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E-mail marketing has grown over time to become one of the most cost-effective methods of marketing used today. The ability to send large quantities of e-mail at almost no cost during the early days of e-mail marketing led to over saturation, deceitful practices and a bad reputation Because this industry is still very much in its infancy, government...
I have been wracking my brain for an adequate metaphor to describe the situation that has developed in the CRM world and in enterprise software in general It started about two years ago when Larry Ellison of Oracle looked at the enterprise software market and decided that SAP could conquer the world unless it was checked. At the time, enterprise s...
Mark Twain once said that the rumors of his death had been "greatly exaggerated." The same can be said for the desktop PC. Sleek laptops are certainly sexier than bulky desktops, but recent research proves that small businesses need both to create a more efficient and productive office With the explosive growth of wireless hot spots and coffee shop...
AOL and Yahoo are planning to launch a certified e-mail program in the coming months in conjunction with partner company Goodmail Systems. They announced their intentions last Fall, but the recent news that some marketers would be able to pay premium rates to bypass recipients' spam filters has raised hackles throughout the tech industry The two W...
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 ...
Changes to some versions of the Office productivity suite may affect more businesses than originally believed, as Microsoft revises certain versions of the software to address a patent ruling Microsoft warned of the upcoming switch last month, saying that corporate customers who move existing software to new computers will have to use modified vers...
In the midst of Google's battle with the U.S. government to keep its users' search records private,British Telecom on Tuesday reported some disturbing figures about child pornography online While the Bush Administration seeks to revive an online pornography law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, British Internet users are attempting to violate ...
IBM has won a key ally in its quest to turn around the fortunes of its PowerPC processor, which suffered last year whenApple announced it would useIntel chips instead in its machines Freescale Semiconductor, which helped develop and proliferate the Power platform, has become the latest company to joinPower.org, an association of technology companie...
A maker of software to manage music CD copying has agreed to make its protection scheme less vulnerable to computer crackers. After the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released an open letter raising security concerns about the MediaMax application, its Phoenix, Ariz.-based developer, SunnComm Technologies, announced it would take several remedial steps:...
TheFederal Bureau of Investigation and theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration seem like unlikely partners, yet the two have worked together to solve a number of crimes in recent years NASA researchers developed sophisticatedsoftware called Video Image Stabilization and Registration, or VISAR, to analyze satellite video images, and the tec...
Sony Ericsson has taken direct aim at the handheld business solutions market -- which BlackBerry once owned -- with the release Monday of its new M600 phone and messaging device, the second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone in the Sony Ericsson product line Features designed to entice corporate users on the go include new push e-mail applica...
The news that AOL and Yahoo are planning to roll out a certified e-mail delivery service based on partner company Goodmail Systems' CertifiedEmail methodology is leading some e-mail marketers and related providers of e-commerce services to conclude that a sea-change -- largely unwelcome -- is underway in their industry Paying for premium access to...
IBM has introduced a chipset technology that will take close-in wireless connectivity to the next stage, it claims, by leveraging higher-frequency radio spectrum to digitally transmit and receive 10 times faster than today'sWiFi The new silicon germanium technology allows the chipset to send and receive information in an unlicensed portion of the r...
Google has banned the GermanWeb site of automaker BMW after it was found to have manipulated thesearch engine's system to influence its rankings Google software engineer Matt Cutts disclosed in his blog that Google's so-called Webspam team had found that the pages that Google's Web crawlers saw when they looked at certain BMW pages were not the sam...
Tech heavyweight Google andSkype, a subsidiary ofeBay,have invested in a Europe-based startup that hopes to revolutionize the WiFi business, though it has yet to roll out a key part of its technology Google and Skype joined venture investors in pouring some US$21.6 million intoFon, a startup that went live about three months ago. Fon offers free Wi...
Microsoft has been promised a late April hearing in Europe's Court of First Instance for its appeal of the European Commission's antitrust sanctions. At the same time, the software giant has agreed to open its source code to competitors in the latest installment of its long-running dispute over how much proprietary information it should surrender under pressure from the Eurocrats...
Both Oracle and Siebel have developed a reputation for maintaining a hard line on pricing. Now that they are merging, buyers of CRM and related software are apprehensive about how the consolidation will affect pricing Some of the possibilities are not very pretty. In one bleak scenario, Oracle becomes even more rigid, causing CRM pricing to spike e...
A few years ago the music player device space was incredibly boring. The Sony Walkman CD player was the last big thing in music players, and it had long since become irrelevant. Products from RIO, which was going through a bankruptcy, and Creative Labs were anything but exciting. Then, from left field a PC company, Apple Computer, entered the marketplace with its iTunes MP3 players. The rest is history...
IT employees are starting to gain back some of the clout they had during the 1990s, as hiring in the technology field has accelerated during the last six quarters "A key component of the technology economy is IT employment, and it's going through a major transition," Joel Dibble, a spokesman for Menlo Park, Calif.-based Robert Half Technology, an ...
The Faustian bargains that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft felt compelled to make with the Chinese government in order to maintain access to its vaunted market are not likely to be broken on grounds they qualify as trade barriers In recent weeks, the Internet giants have come under fire from irate users and from some members of Congress -- namely the C...
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