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Every company wants to obtain the greatest possible yield from its marketing dollars. Corporations are constantly trying to determine better ways to direct their advertising dollars in order to more efficiently target potential customers. It now appears that there is a solution that will bring about the greatest possible efficiency to marketing and advertising spending -- the Web 2.0 and social networking...
Outsourcing continues to grow at a healthy rate. As the market expands to include a wider range of business processes, competitive cost opportunities in emerging markets are pressuring management decision-making Currents counter to this trend are in evidence, however, asPart 1 of this two-part series observes. Part 2 delves a bit further into the c...
IBM is working to turn its System z mainframe computer into an online 3-D gaming platform The idea is to merge the massive transaction and account-based scalability of the mainframe with the graphics power of the PlayStation 3, ultimately letting an organization create and run a virtual online environment like "World of Warcraft" or "Second Life," ...
PlayStation 3 (PS3) owners will be able to see and be seen this summer with a new accessory for its next-generation gaming console Sony announced Thursday. The PlayStation Eye is an intelligent camera and noise-canceling microphone that the game maker said will expand and boost gaming and communication options "With the release of PlayStation Eye, ...
Adobe is making an aggressive push into open source with its plans to release the code for its Flex platform The Flex SDK (software development kit) and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License in the second half of 2007. At the same time, though, Adobe will continue to make the Flex SDK and other Flex products available und...
Cable giant Comcast's profit rose 80 percent in the first quarter, the company stated. One-time gains aided results, and demand for the company's triple play bundle of Web, TV and calling services remained robust The Philadelphia-based company's revenue for the quarter hit US$7.38 billion, a 32 percent increase when compared with the year before. I...
Taiwanese computer maker Acer announced a voluntary recall of 27,000 lithium-ion laptop batteries Wednesday. The batteries, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said, may overheat and pose a potential fire hazard to consumers "Acer advises customers to stop using these recalled batteries immediately and contact Acer to receive a free replace...
Microsoft has released the first publicly available beta of its next-generation Windows server operating system, code-named "Longhorn." Longhorn Beta 3, the first feature-complete version of the product, builds on Windows Server 2003 by addressing the automation of daily management tasks, enhanced security, new scripting and command-line technology...
Just one day after Siemens CEO Klaus Kleinfeld announced he would not renew his contract with the company, the German engineering and technology giant admitted Thursday that it is the focus of an expanding, multinational probe over allegations of bribery and corruption German prosecutors are investigating the company on suspicion of embezzlement, t...
The chairman of a powerful Congressional committee filed a bill Thursday that aims to repeal the ban on Internet gambling passed last year Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, filed the measure Thursday morning....
Looking at the current state of line-of-business applications and how companies use them to track and manage their operations, one can't help but notice how there's a strong resemblance to the days before the networked enterprise, circa 1987. Back then, resources were dispersed in little silos we called PCs, each with its own island of resources Wh...
Some 90 percent of brand owners outsource at least some of their manufacturing, according to AMR Research. In addition, more than half of them expect to increase their use of contract outsourcing over the next two years While it's been shown that outsourcing adds significant value -- and jobs -- to the U.S. economy, that's just the tip of the prove...
Open source software -- it's fast, it's popular, it's practical, and, best of all, it's free Chances are (if your firm is like most) you're using some of it somewhere in your enterprise; in fact, you're probably using it in multiple places. One of the most frequent questions security professionals get asked is how open source software compares to ...
Industry analysts report that the mobile enterprise application market reached US$1.2 billion in 2005 and is forecast to grow to $3.5 billion in 2010. Other industry studies predict that at least 40 percent the workforce will be mobile in 2007 Part 1 of this two-part series dealt with the advantages and risks faced by companies looking to make thei...
MySpace and TV producer Mark Burnett announced Friday that they are working on a new reality TV show focused on finding the next great American politician The new, interactive series, called "Independent," will use online, offline and on-air tactics to find the politician viewers feel best represents the voice of young Americans. Though not yet pic...
Advanced networking consortium Internet2 announced on Tuesday that an international team of researchers led by the University of Tokyo have set two new Internet2 Land Speed Records The achievement came over the course of two days during which university researchers added the new records to the eight others that other University of Tokyo-led teams h...
A European team of astronomers has discovered what may be the most Earth-like planet outside of our solar system, potentially capable of having liquid water and extraterrestrial life The planet, Gliese 581 c, named after the red dwarf star Gliese 581 that it orbits every 13 days, is about 20.5 light years away from Earth, the scientists report. Loc...
Research in Motion (RIM) has created a new smartphone for world travelers, a unit capable of operating on both CDMA and GSM wireless networks The new BlackBerry 8830 World Edition will first be offered to Verizon Wireless customers then open to Sprint users. Also being offered is a new Global BlackBerry service that will provide wireless phone cap...
Red Hat continues to enhance its line of middleware products with its agreement to acquire information management software firm MetaMatrix Once the transaction is complete in approximately 60 days, MetaMatrix will be folded into Red Hat's JBoss division, said Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of enterprise solutions at Red Hat....
Shares of Vonage soared briefly after the beleaguered VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calling firm won a major court victory that will enable it to continue signing up new customers while its appeal of a patent infringement verdict wends its way through the legal system U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington granted Vonage'...
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