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The newest hot property in the wireless communications race is the "electronic leash." Employees often joke that their offices keep them on a leash by providing BlackBerries, cell phones and laptops for anytime, anywhere communication Now the concept has spread to parenting: Parents have several options for keeping an electronic eye on their young ...
Stung by the unprecedented number of identify thefts and data losses that have occurred in recent months across academia, the private sector and the government, a group comprised of representatives from each of these areas has formed the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection To be based at Utica College in New York, the Center's...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released guidelines for Web developers to make Internet browsing more mobile-friendly The powerful industry and standards group said the "important milestone," its Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, would advance its objective of making mobile browsing as easy as desktop browsing by giving developers critic...
Five major Internet service companies on Tuesday announced that they are joining with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to launch a US$1 million campaign against child exploitation on the Internet AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online will fund a new Technology Coalition within NCMEC to develop and deploy technology ...
Oracle is replacing the IBM tech stack that has supported the Siebel OnDemand application with, not surprisingly, its own tech stack, according to statements made by executive vice president Charles Phillips during a recent conference call Before its acquisition by Oracle, Siebel had a close relationship with IBM, Oracle's main database rival. Thos...
Intel said it will sell off its handheld chip line, the first of what could be several significant changes at the market leading chipmaker as it bids to focus on the most profitable parts of its business The company announced Tuesday it had reached an agreement to sell its handheld and mobile communications chip business unit to Marvell Technology ...
In yet another sign that traditional television broadcasters are intent on staking their claim on the Web, NBC and online video company YouTube on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership The alliance will promote NBC's fall television lineup and other NBC shows over the next year....
Police in Bangalore, India, reported the arrest Tuesday night of the chief suspect in the theft of funds from a score of customers of HSBC bank in the UK. Nadeem Kashmiri is being charged in India with stealing customer data that was sent to Nadeem's accomplices in the UK. Nadeem's accomplices assisted him in withdrawing funds from customers' HSBC bank accounts between March and May of this year...
Reaching the Millennial Generation -- a label nailed to nine- to 28-year-olds, a group which, at some 79 million in the United States, is larger than the Baby Boomers -- poses some real challenges for marketers, especially marketers entrenched in their mass media ways "The key thing to recognize when marketing to this generation is that it has seen...
With a new generation of video game consoles, increasing online game play and distribution, cross-platform development and play, in-game advertising and more, there are earth-shaking changes going on in the video game industry Competition among game publishers is more heated than ever, which means a smart strategy, future-focused perspective and st...
A post made to Microsoft's blog, IT BlogWatch, indicates the company is quietly abandoning WinFS, its once-heralded search and data management technology for Vista It is not a stretch to say the blog posting was more an exercise in public relations spin than an informative read....
Intel rolled out its new server processors this week with hopes of stemming market gains by rivalAdvanced Micro Devices' popularOpteron server chips Intel's new dual-core Xeon 5100s, previously codenamed "Woodcrest," are the first Core microprocessors to hit the market. They represent a big step forward in replacing Intel's Netburst technology, whi...
Shares of video game producer Take-Two Interactive Software (Nasdaq: TTWO) plunged to new lows Tuesday after the company revealed it had been served with grand jury subpoenas as part of an apparent investigation into a host of company activities. At issue is whether company executives knew about explicit sex scenes hidden in its "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" game...
PC vendors have reduced hardware annual failure rates (AFRs) by approximately 25 percent in the past two years, but there is still room for improvement, according to a benchmark study by Gartner The research firm defines a hardware failure as any repair incident that requires a hardware component to be replaced. The component can be as trivial as a...
Symantec has announced plans to release an online transaction security solution dubbed "Norton Confidential," which aims to protect consumers from fraudulent Web sites and crimeware Over the past 12 months, attacks designed to steal confidential information have become rampant. The recent surge is reflected in Symantec's latest Internet Security Th...
In the latest example of the tension between government efforts in the war on terror and the media, the Bush administration is condemning news outlets that revealed details of a program that used the Internet to scan bank records for evidence of terrorism financing Speaking at the White House, President Bush labeled the reports, which appeared in T...
Salesforce.com is venturing into the partner relationship management space with the release of Partnerforce, Salesforce Partner Edition PRM, a software category related to CRM, focuses on connecting and maintaining relationships with direct and indirect partners instead of customers....
British and U.S. scientists are developing an "emotionally aware" computer that can gauge an individual's thoughts by analyzing facial expressions. The technology could have practical applications for people with autism, researchers said "People express their mental states all the time through facial expressions, vocal nuances and gestures," said P...
In the early days of the Web, smart small Internet businesses could compete with just about anyone by working to make sure their Web pages were found first on search engines Fast forward 10 years. Search engines have become increasingly sophisticated. Paid search listings have exploded into the picture. Large corporations are now every bit as sophi...
Implementing a Web Analytics Solution for your site can be fraught with all kinds of peril, but knowing what you're in for goes a long way toward avoiding the biggest headaches, asPart 1 of this two-part series points out. Part 2 continues the discussion of effective ways to deal with potential problems For starters, there's the challenge of campa...
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