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Disaster recovery planning is becoming a core part of business, and there are many steps a company can take to reduce the impact of a catastrophic event, asPart 1 of this two-part series points out Yet even when companies prepare for the worst, unexpected circumstances are bound to occur when a disaster actually hits. After such an incident, compan...
Japanese Linux vendor Turbolinux last week announced a couple of big deals in China, as the company looks to take advantage of China's pro-open source government backing and the replacement of SCO-Unix servers in a Turbolinux bid for market expansion Turbolinux said Qinzang Railway, part of China's Western Development strategy, would begin using a ...
Last week was a busy one for some big tech players. AOL is funding Netscape again, and strangely enough the company seems to have Slashdot on its mind as it moves to rebuild its portal business Also, Creative Labs evidently didn't realize that Apple was going to fight back when it sued the firm, and the situation escalated when Creative moved to st...
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wants to sell the entire Illinois lottery -- including the emerging online ticket sales operation -- to fund education for Illinois residents. The plan is generating opposition from expected, and unexpected, quarters, but don't count me among the opponents -- just yet The state of Illinois, where I've lived for the...
Nearly every e-mail consumers receive -- some 86 percent -- is considered spam, either malicious or simply "unwanted content" today, a new study provided to TechNewsWorld demonstrates "Of the 25 billion messages we processed in May, an astounding 86 percent were malicious or spam," said Andrew Lochart, senior director of marketing for Postini, a me...
In another step to woo customers away from cable and satellite TV providers, Verizon Communications on Friday announced an agreement to carry PBS and the nation's local public television stations The deal will bring high-definition, educational and children's programming to Verizon's fiber-optic FiOS TV service subscribers. Verizon is trying to woo...
The fight for DVD viewer hearts and minds is officially getting under way as Samsung readies the first high-definition Blu-ray DVD player, the BD-P1000, to go on sale in the U.S. next week The other high-definition DVD format, HD DVD, is available from Toshiba in the recently-released HD-A1 player....
Hoping to give advertisers greater control over their online campaigns and to match competitors, Google said Friday it had introduced a time scheduling feature to its AdWords platform Ad scheduling, also known as dayparting, enables advertisers to choose precise times when they want their ads to run, or times when they should be held back from bein...
Citing strong revenue growth across its major product lines, Oracle said Thursday it would exceed its previous sales and profit forecasts for the current quarter The announcement from Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle gave investors reasons for optimism that the strength would spread to other technology firms heading into the next round of earnin...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday announced a major transition for the company he founded. Gates will give up his day-to-day role at Microsoft effective July 2008 to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "This was a hard decision for me," Gates said. "I'm very lucky to have two passio...
The announcement by Seiko Epson on Monday of a new electronic "paper" display with the highest resolution seen in the technology to date appears to be another sign that the newspaper of the future is close at hand The 7.1-inch prototype revealed by Epson and which incorporates technology developed by E Ink, of Cambridge, Mass., has a resolution of ...
Computing heavyweight Hewlett-Packard is touting new blade server technology that it hopes will serve to ease management of more modular blades, which are also more energy-efficient and cooler thanks to new technology HP said the BladeSystem c-Class took three years to develop, and centers on the three key areas of virtualization, power and cooling...
Amazon.com, daring to tread on ground where some of the most spectacular dot-com burnouts took place, has begun selling groceries through its sprawling e-tail site Without formally announcing the move, Amazon added a beta version of a "grocery" category, bringing to 34 the number of different product niches the onetime books-movies-and-music retail...
While I must confess I've never been a fan of online backup solutions, there was something about Mozy that tempted me to use it Mozy is one of those new breed applications mushrooming under the umbrella Web 2.0, or the New Web....
Google on Thursday announced a new search product designed to make it easier to find U.S. government information and keep up to date on government news Dubbed Google U.S. Government Search, the engine primarily caters to government employees in an effort to replicate its mainstream consumer success at the local, state and federal levels. The new en...
Netscape, the browser company whose rise and fall helped define the first decade of the World Wide Web, is being revamped yet again by parent company AOL, which hopes to fashion it into a news site that leverages some of the hottest trends in today's Web -- social-networking, tagging and blogging AOL has relaunched Netscape as an open community new...
Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone announced on Thursday plans to establish the world's first global, open, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices The companies are developing a Linux-based platform that it hopes will lower development costs, increase flexibility and lead to a ric...
Even with a steady stream of database breaches that lead to potential identity theft making headlines nearly every day, e-commerce continues to grow steadily, with many consumers increasingly sanguine about turning over sensitive information such as their credit card numbers to online merchants Still, even boosters of e-commerce say ID theft and re...
Choosing the right system in the first place is key to optimizing your investment in a customer relationship management system -- and that process can be strewn with potential pitfalls, asPart 1 in this two-part series points out While the selection process can be unnerving, implementation can be a downright nightmare -- and, in some cases, what ha...
While I must confess I've never been a fan of online backup solutions, there was something about Mozy that tempted me to use it Mozy is one of those new breed applications mushrooming under the umbrella Web 2.0, or the New Web....
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