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On the heels of its recent Suse Linux Enterprise 10 platform release, Novell said it would put its marketing money where its mouth is with a multimedia ad campaign for Linux The campaign, dubbed "Your Linux is Ready," will be backed by the company's entire fourth quarter advertising budget and will continue through the end of the year....
Consumers and small businesses just can't afford to let their network and computer guards down these days. With the growing number of mobile and wireless technologies available to them, and with cybercrooks becoming better organized, focused, and more willing to share resources, the digital world can be a hostile place Security software and servic...
Several years ago, a large manufacturing company lost a key distribution center to a fire. The fire destroyed not only the building, but also thousands of shipments destined for a global customer base Naturally, the CEO of this company wanted to send a letter to customers to explain the situation and to provide a timetable for when operations woul...
Virtualization -- the use of multiple instances of operating systems, applications, or other software running on single hardware devices -- comes in many different forms and flavors, but among the most often mentioned of late is XenSource and its open source Xen virtualization technology While still not on the scale of virtualization giant VMware i...
Enterprises have armed themselves with a bevy of management and monitoring tools. These products calculate bandwidth utilization, gauge system response time, and identify system and network bottlenecks. Yet amid all the information gleaned, for many firms a simple question often goes unanswered: How is our IT infrastructure performing? A group of v...
SplendidCRM has created what it says is the ideal "compile once, run everywhere" cross-platform application with its release of SplendidCRM 1.2 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and SplendidCRM 1.1 for Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 The company used Novell's Mono open source toolset to leverage Microsoft's .NET tools, according to president...
In separate filings, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the World Privacy Forum have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AOL's release earlier this month of search term queries that had been made by 650,000 of its users over a three-month period. "This release was a violation of section 5 of The FTC Act," Pam Dixon, president of the World Privacy Forum, told the E-Commerce Times...
The United States government began issuing new electronic passports this week that include radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to store citizens' personal information The U.S. State Department referred in its announcement to the use of biometric technology and "a contactless chip," the latter a controversial device that will be embedde...
Security analysts warned Windows users about it -- and now it's happening Hackers launched an attack against Windows PCs over the weekend. The attack came disguised as one-at-a-time bot pinpricks, instead of the massive worm some had feared....
Google on Wednesday launched a WiFi network in its hometown of Mountain View, Calif. The search giant invested about US$1 million to serve the 11.5-square-mile city just 35 miles south of San Francisco Radios hanging on lamp posts throughout the city are now broadcasting a "GoogleWiFi" wireless (802.11b/g) signal that brings free wireless Internet ...
To accommodate the increased use of rich media ads by online marketers, Nielsen//NetRatings is modifying its media intelligence service, AdRelevance Among the changes:...
More companies are viewing the Software as a Service model as a viable delivery option for functions beyond CRM -- the area in which it has probably developed the greatest traction -- according to a new study by Aberdeen SaaS implementation times and return on investment cycles are growing shorter in such areas as sourcing and procurement, supply c...
Linspire, a company that is aiming to develop a more mainstream version of Linux, has often taken heat for being less open with itssoftware than other Linux distrubution providers. Now, the San Diego-based firm is inviting criticism again, this time by offering a free version of its Linuxoperating system that includes proprietary drivers and other code intended to deliver better multimedia support. The company launched Freespire 1.0 last week...
Is identity theft on the rise, or is it a problem that has been vastly overhyped? Recent incidents of lost or stolen laptops have focused public attention on the huge amount of personal information that can very easily make its way outside the control of corporate IT. However, in spite of so many incidents involving hundreds of thousands of individuals, it is not clear that the lost or stolen information was actually used for gain...
Advanced Micro Devices rolled out new and improved versions of its dual-core Opteron server processors this week, touting better power efficiency and virtualization capabilities AMD said its new Rev F chips will carry it through to the end of the year, when it plans to make the transition to quad-core processors. Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Micro...
Microsoft has released the beta of a desktop blogging application that it hopes users will use in conjunction with either Windows Live Spaces, its own browser-based blog application, or a third party application such as Blogger, LiveJournal, Typepad or WordPress Microsoft is positioning the beta of Windows Live Writer as an easy-to-use tool for blo...
In a move to make mobile Linux applications easier to build, Trolltech on Tuesday launched a reprogrammable phone based on the Linux operating system The Qtopia Greenphone lets developers and handset manufacturers create, modify and test Linux-based mobile phone applications on a working GSM/GPRS device....
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