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In a move to attract more local businesses to its brand, Google on Monday launched a service that allows customers to print out discount coupons for local merchants from Google Maps The new service targets value-conscious consumers with more than 20,000 coupons supplied by Cox Enterprises' ValPak Direct Marketing Systems. ValPak is best known for d...
Dell on Monday said it will recall 4.1 million laptop computer batteries because they could overheat and catch fire. The company said consumers should stop using recalled products immediately Round Rock, Texas-based Dell reported it has received six reports of batteries overheating, resulting in property damage to furniture and personal effects. Ho...
Oracle has released the next version of PeopleSoft's CRM application, version 9, fulfilling a promise made to PeopleSoft customers concerned over Oracle's acquisition of the vendor Included in the new release, according to Doris Wong, vice president and general manager for PeopleSoft Enterprise products, are industry-specific applications for thefi...
One of the most advanced communication hubs in the world crashed unexpectedly in Seattle on Sunday afternoon, July 30, 2006 due to a string of malfunctions in the facility's electrical power system. The facility, called Fisher Plaza, is billed as one of the most secure data centers and telecommunications hubs in the Northwest, capable of surviving major earthquakes and running for weeks on its own power. It is comprised of two buildings, Fisher Plaza East at 197,000 square feet and Fisher Plaza West at 99,000 square feet...
The once promising mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market -- composed of major consumer brands like Disney, which repackaged the services of local cellular phone companies for its clientele -- is failing to live up to expectations and making a minimal impact on the mobile market The niche, which once promised to "shake up the market," has at...
Not long ago, if a company wanted to outsource non-core operations -- such as contact center or back office processes -- India was the locale to choose. End of story That was then, though. Over the last few years, markets around the world -- as well as the outsourcing industry itself -- have evolved dramatically, giving companies a whole new set of...
I've been using Picasa since before Google bought it, and have found the feisty program a gem for managing my growing library of digital photos, as well as a handy tool for quick tinkering with snapshots when launching a full-blown image editor would be overkill I always look forward to each iteration of the software because, unlike many programs, ...
In what appears to be a victory for plaintiffs, a decision was made last week to consolidate seventeen class action lawsuits against telecom providers that are cooperating with the U.S. government's widespread surveillance of its customers. These cases will be moved to the California federal court where the first suit was filed against AT&T in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
PalmSource this week announced that it will push its new software library, which is part of the Access Linux Platform, into the open source developer community The firm said its libsqlfs software library, a SQLite add-on, would ease implementation of the ALP. The library is immediately available for download under the Lesser General Public License,...
Logitech and Skype have developed a new product to target Skype consumers who miss the sophisticated call features of their traditional, deskbound telecom systems but still want to use the Internet-based network. Named EasyCall Desktop, the product includes a mouse, headset and speakerphone It also features a Skype-specific keyboard that includes o...
In the wake of a foiled terrorism plot targeting aircraft departing from Great Britain, European researchers are pushing hard to create a non-hijackable plane. The security program could combat on-board threats by 2008 The non-hijackable plane would feature technology designed to serve as a last barrier to attacks on planes in flight. The vessel wo...
Microsoft announced on Monday a new set of development tools aimed at allowing the average user to create game content for its Xbox 360 console The software giant hopes its new XNA Game Studio Express software and support will spur games innovation, develop new talent and generally change the way video games are created. The tools will give hobbyis...
Twentieth Century Fox, a subsidiary of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), on Monday announced a multi-year agreement to provide feature films and television shows on a download-to-own basis across the Fox Interactive Media network MySpace.com is among the properties FIM parent company News Corp. plans to include in the digital deal, which aims to exploit the ...
As critical data continues to leave the office in laptops,PDAs and cell phones, the need for more efficient ways to secure it is growing exponentially InPart 1 of this two-part series, we examined how serious the issue of mobile device theft has become, and how deeply businesses and government institutions have been affected by it. In Part 2, we'll...
Software systems -- from off-the-shelf applications to enterprise suites -- have become easier to use and implement, Stephen Kerr, a managing consultant in PA Consulting Group's IS Implementation practice, is the first to admit. That relative ease of implementation is obvious from the end-user's perspective, at any rate Does that mean that systems ...
Last week was disappointing. I was expecting, as were others, much more out of Apple at its developer's conference, where the subtext was that with Steve Jobs not looking so well and with a lot of executives in his age group stepping down, is it time to imagine an Apple without him? Going beyond disappointing to scary, folks flying out of London we...
University network and IT environments are characterized by their diverse and constantly changing nature, large scale and wide scope. Today, that means weaving wireless networks, Voice over Internet Protocol, mobile phones and other digital gadgets into existing network and computing infrastructures It quickly becomes clear that university IT depar...
In yet another sign that the Hollywood studios are getting more comfortable with the idea of digital distribution for films, the DVD Copy Control Association (CCA) announced changes to the industry's encryption system which will allow some legitimate movie DVD burning DVD burning capabilities are already offered legally from some services, but the ...
Putting a fresh face on its modular storage systems, Sun Microsystems on Thursday unveiled the first two products in its StorageTek modular storage family -- the Sun StorageTek 6140 and 6540 arrays Sun is targeting midsize to enterprise customers with the products, and hopes to hit the sweetspots for that market: quick deployment, non-disruptive fl...
In a first for the evolving home movie industry, Paramount Pictures said it would release "Mission: Impossible III" in three formats at once later this fall, including the two formats competing to claim dominance in the high-definition DVD space Paramount said "M:I-3" will be out Oct. 30 in standard DVD format as well as both Blu-ray and HD DVD for...
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