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AT&T, Qwest and Verizon won the right to bid for US$20 billion in federal telecommunications contracts, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced Thursday Noticeably absent from the list is Sprint, which previously held the rights to bid for U.S. government telecommunications contracts....
AT&T, Qwest and Verizon won the right to bid for US$20 billion in federal telecommunications contracts, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced Thursday Noticeably absent from the list is Sprint, which previously held the rights to bid for U.S. government telecommunications contracts....
President George Bush cited the observations of two Iraqibloggers who have been making positive posts about the changing situation in Baghdad as evidence that U.S. activities there are finally having the intended effect "Displaced families are returning home, marketplaces are seeing more activity, stores that were long shuttered are now reopening,"...
Microsoft unveiled a new mobile Web browser designed to make navigating the Internet on wireless devices as easy and clear as surfing on a PC The new browser, dubbed Deepfish, is the latest entry in the growing mobile browser wars designed for delivering content such as Web pages to Windows Mobile devices....
Computer hackers swiped information from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of discount retailing giant TJX customers over the course of several years, the company confirmed this week TJX, the parent company of Marshalls, T.J. Maxx and several other national retail chains, first reported in January that hackers had breached a system that ...
Intel on Wednesday laid out its road map for the next year or so, including details about Penryn, its 45nm chip due later this year, as well as the next generation beyond that The company will begin producing its Penryn chip in the second half of this year, officials said, featuring enhancements to the Intel Core microarchitecture as well as 45nm p...
After years of hard work and careful design, the big moment has arrived -- you are finally ready to go live with your online retail operation. However, just one look at potential competitors such as Amazon, eBay, Wal-Mart and Target and it's readily apparent that these companies have likely spent millions creating and staffing their respective infrastructures. No wonder they rank among the most popular online shopping sites...
The stage is set for further growth in Voice over Internet protocol communications with technological advances, telecom market deregulation and a growing web of fiber optic and wireless networks India is now recognized worldwide as a center for offshore call centers, but a range of companies in other emerging markets are now looking to capitalize o...
After ranking first in 2006, the United States has fallen to seventh place this year among 122 economies in its network readiness, or ability to leverage the opportunities of IT, according to a report released Wednesday by the World Economic Forum In its evaluation of each country's ability to take advantage of the opportunities offered by technolo...
Months after it planned to release the third discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3), the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has finally posted a draft on its Web site GPLv3 is the first upgrade of the document in 16 years, when Version 2 was released. GPLv3 is a direct response to several industry developments, including a...
PC industry leader Hewlett-Packard (HP) filed a patent infringement lawsuit Tuesday against up-and-coming rival Acer HP alleges that its Taiwan-based competitor has violated five patents that HP acquired between 1997 and 2003....
An executive manager and member of the executive board of technology and industrial giant Siemens was ordered to remain in the custody of German law enforcement officials Wednesday after being arrested and charged in connection with an alleged bribery scheme Johannes Feldmayer had asked to be "temporarily relieved of his duties" at the Germany-base...
LG Electronics and Google are teaming up to offer the search giant's services on some of LG's mobile phones The Korean electronics maker announced that it will ship select handsets preinstalled with Google products and services -- including Google Maps, Blogger Mobile and Gmail -- during the second quarter of this year....
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the upcoming release of the long-rumored new version of the Xbox 360 gaming console, a system with beefed-up storage capacity, a high-definition port, a black case and more The unit, called the "Xbox 360 Elite," will sell for about US$480 and be in stores April 29, Microsoft said....
In May, Yahoo will go to infinity and beyond. The world's largest free e-mail provider will give its 250 million users unlimited e-mail storage, up from its current offer of a single gigabyte After the system is put in place, Yahoo inboxes will apparently be impossible to fill. The offer trumps the storage capacities of rivals such as Google and Mi...
The Linux Foundation announced on Tuesday its new board of directors, all of whom were chosen to represent the key stakeholders from every corner of the Linux universe, according to the organization The diverse group includes members from big companies like IBM, Oracle, Intel and Novell, as well as prominent individuals such as Ubuntu Founder Mark ...
The navel gazing and gnashing of teeth over the Web 2.0 category reminds me of a chat I had with Joe Firmage back in 1996 He was on the road in Silicon Valley chatting up all the media types and analysts on the extraordinary potential for USWeb, the Web site building and intranet services company he'd put together with Sheldon Laube, after both che...
Jim Stickley, CTO of TraceSecurity makes his living sneaking into other peoples' businesses and leaving with their data Stickley robs banks, but unlike conventional thieves, he is not after what is locked inside the vault. Instead, he steals personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers a...
Two things impressed me about Salesforce.com's Spring '07 release: the community portal and the influence of the IdeaExchange on the direction of the product. A lot of people point to the portal as the more significant and I suppose it is, but maybe only by a whisker At the end of the day, each is really a single side of the same coin. Each is ab...
WhenRoyal Caribbean tappedSteelcase Applied Research to help it outfit a new call center in Oregon, the cruise line had done its due diligence It didn't require any guidance, for instance, on what chairs it wanted its reps to use. In fact, the company had given a great deal of thought to what might seem to outsiders to be the most basic of all cont...
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