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At a recent corporate event, Oracle provided much additional detail about integration and architecture plans for its Fusion project -- the company's strategy to deliver next-generation applications, middleware and architecture based on its recent acquisitions However, the CRM sector is still in the dark about the features and functionality that wi...
Sales of music through the Internet and via mobile phones skyrocketed to US$1.1 billion in 2005, up from $380 million the previous year with the figure expected to grow in 2006, according to the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) The IFPI's Digital Music Report 2006 revealed that music fans legally downloaded 420 million singl...
Philips Electronics on Thursday announced plans to acquire Lifeline Systems, a personal emergency medical services company Philips has offered approximiately US$750 million, or $47.75 per share to buy the firm. That's 21 percent higher than Lifeline's closing stock price of $39.49 on Wednesday. Lifeline's board of directors unanimously approved the...
Sales of personal computers posted strong growth in 2005, while Dell held onto the crown and captured more market share and the U.S. gave up its title as the largest single PC market, according to reports from two research firms Gartner said sales grew 15.3 percent in 2005, while IDC said growth for the year was 16.4 percent, edging out that firm's...
Wireless carriers and the United States government are looking to block individuals from obtaining, exposing and selling mobile phone calling records On Wednesday, Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) introduced legislation aimed at curbing the practice. The Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006 would create felony criminal penalties fo...
Booming sales of iPods helped Apple score another winning quarter, but a lowered outlook may be raising the stakes for the pending switch to Intel chips in the company's notebook and desktop computers Apple exceeded earnings expectations, posting a profit for its first quarter, which included the holiday period, of US$595 million, nearly double the...
Social networking Web sites used to be just about connections. Now they're ballooning into ecosystems where individuals can aggregate their lives. More evidence of that appeared Wednesday as an up-and-coming networking site called TagWorld added video services to its online repertoire "There are a lot of video sites out there," Evan Rifkin, preside...
Many Web businesses do not provide a compelling customer experience; some sites are simply unusable, while others fail to provide content, goods and services that match their customers' needs and expectations. To make matters worse, most e-tailers do a poor job of effectively assessing their customers' experiences. They fail to learn why their customers behave as they do, a step vital to mapping any strategy for improvement...
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) released what many expected to be a controversial first draft of the GNU General Public License version 3.0 on Monday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge Now it looks as though the draft may not actually be as controversial as some had speculated. In fact, it appears that the debate may...
Increasingly, users are working with cell phones and PDAs to access data. Because finding desired information can be a challenge, companies such as America Online, Google and Yahoo developed search services specifically geared to mobile users. "Mobile search is an area of keen interest to both users and vendors," stated Matthew Brown, a senior analyst with Forrester Research...
The last time Microsoft introduced a security service pack -- Windows Service Pack 2 in mid-2004 -- the market could hardly wait. Viruses, worms and other Internet malware were disrupting companies' and individuals' computer use on a regular basis When Microsoft finally unveiled the long-awaited fix, implementation problems, holes in the applicatio...
Microsoft has introduced an upgraded version of a product it quietly rolled out last year. Called Customer Care Framework 2005 (CCF), it is a desktop application for contact-center operators that provides customer-care information via e-mail, instant messaging, interactive voice response (IVR) and the partner-dealer channel For example, using such ...
Mobile PCs are becoming more competitive with their desktop cousins, thanks to larger hard-drive capacities. New perpendicular recording technology has allowedSeagate to sink a 160-GB drive, dubbed "Momentus," into the notebook form factor Seagate's 2.5-inch disc drive is closing the performance gap between desktops and notebook PCs, the company sa...
Buzz continues to grow around the prospect of watching television, movies and other valuable video programming on mobile phones and personal handheld devices, but it is still too soon to tell whether a solid marketplace will emerge for these services, considering the small screen size, bandwidth needs and likely costs involved Although no one reall...
Shares of Yahoo took a hit Wednesday, a day after the portal and search company reported earnings that, while up sharply from a year ago, fell short of expectations Some analysts wondered whether the overall strength of the Internet sector in the fourth quarter had been overstated in forecasts, while others suggested that Google -- which reports ea...
Motorola on Tuesday announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire a Swedish developer of Internet protocol-based digital set-top boxes Motorola will purchase open-source technology vendor Kreatel Communications, which provides a combination of set-top boxes, software and professional services aimed at offering stable and future-proof soluti...
Interest in surveys that purport to identify averages and norms is so great that the myths this type of research spawns are sometimes floated as sophisticated branding and marketing strategies Cures are invented, fads are nurtured, styles are crushed and dogmas are erected as though mandated by some newly discovered "truth." Sometimes psychological...
For many e-commerce companies, the temptation to revel in the success of the 2005 holiday season is a powerful one Many sites saw strong double-digit growth, with more shoppers than ever buying more online than ever before, helping to extend the e-commerce shopping season later than in the past. It all came with few, if any, complaints about the wa...
HP on Tuesday announced it has extended its agreement with JBoss to offer an expanded portfolio of open-source solutions and services customers can deploy within their existing data centers HP will now provide worldwide support services for the entire JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) of products on Linux, Windows and HP-UX 11i. HP also will...
Access to high-speed Internet can differ substantially between urban and rural dwellers, according to a new report by the Center for Rural Policy and Development The center, based in St. Peter, Minn., says people in rural areas have a harder time getting broadband access at competitive and reasonable prices....
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