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In a dramatic escalation of efforts to crack down on Internet-based gambling, law enforcement officials in the U.S. arrested an executive from Sportingbet, a major UK-based online gaming site The arrest marks an expansion of efforts to use law enforcement to control Internet-based wagering, and comes two months after two key figures in the UK-based...
It is difficult to imagine the users of social networking site Facebook becoming protective about content they post on the Internet. After all, its user base is mostly Gen Y consumers who have grown up surfing the Web and think little of posting pictures of themselves or keeping readers -- both friends and strangers -- up-to-date with just about every aspect of their lives...
When most people are asked about software giants, they usually think of Microsoft. But I recently discovered that there is a company that is regarded as one of the largest international, independent software companies in the world. That company is called Cincom and has 40 offices on six continents. And, surprisingly, it has been around and prospered since being founded in 1968...
These days it seems that science fact is at least as amazing as science fiction. In a few short generations, actual developments in the real world of computing and information systems, biotechnology, nanotechnology and robotics have surpassed the imaginary leaps of early sci-fi authors such as Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein both in terms of technical possibilities and societal ramifications...
Salesforce.com has unveiled its Winter 07 upgrade, which features first-time support for softphone -- that is, computer telephony integration, or CTI -- connectivity. It also includes new interactive calendar design and task management capabilities, as well as additional integration tools. Winter 07 will become available in Q4, the company said A n...
Hold on to your hats -- California lawmakers have finally done something even the most jaded critic will appreciate. It's called cable franchise reform, and it will have a positive impact on California and the entire nation "California has led the way in the evolution of new technology, and with this bill, our state's policy towards contemporary T...
Leading Linux vendor Red Hat is developing a new software vulnerability database with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The database will give vendors of both open source and proprietary software a place to post official statements and security related information pertaining to their own projects and products At Red Hat's ...
California's attorney general is investigating Hewlett-Packard The probe comes in the wake of HP's reported surveillance of board members that led to the company's decision not to renominate George A. Keyworth II to his seat on the board. HP said it discovered that he leaked confidential information that had appeared in the media....
IBM is building a supercomputer capable of petaflop performance -- 1,000 trillion, or a quadrillion, calculations per second -- for the U.S. Department of Energy using a combination of more than 30,000 Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) and AMD Opteron processors The new supercomputer, dubbed "Roadrunner," will be built for the National Nuclear Securi...
Web analytics have become a critical part of every company's Web presence, but many businesses are often surprised by how time consuming traffic-crunching programs can be That surprise can be most often pegged to two reasons, according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research....
RightNow Technologies will be introducingversion 8 of its CRM suite next Monday in conjunction with thecompany's eighth annual user conference and the 2006Gartner Customer Relationship Management Summit.RightNow 8 will be available in December 2006 Representing a US$25 million, two-year investment,version 8 has a completely rearchitected userinterf...
Today's businesses are operating in real time as the demand for instant access to information and services grows. While the need to meet "instant gratification" status continues to rise across all industry sectors, today's online retailer is taking advantage of key technologies to build a closer relationship with its customers By leveraging critica...
As if the airlines haven't had enough challenges since Sept. 11, 2001, British authorities were compelled to introduce a new one at the beginning of August. In addition to weathering economic downturns, volatile bankruptcies and merger flirtations, airlines now must comply with new carry-on restrictions due to a foiled terrorist plot The U.S. Trans...
A growing number of consumers are walking around with a cell phone for voice communications and a laptop for data connections. Soon, that may no longer be necessary, as handset vendors are delivering new devices and carriers are rolling out new services that support both cellular and WiFi connections With handsets gaining more capabilities and cell...
Continuing its quest to index all of the world'sinformation online, Google has released Google NewsArchive Search, a service that offers a wide selection of previously published material, some of it dating back centuries Articles that are already offered for free elsewhere on the Web will be available at no cost through Archive Search. However, pre...
White children are far more likely to use the Internet than Hispanic and black children, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics The study, based on a national representative of households in 2003, reveals that 91 percent of students in nursery school through 12th grade use computers, but only 59 percent use the ...
HP is seeking to remove a member of its board of directors after an internal investigation showed he was responsible for leaking confidential board-level discussions to the media. The company said it will not renominate George A. Keyworth II to his seat on the board HP reportedly put some board members under surveillance and may have tracked their ...
Sony on Wednesday said the European launch of its next-generation PlayStation 3 video game console will be delayed until March 2007. The machine will go on sale in the U.S. and Japan in November as planned A problem in mass producing a key component in the machine's Blu-ray disc player is causing the delay, according to Sony Computer Entertainment ...
A deal announced Tuesday between social networking Goliath MySpace and digital content manager Snocap will have a marginal impact on Internet music sales, according to some observers of the market Under the deal, Los Angeles-based MySpace and San Francisco-based Snocap will make tools available to artists and record labels among its 100 million mem...
Next week at its CRM Summit, Gartner will releasestatistics suggesting that in certain implementations, the Software as a Service model is not as cost-effective -- or even effective -- as earlier projections and experiences have led some companies to believe Among the new strategic planning assumptions developed by Gartner:...
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