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Ill-willed players on the Microsoft Xbox Live system managed to gain access to other players' accounts by using pretexting and other forms of social engineering to trick customer service staffers into revealing private information By making numerous calls to the Xbox Live customer support center, the miscreants were able to have new passwords assig...
Roughly two weeks and 2 million viewings since the controversial "Hillary 1984" video was posted on YouTube, its maker has stepped forward: It's Phil de Vellis, an Internet professional, and he's "proud of it." In a post on the Huffington Post Web site on Wednesday afternoon, de Vellis -- a strategist with an Internet company that has ties to the B...
Microsoft continues to abuse its market position to gain market share, particularly in the business server software space where earlier antitrust penalties were aimed at boosting competition, the European Union's top regulator told the European Parliament Thursday The market situation is "not acceptable" some three years after the European Commissi...
No. 2 cell phone maker Motorola on Thursday said it would miss its current quarterly sales growth targets by US$1 billion or more and replaced its chief financial officer as part of a restructuring aimed at righting what appears to be a badly listing corporate ship Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola, the largest U.S.-based mobile handset maker and sec...
It's no secret that e-commerce search and online merchandising have a magnetic attraction. These applications morphed into the e-commerce lexicon as "searchandising," enabling merchants who integrate search and merchandising to realize higher levels of customer satisfaction and returns Seventy percent of retailers surveyed in the recent Aberdeen Gr...
Consumers and enterprise workers will not likely soon see cute marketing labels such as "Linux Inside" or images of penguins pasted on the outer casings of their favorite entertainment and communications products. Nor will products they buy be touted as using Linux in advertising campaigns Regardless of labels, unless the manufacturer is a propriet...
Rumors have been circulating for months about a black Xbox 360, and now they appear to be confirmed: The Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite, due at the end of April, will reportedly be shipped in black -- but just for a limited time With HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) output and a 120 GB hard drive, the US$479 Xbox 360 Elite will include an HDMI...
Google announced Tuesday that it plans to enhance its successful online advertising service by offering clients an alternate business model -- if an ad does not get results, advertisers do not have to pay for it Now, instead of paying per click, advertisers will be able to experiment with paying each time a user takes an action on their Web site, s...
Adobe Systems posted better-than-expected guidance for the second quarter, causing its shares to rise by some 5.5 percent Adobe expects to realize revenue of some US$700 million to $740 million in Q2. Non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) earnings, it said, should come in at 34 cents to 36 cents per share....
Bill Gates is not used to finishing in second place but the Microsoft chairman did just that this week, losing a virtual soccer match on penalty kicks to star Mexican player Rafael Marquez 2-1 Commemorating Microsoft's 20th anniversary in Mexico, Gates dropped the match to the international soccer champ after letting in the deciding goal, as hundre...
Technology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its original projection that x86 shipments would increase 61 percent by 2010, now predicting an increase of just 39 percent The amended prediction is due...
In its latest move to promote its plan to merge with XM Satellite Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio says it will offer lower-priced packages to consumers if the companies are allowed to join The goal, Sirius noted in a federal filing, would be to offer customers fewer channels at a price less than the current basic package of US$12.95 per month, with t...
Vowing to play a "powerful role" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, MySpace.com has introduced a portal featuring candidate-created profiles as well as voter-registration tools, job listings, videos, "friends" pages and other political content MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., dubbed the new portal "The Impact Channel" and said it...
Business software giant Oracle blew past Wall Street targets for profit and revenue in its third quarter, with demand for many of its applications lending further support to its massive acquisition spree The company's results also may help ease investor concern about the health of technology spending inside businesses around the world and the outlo...
What is the state of B2B (business-to-business) search marketing? What are the business and technology drivers that make online search an emerging tool for business discovery and procurement? I put these and other questions to Forrester Research Senior Analyst Shar VanBoskirk and to Bryan Burdick, chief operating officer at ZoomInfo, to explore the...
What does the sitcom "Seinfeld" have to do with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the project aiming to distribute inexpensive notebook computers to the impoverished, third-world children? Not much, except for the fact that two critics of OLPC -- Linspire President and CEO Kevin Carmony and company Chairman Michael Robertson -- refer to an episode of th...
There are two utilities that I've found essential in my day-to-day operations with Windows. One is a clipboard extender -- a program that archives anything cut or copied to the Windows clipboard. The other is a screen capture application Screen capture programs allow you to create images from whatever is displayed on your screen. Their function are...
One of the most astounding IT stories of the week comes courtesy of a computer technician from the Alaska Department of Revenue who wiped out a disc drive containing an account worth US$38 billion, the Associated Press reported The unnamed computer technician, while reportedly doing routine maintenance work, accidentally deleted applicant informati...
Sun Microsystems on Monday named Ian Murdock -- the founder of the Debian version of Linux -- its new chief operating platforms officer in charge of working with Linux and the newly open source Solaris, according to a company blog Murdock, who has held various posts involving the open source operating system, said he'll be advocating "that Solaris ...
Blockbuster on Tuesday said it had settled its long-simmering pay dispute with Chairman and CEO John Antioco, striking a deal that calls for him to step down later this year with a reduced pay and bonus package Under the deal, the movie rental chain will pay Antioco a bonus of US$3.05 million for calendar year 2006, a compromise between the $2.28 m...
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