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Microsoft owns the majority of the collaborative platform software market, but that is not stopping it from trying to grab additional share away from its nearest rival, IBM The software giant has announced the availability of a suite of new and updated tools to help IBM customers "analyze" whether their existing Notes/Domino application environment...
Wireless carriers including Sprint and Verizon and a slew of enthusiastic advertisers are poised to boost their efforts to market to mobile phone users this spring, prompting many to contemplate the annoyance factor of what could result in more ringing, banner ads on handsets and targeted text messages However, industry observers agree that with so...
Salesforce.com has made a newly expanded version of the AppExchange -- a platform that extends its CRM suite to other business lines -- generally available with its Winter '06 release. The AppExchange connects users with new applications developed by such third-party vendors as Adobe, Business Objects and Skype Introduced last September on a limite...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cast a preliminary vote in favor of new rules that would force public companies to more fully report how much top executives are being paid, with everything from stock grants and bonuses to non-cash perks subject to disclosure The five-member commission held a meeting Tuesday to discuss the issue and vot...
Google has agreed to acquire Newport Beach, Calif.-based dMarc, which develops digital applications for the radio broadcast industry, for US$102 million in cash DMarc connects advertisers directly to radio stations through its automated advertising platform. Its technology is designed to simplify the sales process, scheduling, delivery and reportin...
The offices of Japanese Web services firm Livedoor Co. were raided by investigators Monday night, sending the company's shares into a nosedive and prompting a reassuring message from company leadership, while potentially casting a new light on other Japanese Internet companies as well Livedoor issued a statement saying allegations that it violated ...
A bill to place copying controls on the conversion of analog signals into digital form is coming under fire from technologists and civil libertarians The measure, filed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and his colleague John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), is aimed at closing what's come to be known as the "analog hole...
IT vendors -- from RFID tech providers to supply chain management software companies -- have descended upon the National Retail Federation's 95th annual convention and expo in New York City to show off their latest applications and technologies In the CRM space, vendors such as SAS Institute and Epicor are highlighting the latest deployments in bus...
If corporate managers have Sarbanes-Oxley compliance to blame for late nights and lost sleep, those in the livestock and poultry industries have plenty of compliance worries of their own, triggered by NAIS, which stands for the National Animal Identification System NAIS is a multi-year, phased-in project that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is d...
Microsoft is establishing a research center called adLab that will develop new ways to provide even more detailed demographic data about consumers, as well as new marketing technologies, to online advertisers AdLab, which is a joint effort of MSN's adCenter and Microsoft Research, is located at a state-of-the-art lab in Beijing staffed by more than...
European leaders' call for European competition to U.S. search and software giants such as Google, MSN and Yahoo is now being answered by some of the continent's largest media and technology companies, which are reportedly collaborating on a multinational, multimedia search project French President Jacques Chirac recently referred to the need for s...
Portable devices helped offset weak sales of gaming consoles and drove the video game industry to record sales in the United States last year, according to a report from the NPD Group The research firm said sales hit US$10.5 billion, up nearly 7 percent from last year and eclipsing the previous high-water mark of $10.3 billion set in 2002....
Apparently eyeing the worn pathway from enterprise technology to the consumer marketplace, Cisco Systems is said to be mulling a plan to produce electronics and related products for home use The Financial Times reported that Cisco is on the brink of rolling out a range of Web-connected products, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telepho...
The Free Software Foundation is releasing the long-awaited first draft of GNU General Public License Version 3 today at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass Legal experts are already wrangling over the possible revisions to the most popular open-source license in the world. About two-thirds of all open-source licenses fall ...
One twentieth of a second. That's about how long it takes for a Web site to make a first impression on an Internet user, according to researchers at a Canadian university, whose findings could have competitive impacts for businesses on the Web Dr. Gitte Lindgaard and colleagues from Carleton University's Human-Oriented Technology Lab in Ottawa appr...
Mainsoft last week announced it is working with IBM to extend the Linux ecosystem. Specifically, the companies want to help Microsoft customers migrate to the open-source operating system The program is designed to allow Windows Web and server applications to run on Linux across IBM's line of eServer platforms supporting IBM WebSphere Application S...
New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into "zombies" each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet has increased by 50 percent during the last two months Experts tell TechNewsWorld that over the last six months, CipherTrust's "global threat correlation engine" had been ide...
Siebel Systems has pre-announced sales that vastly surpassed its own and Wall Street's expectations: It said it expects to report fourth quarter revenue of US$469 million -- a 30 percent to 38 percent increase from its last forecast, and a 20 percent rise from the same quarter a year ago License revenue for the period is expected climb 33 percent t...
Setting the stage for a bruising battle for paid search supremacy with Google and others, Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on its MSN adCenter system, which will offer a self-service, targeted way to buy pay-per-click search advertising Microsoft said its adCenter would be ready in the U.S. by June, with extensive tests now ongoing in the...
Nikon on Wednesday said it would stop making most of its film camera products in favor of its digital line Nikon's digital lineup has become an increasingly successful part of its business over the past seven years. In fact, digital cameras make up more than 95 percent of Nikon's UK business....
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