based companies. The listings go on and on. They include the promise of...
"Does negative press make you Sicko?" That's the title of Google ad rep Lauren Turner's post in a new company blog for the healthcare industry. "Sicko" is a reference to Michael Moore's latest documentary, now out in theaters, which examines access to healthcare in the U.S Given that the readers Turner is targeting are affiliated with the very comp...
Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook provide a means for people to share their lives with others, but are these sites turning their subscribers' free content into economic gain -- a new form of sharecropping? It certainly seems that way, according to Nicholas G. Carr, author of Does IT Matter?...
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