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Following the footsteps of rivals and possibly laying the groundwork for new marketing channels, Google has added RSS and Atom content feeds to its news search product -- which has been in beta form for the better part of two years Google added RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom feed links to the left side of the pages that appear when a user...
To change or not to change, that's the big question. A very large number of corporations, big and small, are faced with the question of how and when they should bite the bullet and change their name or whether they should simply do nothing. Why? Sometimes -- and more often it is like an underground movement -- almost the entire staff whispers about...
As a provider of office furniture to enterprises of all sizes, Haworth, a company with US$1.4 billion in sales to businesses around the world, knew it could benefit by improving its use of e-commerce technology in order to gain efficiency through automation After all, many of Haworth's customers, for whom the Holland, Mich.-based company designs, b...
What do you do if you need to prove your software is virtually hack-proof? Well, you could always hire a renowned former hacker to attempt to foil the system and mount a successful phishing attack That's just what 41st Parameter did....
A rumored deal whereby Yahoo would purchase a US$1 billion stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba is highlighting the efforts by U.S. companies, also including eBay and Google, to get deeper into the Chinese market. This difficult endeavor includes issues of resistance to foreign investment and local competition, as well as censorship and human rights concerns...
E*Trade Financial today announced its second acquisition in as many days, scooping up an investment advisory firm in a deal that augments its much larger, US$700 million buy of Harrisdirect E*Trade did not disclose the purchase price it will pay for Boston-area-based Kobren Insight Management, a registered investment advisor that handles some $1 bi...
Two advertisers have filed a lawsuit against Google, saying the search giant did not live up to its promise to cap the amount of charges advertisers could incur in any given day The suit was filed in the Superior Court of California in Santa Clara County and seeks class action status, which would enable all other AdWords customers -- potentially hu...
A spyware ring has infiltrated the IT systems of as many as 50 international banks and logged social security numbers, credit card and bank account numbers, passwords, eBay and PayPal account information and chat transcripts, according to the security firm Sunbelt Software The anti-spyware manufacturer's president wrote in the company blog that it ...
In an effort to capture share of the low-end, open-source Java application server market, IBM announced at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco today that it will provide support services for the open-source Apache Geronimo J2EE application server Called IBM Support for Apache Geronimo, the support services will be available in the third quar...
Virtual infrastructure software vendor VMware yesterday made competitive moves against rivals Microsoft and the open-source Xen project with new partnerships and shared source code announcements VMware announced it is working with AMD, BEA Systems, BMC Software, Broadcom, Cisco, Computer Associates International, Dell, Emulex, HP, IBM, Intel, Mella...
Web services provider Affinity Internet launched a service today that allows small businesses to target online advertising to Web searchers in specific geographic areas As its name suggests, Value Traffic Local localizes online advertising efforts to ensure businesses that primarily serve local customers aren't paying for a broader reach....
IBM Research will turn over its data search technology to the open-source community, the company said yesterday. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) searches store data not through keywords, but by analyzing the data within documents to see if they fit the concepts and facts the user is researching It will be made available ...
Another sign that e-commerce has come of age appeared yesterday as JupiterResearch predicted online advertising would reach US$18.9 billion by 2010 -- almost double last year's gross of $9.6 billion Much of that revenue growth will be stoked by search engine advertising, which garnered 40 percent of online ad sales in 2004, compared to 27 percent f...
AOL, the Internet company struggling to shed its desktop days and move further into the more profitable mobile and wireless industry, continued its mobile-by-acquisition strategy this week, announcing it was acquiring handset software maker Wildseed Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but AOL made no secret of its intention to use the company, al...
A sales manager once told me her secret to success. Whenever preparing for a meeting, she would always conduct research on where the prospect went to college. She would find out which school the prospect attended, and then leveraged that information by using it to make a connection during her meeting. She even had two separate teams to bring to the prospect, since she was based in Texas and many of these prospects attended either the University of Texas or Texas A & M...
Corporations' reliance on e-mail systems to circulate information has grown exponentially, but their ability to sort, retain, and locate e-mail messages has not evolved as quickly. "In many organizations, few procedures are in place that outline how to manage e-mail correspondences, and often companies can not quickly locate important messages," noted Dan Blum, group research director at market research firm Burton Group...
AOL, the Internet company struggling to shed its desktop days and move further into the more profitable mobile and wireless industry, continued its mobile-by-acquisition strategy this week, announcing it was acquiring handset software maker Wildseed Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but AOL made no secret of its intention to use the company, al...
IBM Research will turn over its data search technology to the open source community, the company said today. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) searches store data not through keywords, but by analyzing the data within documents to see if they fit the concepts and facts the user is researching It will be made available thro...
Seeking to keep pace with rivals in a rapidly consolidating industry, E*Trade Financial will buy Harrisdirect for US$700 million in cash E*Trade said the purchase of Harrisdirect, an online-only brokerage owned by the BMO Financial Group -- parent company of the Bank of Montreal -- would be "highly accretive" to its earnings going forward, worth as...
Shares of Cisco Systems and Nokia were both trading higher today after reports that Cisco was weighing a move to take over all or part of the mobile equipment maker in a bid to boost its ability to provide both fixed wire-line and wireless services to its stable of enterprise customers Neither company would comment on the reports, which originated ...
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