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Bidding to grab market share from both iTunes and Napster, RealNetworks today said it would launch an upgrade of its Rhapsody subscription music service that allows users to listen to songs they download on portable MP3 players The new version of Rhapsody is just the second subscription-style service -- after Napster To Go -- that enables users to ...
Microsoft and SAP announced today they are working to build a program -- code named "Mendocino" -- to link together Microsoft's Word office suite with SAP's enterprise software, a move that analysts say could have a profound effect on the entire market "The possibility of a close relationship between SAP and Microsoft carries all kinds of weighty i...
Has India's information technology (IT) outsourcing boom peaked? There have been predictions that India will lose most of its outsourcing firms in the next two years. IT industry wages in India reportedly rose an average of 12 percent in 2004 and are projected to increase by another 15 percent in 2005 New outsourcing destinations have been receivin...
For open-source software developers, coding is the easy part. Trying to find the right open-source license is where things get painful. It's like standing in line at Starbucks trying to decide whether to buy latte or mocha. Soy milk or regular? Tall or grande? Don't even get me started on ice cream. Baskin Robbins wants us to believe they only have "31" flavors. The real number is over 1000...
Municipal wireless networks are generating a great deal of controversy lately, compelling some state legislatures to seek to outlaw them. The reason for the public policy power play at state houses? Powerful wireless service providers and cable companies are lobbying behind the scenes, in states like Florida, to stop the local governments from creating free wireless and WiFi networks when they have millions of customers who are still perfectly willing to pay for services...
In an April 20 report, Rafael Fernandez, the Recording Industry Association of America's VP of Latin music, declared: "We know that more than any other genre, Latin music is the most heavily pirated." The Big Four record labels' RIAA claims P2P file sharing is wreaking havoc with sales, causing terrible hardships to workers and forcing it to drasti...
Fresh from its latest blockbuster earnings report, Google Inc. has set its sights on expanding its reach in the online advertising realm by going after a potentially massive revenue opportunity -- companies that are more interested in using the Web to create brand awareness than in getting users to click to their Web sites Google said it had begun ...
Touting support from hardware makers and a new crop of hardware drivers, Microsoft this week announced its Windows XP operating system is finally making the move to 64-bit computing The software giant announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle today that it would ship 64-bit versions of Windows server and desktop s...
The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) is heading up an effort to develop a rating and filtering system for mobile content The wireless industry trade group is launching the initiative amid the growing interest that the adult entertainment industry, including Playboy, Hustler and Wicked Wireless, has shown in providing mobile...
Tenebril, Inc., a security and privacy solutions company founded in 1998, announced today an award of US$6.5 million in Series A funding and the hiring of industry veteran Irfan Salim as the company's new CEO The new funding and management change are part of Tenebril's plan to expand its foothold in the enterprise and consumer intrusion protection ...
There are many CRM solutions that track click-throughs, e-mail responses or track ads, but Manticore Technology today released a solution that does all three and takes that a step further to the generation of sales leads. The leads are discovered by organizing information from online marketing campaigns The company, an application service provider ...
Less than six months after hanging out a for-sale sign, DoubleClick has agreed to be sold and taken private by a buyout firm that hopes to be able to squeeze more value out of one of the leading online advertising firms San Francisco-based Hellman & Friedman agreed to pay US$8.50 per share, or about $1.1 billion, for New York-based DoubleClick. San...
Opera Software CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner said he would swim from Norway to the United States if one million copies of the company's latest browser were downloaded within four days of the April 19 launch Start looking along the shorelines. After reaching 600,000 downloads in the first 48 hours, Opera 8 has exceeded expectations with 1,050,000 downloa...
When Richard Humphrey, chief executive officer of Arts4All, began searching for his nitch on the Internet, he started Master Vision, delivering video conferencing services over the Internet. Now he is forging Arts4All as a vehicle for bridging the gap between content online and technology Based in New York City, Arts4All is a leading provider of di...
The wireless industry is mounting a very public defense for a controversial application of "contactless smart cards" while a number of consumer groups and privacy advocates have decried the technology as potentially invasive of personal privacy Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said at a conference in Chicago this mo...
Apple currently enjoys a market position that they haven't had since the beginning of the PC era. I often wonder if the Microsoft folks chuckle about the problems Apple is having as a result, problems that Microsoft has enjoyed for some time When you dominate a segment, like Apple does with the iPod, you can have the most reliable product but be se...
As wireless technology gains popularity, network security issues continue to multiply. However, wireless connectivity isn't the only major concern for IT managers; corporate workers pose heightened threats from within enterprise structures One of the most productive -- and abused -- communication tools in the workplace is instant messaging. IM appl...
The electronics giants who have battled for years over the next-generation DVD format appeared to be moving to avert a war this week, with Sony and Toshiba -- promoting different high-definition DVD formats known as Blu-ray and HD DVD, respectively -- leading an effort to come together Today, Panasonic and Philips jumped into the mix as well, addi...
In a move to woo Microsoft and HP customers, Sun Microsystems released an update to its Java-based business application suite Sun Java Enterprise System (JES) Release 3, its flagship enterprise infrastructure software, is available for US$140 per employee per year. The enhanced version provides multi-platform support for major commercial operating ...
Linux creator Linus Torvalds unveiled a new Linux control tool to manage his software project on Wednesday. Dubbed Git, the tool will replace a management system called BitKeeper sold by a company called BitMover ...
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