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IBM is pushing its business partners to more heavily promote its software-as-a-service (SaaS) initiative by offering new sales and marketing incentives Channel partners will receive a 10 percent referral fee for each lead that turns into a sale. IBM will also make its sales force more accessible to partners to help them close opportunities faster....
Is it a digital music player? A smartphone? A new PDA? For some time, Microsoft has been seeding expectations of a new device, code-named Project Origami, that would combine some or all of the functionality of these popular products Now, the emergence of a video clip purporting to shed light on this mystery has prompted a new round of speculation....
The Internet search player formerly known as Ask Jeeves has decided that the butler just didn't do it, announcing today that it will drop "Jeeves" from its name in a massive rebranding effort where it will become, simply, Ask.com Ask.com said the butler became outdated when Internet searchers started undertaking "more sophisticated searches," inclu...
Auction giant eBay is hitting back at a British magazine's assertion that the site has become a hotbed for various types of fraud Computing Which? magazine published a story calling on eBay to do more to protect users of the site from fraud, saying that by its count some 130 eBay-related fraud reports are filed with police in London each month....
Most households that are not on the Web already have little intention of logging on. So says a study released by market researcher Parks Associates on Friday The study found few new households willing to subscribe to Internet services, which, the study predicted, would limit 2006 growth in overall Internet penetration to a meager 1 percent -- from ...
IBM on Monday announced a new open-source initiative meant to boost security and give consumers more control over their personal online identity information Code-named "Project Higgins," the initiative is a collaborative effort by Big Blue, Novell andParity Communications to develop security software for user-centric identity management. It is base...
The U.S. Justice Department is arguing that Google's privacy concerns are not reason enough for it to withhold search records being sought by investigators, likely setting the stage for a court battle over the data In a court filing made late Friday, the Bush administration said because individual users would not be identified in the records being ...
Microsoft said it would release six different flavors of its Windows Vista operating system, scheduled for rollout in the second half of 2006 The Windows Vista product lineup consists of two versions for businesses, three for consumers, and one for emerging markets, the software giant said. The products have been dubbed Windows Vista Business, Wind...
Last week a number of surprising issues flared in the press First, IBM says it is now aggressively going after SCO's funding sources to see where the bodies are buried, so to speak; an IDC report puts Windows ahead of Unix for the first time since, well, ever; and Apple's OS, considered the "secure" platform, has three virus alerts out on it, one o...
The era of the networked home has finally arrived, as sales are soaring for Internet-Protocol-enabled multimedia devices According to a new study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, sales in the U.S. of IP-enabled devices rose by more than 500 percent to 16 million units in 2005, as consumers rushed to purchase digital video recorders, entertainmen...
Chinese PC giant Lenovo has made its first set of self-branded computers for sale worldwide, promising worry-free computing in new desktops and notebooks intended for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) The Lenovo 3000 family will feature built-in virus recovery, simplified network connectivity and automatic updates in order to cut down on dis...
The federal judge weighing whether to grant an injunction that could lead to the shutdown or alteration of Research In Motion's BlackBerry mobile e-mail service ended a hearing Friday without making a ruling District Judge James Spencer said he would issue a decision on an injunction "as soon as reasonably possible," which means BlackBerry users in...
EarthLink and Google submitted a joint request for proposal (RFP) this week to bring San Francisco workers and residents free citywide wireless access As part of the deal, EarthLink would pay most of the projected US$15 million cost to build the wireless municipal network and would recover some of those costs by charging approximately $20 per month...
Small and medium-sized businesses -- empowered by the range of applications developed with them in mind over the last few years -- are getting more demanding about features and functionality, suggest two recent surveys SMBs have come to prefer having one supplier of an integrated software application in the interest of streamlined processes and sim...
As part of its new "Live" branding strategy, Microsoft is reportedly beta testing a new Web-based service designed to help parents manage their children's computer use to improve their safety Microsoft announced the service, dubbed Windows Family Safety settings, in January. Part of Windows Vista, the service includes parental controls that allow p...
Mobile equipment maker Ericsson filed patent infringement suits Friday against Samsung, saying its rival was using a variety of its technologies without authorization Sweden-based Ericsson filed suit against Samsung in the U.S., UK, Germany and The Netherlands. The actions came after talks aimed at hammering out an agreement on royalty payments or ...
Yahoo has engaged in a battle with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), at least indirectly Yahoo's digital music service executive on Thursday boldly suggested to Music 2.0 conference attendees that music labels sell their songs online without digital rights management (DRM) software....
The growing adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) including SAP's NetWeaver platform and its related applications are having a significant impact on the politics of integration between manufacturers and distributors. The balance of power has already shifted in a few industries to the channel over the manufacturer, and nowhere is this more visible than in retail, with a case in point being Wal-Mart...
At a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a group of biologists discussed how, in the near future, people could expect to live 100 years. A longer, healthier life is good news to most, but predictably some speakers took a negative, almost pro-death, stance Stanford University biologist Dr. Shripad Tuljapurkar ...
Television fans are getting more and more TV to go from Apple's iTunes and other services, including access to exclusive online offerings such as the broadcast-TV first announced Thursday by NBC The network said the pilot episode of its new series "Conviction" will be available for free on iTunes until the show's debut on television March 3. After ...
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