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While sitting through technically complex webinars and presentations this week, I felt like raising my hand and saying, "May I be excused? My brain is full." Seriously, the level of technology and adroitness of world-class demo jockeys is both impressive and intimidating. Compound this with bonding between engineers of different nationalities and platform allegiances, and you have the makings of a remix for "We Are the World" sung by programmers ignited by a common spark.
AOL andYahoo will soon roll out a new program to charge advertisers for guaranteed access to users' e-mail boxes. It's not the perfect spam-fighting program that some would have hoped for, but those critiquing the plan on free speech and other grounds are out to lunch The reason most people's inboxes are overflowing with nasty bits of unwanted, un...
Research In Motion has alleviated -- just a little -- the worries of 2 million or so BlackBerry users who would be affected if the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., should levy an injunction against the service later this month RIM said on Thursday that it has developed and tested software workaround designs for all BlackBerry handsets operati...
Oracle reportedly is set to announce that it will cut more than 1,000 jobs now that its acquisition of Siebel has closed Its US$5.85 billion purchase of the customer relationship management software company was finalized on Jan. 31, several months after the firms jointly announced the deal. It was one of several acquisitions Oracle has completed in...
The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was just three years ago. So says Technorati, a firm that tracks 27.2 million Web logs, or blogs. The firm's latest report indicates that the blogosphere continues to double about every five and half months In fact, Technorati's "State of the Blogosphere, February 2006" shows 75,000 new blogs are cre...
Gateway (NYSE: GTW) CEO Wayne Inouye -- who took the helm at the company following its merger with eMachines and led it back to profitability -- resigned just days after announcing results that missed profit targets The company said Inouye intends to "pursue other interests" after almost two years as chief executive at Gateway. During that time, he...
IBM is trying to prove that its powerful, multi-tasking Cell computer chip is not just about fun and games The company, whose Cell chips will be incorporated into the next-generation PlayStation 3 from Cell collaborator Sony, announced this week a new family of blade computing systems -- thin, lightweight servers that consolidate space while bumpin...
In the midst of heated competition to attract popular personalities to the satellite radio space, Harpo Radio and XM Satellite Radio on Thursday announced an exclusive, three-year agreement to launch a new channel called "Oprah & Friends." Set to debut in September 2006, it will feature a broad range of original programming from Harpo Radio. The ch...
Significant concentrations of the Blackworm virus remain in Peru, India and the United States -- currently infecting about five percent of the world's PCs overall -- though the coordinated "disinfection" of most enterprise PCs was successful, according to new research provided to TechNewsWorld The research, by CiperTrust, Inc., indicates that the B...
In another sign of the maturation of the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) industry, Vonage filed Wednesday to stage a long-awaited US$250 million initial public offering and also installed a new CEO to guide the company If it pulls off the IPO, Vonage Holdings Corp. would become the first publicly traded Internet phone service provider and would...
Currently, marketers on the national and global scene who are sophisticated and e-commerce-savvy are positioning their brand names with the year 2010 in mind. However, very few are poised to make decent progress in less than five years, so how will they achieve their goals? If you tackle four critical marketing issues, you can set the wheels in mot...
If there's anything that can be called heresy in free-for-all cyberspace it's the notion that people should pay for e-mail, but that didn't stop a few heretics this week from announcing monetized e-mail initiatives Although Yahoo and AOL took the lion's share of the limelight with their "certified e-mail" proposal, a feisty start-up in the Netherla...
Novell this week unveiled what it calls "significant enhancements" to the Xgl (X over OpenGL) graphics subsystem. Xgl is new core rendering technology for theLinux desktop that takes advantage of now widely available accelerated 3D rendering hardware These enhancements are designed to let developers create richer graphical experiences for Linux des...
The business intelligence software market is poised for steady global expansion, according to Gartner, which projects a compound annual growth rate of 7.3 percent from 2004 to 2009 Growth will vary region by region, the research firm noted, with the more mature markets of North America and Europe expected to register at slightly lower rates -- betw...
Dell on Wednesday said it is in the testing stage of plans to load Google's search and other branded software onto new Dell PCs. While Google has repeatedly denied rumors of its supposed plans to market hardware of its own in the future, the company joined with Dell to affirm that a deal is indeed in the works between the two, with industry analysts indicating computers coming in the spring may offer a first look at the fruits of their partnership...
Nortel said it has reached an agreement in principle to pay US$2.4 billion to settle shareholder lawsuits stemming from accounting misstatements at the telecom gear maker, moving the beleaguered company one step closer to ending a dark chapter in its history The settlement would avoid at least one civil lawsuit by a class action of shareholders who...
In a move to round out its Information Lifecycle Management strategy, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday signed a definitive agreement to acquire a provider of archiving software for enterprise applications and databases HP will purchase OuterBay for an undisclosed amount. OuterBay's Application Data Management Suite, an information lifecycle management so...
SalesGene, a provider of a relatively new CRM subsector technology dubbed "marketing-sales effectiveness," has introduced Landslide, a portal-styled application that provides guidance on how to navigate certain sales situations, as well as live administrative assistance for one-on-one advice to individual salespeople This application, and others si...
Intel and AMD are duking it out again, this time putting the additional processor cores and capabilities they've built into hardware to deliver virtualization -- the running of multiple operating systems and applications on processors that are virtually carved up to carry the load Intel said its virtualization technology (VT) was ready for testing ...
Did Recording Industry Association of America spokesperson Jonathon Whitehead switch the names of two completely different P2P applications in a deliberate bid to fool a court hearing a P2P file-sharing case? The question is raised in an affidavit presented in the latest stage of Atlantic Recording v. John Does 1-25....
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