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Researchers have long recognized that representing large and diverse data sets visually and spatially offers the potential for improving both comprehension and ease of use. With the confluence of work in geographic information systems (GIS), enterprise data systems and distributed computing, this potential is being realized across a wide range of industries -- from manufacturing, logistics and operations research to resource management, public planning, healthcare and financial services...
SAP has upgraded its Software as a Service CRM application to include service capabilities, rounding out its earlier sales and marketing offerings The new modules also have enhanced integration capabilities and new sales automation functionality, specifically the ability to provide product quotes, said John Garrish, director, solution marketing, S...
Americans are using a controversial new microchip technology in some new credit and debit cards to make it easier and quicker to purchase groceries, cigarettes and gasoline. In addition, the cards tie those purchases into the supply chain more rapidly with a flick of the wrist Backed by powerhouses American Express, Visa and MasterCard, contactless...
In a twist made possible by virtualization, or the running of multiple "virtual" computer servers on one physical server through special software, Novell said this week it would support Linux virtualization, including instances of rival Red Hat's Linux Enterprise 4 operating system, using Xen virtualization optimized for Intel hardware Novell said ...
Facing potentially negative implications for its Zune music service and player, Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against a group of hackers who allegedly infiltrated its digital rights management (DRM) technology. The software giant claims the defendants gained access to its proprietary source code The suit was filed last Friday in district co...
Shares of Red Hat plunged 23 percent Wednesday after the maker of Linux software said its second quarter profit fell on stock options costs. The company also cut its cash-flow forecast for the rest of the year Red Hat said profits in the second quarter were down more than 32 percent, largely due to the impact of accounting for stock options as exp...
Microsoft on Tuesday released a security patch to fix a "critical" hole in its Internet Explorer Web browser Also on Tuesday, security researchers found yet another zero-day flaw in a Microsoft Office product....
Linux creator Linus Torvalds' objections to GPLv3, the Free Software Foundation's draft of the next version of the popular GNU General Public License, have been reinforced by the rest of the open source operating system's top developers. They share Torvalds' concerns over digital rights management (DRM), patents, and other restrictions of GPLv3, according to a poll and position paper...
Transaction failures at a company's Web site can have a significant negative impact on the business' brand, according to a survey released Monday by TeaLeaf Technology and Harris Interactive "Transaction failures on a company's Web site create such a bad impression in the eyes of consumers that just one troublesome issue can cause irreparable harm ...
One of the original leaders of the open source movement, Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, kicked off a blogosphere firestorm in late May by sending a cease-and-desist letter over the use of the term "Web 2.0," as his technical conference is trademarked by that name The complaint has since been withdrawn. Having open source gurus involved in tradema...
Changes are afoot in many enterprises as more and more of them switch from traditional voice connections to Voice over IP (VoIP) services. Market research firm Gartner found that three out of every four PBX lines sold in 2005 were VoIP links; that number is expected to grow to more than four out of every five this year The new network option is ga...
Standing on established privacy laws, three AOL subscribers are striking back at their Internet service provider after they discovered records of their online searches had been distributed across the Internet Two unnamed Californians and Kasadore Ramkisson of Richmond County, N.Y., filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified financial damages on Friday in ...
Internet advertising revenues reached record levels in the first half of 2006, with sales up some 37 percent over the same period last year, according to an industry group's latest check on the booming sector Web-based advertising sales reached US$7.9 billion in the first six months of this year, theInternet Advertising Bureau said. Online ad sales...
Two employees of Hewlett-Packard and a contractor hired to help investigate boardroom media leaks have been subpoenaed to testify before Congress Senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker and Global Security Manager Anthony Gentilucci both received subpoenas to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight and investigations subcommittee o...
Nokia on Tuesday announced new handheld devices that it said will blur the lines between the Internet world, mobility and the consumer electronics industry Nokia's new Nseries multimedia phones combine connectivity with mobile technology, an approach that Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and general manager of Multimedia at Nokia, called the...
Customer data integration (CDI) or, more broadly, customer-centric master data management (MDM) solutions, are gaining significant momentum, largely because of their ability to help organizations achieve critical cross-functional business imperatives to bolster customer profitability, reduce operational costs, and adhere to regulatory compliance. Companies have come to realize they can't achieve these cross-functional business imperatives without adopting customer-centricity throughout their business processes...
As technology and business align closer to an open, Internet-driven world, the current security mechanisms that protect business information are not matching the increasing demands for protection of business transactions and data. A new generation of criminals is exploiting the very connectivity that is so critically important to the productivity of business Internet users...
IBM has revealed that it is considering a plan to support an open source software distribution known as Red Flag Linux from Beijing-based Red Flag Software as part of its long-term strategy in China Red Flag would be the third Linux distribution supported by IBM and its approximately 300 software applications. The firm's offerings are currently com...
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) says its running tally of data breaches shows nearly 94 million instances of data being exposed in less than two years of tracking such events, a veritable red flag of private information at risk The PRC said its tally shows the total number of records containing sensitive personal information involved in secu...
In a move to compete with its momentum-gaining rival AMD, Intel is expected to unveil its new server and desktop range of quad-core processors at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week. "Clovertown" is the code name for the server version, while "Kentsfield" refers to the desktop version Intel has just gone through what is arguably on...
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