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Infected USB Devices on the Rise
2008-04-15 14:25:00 You can plug lots of handy items into your computer’s USB port, from mobile storage devices to printers. If you’re not careful, you can also plug in a piece of malware, as well. That threat is growing rapidly: One USB-borne piece of malware known as INF/Autorun has been at the top of the threat charts ... More About: Technology , Devices , Rise , Infected
Sony U.K. Froths Up Another Viral
2008-04-15 02:25:00 The ad team for the Sony Bravia team in the U.K. has released a series of viral videos on the Web: First there was “Balls,” then “Paint,” and Bunnies followed. A new series of videos, Sony Foam City, made its way on YouTube, and a supporting microsite for Sony’s new line of digital cameras an ... More About: Internet Marketing , Viral
AMD CTO Phil Hester Leaves After Restructuring
2008-04-15 02:25:00 AMD Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester resigned Friday, the third high-level departure in less than a year. The company said Hester is “pursuing other opportunities” and “has not disclosed his plans.” When Hester was hired as CTO in 2005, he was charged with “guiding AMD’s processor advancements” as well as managing advanced infrastructure strategies and “focusing ... More About: Leaves
Adobe Plans CinemaDNG Format for Digital Movies
2008-04-15 02:25:00 In case you thought you had media file formats down pat, Adobe Systems plans a new one called CinemaDNG. Jim Guerard, Adobe’s vice president of dynamic media, told news media at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference Monday in Las Vegas that CinemaDNG will extend “open, interchangeable formats for digital still cameras into the realm ... More About: Movies , Technology , Plans , Digital
Psystar Offers a Mac Clone, OpenMac, for $399
2008-04-15 02:25:00 Move over Mac. You’ve been cloned, or at least a company called Psystar says you have. Psystar claims to be “reinventing the wheel” with what it calls an OpenMac — for $399. “Mac enthusiasts have been experimenting with running the new Apple operating systems on commodity PC hardware ever since the Intel-based Apple computers were ... More About: Technology , Clone , Offers
STMicroelectronics and NXP Meld Key Wireless Businesses
2008-04-15 02:25:00 Europe-based chipmakers STMicroelectronics and NXP Semiconductors have agreed to combine key wireless operations that were collectively responsible for generating $3 billion in revenue during 2007. In exchange for $1.55 billion, STMicroelectronics will hold an 80 percent stake in the new joint venture, with NXP, an independent company founded by Philips, holding the remaining 20 ... More About: Technology , Wireless , Businesses
There are Fewer Bank Tech Companies but More Solutions in the Marketplace
2008-04-15 02:25:00 In 2001 there were 165 companies selling 223 solutions to banks, thrifts and credit unions.Today there are 71 companies selling 306 solutions. That?s 57% fewer companies; 37% more solutions.During the past seven years there were a total of 162 mergers and acquisitions in the account processing sector of banking technology. More About: Companies , Finance , Tech , Bank , Marketplace
Microsoft To Use Domain Age in SEO Ranking
2008-04-15 00:25:00 Our industry’s leading authority on search patents Bill Slawski found another interesting patent submission. Apparently Microsoft is looking at, if not using, domain age as an algorithm factor. This has been discussed in conversations in many forums and no doubt this new information will start them up again. The idea that new domains will have to overcome ... More About: Search Engines , Domain , Ranking
Rubicon Enters Free Ad Server Arena
2008-04-15 00:25:00 Rubicon is the next ad serving company to enter the free services arena, the company announced. “Ad Network Ad Server is compatible with more than 300 ad networks–including Google’s AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network, as well as networks with CPC, CPM and CPA-based pricing. The platform offers publishers the ability to serve and track ads ... More About: Search Engines , Free , Arena
Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 Replaces Yahoo! Slurp Search Engine Crawler
2008-04-15 00:25:00 The official launch of the new version of Yahoo ! Search crawler comes as no surprise to members of Digital Point forums, readers of Search Engine Watch and attendees of SES New York, who saw Yahoo Chief Scientist Andrew Tomkins‘ keynote speech on the future of search. Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 won’t change the content Yahoo crawls ... More About: Search Engines
