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Each e-mail that you send makes a statement. Every recipient of your e-mails forms an impression of you -- either a good one or a bad one -- and, in some cases, all without even having met you. Since this is the reality, why not make sure that your e-mails, especially business e-mails, are professional and articulate? There are some major errors th...
Often overlooked and considered inferior in the past, so close to greatness yet so robbed of it, called focused to the point of being boring, at times rocked with controversy, and when considered seriously, always in a discounted way due to some statistical controversy, the parallels between SAP's CRM business and the Boston Red Sox are just too strong to ignore. Add in the fact the Red Sox are the World Champions, in part due to acquiring talent, but more by making the team dynamic work, and the allegory is complete. With Oracle's big news this week, the rivalry between Oracle and SAP in CRM now compares to one of sport's all-time best rivalries, the New York Yankees versus the Boston Red Sox...
The world's oldest person is 115 years old, and while that might seem impressive, it's only the beginning. Advances in technology are poised to usher in longer and better life spans, a reality the general public has been slow to notice and the subject of a conference this weekend at Stanford University Sponsored by the Institute for Accelerating C...
Microsoft won't really gain much of a competitive advantage by getting a jump on its game console rivals Sony and Nintendo, one analyst said today as the software giant announced the hardware's official release dates The Redmond, Wash.-based behemoth announced today that it would release the Xbox 360 in the United States on Nov. 22, just in time fo...
Microsoft may be facing the same kind of dominance it owns on the desktop as it looks to further draw developers to its latest software for graphic design and animation, where Adobe and Macromedia own the bulk of the market However, industry observers are quick to point out the benefits of Microsoft's integration of design software with its operati...
The portal world was abuzz today after published and broadcast reports linked both Google and Microsoft to possible acquisitions or partnerships with America Online Time Warner, America Online's parent company, has been known to be weighing various options for cutting AOL loose from the company that it actually bought back in 1999. A possible spino...
Hard drive maker Seagate Technology yesterday announced the acquisition of a company that provides networked digital content protection products for the home and small business markets. Mirra, Inc. is set to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed Mirra products are designed to streamline documen...
Computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have uncovered a new security threat: a simple audio recording of keyboard clicks could betray the text you just entered, from passwords to secret love notes They are calling it "acoustical spying." Researchers were able to take several 10-minute sound recordings of users typing at a ke...
Baidu.com, the search company billed as the Chinese version of Google, saw its stock price take a huge hit this week after two major investment banks that helped underwrite its August initial public offering cautioned that recent share price run-ups were not supported by fundamentals Both Piper Jaffray and Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock yesterd...
After years of promising, Google has come through with a blog search engine -- google.com/blogsearch or search.blogger.com. As it usually does, Google is offering the new service in beta. (Google News has been in beta since its release in September 2002.) The engine indexes only the content published through RSS feeds, not the full text of the blog...
As you read this article, what other things have you been doing online? Sending e-mail? Reading news? Writing a blog? It would be ego-centric of me to presume that the only reason you are online is to read this article. In fact, you probably found this article as the result of other things you were doing online, like browsing this Web site or reading e-mail...
On Monday, Oracle announced its US$5.85 billion acquisition of Siebel Systems, its largest competitor and tag-team vendor to many of its customers The acquisition came as no surprise to industry experts, although the timing of it preceded some experts' expectations. "We were actually a bit surprised Oracle did this deal as soon as it did," says AMR...
College has always represented a degree of independence -- free from parents, free from the constraints of childhood, and sometimes free from the "real world" of work, but U.S. campuses are also increasingly representing independence from wires, with mobile phones and notebook computers becoming as popular and prevalent as books and beer Major wire...
In a move to compete against video search powerhouses, Truveo today came to market with a beta offering of its own. The technology is two years in the making and its emboldened architects are confident that it's ready for prime time The California upstart is claiming that its new video search engine delivers higher quality and more up-to-the-minute...
Cisco Systems has unveiled networking software and services that it says will make the implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions more cost-effective for enterprises The new products include middleware solutions meant to help integrate RF solutions into existing Cisco networks and make Cisco just the latest technology company...
After years of promising, Google has come through with a blog search engine -- google.com/blogsearch or search.blogger.com. As it usually does, Google is offering the new service in beta. (Google News has been in beta since its release in September 2002.) The engine indexes only the content published through RSS feeds, not the full text of the blog...
Airgo Networks today announced its third generation True MIMO chipset with support for data rates up to 240 Mbps. The company said its technology makes wire-free offices a reality Like its earlier generation products, Airgo's third generation chipset is based on MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output), the "spatial multiplexing" technology invented ...
In a move to enter a realm dominated by Research in Motion (RIM), Nokia today unveiled software for delivering corporate e-mail to mobile devices Dubbed Nokia Business Center, the application consists of server-side software and a choice of two different device clients. The Java-based client software is designed to work with Nokia's 9300 and 9500 C...
A year after Asian mobile carriers first launched them widely, consumers are still not rushing to adopt systems that enable mobile phones to be used as electronic payment devices NTT DoCoMo launched a wallet phone service in its native Japan last year and more carriers have announced plans to follow suits in key Asian markets. Meanwhile, MasterCard...
Anti-spyware and other security software makers are saying the butler did it, claiming search player Ask Jeeves is installing software on users' machines without properly notifying them or confirming their consent The issue has caused questions about whether the software and features Ask Jeeves is delivering its users is adware, spyware or otherwar...
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