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A video game based on the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., the deadliest episode of school violence in the U.S., is stirring up controversy this week The online game, "Super Columbine Massacre RPG," has been available on the underground Internet for the past year, but some popular gaming Web sites began blogging about it...
Microsoft on Monday unveiled what it bills as the first ever pay-as-you-go personal computing service, a move that the software giant and a cast of industry partners hope can help bridge the digital divide by lowering financial barriers for millions of people in developing nations The technology, called FlexGo, borrows heavily from a successful app...
Symantec on Friday began warning customers of a zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Word that is being exploited by hackers The attack, which was reportedly discovered by VeriSign's iDefense, is successful against Microsoft Word 2003, according to Symantec. iDefense reports its testing shows the attack is successful against Word 2002 as well. It al...
It is both simpler and more complicated, easier and more difficult to make it in the music business these days Take the Internet radio market, for instance. Digital recording and music broadcasting once required making rather large investments of capital for systems that could only be operated by experienced, well-trained technicians....
A new report shows that government agencies are "reinventing" themselves with online customer service -- interactive, transactional applications available via the Internet The report, which looks at government agencies around the globe, was produced by Accenture, the consulting firm. A copy of the report was provided to CRM Buyer....
Last week I was in Dubai and, much like when I went to Beijing to visit Lenovo a few months ago, I was surprised at the incredible progress and Western influence that is currently evident in this region. I'm also forced to compare the advancements there to the lack of progress in the United States. It makes me wonder whether the U.S. will become the new Third World one day if we don't do something dramatic to improve our own competitiveness...
For millions of consumers, the wireless home is not just an ideal -- it is an actuality. According to a new research report, based on interviews with 2,000 Internet users, approximately 20 percent of broadband users in the U.S. and in Europe are now sharing their online connection with PCs, TVs and other electronic devices. They are using wireless fidelity (WiFi) to wirelessly network their homes, the new report, "Home Network Adoption: WiFi Emerges As Mass Market Phenomenon," by the Boston-based research firm, Strategy Analytics, indicates...
Broadband connectivity is helping France Telecom gain ground -- while AOL is slipping -- in the European Internet Service Provider (ISP) market With 7.6 million broadband subscribers at the end of last year, France Telecom is the largest broadband service provider in Europe, and holds a tenuous lead over its American and European rivals, according ...
Dell announced along with its lackluster first quarter financial results this week plans to sell enterprise servers powered by Advanced Micro Devices processors The new high-end, multi-processor servers from the world's largest PC manufacturer will feature AMD Opteron chips and will be available before the end of the year, Dell said....
Despite being a well-established player, Yahoo can outgrow the overall Internet industry in coming years, company executives told analysts and investors this week Yahoo used its annual media day on Wednesday to paint an upbeat portrait of the company's future and to lay out a broad menu of new features it would offer its millions of users....
Microsoft added to the hullabaloo surrounding the pending arrival of the Windows Vista operating system with its release this week of Vista hardware requirements for consumers who are getting ready to make the switch The company launched a campaign called "Get Ready" to help customers make hardware upgrade decisions to accommodate Vista. It also an...
Security software maker Symantec filed suit Thursday against Microsoft, claiming the software giant infringed its patents and violated a contract between Microsoft and a firm that Symantec now owns Microsoft exceeded the limits of an agreement it had to use technology from storage software vendor Veritas by making its own competing software, Symant...
Bolstering what some are calling clear evidence that the gaming industry is moving online,Microsoft claimed that its Xbox Live service has passed the 24 million download mark. The milestone comes just months after theXbox 360 launch last November Xbox Live is Microsoft's platform for high-definition, on-demand content. It offers players game demos ...
In the evolution of social networking, the purchase of MySpace.com by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in the summer of 2005 is considered a key turning point "Murdoch made a huge bet on MySpace and it's been headline-worthy ever since," Chuck Richard, vice president and lead analyst with interactive marketing strategy firm Outsell, told the E-Commerce ...
The recent run-up of gas prices has lead to many U.S. companies rethinking their stance on telecommuting, and in the more global context, the increasing acceptance of outsourcing is creating virtual teams at an unprecedented rate. Given the euphoria over Software-as-a-Service applications, the question of how effective they are at enabling virtual team performance is being raised more and more...
Social networking Web sites like MySpace, Friendster and Facebook are becoming increasingly popular with the nation's youth, prompting attempts to control the medium. However, though protecting children is the goal, the outcome is too often the opposite Recently proposed legislation by Congressman Michael Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican, thr...
XM Satellite Radio has been accused of "massive wholesale infringement" in a suit filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA is targeting XM Radio's latest portable music player, Inno, which allows users to download and store hundreds of copyrighted songs....
In a major leap for a company that only recently introduced the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, SAP announced it is combining its on-demand CRM application with its on-premise CRM suite in a new product it calls SAP CRM 2006s "We are moving our entire CRM product [line] to the hybrid model," Angela Bandlow, vice president of strategy and commun...
Blue Security, an Internet security firm that tried to fight spam with spam, has shut down after a prolongeddenial-of-service launched by the spammers it hoped to put out of business. The Israel-based company tried to use the tactics of spammers against it, using a system that automatically sent messages back to them, operating on the theory that ...
Chip maker Micron Technology touted its new image sensor silicon this week, calling it the world's first 8 megapixel image sensor packaged in a standard-sized 1 by 2.5-inch optical format, widely used in today's mainstream digital cameras A camera using the sensor, unveiled by Micron in prototype form, would be capable of snapping 8-megapixel digit...
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