Online Petition Favors Windows XP Over Vista
2008-04-15 00:25:00 Windows may or may not be collapsing, as two Gartner Group analysts indicated last week, but Microsoft is receiving substantial pushback against Windows Vista . With less than three months left until Microsoft says it will stop selling and supporting most versions of Windows XP, will customers be forced into an operating system they don’t want ... More About: Windows , Enterprise Security , Online , Petition
Despite Writedowns and Loan Losses, Core Banking Businesses Remain Very Pro
2008-04-14 21:20:00 Since earnings season gets underway in full force this week, the headlines are going to look bad for the financial services industry as loan losses and asset writedowns lead to severe first quarter losses. However, investors need to focus on where these losses are coming from and how the core banking business is holding up ... More About: Loan , Investing , Banking , Core , Losses
Blockbuster Bid for Circuit City Makes Little Sense
2008-04-14 21:20:00 The Wachovia (WB) news is garnering all the headlines today, but an interesting story is developing in the retail space; Blockbuster (BBI) is making a bid for Circuit City (CC) and taking the offer directly to shareholders after CC ignored the video rental giant’s repeated attempts to negotiate a deal. A couple of different reasons come ... More About: Sense , Investing
To Struggle Is A Gift
2008-04-14 17:25:00 Recently my wife and I started to learn Ballroom and Latin dancing. Picture coutesy of Machaon (Not my wife and I) I love to learn new things and I have always thought I was a decent dancer. In my teens, friends and I were always out dancing and I really enjoyed those times. “It must be easy” So Ballroom and Latin can’t be ... More About: Management , Gift
Check 21 Spinoff: Back-Office Conversion (BOC) E-Check Volumes To Grow In 2
2008-04-14 17:25:00 Another spin-off product of the Check 21 Act, Back -Office Conversion (BOC) launched in March 2007 and one year out of the gate, BOC is viewed as a more user-friendly electronic check conversion tool than POP (Point-of-Purchase) transactions, because POP requires that all or most of the merchant’s checkout lanes be equipped with check scanners, which ... More About: Finance , Volumes
Maintaining Enterprise Data Quality
2008-04-14 16:25:00 Maintaining data in all formats are essential for every organization. Enterprise s are required to maintain good data resources, including digital, printed and other documented data, for doing special functions, assisting various systems they use and to fulfill governmental or industrial obligations. Successful data quality maintenance requires many things to be fulfilled. An enterprise must have a ... More About: Management , Tips , Data , Quality
Google Apps Integrates with Salesforce.com
2008-04-14 15:25:00 Salesforce.com and Google Apps both offer business software as a service, and now the companies are joining forces. Starting today, a new product called Salesforce for Google Apps will provide an integration of the enterprise-oriented application suites. The collaboration makes Google Apps available for all salesforce.com customers at no added cost. Salesforce is also reselling the ... More About: Technology , Computer , Salesforce
On-Demand CRM Poised for 41 Percent Growth
2008-04-14 14:25:00 The on-demand CRM market is expected to grow by a compound annual rate of 41 percent over the next three years, driven primarily by small and midsize businesses (SMBs). But as software-as-a-service CRM vendors fill the SMB niche, Microsoft is poised to be a powerful player at the expense of Salesforce.com. That’s according to a ... More About: Technology , Growth , Demand , On Demand
TouchStar Joins Enterprise Call Center Market
2008-04-14 14:25:00 TouchStar is once again about to shake up the call center industry with the introduction of TouchStar Enterprise 2008, its all-new, full-featured enterprise solution for outbound, inbound and blended communications. The new platform, which represents the company’s entry into the Tier 1 enterprise market, was crafted to offer reliability and scalability up to 7,200 agents ... More About: Technology , Market , Call , Center
Samsung Chief Considers Management Changes
2008-04-14 14:25:00 The powerful tycoon who runs South Korea’s biggest business empire said Friday a corruption scandal shaking the conglomerate could result in a major management revamp — possibly including his own resignation. Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee made the bombshell statement after undergoing a second round of questioning by an independent counsel probing allegations of bribery and shady ... More About: Technology , Management , Chief
