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Microsoft is calling "Shotgun!" as the software giant teams with automaker Fiat to feature its telematics applications designed for information and entertainment aboard new vehicles The companies' "Blue&Me" plans, to be detailed at the 2006 Geneva Motorshow later this month, provide drivers of new Fiat cars with wireless integration with mobile pho...
Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month The price is available only to first-time broadband users who are also telephone subscribers. After a year, the price will revert to market rates of about $2...
Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month The price is available only to first-time broadband users who are also telephone subscribers. After a year, the price will revert to market rates of about $2...
Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month The price is available only to first-time broadband users who are also telephone subscribers. After a year, the price will revert to market rates of about $2...
A Yankee Group survey, scheduled for release in mid-February, suggests a greater demand than previously thought for a hybrid software-as-a-service (SaaS) product To assess the effectiveness of sales and marketing, Yankee Group, in conjunction with WebSurveyor, recently polled 315 sales and marketing executives. The survey asked participants to iden...
Struggling automaker General Motors handed out billions of dollars worth of information technology outsourcing contracts, with Electronic Data Systems seen as the big winner even as its revenue from GM continues to slide. IBM and Hewlett-Packard also sealed major, multi-year deals EDS, which was a GM subsidiary for several years before being spun...
Consumer and corporate Windows users had the chance to reminisce about the good old days of computer malware as the latest worm, dubbed Kama Sutra, made its expected appearance on Feb. 3 The worm, which at least one computer security expert believes is the creation of a teenager bent on creating havoc on the Internet, was discovered two weeks ago, ...
Has it occurred to you that more and more foreign-made products are sold in the U.S.? The fact is, it has become almost impossible to avoid purchasing products that are made in China, Japan, Taiwan or other Far Eastern countries Even when it comes to services rendered, many of those emanate from outside the U.S. You may think you are calling an Ame...
I'm in the middle of doing a Web survey of SAP users to gauge their levels of satisfaction with theirenterprise resource planning vendor, and an interesting dynamic is starting to emerge More than any other factor, customer references influenced buyers to choose SAP, quelling their concerns about the potential risks involved in taking that step. In...
After a year of heading in the right direction, the California Public Utilities Commission veered off course last week when Commissioner Dian Grueneich initiated a dangerous move towards old command-and-control regulation. Grueneich claimed to be staking out a middle ground in her alternate plan to Commissioner Michael Peevey's outline for a California Telecommunications Bill of Rights...
Several major broadcast networks have turned to technology and Internet companies in recent months to put their programming on the Web, but now, CBS (NYSE: CBS) has announced that it will cut out the middle man with its new strategy The television network plans to make available downloadable episodes of some of its primetime programs, directly via ...
Cambridge, Mass., a city of about 100,000 people located just across the Charles River from Boston, is moving to become the latest U.S. metropolitan area entirely covered byWiFi wireless Internet access. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the major universities that call it home, said it would work with the city to bring Web access to all, including those living in public housing projects...
President Bush urged spending more federal funds to improve math and science programs in U.S. schools during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a call to action that won approval from private sector execs in the tech industry as well as science professors at universities "I generally think the schools do a decent job of preparing folks f...
After months of adverse court rulings in the U.S., Research in Motion (RIM) won a key decision from a patent court in the United Kingdom and may get help from the U.S. government in avoiding an abrupt shutdown of its BlackBerry mobile e-mail service In the UK, RIM said a patent court had ruled that patent claims made by a firm called InPro were not...
Now that the Earth has metaphorically become a flat, digitally formatted platform for the 'Net- and e-commerce-savvy to skate on, it's time for marketing to get circular. Marketing is now the enticing wrapper around a chocolate bar. Yummy Basically, these are the new rules: All aspects of marketing should be delivered to customers at their destinat...
After a slight hiatus during the holidays, malware writers returned with vigor to their malicious ways in January, creating thousands of new software nasties According to Sophos, an international malware-fighting firm with offices in Lynnfield, Mass., 2,312 pernicious programs were introduced last month. Anti-virus software maker McAfee pegs Januar...
With the frenzy of the November-December holiday crush still ringing in their ears, many merchants may be tempted to schedule vacations for late January and early February. Those that do so may be missing out on the chance to cash in on what could be the second busiest holiday season of the year Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and merchants ac...
More and more consumers -- not just twenty-somethings -- are interested in giving up their conventional landline telephone for a mobile phone According to the latest research from Boston-based Strategy Analytics, one in five mobile phone users in Western Europe would consider disconnecting their landline because they also own a mobile phone....
SAP and its partners plotted new mid-market strategies at the company's 2006 Field Kick-Off Meeting, or FKOM, which drew to a close in San Antonio, on Wednesday. In addition, SAP partners used the conference as a launchpad to introduce a slew of vertical and micro-vertical applications On Thursday, it is widely expected that SAP will roll out its h...
Microsoft has adopted new guidelines for deciding how to respond to a foreign or U.S. government request to shut down a blog The company has attracted withering criticism from the blogosphere ever since it complied with the Chinese government's demand several weeks ago to deny access to the Microsoft network to a popular blogger in China....
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