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They're invisible to most online shoppers, but analytics programs that are combing through every click they make are dictating what their shopping experience looks like Thanks to a proliferation of easy-to-use and affordable -- even free -- analytics programs, a growing number of merchants are using data mining feedback....
Giving users a hint of what to expect when Fusion is rolled out, Oracle has introduced its Application Integration Architecture, an open standards-based platform for integrating software from its various product lines The platform includes prebuilt integrations for Oracle's enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and industr...
Corporate intranets are becoming big business, both for the designers who put them together and companies that use them to empower their employees to participate in two-way discussions about corporate dealings. However, not all companies are eager to implement the new technologies that are redesigning the options available in traditional intranets ...
Sony has released a new firmware update for its PlayStation 3 (PS3) console and PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld that make the pair compatible with games for the original PlayStation (PS1) The new firmware update will allow PS3 owners to buy and play downloadable PS1 games on their video console. Concurrently, the Version 1.70 firmware now enabl...
Internet auction house eBay on Wednesday beat Wall Street estimates by delivering US$377.2 million in earnings for the first quarter of this year, a massive 52 percent leap Despite the strong performance, eBay shares struggled Thursday, falling around 85 cents, or 2.5 percent....
Internet shoppers who appreciate a good pun will be sorry to note the passing of Google's Froogle product search service, which the company said Wednesday it had decided to rename. In its place we now have Google Product Search -- not nearly as fun a moniker, but infinitely more descriptive "Froogle offers a lot of great functionality and has helpe...
Gamers around the world have begun limbering up their thumbs and forefingers following the announcement Wednesday that Microsoft and Namco Bandai Games will host the Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship. The competition honors the 1980s era video game for the crucial role it played in popularizing video games as well as its longstanding popularity "...
In the battle to bridge the world's digital divide, the world's largest software company will offer a special suite of Microsoft solutions to children in developing nations for a rock-bottom price of US$3. The program is an expansion of Microsoft's Unlimited Potential initiative and its Partners in Learning program Through the program, Microsoft wi...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to offer a fix to a critical flaw in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) servers that is currently being exploited by cybercriminals The zero-day flaw, found on servers running Windows Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2, gives attackers full control over infected ...
Social networking portal MySpace is getting into the news aggregation business as its new MySpace News feature offers users the ability to "rate" stories and control which ones get top billing MySpace News differs from other news aggregators that allow user ranking primarily because it organizes the thousands of news items it finds into 25 main cat...
Intel unveiled its mobile strategy Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing Personalization and content are key drivers behind the increased demand for notebook PCs and mobile Internet devices (MIDs), according to Intel executives David Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher....
Clear Channel Communications accepted a new, increased bid to buy the company Wednesday, but there is widespread skepticism on whether the offer will be enough to satisfy shareholders Clear Channel, the largest radio broadcaster in the United States with nearly 1,200 stations, was offered US$39 a share this time by a private investment group led by...
With so much sizzle being created in the consumer electronics market by digital media players, it's tough for a traditional gadget like a digital voice recorder to grab much consumer mindshare. That hasn't stopped recorder makers likeOlympus from continuing to introduce innovative and interesting products A case in point: Olympus' new additions to ...
Web services and underlying service oriented architectures (SOAs) offer organizations a heretofore unattainable capacity to capture information from disparate information resources by directly representing and linking these assets, making them available selectively across their information systems environments Given their scale, scope and complexit...
The spring of 1997 was a significant time for theFood and Drug Administration (FDA). An overhaul of the Agency's Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP) brought changes that had not been seen for a quarter of a century This overhaul resulted in FDA regulation 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 11, which places certain demands on drug makers, medi...
Verio, a provider of business solutions online, announced on Wednesday the availability of its Managed Private Server (MPS) on the Linux platform as part of its 360-Degree Managed Servers suite of services Verio's Linux MPS is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 and comes bundled with dedicated, enterprise-level hardware, a highly secure...
You don't have to be a Democrat to scoff at the White House's recent assertion that some e-mails related to the recent firing of eight U.S. attorneys may be permanently lost. You just have to know something about networking and computers "To truly lose an e-mail to the point that it is unrecoverable is quite a difficult task," commented Rami Habal,...
After several years of reported abuse, the Bush administration has rescinded lender access to a federal database containing sensitive financial information on about 60 million college students The temporary move bars college loan firms from accessing the government-run database over concerns of data mining and invasions of privacy....
As the midnight filing deadline loomed large for America's taxpayers Tuesday, users of TurboTax were frustrated by delays in the software's electronic filing system that caused many to miss the deadline. Luckily for them, the Internal Revenue Service understands In the third such extension this filing year, the IRS announced Wednesday that users of...
Internet phone company Vonage says its legal woes have severely restricted its ability to add new customers and ultimately could lead to bankruptcy court, according to a regulatory filing Shares of the New Jersey-based VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service provider dropped 6 percent after the company warned this week that legal wrangling with...
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