Yahoo-Microsoft Battle Bolsters Google
2008-04-14 14:25:00 Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc. grow stronger, undermining Microsoft’s main reason for pursuing the deal in the first place. “We find this to be a very advantageous situation for Google,” Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown said Thursday. “The longer ... More About: Technology , Microsoft , Battle
Participate in Blog Improvement
2008-04-12 06:21:00 I have been meaning to ask for feedback on this blog for a while but never got around to it. I have now added a Blog Suggestion Form link to this site so readers can offer ideas on how to improve this blog. If you have any input, please take a moment and make ... More About: Investing , Improvement
You Never Write, You Never Call
2008-04-12 03:25:00 If you use Microsoft’s Windows or Apple’s OS X and for some reason an application crashes, you know the drill. A dialog box opens automatically ready to report what just happened back to Redmond or Cupertino. It is an opt-in procedure so you can decide not to send the report, which is what I ... More About: Technology , Write , Call
Content on MySpace Could Make the Leap to TV
2008-04-12 02:25:00 Old TV series don’t die, they just move to the Web. But a new deal between MySpace.com and a British-based production firm makes clear that the Web is where they can be born as well. On Thursday, the popular social-networking site announced at the MIPTV conference in Cannes, France, a partnership with ShineReveille International, a content ... More About: Technology , Myspace , Content , Make , Leap
Microsoft?s Clearflow Steers Through Traffic Jams
2008-04-12 02:25:00 You’re driving to an important meeting and hit a traffic jam on the main road. You turn off to a side street, hoping to bypass the congestion, but it’s just as bad. Microsoft hopes its new Clearflow technology will help you avoid such nightmares. On Thursday, the Redmond, Wash.-based company launched the free software at maps.live.com. ... More About: Technology , Traffic , Jams
Stolen Military Equipment Found on eBay
2008-04-12 02:25:00 Stolen and sensitive U.S. military equipment, including fighter jet parts wanted by Iran and nuclear biological protective gear, has been available to the highest bidder on popular Internet sales sites, according to congressional investigators. Using undercover identities, investigators purchased a dozen defense-related items on the auction site eBay and the online network Craigslist from January 2007 ... More About: Technology , Military , Equipment , Ebay , Stolen
Yahoo?s Board Examines Acquisition Alternatives
2008-04-12 02:25:00 Yahoo’s board of directors met Friday to consider Microsoft’s takeover offer. Yahoo has repeatedly rejected Redmond’s bid, calling it too low. But most analysts believe Microsoft is the most likely candidate to become Yahoo’s parent. The urgent meeting comes on the heels of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s ultimatum letter to Yahoo’s board on April 5. Ballmer ... More About: Technology , Yahoo , Board , Alternatives , Acquisition
Verizon Sues Time Warner Cable Over ?Fiber? Ad
2008-04-12 02:25:00 If you need more proof that phone and cable companies are locked in a bitter struggle to control telecommunications, Verizon Wireless and Time Warner Cable are a good example. Verizon filed suit in federal court this week alleging that a TWC ad falsely compares its cable offering to Verizon’s FiOS network. The TWC ad features a ... More About: Technology , Fiber
Google Gearing Up for the Enterprise
2008-04-12 02:25:00 Fast on the heels of Monday’s launch of Google App Engine — an initiative to open up Google’s computing infrastructure to third-party developers — Google has opened a new online store: the Google Solutions Marketplace, a portal for applications that make use of Google’s APIs (application programming interfaces) or Google Gadgets. “The Marketplace’s initial focus is ... More About: Technology , Enterprise
Where Small Business Owners Shouldn?t Cut Costs
More articles from this author:2008-04-12 02:25:00 Is the economic slowdown squeezing bottom line? If so, you’re not alone. Everyone is feeling the pinch these days. If you’re like most business owners, you’re looking for a way to cut costs. A word of advice from the University of Wisconsin School of Business : Stay away from personnel. Sure, it might be the most ... More About: Small Business , Small , Costs , Owners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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