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Winning the battle for bragging rights among states -- and sometimes very real economic benefits -- Massachusetts has retained the top position in the Milken Institute's 2008 State Technology and Science Index. Maryland nabbed second, Colorado third, and California slipped to fourth, down two spots from its second place position four years ago. Re...
A ruling by a three-judge panel in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has established new privacy rights for employees who use employer-issued cell phones, pagers and computers to send personal text messages. The judges upheld the verdict in Quon v. Arch Wireless, which determined that if an employer contracts with an outside provider for mes...
Rising transportation costs and concerns about social and environmental responsibility are spurring corporate demand for videoconferencing, collaborative software and virtual telepresence technology. Wider access to broadband Internet is a key enabler Changes in business and social attitudes toward air travel are also contributing to rising demand....
The launch of Healthline Networks'HealthSTAT last week is one more indication that the Internet ad platform wars are far from over. To be sure, Google remains the giant to beat -- and it looks as though it's settling into its role as the long-term dominant player. However, HealthSTAT may be on the vanguard in the next significant skirmish within t...
One of the biggest trends in consumer marketing today is to appeal to the do-it-yourself mentality. Don't think so? Just visit home improvement outlets such as Home Depot and Lowe's for some clues. Then count the number of auto parts stores on your drive to the office Also consider the iPod and other MP3 players, along with install-it-yourself audi...
Part 1 of this two-part series looked at the variety of smartphone operating systems from a user's perspective. Part 2 covers the changes developers face As smartphones change, so does the landscape for developers of applications for these devices. As phones, particularly the iPhone, become more application-friendly, the marketplace is at once more...
Amdocs and IBM have entered into an original equipment manufacturer agreement in which Amdocs will embed the IBM DB2 Data Server and the IBM Optim Data Growth application in its CRM product line. It is the first OEM agreement IBM has inked involving Optim, Steve Tallant, senior manager of product line management with IBM, told CRM Buyer The Optim p...
The vast majority of doctors aren't taking advantage of electronic medical records, with many citing the cost of adoption as a significant impediment, according to a new study that also suggests the tipping point toward broader adoption may be on the horizon Just 17 percent of U.S. doctors have access to some version of electronic health records (E...
As Mozilla went after a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a 24-hour period with its release of Firefox 3, it didn't take security researchers long to drop a bomb on all the browsing fun. TippingPoint's DVLabs reported that its Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program received a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as prior versions of Firefox 2.0.x.
Two Orange County, Calif., teens have been charged with breaking into their school late at night and using stolen log-ins to hack into its computer system and change their grades Omar Khan, 18, a student at Tesoro High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, now faces 34 felony counts of altering a public record, 11 felony counts of stealing and secretin...
The WiMax Forum on Tuesday announced that 10 mobile WiMax products have received the organization's seal of approval for the 2.5 GHz frequency Tuesday. The designation, according to the group, indicates that each product has met the forum's interoperability and conformance standards The four base stations and six mobile station modules, or terminal...
Yahoo is expanding its free e-mail service with two new domain names for Yahoo Mail users. The company has added ymail.com and rocketmail.com as options for personalized e-mail addresses. Registration opens Thursday afternoon With 266 million active accounts, Yahoo bills itself at the world's largest e-mail service. The company hopes the added doma...
HP opened the second day of its Software Universe event Wednesday in Las Vegas with "product day," but the presentations seemed more about process -- the processes that usher application definitions and development into real world use I've heard of applications lifecycle, sure, but the last few days I've heard more about data center lifecycle. So h...
Many e-commerce companies have boosted their fortunes by expanding their markets beyond the United States. Avail Intelligence is hoping to help such merchants boost profits and sales by doing the reverse -- expanding from Europe into the United States The move comes as e-commerce growth begins to slow, a function of the sheer size of the market and...
With a third of all lead generation budget dollars allocated to outsourced business-to-business teleservices providers, how do Best-in-Class organizations most effectively compensate their external vendors? Aberdeen survey respondents from more than 200 organizations provide rich detail regarding their preferences for how they prefer to model the fiscal relationship they build with their outsourced provider partner.
Attracting and retaining fans are the keys to success in the crowded, competitive online gaming industry. The Net's growing multimedia communications capabilities are providing not only game developers but businesses of every size and stripe a vastly richer yet less structured environment for CRM; something game developers and distributors are very much aware of and keen to plug into...
Most anyone in the free and open source software realm can tell you not only that Linux is better than Windows, but also that it is an optimal alternative to the closed-source and proprietary operating system from Microsoft. Anyone at a Linux-oriented event or group can assure you that you have no need or even legitimate reason to continue using commercial operating systems nowadays...
With Apple's recent announcement of its new lower-priced and more richly featured 3G iPhone, smartphones are once again in the news. Now the iPhone will be competing with other prominent smartphone systems, particularly Research In Motion's popular BlackBerry Many consumers might not have ever thought, however, about the fact that their smartphones...
IBM claimed bragging rights Wednesday as its Roadrunner supercomputer earned the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer. The ranking, bestowed during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, is a biannual event that ranks the 500 most powerful computers around the world The Roadrunner, located at the U.S. Departmen...
The race for the thinnest, lightest notebook in the land continued Tuesday with the debut of Toshiba's Portege R500-S5007V. The latest model adds a 128 GB solid-state drive (SSD) -- the only one available on the market, according to the computer maker. "From a product perspective it is a stellar product," J.P. Gownder, principal analyst at Forrest...
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