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After months of back-and-forth negotiations, the United States and the European Union have reached an agreement on the sharing of data pertaining to airline passengers flying to the U.S. from Europe The new agreement gives more U.S. government agencies access to data collected by European agencies, including the name, address and credit card inform...
RealNetworks on Friday released an enhanced version of its Rhapsody digital music subscription service optimized for MP3 music players. The upgrade adds a more customizable user interface and an easier method for transferring music to portable players using a drag-and-drop feature Rhapsody 4.0 also relies on Helix, digital rights management technol...
By now, it's understood that technology has forever changed the advertising and marketing industries. The range of choices consumers now have for consuming media -- and the accompanying marketing messages -- has forced marketers to rethink entire branding strategies One way to look at the change is that today, the consumer has become the brand mana...
Salesforce.com is the proverbial face that launched a thousand ships. The company is largely -- and deservedly -- credited with ushering the software-as-a-service movement into the 21st century and lifting CRM out of the doldrums that plagued companies such as Siebel Systems in the late '90s. The result has been a tidal wave of new on-demand applications in the CRM industry, with the Salesforce.com AppExchange acting as an axis of the Enterprise 2.0 ecosystem...
For years, Microsoft has come under heavy fire for not making its systems secure enough. Now, with the upcoming release of its new operating system (OS), Windows Vista, the company is being unfairly attacked by self-interested competitors for adding more security to protect consumers Back in 2002, when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced tha...
Internet search giant Google delivered this week a new online search tool that combs publicly available software source code and connected documentation online Always looking to extend its forte -- ferreting pertinent search results from billions of Web sites, pages and documents on the Internet -- Google said the new beta service, Google Code Sear...
Leading electronics retailer Best Buy said Thursday it would partner with MP3 player maker SanDisk and RealNetworks to create and promote a subscription and buy-to-own music service. The collaboration is the latest effort to dethrone Apple from the top of the digital music market The Best Buy Digital Music Store uses RealNetworks' Rhapsody service...
People running pirated versions of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system and Windows Longhorn server software will face having the programs rendered inactive, the company said this week Freshly installed software must be registered with its maker or it will operate only in "reduced functionality mode," as Windows XP does now without b...
The California Attorney General's office late Wednesday charged former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, a second high-ranking HP executive and three others with felony fraud and conspiracy in the wake of a controversial internal investigation launched to determine the source of board leaks to the media Dunn was charged along with former HP...
Your organization needs a disaster recovery (DR) plan. The sun may be shining now, but it won't be forever -- disasters are a matter of when, not if. And if disaster does strike, having made a DR plan in advance may mean the difference between smoothly resuming activities, or going out of business On top of that, your insurance company, your bank, ...
I was having a discussion the other day with a client about changes in the software industry. We got to talking about different trends when the subject turned to the current tendency of discussing business software in terms of the size of the company that uses it. "Enterprise" software has certainly gotten a lot of play, though the "SMB" and "mid-market" descriptors have also been well aired out, and, in aggregate, those two groups might outspend the enterprise today...
Autumn is here. That means the start of the holiday shopping season, the traditional time for electronics makers to introduce their new product lines. This buying season, consumers interested in one of the new high-definition DVD players being introduced over the next two months risk buying a player that may not be around very long. Remember the format war between the Betamax and VHS video tape machines in the late 1970s?...
European regulatory authorities have taken a step toward bringing allegations that Intel is violating antitrustlaw closer to a resolution -- and the company's probable prosecution Officials investigating claims against the chip maker reportedly havepresented their evidence to an internal panel of so-called "devil's advocates," a step taken before f...
SpikeSource this week announced that it has sealed a deal with Japan's NEC to bundle its certified open source solutions with NEC servers This is the first time NEC has incorporated open source software into its products, SpikeSource noted. The Tokyo-based firm plans to deliver SpikeSource infrastructure and other open source software on its NEC Ex...
Fox is tapping its sister social networking site MySpace as an outlet for free downloads of some of its fall prime time series, including "Bones," "Prison Break," "Standoff" and "Vanished," when the shows are pre-empted by Major League Baseball games and the World Series on the network this fall The new initiative is called Fox on Demand and is des...
In another effort to compete with Yahoo, Google and MSN, AOL on Wednesday unveiled new ad-based free client software that integrates the view for AOL Instant Messenger, e-mail, media and search in one interface Called OpenRide, the program is designed for Internet users to be able to aggregate e-mail from outside POP3 e-mail systems, such as Micros...
Japan's Fujitsu became the latest PC maker forced to recall Sony-made batteries in some of its notebook computers. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard said its laptops appear to be unaffected by the overheating and fire problems that have led to the recall of some 7 million batteries worldwide Fujitsu joined a growing legion of PC makers who have recalled ...
Enterprise data security firmPGP on Wednesday began shipping its new NetShare product, as well as major upgrades to its encryption and e-mail security line of policy enforcement and key data management software PGP NetShare manages and shares encrypted network-based files. It allows enterprises to protect intellectual property in files commonly sha...
American corporations drawn to China's vast market of 1.3 billion people have to be prepared to jump through some regulatory hoops and adhere to a host of government censorship codes. Xinhua, China's state news agency, recently announced rules that require foreign media to get prior approval for the distribution of news, pictures and graphics within China. These rules prevent international financial information companies like Reuters and Bloomberg from selling their news services directly to Chinese banks, brokerages and other potential customers...
Microsoft and EMC have developed nativeintegration technology for SharePoint Server 2007, as well as the2007 Microsoft Office system and SQL Server 2005,through a newly announced enterprise content management alliance The new functionality expands the EMC optionsavailable to SharePoint users, EMC's John McCormick, vicepresident of product managemen...
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