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Last year, when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google couldn't. However, the search engine community knew better Of course, Google reset the benchmark for search several years ago, which led to Merriam...
Eric Raymond, a key figure behind the Red Hat Linux distribution, has sparked a storm of controversy by shifting his allegiance to the rival open source platform Ubuntu The influential developer and cofounder of theOpen Source Initiative used a popular Linux mailing list as his platform this week to slam Fedora, Red Hat's free distribution, levelin...
Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts three weeks earlier this year in most parts of the United States and there are fears that the change will cause problems for unprepared computer systems and digital devices If you think the scenario sounds familiar to the so-called Y2K problem that gripped the world in the days leading up to Jan. 1, 2000, you're no...
Tiny computer chips with myriad applications -- from scanning concert tickets to tracking the family dog to monitoring travelers as they cross international borders -- are shrinking, and have now have caught up with the imaginations of science fiction and spy novel writers Japanese electronics maker Hitachi unveiled this week the world's smallest r...
With the release of Google Apps Premier Edition, there's little doubt that Google has its sights set squarely on Microsoft and the market for office software. Add in the fact that marquee names are on board, including Procter & Gamble for the new software suite, and there's clearly at least some degree of threat behind that challenge What remains t...
A federal jury has ordered Microsoft to pay US$1.52 billion to Alcatel-Lucent for infringing on two patents that convert audio into the digital MP3 file format One of the largest patent awards on record, Microsoft has said the ruling could also impact companies that have licensed this technology, including Apple, Nokia and Sony. Alcatel-Lucent had ...
The PlayStation 3 consoles about to be sold in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia will not be as compatible with PlayStation 2 games as those sold elsewhere. The news may bother many gamers, but it probably won't affect Sony's bottom line "Whatever the game console manufacturers do, there are always going to be some dissatisfied g...
SAP has acquired business intelligence (BI) vendor Pilot Software for an undisclosed sum The newly acquired functionality will sit on top of the NetWeaver platform, thus allowing SAP customers to integrate their applications into it, Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president and general manager of analytics for SAP, told CRM Buyer....
We've all heard of YouTube and MySpace, but there's a new and exciting social networking site: itLinkz.com. What makes this site unique is that it will contain hundreds of sites that target specific market segments The sites will allow you to choose and participate in a unique, virtual community. With this approach, itLinkz brings differentiation a...
It's an e-tailer's nightmare: In the constant struggle to keep up with online shopping trends and technology, a company relaunches its Web site with all the bells and whistles. However, it soon learns that the site's upload time is at a crawl, or its checkout is too slow. Sure, the firm did its homework in most departments, like design, but it neglected to measure its Web site efficiency from a user's perspective...
IT management firmKace released this week an enhanced version of its Kbox 1000series systems management appliances While previous versions of the Kbox supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, a key component of the latest Kbox release is enhanced support for Red HatEnterprise Linux 5.0, which gives access to a line of turnkey IT automationapplic...
Online predators will again be the target of legislation filed in Congress this year Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) filed a measure last month aimed at protecting children from pornographers, predators and list brokers....
Adobe and Photobucket have teamed up to give the site's 35 million subscribers free access to basic video remixing and editing technology online. With the first-of-its-kind offering, users can incorporate music, effects, transitions and titles into their videos "At Photobucket, we're committed to helping our users get the most out of their persona...
Internet search leader Google unveiled its latest set of online business tools Thursday, aiming to snare a bigger piece of the enterprise market dominated by Microsoft. Google already has at least one player onboard: IP and telephony firm Avaya Avaya, a top provider of Internet phone switchboards for businesses, says it plans to link its IP Office ...
The South African government announced Thursday it is ditching proprietary software for a new policy and strategy based on free and open source software Under the new plan, all new software developed for or by the government of South Africa will be based on open standards. Adopting open standards in itself doesn't require the solutions to be open s...
In a stark reminder of the perils some face when using the Internet to express themselves, an Egyptian blogger has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of insulting Islam and the country's president in his writings An Egyptian court on Thursday found that 22-year old Abdel Kareem Nabil had used his Web log postings to insult...
Google, hoping to fend off ongoing criticism and potential legal battles, has decided to tackle copyright issues head on and will soon offer antipiracy technologies to halt unauthorized video-sharing, the company announced this week YouTube, which Google acquired late last year in a US$1.6 billion stock deal, will soon provide tools to help media c...
In a move that demonstrates consolidation among players in the burgeoning world of Web 2.0 development, Cisco Systems paid US$135 million to buy Reactivity, an XML specialist that's been selling products for only about five years Cisco, in announcing the acquisition, said its clients -- as well as major software vendors -- are moving away from the ...
Space enthusiasts, take note: Your chance to travel by rocket may be closer than you think. NASA and Virgin Galactic on Tuesday agreed to explore collaborations aimed at making commercial space travel a widespread reality NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley and Virgin Galactic, a subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, ...
Google Apps, first launched as a free service in August 2006, is now a commercial product available to users for US$50 per user account per year It debuts with Procter & Gamble Global Business Services as a marquee account -- not that Google needed one. Since its initial launch in August, more than 100,000 small businesses and hundreds of universit...
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