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With the dust still settling from its landmark deal to work with Microsoft on new products and support, Novell on Tuesday gave the first look into the financial details of the agreement, saying it would receive as much as US$400 million in direct payments and marketing support from its onetime bitter rival In a filing with the Securities and Exchan...
SAS has upgraded its marketing automation and marketing optimization applications with newfunctionality. While not a point release, the upgrades are worth noting because of their inclusion -- for the first time -- of digital marketing First though, to give the marketing automation and optimization upgrades their due: The new enhancements provide im...
The Mozilla Foundation, backer of the Firefox browser, will use code from Adobe to make the Flash player more flexible and interoperable with other Web scripting tools, Adobe announced this week Mozilla's use of ActionScript Virtual Machine code, the scripting engine of Adobe's popular Flash Player, is expected to ease JavaScript functionality in F...
Yahoo has begun testing a program to deliver graphics-laden, banner-style ads to mobile devices, as it bids to advance the still fledgling market for mobile advertising. PepsiCo is among the first advertisers to sign up The advertising will fit in the smaller screens of handhelds; in some cases, the make and model of the cell phone will trigger the...
A vulnerability in Microsoft's XML HTTP request handling can be exploited via an ActiveX control through a Web browser -- specifically Internet Explorer -- according to IBM's Internet Security Systems, which claims to have originally identified the flaw. The vulnerability, which is currently being leveraged by spyware producers to install malware on exposed computers, is unpatched and active in the wild, said Gunter Ollmann, Director of X-Force for IBM Internet Security Systems...
Venture capital (VC) and private and public investments in alternative energy continue to grow at their highest rates since the OPEC crisis of the 1970s Around the world, the persistence of much higher fossil fuel prices, heightened power demands -- particularly in the fast-developing economies of China and India -- national employment trends, secu...
Virtualization technology upstartXenSource has announced XenEnterprise, a commercial virtualization package that supports Windows and Linux. The new product challenges VMware's dominance in the market for server virtualization, and for support and management of virtualization Until now, XenSource has focused on including its open source Xen hypervi...
The scourge of the wired world -- spam -- is making its presence felt in the wireless realm, but carriers hope they can stunt the problem in its formative stage "Spam isn't a problem; however, it's an evolving threat that carriers are constantly working to combat," Joe Farren, a spokesperson for CTIA-The Wireless Association, told TechNewsWorld....
In a move to catch up with search rival Google, Microsoft on Monday added an online mapping interface to its Live Search offering Allowing users a more realistic Earth to explore online, Virtual Earth 3D compiles photographic images of cities and terrain to generate textured, photo-realistic 3D models with engineering-level accuracy....
Eight months after winning a massive cash settlement from the maker of the BlackBerry, NTP is taking aim at Palm On Monday, NTP filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming that Palm's "products, services, systems and processes" infringe seven of its patents....
Microsoft on Monday announced content partnerships that will transform the Xbox 360 into an on-demand IPTV device The software giant inked deals with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System, Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. An initial lineup of over 1,000 hours of TV shows and movies wil...
Microsoft plans to ship a retooled version of its Dynamics CRM 3.0 application when Office 2007 and Windows Vista ship at the end of November. The compatibility upgrade is one strategy the company is using to encourage corporate buyers to adopt the new Vista-Office bundle Feature-wise, the upgraded CRM application will offer tighter integration wit...
Fulfilling the predictions of many security experts, hackers have invaded a "social networking" Web site. The German version of the popular Wikipedia encyclopedia was used to post Web links that could spread malicious code Security software vendor Sophos reported Friday that links purporting to offer a fix to the MS Blaster computer worm led users ...
Yahoo is preparing to do for food what it has done for finance, sports, news, pets and a myriad of other subjects: Build a Web-based portal The food category has been underserved by Yahoo thus far, Deanna Brown, general manager of Yahoo Lifestyles, told the E-Commerce Times. "We are targeting a broad swath of users, thinking in terms of needs inste...
Online retail innovation and a cutting-edge customer experience are no longer the sole domain of a few retail pure-plays (Amazon.com, eBay) and multi-channel pioneers with hundreds of millions of dollars to invest. With recent forecasts from Forrester Research predicting that U.S. online retail revenues will top the quarter-trillion-dollar mark by 2011, retailers of all shapes and sizes, like Home Depot, Nike and Cabela's, continue to up their annual investment in the online channel, both through in-house investments and third-party specialists...
SalesGene, a startup that worked a niche category of sales force automation called "marketing sales effectiveness," has renamed itself and repositioned its product in order to better serve its potential buyers The firm is now called "Landslide Technologies," echoing the name of the firm's portal-like application introduced in early 2006. The applic...
Much of the focus and fight over the next draft of the GNU general public license Version 3 (GPLv3) has centered on digital rights management (DRM) and patent provisions. However, GPLv3, which is slated for final release next year, also tries to address another challenge for the free and open source software (FOSS) community: license proliferation ...
The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly -- as is the Internet -- and they're creating a mutual feedback loop. This feedback loop is virtuous if you're a consumer of such services, but it's terrifying if you're a supplier in these industries Telecom is changing the Internet. The Internet is changing telecom. Let's start with the latter a...
Use of the Internet Explorer browser continues to fall as rivals such as Firefox gain converts, but the release of IE7 may help Microsoft wrest back some of its lost market share, according to a new report The share of total browser use attributed to Internet Explorer fell in October to 81.3 percent, down from 82.1 percent in September,Net Applicat...
Microsoft said Monday that it has finalized its new Office 2007 code and released it to manufacturing. The productivity software suite will be available to corporate customers on November 30, along with the Windows Vista operating system and new Exchange e-mail server Consumer versions of the new Windows products will appear in early 2007....
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