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Engine Yard, a software developer of clouddeployment and open source tools for Ruby on Rails applications, lastweek released an open source framework for building fast, high-performance Ruby applications. Called "Merb," the programming tool issimilar to Ruby on Rails Merb is an MVC (model view controller) framework. It features amodular -- rather t...
The traditional doctor's office creates a forest of paperwork. Patient charts, records, bills: They're all par for the course in the medical world Some doctors and clinics, however, are opting to go paperless, or at least almost paperless. Those who do realize numerous benefits, including greater efficiency, lower costs, and heightened security....
Internet phone company Vonage has secured US$220.3 million in credit in a deal that Wall Street sees as crucial to the struggling company's survival Proceeds will go toward paying off $253 million in debt on Vonage's books....
As Yahoo shareholders and employees await Tuesday's official release of the company's third-quarter financial report, neither constituency has much to be cheerful about: There are unsubstantiated reports that Yahoo will be cutting some 1,000 employees from its payroll. Its earnings are also expected to be lackluster, at best, given the economic climate of the last several months...
The to-do list for the modern family: E-mail grocery list to hubby....
Intel showed off its latest platform aimed at mobile Internet devices (MIDs) Sunday at the company's Developer Forum in Taipei, Taiwan. Dubbed "Moorestown," Intel said it expects to ship the platform in 2009 or 2010 "Moorestown is the first ultra mobile platform and is much, much better than Atom on current consumption," said Ian Lao, an InStat ana...
Motorola is reportedly working to create its first Android-based smartphone. The first phone based on Google's open mobile operating system -- T-Mobile's G1 -- will show up Oct. 22, and Motorola will apparently be joining the party at an undisclosed later date. Still, a fashionably late entrance could be just fine: Motorola seems to be betting on ...
Memory chip maker SanDisk announced Monday it will sell almost one-third of its manufacturing capacity to Toshiba for about $1 billion. The deal comes at a time when the market for memory chips faces severe oversupply SanDisk and Tokyo-based Toshiba have been in business together going back several years....
Some people say that there's nothing worse than a sour economy. I, for one, don't agree. What could possibly be worse, you ask? Simple: a bad economy in the middle of a budget cycle. Securing funding for technology projects is hard enough nowadays, but IT security projects have it even harder. Try selling your management on an application securit...
Part 1 of this two-part series focuses on online document services through which users can conduct legal business without the direct assistance of an actual attorney Self-promotion: Some would say that lawyers excel at it, but when it comes to actual advertising and marketing, a lot of them can be a step or two behind other businesses.
I was tempted to pick FUD as a topic and talk about how McCain's use of it killed his campaign. However, last week we had two major launches, one of which was Apple releasing its latest notebooks and embracing graphics as a defining feature but avoiding Blu-ray and HDMI Apple works to drive the markets it occupies and is successful more often than...
Part 1 of this series explores principles that should be applied to online customer experience strategy development. This second part discusses the most important tactical principles to follow when re-designing your site and provide specific examples of ways they are used on e-commerce sites today Research has shown that the three most important fa...
Anyone who's used popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications such as BitTorrent, Gnutella or Limewire has probably been plagued by network slowdowns that make sharing heavy media files a time-consuming endeavor However, a consortium of technologists at the Distributed Computing Industry Association, or DCIA, has found a way to alleviate Internet netwo...
The Federal Communications Commission continues to receive plenty of static from both sides of the television white space debate Last month it was Google cofounder Larry Page raising allegations of rigged FCC testing of white spaces prototype devices....
U.S. video games sales were down slightly in September, according to data from research firm NPD Group. Sales of hardware, software and accessories dropped 7 percent from the year-ago period to US$1.27 billion "This is the first true monthly decline the industry has experienced since March of 2006," said Anita Frazier, an NPD analyst. "It's impor...
Does Microsoft still have Yahoo in its gun sights? Listen to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and it might seem so. At an industry event in Orlando, Fla., this week, Ballmer said a deal between Microsoft and the No. 2 Internet search engine would "still make economic sense" for both companies....
Google has rolled out a new, bigger viewing feature to its iGoogle custom home page builder app. iGoogle basically lets users select and move little gadgets -- which are miniature, modular applications that provide news feeds, comics, Gmail access, games, weather, movie listings, etc. -- anywhere they want on their iGoogle home pages. The new feat...
It has been eight years since the 2000 presidential election revealed the many flaws that existed in the mechanics of U.S. voting systems. Despite that debacle, many states have not made even basic improvements to assist voters -- such as providing user-friendly Web sites that tell them how to register and where to go to vote A new study has found ...
One of the books that had a big impact on me during my larval stage as a journalist was Dan Rather's The Camera Never Blinks. The memoir was of Rather's experiences as a truly trailblazing and courageous TV reporter, not Rather the lightning-rod anchor with the southern-fried election night phraseology Here is local Houston reporter Rather clinging...
Immigration is becoming as nettlesome to high-tech companies as it has long been in the agriculture and construction businesses Although technology firms don't reach into the same labor pool as do ag comglomerates or building contractors, their problems are converging....
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