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Continuing its drive to expand beyond servicing a company's front-end needs, Salesforce.com is making products developed for its AppExchange platform available to any company -- not just buyers of its flagship CRM application Salesforce Platform Edition gives users access to the 575 or so human resource, IT, legal, financial, R&D and other mashups ...
The maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail device, Research In Motion (RIM), plans to let Windows Mobile-based devices run virtual BlackBerry applications. RIM will offer the new software solution later this year for select devices that run on Windows Mobile 6 Once installed, the software will give users a virtual BlackBerry application expe...
Motorola has snapped up Terayon Communication Systems, a digital video processing and networking software maker, for US$140 million, the companies announced on Monday Terayon's video-processing chips will allow Motorola to offer digital ads and graphical overlays on its cell phone displays, which ultimately could enable cell phone providers to sell...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will give free credit monitoring to tens of thousands of people whose social security numbers were inadvertently made public on a government Web site The USDA said it is aware of no cases where the so-called private identification information was used for identity theft or other illegal purposes, but the potential...
A private equity consortium led by Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) founder Darwin Deason has boosted its bid to buy the company and take it private, hoping to convince shareholders to sell despite the reluctance of the information technology services firm's board of directors Deason and Cerberus Capital Management raised their bid to take the co...
In this fast-paced world, there is one thing most computer users have in common: We have all lost data at one time or another. For the lucky ones, this is not a painful experience -- just one of inconvenience Unfortunately for others, the data loss is impacting because the lost data was irreplaceable and valuable. The good news today is that there ...
Power.org, an association of hardware technology companies, software and individual developers of Power Architecture, hosted a first-of-its-kind Software Summit in Austin, Texas, on April 19. The summit focused on identifying solutions to the challenges associated with software development on Power Architecture Kai Staats, CEO of Yellow Dog Linux d...
I've been spending a lot of time talking to folks who want to try the Dell Linux solution. I'm getting the sense that we have all been looking at Linux on the desktop wrong, and that products likeLinspire are simply wrongheaded Last week, Research In Motion may have actually destroyed the BlackBerry's growth opportunity in large enterprise and gove...
It's time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service, or SDDS. This one's a keeper That's my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs' new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online Web application development with a near-real-time test and debug capabilit...
Especially as Earth Day 2007 approaches, working to mitigate the effects of global warming and greenhouse gases, as well as protecting the environment, are topics on everyone's lips these days. As scientists, politicians, lobbyists and environmental activists offer arguments and counter arguments on the veracity of each other's claims, there is no dispute that the cost of energy continues a troublesome climb as does the size of the world's landfills...
Via Technologies is shrinking the size of its motherboards again, this time showing off a new Pico-ITX design that is barely larger than a playing card The Taiwan-based company on Thursday released details of its upcoming Pico-ITX motherboard, which it hopes will eventually lead to the design of a very small form factor PC....
In a case considered by many to be the first of its kind, the World Organization for Human Rights USA announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo and its subsidiaries for what it calls the Internet giant's complicity in human rights abuses and acts of torture in China Plaintiffs in the case, which was filed in the U.S. District Cou...
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Friday that details what they consider key privacy problems with Google's and DoubleClick's pending merger The online privacy advocate groups wa...
Dell announced Friday it is offering home PC buyers a choice between Microsoft's older XP operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines As with most computer makers, Dell stopped installing the XP operating system on its new PCs after Redmond launched Windows Vista in January. However, the PC maker said it is responding...
Research In Motion's service outage earlier this week occurred because a new BlackBerry storage feature had not been sufficiently tested, the company said on Friday RIM added the new component to the BlackBerry server environment to streamline the process for storing items on the devices. However, because the feature was not thoroughly tested, RIM ...
Internet search engine leader Google reported massive quarterly financial gains Thursday, posting a net income of US$1 billion in the first quarter of 2007, up from $592 million in the first quarter of 2006, and blowing past Wall Street's expectations Google's 69 percent growth far surpassed Yahoo's first quarter performance, also reported this wee...
The Nintendo Wii outsold both its competitors, the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360, in March, according to the latest figures from the NPD Group Nintendo continues to say it is having problems keeping up with demand for its units, citing "widespread shortages" for both the Wii and its handheld DS unit. While some industry observers w...
Just two days after it accepted a sweetened merger agreement with a private investment group, Clear Channel Communications announced Friday that it will sell its TV group Rhode Island-based Providence Equity Partners will buy the group of 56 TV stations for US$1.2 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, subject to...
The so-called "New Web" has been hailed as a great place for sharing and interacting, but data released Tuesday by Internet traffic researchers suggests most cybersurfers are watchers, not uploaders In a presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week, Hitwise analyst Bill Tancer noted that upload rates at participatory cyberstops like ...
Canonical, the London-based commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, released on Thursday version 7.04 of its OS family, known as "Feisty Fawn." The latest releases contain upgrades for both the Ubuntu Server Edition and the desktop version. These versions use the standard Linux Gnome desktop environment....
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