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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are the most likely alternatives News Corp. is considering for providing its popular MySpace social networking site with search functionality MySpace already offers a Web search feature. This April, it was included for the first time in comScore's search engine rankings, with 43 million queries performed, for a 0.6 perce...
Microsoft made the most of this month's regular Patch Tuesday, putting out a dozen patches highlighted by a fix for the serious, zero-day Word vulnerability that has been the basis for targeted attacks since it was uncovered last month Microsoft also patched seven other "critical" vulnerabilities, three less-severe "important" vulnerabilities, and ...
Google on Tuesday launched a new feature in its Picasa photo management application, Picasa Web Albums. The tool is designed to help users post and share their photos on the Web The invitation-only service comes with the latest version of Picasa and features one-click Web upload using the tool's new "Web Album" button. It also offers free storage s...
Oracle has acquired Telephony@Work, an on-demand provider of IP-based software infrastructure for hosted contact center services Telephony@Work provided much of the functionality in Oracle's OnDemand Contact Center application via an OEM deal the company had with Siebel, which Oracle has since acquired....
In the first major pass at realizing e-commerce gains from its US$2.6 billion purchase of peer-to-peer communications firm Skype, eBay said it would begin to offer sellers on its auction platform the ability to let buyers contact them using the Internet text and voice chat technology eBay is targeting the service, which it is billing as a pilot pro...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is claiming victory over illegal file swapping. The vehement opposer of sites like BitTorrent and eDonkey reported this week that it now considers illegal file trading "contained." Legal digital downloads are up 77 percent, the RIAA said. Album sales, meanwhile, are down about 3 percent. While th...
As the utilization of search marketing grows, the perspective from which you view its impact on your organization must also grow. Search engine marketing can no longer be viewed in a silo where its only measure of success is direct response metrics Whether you like it or not, you must realize that search engine marketing is a very important compone...
Novell this week unveiled an open source identity management project called "Bandit," aimed at interoperability among disparate identity systems and consistency in securing and managing identities, which can number in the thousands for enterprises There have been numerous attempts at a uniform identity management platform, but the new open source e...
A lot of major technology industry players -- from Microsoft to Alcatel -- are investing heavily in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), with the belief that the medium is ready to truly emerge as a competitor to cable. A new study, out this week, by a think tank in Washington, D.C., adds to the atmosphere of hype, claiming that IPTV is going to be a "multi-billion dollar industry" in the "very near term."
Google has updated its Google Earth product, a satellite-based mapping application, with a Linux version that includes language capabilities in French, Italian, German and Spanish and -- perhaps of most interest to its millions of users --- a huge influx of new data images The application, which has been downloaded an astounding 100 million times, ...
AOL bolstered its Open AIM initiative by adding new features and functionality to the instant message (IM) technology, and supporting new platforms Mac OS X, Linux, Pocket PC and Java The Dulles, Va.-based company, which launched the Open AIM initiative last spring to spur development and use, said there are some 45,000 software developers working ...
The converging Internet world may be about to see its latest head-to-head battle between Google and eBay, with reports suggesting Google is just days from launching a feature meant to rival the PayPal online payment system RBC analyst Jordan Rohan predicted Google will launch a program called GBuy on June 28th. Through GBuy, merchants can enroll in...
Microsoft on Monday revealed the results of a 15-month test of its Malicious Software Removal Tool. The utility that seeks out and destroys malware reported malicious programs, or bots, on six out of 10 Windows computers it examined Microsoft made the announcement at the Tech Ed conference in Boston, leaving little doubt that bots are pervasive on ...
Yahoo's Web-based e-mail service is the latest target of a malicious attack. A new worm, dubbed Yamanner, has set out to collect addresses from a spam database, Symantec warned Monday Yamanner exploits a vulnerability in Yahoo's Web-based e-mail program. It spreads itself to the user's Yahoo e-mail contacts when the user opens an e-mail infected by...
A Michigan teenager who tricked her parents into getting her a passport and flew to the Middle East to meet someone she met through her MySpace.com page is back at home, with her misadventure stirring renewed debate about the safety of social networking sites that target a young audience Katherine Lester, who will turn 17 later this month, was deta...
Cable television consumers across the nation are halfway to their goal of getting lower prices and better service, thanks to the passage of a cable reform bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. The COPE Act will make it easier for new companies to enter the cable market and compete for consumers. That will mean more choices, better service and price cuts of as much as 25 percent...
As the future of video gaming services comes into focus, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are all enhancing their online gaming services in a bid to offer gamers richer, more challenging interplay experiences than they can find when playing just by themselves. What is not as easy to discern is how the suppliers will make money from these services, however. "Vendors are experimenting with a number of subscription models with the goal of finding one that appeals to gamers and works financially for them as well," said Michael Wolf, a principal analyst with market research ABI Research...
RightNow Technologies has introduced two new voice applications that provide contact center agents with enough identifying information about the customer to eliminate the need to repeat information when a call is transferred to a new agent The new functionality addresses a long-standing customer complaint: having to enter name, account and other id...
Intel this week signaled research advancements for its tri-gate transistor technology, indicating that along with other emerging methods and manufacturing, it has a technology trifecta lined up for tomorrow's energy efficient chips Intel researchers said the technologies -- tri-gate insulation, high-k gate dielecrics and metal gate electrodes, and ...
Microsoft's scheduled monthly Patch Tuesday is rolling around again on June 13. This round will include updates to the Windows operating system and the controversial ActiveX The release will feature nine Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows, at least one of which is critical. Another patch will change the way Internet Explorer h...
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