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Through both words and actions, executives from Salesforce.com and Google have made clear they hold each other in high esteem. Just how deep that mutual admiration runs is suggested by a report in Monday's Wall Street Journal that the two companies are working through details of a potential partnership Possible developments from the reported tie-up...
Speculation surrounding a new Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) model sporting an 80 GB hard disk drive has gone into overdrive once again after the company's South Korean unit announced the arrival of the newest addition to the console line on its Web site. The system, according to Sony Korea, will become available on June 16 and cost 518,000 South Korean won (US$557)...
After a brief showdown last week with a group of attorneys general, MySpace announced Monday that it will give the group the information it requested about registered sex offenders with profiles on the site. The attorneys general delivered a subpoena to the social networking site on the same day Working with Sentinel SAFE, MySpace identified about ...
IBM formally launched its Power6 microprocessor Monday, billing the new chip as the fastest ever built and saying it will enable servers to process data twice as fast while using less electricity The Power6 dual-core processor has a clock speed of 4.7 GHz and offers 8 megabytes of L2 cache -- four times as much as the Power5 family. The chip is als...
As new open source document standards emerge, Microsoft continues to expand interoperability options for its Microsoft Office customers. Microsoft has launched an open source project with Chinese organizations to support interoperability with Microsoft Office and the Chinese UOF standard, the company announced Sunday Microsoft is working with Beiha...
Private investors will acquire wireless carrier Alltel in a deal worth around US$27.5 billion, as the private equity buyout trend reaches into the mobile space for the first time Alltel's board of directors agreed over the weekend to be acquired by TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners for $71.50 per share, or about $24.8 billion. The firm...
Checkpoint Systems earlier this month rolled out a line of RFID (radio frequency identification)-enabled labels with both advanced inventory control and item-tracking capabilities. The Thorofare, N.J.-based company said the dual-purpose label will help retailers consolidate their use of radio frequency identification technology Checkpoint said the ...
While the Internet is widely considered one of the most democratizing tools in history, there still remain countries where the free flow of information over the World Wide Web is restricted In fact, at least 25 countries block Web sites for political, social or other reasons, with governments controlling domestic networks, according to a new study....
When online advertisers use pay-per-click advertising, as much as 15 percent of the clicks they pay for could be fraudulent, according to the results of a new study announced Friday Under a pay-per-click (PPC) agreement, an online advertiser must pay for every time a potential customer clicks on its ad. However, click fraud -- which is what happens...
We don't typically stop to think about it, but we all need feedback in order to succeed. Imagine, for example, trying to cook a meal without periodically tasting it to see if the spices are right. When it comes down to it, trying to do anything -- even the simplest of tasks -- is much more difficult without empirical validation ("feedback") Of cou...
Interactive Intelligence has introduced a mobile offering that duplicates many of the IP telephony functions available to workers on their desktop phones Interaction Client, Mobile Edition provides users with presence management, that is, being able to look up the presence of a co-worker; company directory look-up; Microsoft Outlook contact access;...
Last week was busy:Microsoft supposedlythreatened open source with patent infringement, and it supposedlysaid Linux was dead. I'll come back to the word "supposedly" in a moment If that didn't piss off enough people, Engadgetfalsely reported delays for Leopard and the iPhone, trashing Apple's stock, and if there was anyone in tech not pissed off ...
SCO failed, so now Microsoft has to do the heavy lifting itself to undermine open source software's legitimacy. Actually, Microsoft prefers to undermine Red Hat's legitimacy. Or Open-Xchange's. Or your company's The latest moves by Microsoft, however, give them away. Stripped of their proxies, their moves are now more clearly understood to be essen...
Allegations of illegal gambling, reports of online orgies, and even an active investigation in Europe of sexual abuse and misconduct seem to have overshadowed the tamer daily goings-on in the virtual world Second Life Yet, just this week, it was the locale of an innovative job fair in which upstanding employers like HP tried out new online recruiti...
After three weeks of coordinated cyberattacks on Estonian Web sites, NATO has reportedly sent an official to the country to help investigate About 1 million computers worldwide were reportedly used to conduct the denial-of-service attacks on Estonian government and corporate Web sites, swamping them with so much traffic they were forced to shut dow...
AMD executives began spreading the word Friday about the company's code name for its new next-generation mobile microprocessor, named "Griffin," as well as its new platform for notebook computers, known as "Puma." Expected to debut in laptops in the latter half of 2008, the chip and platform will go into production later this year....
Executives of Web 2.0 companies and some members of Congress are pressing for a reversal of the Pentagon's decision to block access to several popular Web sites on military networks The decision, abruptly made this week, cuts off troops' access to such sites as YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos, FileCabi, BlackPlanet, Hi5, Pandora, MT...
IBM executives told investors Thursday they see a future where the technology giant grows profits significantly by expanding the amount of income from software sales and by tapping into emerging markets Big Blue expects to boost the total percentage of its net income coming from software to 50 percent from the current 40 percent by 2010, part of a ...
The board of directors for radio and billboard giant Clear Channel Communications unanimously approved a slightly sweetened US$19.5 billion buyout offer from private equity groups whose prior attempts it recently rejected Asked by some major shareholders to rethink that rejection, the board announced its approval of a second amendment to the offer ...
Microsoft announced on Friday it will acquire Web ad firm aQuantive in a deal valued at US$6 billion, marking the latest and largest deal in a merger-and-acquisition frenzy aimed at staking a claim in the converging worlds of traditional and online advertising Microsoft agreed to pay $66.50 per share for the Seattle-based company, a sizable 85 perc...
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