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When Oracle agreed early in September to buy former rival Siebel Systems for US$5.85 billion, some questioned how long Siebel would continue its CRM OnDemand service. That question came to light because Oracle rival IBM plays a big role in the on-demand service. Yesterday, Siebel responded with the announcement of the latest edition of its CRM Professional Edition software, which contains tight integration to CRM OnDemand...
Sun Microsystems and Google today announced a multi-year deal to promote each other's software, a deal seen by many as the possible groundwork for a direct attack on Microsoft's market dominance in the desktop productivity software space Under the terms, financial terms of which were not disclosed, Google will make Sun's Java Runtime Environment te...
Motorola will tap Microsoft's platform to enhance its emergency services software applications, the company announced today The Microsoft-Motorola alliance will provide marketing and development support to deliver a rapid incident management solution for law enforcement, first responder and criminal justice customers....
Like a film that fantasizes what would happen if the other side won the war, AOL's Netscape browser won a huge distribution deal with HP this week, putting the challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer on the PC giant's North American notebook and desktop computers beginning next year The deal is not fiction, though, as Netscape has emerged renew...
Further honing its focus on video search and making a play to become a hub of Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), Blinkx has launched a service that lets users upload video blogs that can then be searched by the public and gives users the ability to control video they find through online searches My Blinkx.tv also lets users create "channels" of video con...
Symantec has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquirean agent-less IT security compliance software company in a US$209 millionall-cash transaction Symantec said the acquisition of BindView Development Corporation wouldallow it to offer customers an end-to-end solution for policy compliance andvulnerability management with a ch...
Hewlett-Packard today swooped in to pick up what's left of blade pioneer RLX Technologies, which had been reduced to a licenser of its blade management software, the RLX Control Tower for Linux. Terms of the deal were not announced RLX had been first in the market with blades, or thin servers meant to be stacked and networked, but the startup was u...
Among a business's greatest assets is the information it collects, but only if it can sort through and present that information in a timely fashion Enterprises collect millions if not billions of bits of data on customers, products and suppliers. Beyond merely storing the data, they must decide which information is important and how to organize it ...
In the Wireless LAN (WLAN) market, thin is in. Faced with declining unit growth and falling product prices in the consumer market, vendors have focused on boosting their sales to enterprises. While this strategy has merit, it has meant that they have had to redesign their wares Consumers are content with "fat" access points, devices that function a...
Yahoo has put its money behind a team effort to bulk up the amount of valuable content available on the Web. The search engine company will foster the Open Content Alliance, a consortium set up to digitize materials in the public domain, such as classic books, and those published under the less-restrictive Creative Commons license Yahoo also said i...
United Kingdom-based music act managers are seeking to pressure Apple on royalty payments, saying too little of the proceeds from each song download is actually reaching the artists that created the songs Members of the UK chapter of the Music Managers Forum met today to launch a public awareness campaign aimed at getting a larger share of each son...
IBM today said it has formed a joint agreement with Univa Corporation, acommercial software and professional services provider for open-sourceGlobus software Under the terms of the agreement, Univa will deliver a commerciallysupported andenterprise-ready release of open-standard software built around the GlobusToolkit for use across IBM's eServer p...
The lines continue to take shape and blur as technology companies throw their weight behind the competing HD-DVD and Blu-ray high-definition DVD formats, while also hedging their bets by declaring a willingness to support either or both next-generation discs The recent jockeying has included: Microsoft and Intel endorsing HD-DVD; Dell, Hewlett-Pack...
Low-cost general use PCs are becoming a reality with recent announcementsfrom the MIT Media Lab and AMD. Chipmaker AMD began peddling a US$299 PC designed for emerging markets at U.S. Radio Shack stores over the weekend AMD launched the the Personal Internet Communicator (PICs) in India about ayear ago with high hopes of connecting 50 percent of th...
Sales of digital music soared during the first half of 2005, nearly tripling over 2004 levels, but weren't quite robust enough to help the music industry see overall growth, according to sales figures from international music trade group IFPI Worldwide, music sales for the first six months of this year were US$13.2 billion, a 1.9 percent decrease o...
Companies allocate significant resources to customer satisfaction measurement and improvement Wayne Hoyer, chairman of the marketing department at University of Texas-Austin's McCombs School of Business, says satisfaction with product or service quality has a strong and positive impact on customers' willingness to pay. In fact, the longer customers...
Two historic events occurred last week that have the potential to change the future of personal computing. The first, and probably the most dramatic, was Palm adopting the Windows Mobile platform for its market-leading Treo communicator. The second, while less dramatic, is nearly as powerful: that was AMD rolling out stable platforms with both Nvidia and ATI...
A number of government-led plans are under consideration to rebuild the telecommunications infrastructure in the Gulf Coast, which was badly damaged by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina -- and experts tell TechNewsWorld that technologies from mesh networks to smart radios are likely to be deployed there The United States needs a more "comprehensive" emer...
Looking to fend off competition from Internet-based entertainment providers and others, DirecTV and XM Satellite radio have signed a deal to offer subscribers of DirecTV access to streaming radio offerings of XM The two satellite-based companies said starting in mid-November DirecTV subscribers will be able to receive 72 of XM's channels as part of...
What do you get when you combine two of the hottest consumer electronics technologies and put them into a single device? It's the WiFi digital camera, according to Kodak The company claimed it was first to release such a device, dubbed Easyshare-One, a 4 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom digital camera capable of connecting to the Internet or PC for photo...
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