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2006 witnessed the beginning of a convergence between physical and IT security, driven largely by the greatest fear of security professionals -- a coordinated assault that combines an attack on the IT network to eliminate an organization's ability to command, control and communicate with a physical security attack In order to get a firm grasp of an...
RightNow Technologies has added new capabilities to its voice application, which it first introduced in June 2005 when it acquired Convergent Voice, a voice automation vendor. In this major upgrade, the firm has enhanced the application's inbound functions and has begun developing outbound features, as well Future releases will further build out th...
Sony executives received surprising sales results last month. After crunching numbers coming in across Japan, they learned their 7-year-old PlayStation 2 outsold the brand new PlayStation 3 in Japan in late January for the first time During the week of Jan. 22-28, sales of the PlayStation 2 consoles reached 20,995 units while PlayStation 3 clocked...
The government of India has asked Google to blur sensitive images of its military bases and buildings that can be seen with its mapping application, Google Earth -- a source of concern to top Indian officials since at least 2005 Google has reportedly agreed to show fuzzy, low-resolution pictures of certain building installations after talks with th...
There could be a new player in the mobile phone search space to challenge the dominance of Google and Yahoo, according to a report from the Britain's Telegraph newspaper. The paper reported Sunday that top names in Europe's telecommunications industry will meet next week during the 3GSM World Congress for "secret, high-level" talks Deutsche Teleko...
Boosted by consumer demand for electronics, worldwide semiconductor sales rose to record levels in 2006, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said in a report released Monday Global sales of semiconductors reached US$247.7 billion last year, an increase of 8.9 percent over 2005, the SIA said. The year was capped by $21.7 billion in sales in...
The number of kids viewing online pornography is increasing, with one in four reporting they've at least caught a glimpse of X-rated material on the Internet, and two-thirds of those said the images were uninvited, according to a University of New Hampshire (UNH) study published Monday Forty-two percent of Internet users, aged 10 to 17, say they ca...
In a wide-ranging, sometimes forceful and frequently upbeat e-mail to employees, Dell founder Michael Dell said he doesn't forget what was involved in creating a company and making it succeed. The e-mail, made public Saturday by a Texas newspaper, was sent on Friday, the same day Dell returned as CEO of the company "I remember what it's like to sta...
Apple Inc. has reached a settlement with the company that manages the Beatles' intellectual property holdings, ending a trademark lawsuit and possibly paving the way for Beatles songs to be sold through the iTunes Music Store On Monday, Apple announced the pact with The Beatles' music publisher Apple Corps, in which both firms reached a deal to rep...
There seems to be a real debate going on in many of organizations about how to structure search engine marketing (SEM) efforts. Fueled, perhaps, by an underlying dissatisfaction with their vendors and the increasing perception that their SEM effort isn't well coordinated and shouldn't be so siloed, many companies seem to be revisiting earlier decisions to outsource pay-per-click (PPC) and/or search engine optimization (SEO) chores to outside vendors...
New technological advances, as well as legal and regulatory changes, are tearing down long-standing barriers between industries As Part 1 of this three-part series notes, digital voice, data and multimedia content delivery operations are converging with both fixed and wireless telecommunications services....
Achieving real-time visibility into an organization's financial status means making key information not only current but transparent for the executives who need it to make decisions Business intelligence and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems help accomplish that, but an increasing number of companies are moving to electronic invoicing as t...
In the years leading up to the dot-com bust, the Internet was unchartered turf to which countless entrepreneurs flocked in pursuit of easy money. Just like the Gold Rush of the Old West in the 1800s, the dot-com business surge had its fling and then fell off Just like the rise of the Old West to a thriving community of states, the Internet is now a...
It looks like 2007 is really starting out to be an incredible year for change. Last week was no exception, and with the launch of the new iPod based on the iPhone design followed by at least one potential iPhone-killer product later in the week, this trend will probably continue We'll talk about more about this phone -- which is smaller, more robus...
Sage Software has introduced SageCRM Version 6, with upgrades that enhance the usability andproductivity of the application, as well as new administrative capabilities Much of the development that went into this release targeted end-user adoption, said Chris Reich, the group's director of CRM product management. "We have focused our efforts on deli...
Mozilla, the nonprofit organization that created the open source Firefox browser -- the chief competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer -- is setting up shop in China in the hope of claiming a sizable chunk of the world's second-largest Internet market Firefox, a popular browser among techies, is used by roughly 11 percent of U.S. Web surfers, ha...
The idea of students entering a virtual classroom and holding electronic rather than face-to-face meetings has become quite accepted at the collegiate level. The model is now making its way into the K-12 market, mainly as a supplemental educational option "The initial resistance to online education has ebbed and educators are now finding appropriat...
Verizon Wireless this week pushed out its first deployments of a speedier mobile broadband service that increases Internet upload speeds by up to six times faster than the company's existing broadband network The New York-based telecom is upgrading its third-generation wireless network using a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)-based technology c...
On the same day that founder Michael Dell returned as CEO of his namesake firm, a class-action lawsuit was filed claiming Dell had used rebates from its main business supplier Intel of about US$1 billion to inflate its profits The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas. Dell has stated that it has done nothing wrong and the reba...
Microsoft's self-proclaimed commitment to open standards became more tangible Thursday when it released the first Open XML translator for Word Version 1.0 of the translator, which is a free, downloadable add-on to the word processor, allows users to convert Office Open XML (OOXML) documents into the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard, and vice vers...
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