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Police in Chicago -- and elsewhere in the state of Illinois -- are dramatically expanding the deployment of stealth cameras to catch alleged speeders. The cameras may be a massive invasion of privacy, however, according to some legal experts who are calling for precautions to be taken with the surveillance data Recent moves to install such technolo...
Talisma has released a new version of its Customer Interaction Management suite, Talisma CIM 7.0. The software integrates multiple communication channels, including e-mail, chat, Web self-service and phone. Able to handle million of interactions, Talisma 7.0 can be deployed on-site or on-demand This is the first application that has fully integrate...
The Chinese government this week indicated it was tired of waiting for the U.S.-controlled International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to come up with Chinese character versions of .com and other top level domains (TLDs), and instead will create the domains on its own News of the strategy was a cause of concern among some who a...
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new technology that lets users control their computers with their feet. Step User Interface is one of more than 150 unique concepts featured at the sixth annual Microsoft TechFest, which is open primarily to company employees, in Redmond, Wash The Step UI contains a handful of applications that workers can navigate...
A day after Google shares plummeted for the third time in about a month, wiping out around US$13 billion in market value in the process, investors and analysts turned their attention to evaluating the future of the search industry as a whole Google shares lost some 7 percent on Tuesday after Chief Financial Officer George Reyes told an investor con...
Two new Trojan horses are being billed as "first-of-their-kind" bugs Security alerts are warning of a "crossover" virus that leaps from one device to another; in addition, a new Java Trojan has been detected that could infect almost any cell phone....
The recent US$15 million settlement betweenChoicePoint and theFederal Trade Commission (FTC) signals regulators have cranked up the heat on companies that allow personal customer data in their possession fall victim to breach or exposure ChoicePoint, a broker of consumer data, acknowledged that information on 163,000 consumers was exposed when itsd...
With Apple adding video to its iPod line of digital media players, the scramble is on to provide watchers with content to occupy their eyeballs One way to obtain content is to pay for it. Since the introduction of its "vidpod," Apple has been steadily adding to the video library at its iTunes store. In addition to movie trailers, music videos and P...
Sage Software has introduced version 5.8 of its CRM application, an upgrade that includes new customization, data management and user administration functionality. Its marquee feature is the Dashboard, or user interface, Elaine Therrien, North American product manager for Sage CRM, told CRM Buyer Other enhancements in version 5.8 include new embed...
Sony Ericsson and Google have introduced a phone aimed at a rapidly growing segment of Internet users -- bloggers The phones will integrate Google's Blogger and Web search features on Sony Ericsson's mobile phones. The blog application will be tightly integrated to the camera and provide automatic set-up for users who don't already have a blog....
More mobile video is slated to come to the consumer marketplace via a service dubbed "Mobizzo" announced by News Corp.'s Fox Mobile Entertainment this week. The service will offer games, music, mobile phone wallpaper and ringtones, including Fox programming such as episodes of "Family Guy" and films like "Napoleon Dynamite." The venture, along with...
Yahoo on Monday filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma and a group of former Yahoo employees, alleging the theft of the Internet portal giant's trade secrets According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Santa Clara County state court in California, the employees copied large amounts of confidential business and technical data when ...
Google is attempting to make it easier for merchants that list items for sale on its Google Base service by allowing shoppers to make purchases using their Google Accounts "Many of you are probably already familiar with the Google Account. You use it to sign in and pay for a number of Google services, like Google Video and Google Earth. We're now i...
America Online and Yahoo are under fire for plans to charge for e-mail. A group of nonprofit and public interest groups on Tuesday launched a campaign to protest the online giants' scheme to charge high-volume e-mail senders a fee in exchange for a guarantee that their messages will be delivered AOL and Yahoo are working with Goodmail Systems, crea...
Continuing an aggressive building program aimed at helping it meet increased demand for a variety of its processors, Intel said it would spend US$300 million to build the first semiconductor testing and assembly facility in Vietnam The chip market leader said the Vietnam plant, to be located in Ho Chi Minh City, would employ about 1,200 and be part...
The market has declared CRM dead any number of times over the years. The most recent pronouncement came when iconic Siebel was purchased by Oracle. If the market maker couldn't stay afloat, then what hope did other vendors have? To be sure, there is something to that doleful reasoning: Few expect the CRM market to register growth rates of the late ...
I admit it, I've got a problem Smaller than a wallet, this little black box comprises my phone and Internet connection, sending a continuous stream of e-mail and news. In the mornings it wakes me to the tinny sound of "El Toreador" or "The Entertainer," automatically adjusting to the local time zone. My wife calls it "the other woman" and claims ...
Broadband penetration of the nation's rural areas has more than doubled since 2003, but it still lags behind urban and suburban areas by a substantial margin, according to a survey released this week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project By the end of 2005, surveyors found, 24 percent of rural Americans had broadband Internet connections, com...
On the eve of President Bush's first visit to India, people in both countries are re-examining U.S.-India relations, with special attention being paid to economic relations. An account of outstanding issues in U.S.-India economic relations and India's moves to institute economic reforms can be provided through the record of one man. In this context, we can identify opportunities for improving U.S. ties with the world's largest democracy...
Identity theft and strong opinions go hand in hand. ID theft is rampant and is causing millions of dollars of damage every year -- or, it really isn't such a big problem, and few people are really hurt financially by it. Why such wide disparity? More importantly, what can a business owner, an IT manager, a software developer, a consumer or a risk manager do about stopping ID theft when the problem seems so poorly understood?...
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