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After resisting pressure from advocacy groups and attorneysgeneral for more than a year, Craigslist has decided to permanently remove its adult services section from its online classified ads in the United States.Elsewhere around the world, the section will remain live The site closed the section at the beginning of the month, but it wasunclear abo...
The team that created Diaspora, the open source social network launched earlier this year to take on Facebook, released their source code on Thursday, as promised "This is now a community project, and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control," reads a note on the...
Will Stephen Elop, the new Nokia CEO, be able to turn the company around? That is the question. It all depends on what he does -- this is a big job. He has to focus on transforming not only the technology, but also the brand. He has to reinvent Nokia's image in the mind of the customer. Will it work? Will Nokia be able to re-energize with new leadership, or is it in the process of passing the torch to the next generation of competitors? ...
Social media's explosion over the last few years has had some obvious implications for CRM. At first, as in every new thing in CRM, the implications for sales were appreciated first (although they have yet to be fully realized). However, this time around, there are other forces at work -- namely, economic forces. There aren't that many new custome...
Microsoft on Wednesday released the open beta version of Internet Explorer 9, a browser tightly integrated with Windows 7 and designed to fend off the rising threat of Google's Chrome browser and other competitors The version unveiled Wednesday is by far the most complete look most people will have yet at this version of Microsoft's browser. Earlie...
SAP has stepped up its analytics offerings with the launch of a family of industry-specific BusinessObjects applications, many of which were co-designed with users SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott introduced the analytic offerings at DEMO Fall 2010 on Tuesday, joined by a slew of early adopter customers who discussed their experiences with the tools....
Twitter is revamping its Web page so that users will actually stay on the site. With its reliance on 140-character messages that typically link to other content, Twitter's model was tailor made to send users elsewhere The design changes and new partnerships with content providers are meant to keep users at the site longer -- and hopefully draw in m...
Intel on Tuesday announced it's taking its AppUp app store out of beta, just eight months after announcing the portal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January The store has 450,000 users, Intel claims. Developers must use the AppUp software development kit, and apps can only run on computers with Intel Atom processors. Developers ca...
HTC rolled out two new Android phones for the European and Asian markets on Wednesday, as well as an update to its Sense user interface and a new online service featuring remote phone locate and wipe services The Desire HD is similar to the Evo model the company released in North America this year. The Desire Z shares similarities with the T-Mobile...
It appears that Google is about to take on social networking stalwart Facebook in stages. The company's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt told reporters at an Arizona conference Tuesday that Google plans to gradually introduce social networking features beginning this fall. Google intends to add layers of social networking apps to its sites rather than...
Following the lead of one of its parent companies, Verizon Wireless is preparing to launch an Android app store under its V Cast label More information about the launch will become available next week at the company's developer conference, Verizon spokesperson Debi Lewis said, but she added it's been in the works since the company opened the V Cas...
As the summer comes to an end, most people are thinking about the back-to-school season, but retailers around the world are already focusing on the winter holiday season ahead. They're assessing inventory and developing marketing strategies, aiming to steer more traffic to their e-commerce sites. They're also looking for ways to improve their site...
In a Ted Talk from 2004 that I watched a the other day, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Howard Moskowitz. You might recall the New Yorker writer made a name for himself with the publication of The Tipping Point and several other works that focus on the unpredictable things that people do in the course of normal lives. Gladwell's Ted Talk gave me an insight about CRM...
Audacity, an open source multitrack audio editor, has versions for Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows. If all you do with audio files is play them, then Audacity could be much more than you need. This is not an application for organizing your music collection It has no fancy search and play functions. Sure, you can use it to listen to your music collect...
The use of smartphones as business tools has reached a tipping point. Soon, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide. As a result, employees will look less to corporate IT as a source of technical leadership. As mobile phones provide cutting-edge smartphone technology, employees will look to consumer-oriented vendors that cater to their own needs rather than those of their employers...
The revolving door is spinning fast at Nokia, as the company tries to reposition itself to compete with a wave of new smartphones including Apple's iPhone and a bevy of Android-based devices. The latest news from the boardroom is that Chairman Jorma Ollila, the executive credited with turning Nokia into the world's largest cellphone maker, will st...
Nokia added three new siblings to its upcoming family of smartphone offerings at Nokia World on Tuesday, adding a business-oriented handset and two consumer-oriented devices to its previously announced flagship N8 phone The E7, C7 and C6 are expected to roll out before the end of the year, but it's not clear whether that launch is worldwide or if t...
Intel announced its latest processor, code-named "Sandy Bridge," at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), being held in San Francisco through Wednesday This has several new features, with a focus on providing a "rich visual experience," Intel said....
Microsoft may find itself at odds with the Russian government after creating a new license permitting free use of its software by certain nonprofit organizations and small newspapers in more than 30 countries around the world. Plans for this new license were revealed Monday in a blog post authored by Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith Microsoft's...
Robots can be made made strong, robots can be made tireless, but a big problem with robots so far is that they can't be made to have a sense of touch as humans do. The same issue challenges designers of prosthetic limbs. Imitating the motor movements of joints and muscles is one thing, but imitating human skin with all its myriad ways of detecting...
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