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Have you heard what a certain software company has been saying about next-generation IT development and deployment strategies? There's this gem about service-oriented architecture: SOA "is not about a product or skill, but rather it's about style of how one comes up with a system." Or: SOA should allow "basic approaches [for] replacing or rewriting...
Selling products and services through multiple channels offers a number of "touch points" where information can be gathered from customers or potential customers. Most people in marketing clearly understand the importance of using this information to personalize communications with customers and, perhaps, even to customize products and offerings for them...
The planned release of Vista at the end of January has provoked a great deal of speculation about its expected impact on hackers. Vulnerabilities in Windows and its related Office suite of applications have been the primary targets of hackers and criminal data seekers for years Microsoft claims that Vista will offer completely new, more secure core...
Semiconductor makerHynix announced Monday that it has developed a smaller dynamic random access memory chip using a 60-nanometer process that -- at 800 MHz -- is the world's fastest. The improved DRAM reportedly delivers 1 GB capacity along with the blazing speed, which tops the performance of existing 667 Mhz DRAM chips The feat shows that Hynix, ...
Two months after being sued by IBM for patent infringement, Amazon.com is firing back, denying it had stolen IBM technology and asserting that Big Blue's patent claims are too broad to be taken seriously. Amazon is countersuing IBM for stealing its own patents IBM filed suit against Amazon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tex...
Skype's founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, plan to launch a new Web-based broadband television service next year, according to a Monday report in the Financial Times. The two have invested part of the US$2.6 billion they made from the sale of their Voice over Internet Protocol company to eBay to develop the new service ...
Sony will reportedly launch a video download service for users of its PlayStation Portable devices early next year, a move that could put it into direct competition with Apple's iPod video devices and its iTunes Movie Store Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is in negotiations with several possible content distribution partners, including Amazon.com,...
With buzz aboutApple's rumored iPhone growing, Linksys, a unit ofCisco, on Monday announced new additions to its own iPhone product line. The company introduced a series of Web-enabled telephone handsets designed to work with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services ...
As the sensitive financial and identity data in corporate databases becomes increasingly valuable on the black market, mandates such as PCI, SOX, and HIPAA are requiring businesses to protect, track, and control all access to and usage of sensitive information. This is forcing an evolutionary shift in security from protecting against data theft to ensuring comprehensive control over all data access and usage...
As consumers experiment with the Linux operating system and consider switching from Windows, the first carryover they expect to find is applications for virus and spyware protection. However, few exist because Linux does not need them Nearly all Linux distributions bundle a firewall package, but they don't include other intrusion protection softwar...
I spent much of last week in Brazil watching five South American University teams show prototypes of their ideas on what the majority of the world needs in personal computing hardware and services In addition, last week Congress once again went after HP -- but this time seemed to step in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission on an issue t...
Some 450 leaders from the U.S. renewable industry's policy, financial and technology sectors assembled on Capitol Hill on November 29-30, meeting with members of Congress and government agency officials during the American Council on Renewable Energy's (ACORE) fifth annual national policy conference The event was clear evidence of the momentum surr...
Two unfortunately timed product failures could cost Nintendo millions of dollars. The company said it would voluntarily replace 3.2 million straps attached to the controllers of its newWii game consoles, and it is recalling about 200,000 AC adapters for its DS and DS Lite handheld game machines The Wii strap failures are a global problem. Nintendo ...
Microsoft said China-basedsearch engineBaidu.com will begin displaying paid search listings on the software giant's Chinese Web sites this month Such Microsoft sites as MSN and Windows Live will display Baidu's paid search listings, as will other partner sites in Microsoft's network....
Blogging has taken the Internet by storm over the past few years as part of the social networking phenomenon, but Gartner analysts predict that the number of community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007 Less than 2 percent of all Internet users are frequent content contributors, according to Gartner. Between 10 and 15 percent contribu...
After dominating the business handheld e-mail market, Research In Motion unveiled its follow-up act: high-end consumer smartphones In September, the company announced the BlackBerry Pearl, its first device equipped with a digital camera and an MP3 player. The shift appears to be a natural progression for the company, with the new device likely to g...
"This phone stinks!" "I don't want to be a nuisance, but I wanted to let you know that I've had a lot of dropped calls over the last two weeks."
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., caused a political firestorm recently when he said he wanted to reinstate a military draft. His radical proposal brings to light a growing theme that both political parties should consider very closely In a world where science provides better health and improves the prospects of longevity, death is no longer glamorous, ...
Heavy open source software user and Internet search giant Google this week unveiled a fully open source version of its Google Web Toolkit, GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, available for free under the Apache 2.0 open source license The toolkit, built around Google's code for Asynchronous Javascript and XML (Ajax) development, comes as both GWT and Ajax a...
One of theInternet's leading innovators is offering a helping hand to other innovators Google on Wednesday introduced a new Web site that facilitates searches for U.S. patents by keyword, patent number, inventor and filing data....
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