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Three technology companies have joined together to propel radio frequency identification applications forward. OATSystems, ADT Security Systems and Intel are paying for technology implementation to win grocery retailers over to RFID investment Grocers suffer from slim profit margins. That means they're hesitant to pull a Wal-Mart and engage RFID te...
Novell is set to boost Linux training for universities with a week-long "boot camp" for Linux educators and a series of three Suse Linux Enterprise textbooks -- created with Thomson Course Technology -- that cover Linux use, development and advanced administration The new Linux courseware, to be incorporated into curricula at hundreds of colleges a...
It seems rarer than ever these days that a majority of Americans can get together, rally round a common cause, hash out their differences, and forge a consensus in support of a durable and lasting approach to a pressing and vital public issue. Yet that is what is happening as a groundswell builds from the grass roots up with regard to U.S. energy policy and the prospect of developing biofuels as an alternative energy source...
Microsoft has announced plans to write Dynamics CRM Live -- its own Software as a Service CRM offering -- on the same code base used for earlier versions of its on-premise application and for the hosted offerings of its partners Right now, only the partner hosted offering and the on-premise application are on the same code base....
Microsoft is moving out with the old and in with the new As of Tuesday, the company has ended public support, including security updates, for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium Edition. However, Tuesday also marked Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Boston, where the company provided an optimistic view of its new ...
Google is planning to open a new, 1,000-employee facility in Michigan that will handle its highly profitable AdWords operations -- but Google watchers using this particular decision to augur the company's direction are likely wasting their time Other than reinforcing Google's intention to continue expanding its AdWords program, which is hardly a se...
Online video distributorGuba.com has sealed a deal that will let it distribute downloadable versions of films fromSony Pictures on its Web site More than 100 feature-length movies, including "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Hitch" and "Underworld: Evolution," will be available on Guba, the companies said. Guba has attracted an audience of nearly a million u...
As expected, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would clear the way for a crackdown on Internet gambling The long-term prospects for the legislation is less clear, however, and the legislation is already being assailed as an election-year ploy by Congressional Republicans seeking to appeal to their conservativ...
In an attempt to push ahead in the competitive server market, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled three high-end products for use in data centers as part of its x86 server platform Included in the announcement are a 16-way x64 server, a hybrid data server and a blade platform. The three new x64 servers all are powered by AMD Opteron processors wit...
Microsoft has tried to keep plans for its so-called iPod killer tightly under wraps, but the software giant is indeed developing a digital media player to compete with Apple's best-selling product, The Seattle Times is reporting Music companies are apparently leaking some details about Microsoft's plans, according to a Times story that cites source...
The European Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday to discuss the future of patent policy for the European Union How patents are awarded continues to be a critical issue of debate in Europe. The European Patent Office (EPO) has warned that innovation is at risk if national governments continue to delay adoption of an EU patent system.
Lucent Technologies warned Monday that lower sales in North America would cause its revenue and profit to drop from a year ago for the quarter that ended in June Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent -- which agreed to be bought by Alcatel of France earlier this year in a deal worth US$13.45 billion -- said revenue for its third quarter would be $2.04 bil...
SAP Business One will incorporate new e-commerce and CRM capabilities from the company's recently completed acquisition of Praxis Software, a privately held SAP Business One partner whose software allows users to set up online stores The new functionality will also augment Business One's existing CRM capabilities with campaign management and self-s...
The US$600 million deal disclosed by Intel to sell its mobile phone microprocessor unit to Marvell Technology Group may only have a 'minor' impact on the computer chip industry Intel was never able to grow its presence beyond mere applications processors for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)....
Employees at all levels within the enterprise are privy to a wide range of sensitive and proprietary information, which holds a high risk of damage if handled inappropriately. Those same employees are highly reliant upon e-mail for the effective distribution of information. And yet, for most of them, as soon as they hit "send," all control of their e-mail, and the sensitive or proprietary information contained within, is lost. Employee e-mails frequently spread beyond the intended recipients where they are forwarded, cut and copied. Sometimes information is stolen or sent to a competitor...
Cell phones have been steadily morphing into portable computers that busy executives are using to keep in touch with clients, suppliers and co-workers while on the go. Now, after passively watching this market take hold, Microsoft has decided that it wants to become a key player, an attainable but not an inevitable goal The company has been lured b...
For the first time, IBM is making Lotus Notes available for Linux. The initial offering, part of version 7, supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 3 The company will add a Notes client for Novell Suse Linux Desktop within three months. These are the first Linux-based business applications from IBM....
Freescale Semiconductor staked out an industry first with the commercial availability of its speedy, non-volatile Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) technology, which the Austin, Texas, company is already producing in volume The MRAM solution joins the speed of static random access memory (SRAM) and the stability of flash memory, and coul...
Microsoft's recent release of anti-piracy tools to detect authentic versions of its software have some customers crying foul about the company's collection of personal information, but the lines are blurry when it comes to customer privacy laws in the U.S The Redmond, Wash., software giant was hit with two lawsuits in one week, alleging that the to...
Though well-intentioned, services that scrub potentially offensive material from DVDs and then resell them as family-friendly versions are violating copyright laws, a court has ruled U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch ruled in favor of major Hollywood studios by saying that a number of companies operating DVD scrubbing services -- such as Cle...
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