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Identifying a paradigm shift is most easily done in hindsight because separating a fad from a long term trend is something that requires a bit of historical perspective to get right. About the only professionals who make it a habit of prognosticating about changing trends are economists and, as the saying goes, they have reliably predicted 13 out of the last 5 recessions...
Sun Microsystems is touting the growth of its one-year-old open source project OpenSolaris, indicating the open code effort for its formerly closed Solaris operating system has drawn thousands of developers, hundreds of contributions, and millions in revenue Celebrating the OpenSolaris anniversary this week, Sun released the latest version of Solar...
While technology news buzzes around Vonage's (NYSE: VG) recent IPO and Skype making major moves into the enterprise, there is a nagging issue all Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) players face: 911 response Few can deny the cost saving benefits of Internet telephone services, but the chief concern is emergency situations -- when the drawbacks can...
U.S. District Court Judge James Brady in Baton Rouge has granted a temporary stay on a new Louisiana law signed last week that would outlaw the sale of violent video games to children under 18 The request for a stay was made by two industry organizations -- the Entertainment Software Association and the Entertainment Merchants Association -- after ...
Researchers from IBM and Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a silicon-germanium (SiGe) processor that, when cryogenically frozen, can operate at frequencies higher than 500 gigahertz (GHz), some 250 times faster than the chips of today's mobile phones The phenomenal jump in chip clock speed may be limited to extreme cold environment...
A former MTV executive is hoping that music will become the killer application for social networking, launching a site that lets users interact with others based on their musical tastes MOG.com, which ex-MTV marketing executive David Hyman created last year with $1.4 million in venture funding, launched in beta form Tuesday. The site is being bille...
As the battle for Instant Messaging (IM) market share heats up, Microsoft and Yahoo are upping the ante with new and improved communications services. While Microsoft is touting its Windows Live service with the release of its glorified Messenger, Yahoo is pushing plug-ins with its new beta Microsoft on Monday released Windows Live Messenger, the n...
Less than two weeks after hopes were dashed that the House of Representatives would include strong net neutrality language in a telecom bill, backers of the approach to ensure Web services companies unfettered access to consumers across high-speed networks are pinning their hopes on lawmakers in the U.S. Senate The Senate is poised to take up the s...
By creating a synergistic relationship between online music downloads and its iPod hardware, Apple Computer has made it very difficult for competitors to pry market share from the Cupertino, Calif.-based company. A growing shift in the music buying habits of consumers could give those coveting a bigger slice of Apple's pie a chance to outflank the king...
The loss of personal data on an estimated 26.5 million U.S. military veterans, up to 2.2 million current service members and an unquantified number of spouses continues to generate public controversy. It also provides lessons for how the private sector could prevent and respond to the loss of personal information The data loss originated from a Ve...
Think taking your small business global is mission impossible? Think again. Communications advances are making globalization a reality, and it's the small business owners of the world who are busting borders and realizing greater growth potential So says Laurel Delaney, CEO of GlobeTrade.com and author of Start and Run a Profitable Exporting Busine...
Cell phones have been transformed into handheld computers capable of supporting e-mail, Web surfing, and video transmissions, which has necessitated the development of more sophisticated cell phone operating systems. After a number of failed attempts to emerge as a significant force in this market, Microsoft appears to be gaining ground with its Windows Mobile platform...
While enterprise PBX (private branch exchange) product lines continue to register the highest level of growth in the telephony market, newly emerging trends will eventually realign use and deployment patterns, according to a survey conducted by market researcher Dell'Oro Group These include a shift to hybrid systems and a nascent push by SMBs (smal...
Powerhouse telecom providers Nokia and Siemens intend to merge their telecom networks businesses to create one of the largest entities in the industry. The 50-50 US$30 billion joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, is expected to generate $20 billion a year in revenue More significantly, the merger could represent the long-awaited tipping point for...
Wikipedia's wild popularity has been matched recently by the amount of controversy surrounding the site, a Web-based encyclopedia that is open to anyone who wants to contribute and add to any of the information That is, almost anyone, and almost any of Wikipedia's information. The site has come under fire for accuracy after fallacies were left to s...
The video game industry is feeling the strain of slower summer sales and console transitions, with stock prices of several of the top publicly traded game publishers taking a big hit this June With talk of options backdating becoming the next major Wall Street scandal -- more than 30 companies are under investigation and several executives have alr...
The drumbeat of bad news continues for Vonage (NYSE: VG), with the VoIP startup, whose recent IPO has become something of a train wreck, saying Monday it has been sued by telecom giant Verizon for patent infringement Vonage said it had received notice that parent company Vonage Holdings Corp. and its U.S.-subsidiary Vonage America had been sued by ...
With Bill Gates planning to step back in two years from the software giant he founded, the reality is setting in that the technology world is losing one of its most instantly recognizable and polarizing figures. Observers say the change could be a significant one for both Microsoft and the tech sector as a whole Investors have not reacted strongly...
SSA has finished retooling itsCRM suite -- one of the company's most significant steps since its acquisition of E.piphany last year -- with the release of its sales and services modules, SSA Sales 7.0 and SSA Service 7.0 These upgrades followed the release in April of SSA Marketing 7.0....
In a bid to stay ahead of the competitive pack, Nokia has unveiled five new mobile phones. The new models are scheduled to hit the market later this year The Nokia 6151, 6080, 1110i, 6275 and 2875 are the newest phones in Nokia's lineup. The phones leverage 3G networks and Bluetooth technologies to push wireless trends like digital downloads and st...
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