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Real Simple Syndication (RSS) -- the technology used to create feeds of information directly to a user from Web sites and blogs -- is in its nascent stages of development, but it's one marketers should be taking a hard look at as a future vehicle for their wares Marketers who shun RSS now might reap unfavorable consequences in the future, according...
Microsoft announced in July it was stepping full force into the small- to mid-size business (SMB) market with a customer relationship management (CRM) product designed to fit into its Office software suite At the time, analysts said Microsoft was wise to take a bottom-up approach to the CRM office since the giants of CRM, Oracle and SAP, don't scal...
Last week I focused on Windows Vista and how things didn't look particularly good for that product, at least not right now. I also mentioned that neither Apple nor Linux was likely to be able to take advantage of a Microsoft stumble However, I didn't explain why, in addition, I was focused on the developed world and I have been reminded that in pl...
Financial institutions are deploying new authentication technologies -- like graphical watermarks -- to hamper hackers who can somehow slip past biometric and token technologies, experts tell TechNewsWorld "We've seen evidence of new Trojans that bypass most two-factor authentication devices -- e.g. tokens and biometrics -- by waiting for the user ...
The months of rumor and speculation about Amazon.com joining the digital music download business appear to be reaching a fever pitch and observers say it's only a matter of time before Amazon's music service debuts and makes a run at market leader Apple Amazon could not be reached for comment on the newest reports that it has such a service in the ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided today that telephone companies that offer high-speed Internet access do not have to share their wire lines with other DSL providers By classifying DSL as a information service, the FCC freed telecoms from federal telecommunications regulations. The Supreme Court had ruled earlier this year that ca...
Although F-Secure, a Finnish antivirus company, reports that it has discovered the first malicious code targeted at Microsoft's Windows Vista (formerly code-named Longhorn), the command shell the hacker cracked is not an integral part of the new operating system Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld that the five proo...
A new really simple syndication (RSS) feed aggregator from NewsGator touts the enterprise benefits of the blog form of communication, but analysts indicated RSS feeds have yet to substantially penetrate the corporate market However, RSS feeds -- increasingly popular with consumers seeking to cut through the overload of newsletters and get only the ...
In a move that might be a timely boost to its ability to compete head-on with Yahoo and MSN and others as a one-stop portal, America Online has said it bought online data storage and backup firm Xdrive for an undisclosed sum AOL said that with privately held Xdrive on board, it would be able to boost its ability to offer free and paid storage to us...
Lately, so much has been written about ever-increasing real estate prices. Can these prices just go on increasing? Or will they abruptly stop, and then fall precipitously? The experts are divided on whether or not the bubble will burst. However, one thing is certain: the price rise can't go on forever This article will look at the forces that drive...
The lack of trust in the accuracy, frequency and depth of financial reporting processes in companies has spawned a sizeable industry that has trust at its cornerstone. Sarbanes-Oxley's pain is the outsourcer's gain, and in this strengthening reciprocal relationship between the need for U.S. publicly held corporations to comply with SOX on the one hand versus fixing antiquated and broken processes that drain profits on the other, many companies are coming down in the middle, doing them both at the same time and outsourcing it...
Following the example of the United Kingdom, San Francisco officials have installed two surveillance cameras in a high-crime area. This popular trend is perhaps only the beginning of an "always on" surveillance society Compared with the 4.2 million cameras installed in the UK, San Francisco's two are perhaps laughable. Even so, they made mayor Gav...
Television and other applications for video over the Internet got a boost this week with the announcement that telecom provider Alcatel and customer management software maker Amdocs were joining forces on services for Internet protocol-based TV, or IPTV The companies said they were collaborating on a convergence solution combining Alcatel's suite o...
It's a modern parental dilemma: Should children have cell phones? Hectic schedules make it convenient to be able to reach your 10-year-old when he's at swimming lessons and you're stuck in traffic. But if you decide to go that route, is your child responsible and mature enough to use the phone correctly and appropriately? While a lot of that depend...
Bidding to capture a piece of a potentially lucrative vertical area of search, Yahoo has launched a test of an audio search engine that gives users the ability to comb through some 50 million audio files, from audio blogs and other spoken word programs to downloadable songs and albums The Yahoo Audio Search function draws from Yahoo's own network o...
The idealism behind the Mozilla Foundation -- established in 2003 as a non-profit corporation to promote open-source software -- is giving way this week to financial realism: The company has announced that it is launching a for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corp., to develop, market and distribute Mozilla products The developer of the Firefox brow...
Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall The issue arises because bloggers, many or most of them amateurs, often overdose on cut-and-paste editing, which can result in copyright violations, Paul Llewellyn, an attorney with Kaye Scholer in New Y...
If you ask Ranga Rangachari what the future looks like, he'll tell you it's wide open -- for open source, that is. Rangachari took over as president and CEO of GroundWork Open Source Solutions in July and is prophesying massive change in the enterprise software market. Specifically, he envisions an open-source enterprise GroundWork develops, integr...
Ethernet, the technology that currently dominates the desktop, is the most popular local area network, is prevalent in the data center and used in home networking, is now making inroads in the Wide Area Network (WAN). After an initial foray that failed for a number of reasons, carriers are using Ethernet to deliver high-speed connections, often dubbed Metropolitan Ethernet, to enterprises...
The idealism behind the Mozilla Foundation -- established in 2003 as a non-profit corporation to promote open-source software -- is giving way this week to financial realism: The company plans to hold a news conference later this afternoon, at 5 p.m. Pacific time at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON 2005) in Portland, Ore., to announce that it is launching a for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corp., to develop, market and distribute Mozilla products...
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