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Google has teamed up with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) to promote awareness of recent atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan The USHMM has assembled photographs, data and eyewitness testimony to form a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth, which Google has enabled by default for all 200 million Google Earth users....
Salesforce.com has announced its first move in what is likely to be a larger push into the content management space: the acquisition last month of Koral Technologies. Salesforce.com is leveraging the small company's technology and content management platform as the building block for Apex Content, its own content management initiative Apex Content ...
Salesforce.com on Tuesday announced it has acquired content management software vendor Koral. At a luncheon served up at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said that document management is a core element of the company's platform strategy. That strategy has been rolling out in bits and pieces since the company announced its Apex platform last year...
The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a student's obscenity-filled MySpace post blasting a school principal is protected free speech. The student, who is identified as "A.B." in court documents, was originally placed on probation by a lower court judge in Indiana after she commented about her body piercings and school policy on a MySpace page created by another student...
The role and importance of governance is growing. As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platforms, as well SOA (service-oriented architecture) governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mashup, if not technically than at least operationally? Do they lead to an uber-governance that eventually includes how the business itself is run?...
Advertisers face multiple new challenges today. Consumers' viewing and purchasing habits are changing dramatically, the number of ways to reach potential customers is increasing and new techniques to measure advertising effectiveness are emerging. The confluence of these changes is leading advertisers to a new medium: in-game video game ads "Recent...
San Diego-based MindTouch hopes its innovative product line gives it a large corner in the developing Wiki Web site market place. Its products involve wiki-style Web communication. Perhaps the most successful -- and controversial -- example of a wiki is Wikipedia, one of the Internet's largest encyclopedias Ward Cunningham created the concept of th...
Spam and alternative communication technologies have begun to lower the value of e-mail as a mission-critical application for business, according to a study released Monday by IDC, a technology research firm The firm said its study showed that "a resurgence of spam and the increased frequency of being replaced by text messaging and voice over IP (V...
Following last week's publication of Internet pioneer Tim O'Reilly's proposed "Blogger's Code of Conduct," the online community has spoken -- and they say forget about it O'Reilly, a longtime blogger who coined the term "Web 2.0," and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales both began pushing for the code of conduct after some high-profile online bullying b...
Google nemesis Viacom has struck a deal to have rival search engine Yahoo deliver advertising to its broadband-friendly Web sites Yahoo will become the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads on 33 Viacom sites, including MTV.com, VH1.com, Nickelodeon.com and ComedyCentral.com. The deal could be expanded to include some 140 more s...
Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios have chosen a date for the multiplayer beta release of the highly anticipated "Halo 3" video game, created exclusively for the Xbox 360 console "Halo 3" (H3) is the third chapter of the hugely successful "Halo" series and offers gamers the opportunity to "experience Master Chief's greatest battle" as he emb...
Intel is ramping up its long line of Core 2 quad-core range with a new chip designed for gamers, design professionals and computer aficionados Running at 2.93 GHz, the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 is currently the firm's fastest processor for desktop systems, the company said....
Although a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit last Thursday, Sun Microsystems now says it will refile the suit against Hynix Semiconductor and other makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips for what it says was illegal price-fixing Judge Phyllis Hamilton dismissed Sun's complaint because she said she needed more information on the DRAM ...
The United States has filed two complaints with the World Trade Organization over China's trade policies, claiming the country is not doing enough to protect the intellectual property of American companies, including software makers, movie studios and music labels The office of U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab on Tuesday filed two requests...
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, announced Monday an update of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) with LSB 3.1 and the release of a new testing toolkit "We are continuing to develop the Linux Standard Base to cover more components to make a compatible platform for all distributions," Dan Koh...
Grisoft Software, the developer of AVG Internet security products, introduced Tuesday a free product aimed at detecting and removing rootkits Rootkits, a specific malware type which hides in other applications or in a computer's operating system kernel, allow malicious applications to collect passwords and sensitive data from the infected computer ...
Historically, a Web service has been understood to be a software piece that enabled machines to interact over a network. That network may have been a closed-loop enterprise system or the Internet However, in recent years the term has taken on new meaning. It is frequently applied to online business intelligence or measurement tools, for example. Th...
An application currently in beta on Salesforce.com's AppExchange is designed especially for politicians in campaign mode. To be called (what else?) "CampaignForce.com," the product will be available in a few weeks, according to Dan Burton, senior vice president of global public policy at Salesforce.com "We see that campaigns are realizing what busi...
Although virtualization seems to be the newest catch phrase, the concept has actually been around since the '60s when IBM created a research system that was designed to explore new computing concepts focused on resource time sharing and hard drive partitioning Today, businesses are increasingly turning to virtualization as a means to lower overhead...
As wireless operator networks carry more multimedia traffic, they must solve a basic problem: how to ensure that each application receives the appropriate level of service. Each layer of a multilayer protocol is good for some applications but bad for others Today, operators can use a new "mediating" protocol -- Digital Multimedia Protocol, or DMP -...
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