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Two prominent U.S. Senators on Thursday joined forces with the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) to launch a new nationwide television public service announcement (PSA) campaign. The goal is to encourage parents to use the video game ratings when buying games for their children Just in time for the holidays, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Microsoft's Open XML office software format, pushed by the tech giant to compete with the Open Document Format (ODF), cleared a standards hurdle this week, winning approval from the Ecma international standards body The vote was not unanimous, however, as ODF supporter and Ecma member IBM gave Microsoft's standard a no vote, and there was some spec...
Sage Software this week purchased financial services compliance and document tracking technology from VerticalFalls, in order to expand Sage's ACT product family This is the second vertical market that ACT has targeted; earlier this year, the company released ACT for Real Estate....
In a settlement that could lead to new standards for corporate ethics, Hewlett-Packard on Thursday agreed to finance a new law enforcement fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights As part of the US$14.5 million settlement, HP will also adopt corporate governance reforms. The settlement resolves allegations that the firm ...
Oracle said Thursday it was increasing its offer and boosting the number of shares it will buy of India-based banking software firm i-flex as the database and applications giant tries to convince more of the firm's shareholders to sell The company said it would increase the number of i-flex shares it would buy to 35 percent of the total outstanding...
Intel showed off its latest WiMax Connection 2300 chipset in Hong Kong this week, aimed at extending both the range and capacity of 802.11 or WiFi wireless networks The completion of its WiMax baseband chip -- coupled with a previously announced, multiband WiMax/WiFi radio on a singlechip -- indicates that "Intel continues to drive innovation in mo...
Continuing technological advances allow companies to store increasing amounts of personal data about their customers. Maintaining this information can help both companies and consumers, allowing for more tailoredcustomer service without requiring customers to provide the same information repeatedly However, recent high-profile events show that dig...
It's about that time of year when we see all the predictions and forecasts of how much online sales will increase, by product, for this holiday season. From cautiously to wildly optimistic, these forecasts are things that e-commerce managers' dreams are made of There's something missing in this year's forecasts, though, and the inflated performanc...
Shopping is normally good for the economy, but not when the shoppers are net neutrality advocates looking for friendly deals on a regulatory forum. Policy makers in Michigan, their current target, should tell pro-regulatory activists to go home, with good reason Those who support net neutrality legislation frame themselves as proponents of the Net,...
Microsoft is currently investigating a vulnerability in certain editions of its Word Software that couldopen millions of unprotected PCs to hacker attacks The vulnerability affects Word 2000, 2002, 2003, WordViewer 2003, Word 2004 for Mac, and Word 2004 version Xfor Mac. The free applications of Microsoft Works --versions 2004, 2005 and 2006 -- are...
With reported fiscal fourth quarter 2006 revenue of US$245 million,Novell missed Wall Street estimates and expectations this week, causing the software and services company stock price to slip more than 9 percent Novell, which went through major leadership changes this year, also indicated that it would absorb restructuring charges next year, furth...
Online merchants may want to rethink their advertising strategies next year for the weekend following Thanksgiving in light of a report released this week by BlueLithium Labs The San Jose, Calif. maker of online advertising solutions reported that "click-through" rates -- the rate at which consumers click on Net advertising -- on the Friday and Mon...
In search, 2006 was a year of launches, re-launches and major partnership deals. Microsoft launched its ad platform. Yahoo started rolling out its improved paid ad platform, Panama. Google partnered with AOL and MySpace and bought YouTube. The search engine once known as "Jeeves" booted the butler and began life anew as "Ask.com." In the end, after...
New wired and wireless Web services are improving supply chain and business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) network management at both ends of the chain. As companies such as Ariba and IBM are hard at work extending supply chain and B2B network management with new and improved service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based Web services at the partner and customer end, wireless sensor network (WSN) providers such asArch Rock are working at the opposite end, pushing wireless Web services-enabled networking onto the shop floor and to previously inaccessible production locations...
The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC), an effort spearheaded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte aimed at delivering functional, educational laptop computers to children in developing nations, is looking to wealthier nations to buy its computers for those in need The project, which looks to rely on inexpensive yet capable hardware, and free and ...
Hot spots, which provide travelers and nomads with a quick and easy way to access the Internet, have grown in popularity -- there are now more than 100,000 scattered across the globe. Consumers and businesspeople can walk into coffee shops, fast food restaurants, hotels, office buildings and even municipal parks, where they can turn on computers and check e-mail, surf the Web or access corporate data...
IBM this week announced an agreement to acquire Consul Risk Management, a provider of identity access monitoring software that works across mainframe and distributed environments. When the acquisition closes sometime during Q1 2007, the software will be part of IBM's Tivoli software unit, complementing other access and control management offerings ...
Cisco on Wednesday announced it is on course with its US$1.1 billion investment in India -- and added it's expanding its commitment there. The company expects to triple its workforce in India over the next three to five years Cisco first established operations in India in 1995 and today employs over 2,000 people in the country at its Global Researc...
Yahoo said Tuesday it would undertake a major corporate restructuring aimed at capturing more of the growth in online advertising, with two top executives leaving the company and a third taking on an expanded role Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker will leave that post to become head of the newly created advertiser and publisher group, which incl...
MySpace.com on Tuesday said it would partner with an online identity and background check firm to build technology that blocks convicted sex offenders from joining its community The leading online social networking community is working withSentinel Tech Holding to build Sentinel Safe, technology that will search existing state and federal databases...
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