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Google has streamlined its Toolbar and rolled out a new product, Toolbar for Enterprise, tailored to the corporate environment. Both versions, which are still in beta, give users new options to customize their search The added features include customizable buttons, online bookmarks, new sharing capabilities and an open application program interfac...
The characters in the wildly popular, extremely violent and graphically explicit video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" face crackdowns from police and other authorities responding to their evil doings Now the real life backers of the game are facing a crackdown of their own. The City of Los Angeles is suing Take-Two Interactive (NYSE: TTWO) an...
Don't count America Online out of the broadband Internet access business just yet. Despite its focus on new offerings, the media giant on Friday announced plans to expand its broadband network coast-to-coast AOL will partner with BellSouth, Time Warner and Verizon (NYSE: VZ), as well as other major DSL suppliers, to complete its broadband mission.
Be especially wary of unsolicited e-mails claiming to contain obscene pictures and sex movies this week. The W32/Nyxem worm is set to trigger its data-destroying payload on February 3 The W32/Nyxem-D worm -- also known as "Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi," "Blackworm," "W32.Blackmal.E@mm," or "Grew." -- can spread via e-mail using a variety of pornographic ...
When the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was originally passed in 2002, many companies were less than enthusiastic about it. Concerns about the additional accountability and the internal changes that would need to take place weighed heavily on the minds of many company executives. These concerns turned out to be well founded. Some companies struggled to make the deadlines, and others missed them completely. Reasons included the high cost and enormous effort involved. In some cases, department directives were even changed to focus on meeting compliance...
Last week I was in Monte Carlo to speak at a conference for distributors in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Traditionally these regions have been referred to as "emerging markets," but with sales in the tens of billions of dollars and growth rates in the high double digits, I think it's safe to say they have already emerged to some degree Peo...
New research by the Arlington, Mass.-based Cutter Consortium indicates that business requirements for IT and even management trends appear to be increasingly driven by IT innovations in the marketplace, not the other way around, as traditionally believed A copy of the research from Cutter's senior consultant Helen Pukszta was provided to TechNewsWo...
Microsoft's offer on Wednesday to make its Windows Server source code available under license in order to comply with EU antitrust laws may not be enough to satisfy officials Neelie Kroes, the European Union competition commissioner, made statements the day after Microsoft's announcement that appeared to question how valuable the concession actuall...
Siebel, it is clear, has been on a tear to close out what is likely to be its last quarter as an independent company as strongly as possible The CRM software vendor reported late Wednesday that its fourth-quarter total revenues were US$469 million, up 35 percent sequentially, and up 19 percent year over year. License revenues for the quarter were $...
Sony is telling its robotic dog Aibo, as well as the rest of its robotics program, to lie down and play dead as the electronics giant continues to cut projects and products in search of profitability Although the robot dog and Sony's bi-pedal Qrio robots gained some traction among consumers, mostly in the Asian market, they failed to win continuati...
Yahoo and Linksys on Thursday said they have developed a new plug-in that allows people to stream music from Yahoo Music on a PC to their home stereo. The transfer is made possible using Linksys' Wireless-G Music Bridge The software is integrated into both the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge and the Yahoo Music Engine. The Yahoo Music Engine allows...
In a move that could lead to a dramatic drop in online cigarette sales, Philip Morris said it reached an agreement with 37 state attorneys general to limit the availability of online tobacco products by shutting off distributors believed to have illegally sold the products in the past The agreement requires new protocols to be established to contro...
EMC on Thursday introduced a new suite of storage and virtualization solutions for the enterprise. EMC hopes its new product lineup will help customers bring more of their information together for improved economics and management The new solutions are designed to extend the benefits of information lifecycle management (ILM) to more applications an...
Sales of server products powered Microsoft to a more profitable second quarter as the software giant beat Wall Street expectations for earnings, while supply restrictions on the Xbox 360 were seen contributing to a near-miss on the revenue side Microsoft said income rose to US$3.65 billion, up from $3.46 billion a year ago, while sales climbed 9.4 ...
The mantra of selling solutions has taken enterprise software by storm and nowhere is this more prevalent than CRM. Honestly, it seems like the more challenging and difficult it is to sell into specific sectors of CRM, the more "solution-selling" is being invoked. This newfound religion is truly transforming some companies away from being purely product-centric to being problem-centered on their customers' broken business processes first. The most positive aspect of solution selling's prevalence among the best-of-breed CRM community is that it is starting to make a difference...
Google recently created a public-relations firestorm when it unveiled a new search site in China that censors data on behalf of the Chinese government. Though the search giant's success stems from its birth in a free country, that doesn't mean the company is strong enough to enforce freedom around the world Many Americans were horrified to learn t...
Silicon Valley's current enfants terrible -- Google's brilliant duo -- have given the global populace wings to soar over towns and cities, and the flights include everything except peanuts. Fasten your seat belts Consider these two observations:...
Microsoft has formed Live Labs, a new research partnership meant to jump-start its Windows Live initiative by investigating new Internet-centric technologies and products that offer commercial possibilities Windows Live is a free ad-supported service that helps users develop their own online desktop applications, such as calendars, e-mail and insta...
The world's biggest chip company is taking its technology smaller, announcing this week it has hit the 45-nanometer (nm) milestone with its "next-generation, high-volume" semiconductor manufacturing process Intel is on track to create chips smaller than the current 65-nm and 90-nm variety by next year, equipping them with more transistors for great...
The Internet and e-mail help to expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the offline world, according to a new report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project The report, "The Strength of Internet Ties," highlights how e-mail supplements, rather than replaces, the communication people have with others in their...
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