Articles by Erika

Warner Music Group has settled a federal copyright-infringement lawsuit it filed in May against the social networking Web siteImeem. Warner alleged that Imeem had allowed members to illegally download copyrighted material and was operating its site without any sort of copyright compliance or filtering software in place Under the terms of the agreem...

Interactive Intelligence has released its second-generation session initiation protocol (SIP) Interaction Gateway, an appliance that enables connections between traditional T1 and E1 trunk lines and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks. The new version includes support for global protocols, fax support and a more scalable eight-span model that can support 1,000 or more users...

Dozens of documents containing classified information that could affect the safety of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been posted on unprotected servers by military agencies and related companies, according to a survey by the Associated Press The AP, abetted by work done by Christopher Freeman, a Greensboro, N.C, resident who has been trac...

Google is building on its popular My Maps tab by releasing application programming interfaces (APIs) that can overlay third-party content onto Google Maps Called "Mapplets," these mashups complement the My Maps concept, Thai Tran, Product Manager for Google Maps, told TechNewsWorld, noting that in fact, the APIs for both Maps and Mapplets are very ...

Oracle has rolled out the next iteration of its core database product line. Oracle Database 11g, the company proudly claims, is the result of 15 million test hours and 36,000 person-months of development "Oracle Database 11g, built on 30 years of design experience, delivers the next generation of enterprise information management," said Andy Mendel...

Microsoft tipped its hand just a little bit more about its forthcoming on-demand CRM initiatives at its Worldwide Partner Conference now underway in Denver It has released its subscription fees -- a schedule that suggests it is gearing up for a price war with primary competitor Salesforce.com. It also demoed new preconfigured vertical templates in ...

FrontRange Solutions has made available version 5.1 of FrontRange Voice, an IP telephony software application that can be installed on the desktop without the need for other equipment. It targets small and medium-sized businesses and offers upgrades in functionality and integration over previous versions The new version of the software permits rou...

Live Earth -- a series of nine concerts held in cities across the world and streamed live across the Internet -- exceeded its founders' most ardent expectations The event, held to raise awareness of global warming and climate change, drew in more than 10 million video streams, and had the most simultaneous viewers of any online concert ever, accord...

Rock concerts for causes took off in the 1970s, with the Concert for Bangladesh, No Nukes, LiveAid and FarmAid electrifying audiences worldwide. However, Live Earth, a series of concerts beginning on July 7 aimed at combating climate change, will go them one better. With the advent of the Internet and time-shifting television technologies, viewers won't have to be glued to their sets in order to catch the show...

The notorious Norwegian hacker, Jon Lech Johansen -- better known as "DVD Jon" for releasing code that broke DVD copy protection in the late 1990s -- has drawn first blood with the iPhone Johansen has posted a workaround on the Internet that allows iPhone owners to use their devices in a limited fashion without having to first activate it with AT&T...

"Does negative press make you Sicko?" That's the title of Google ad rep Lauren Turner's post in a new company blog for the healthcare industry. "Sicko" is a reference to Michael Moore's latest documentary, now out in theaters, which examines access to healthcare in the U.S Given that the readers Turner is targeting are affiliated with the very comp...

NetSuite made its long-anticipated move toward becoming a public company, filing the necessary paperwork on Monday. The company plans to raise up to US$75 million with its initial public offering of common stock. The filing did not state the number of shares or the expected IPO price, however Credit Suisse is the lead underwriter for the IPO. WR Ha...

ATG has introduced a service center application for its e-commerce suite, ATG Commerce, that builds on some of the company's previous acquisitions. The Commerce Service Center contact center application integrates e-commerce functionality with back-end order administration, sales support and customer care Like most service applications, ATG CSC off...

Oracle has released Contact Center Anywhere 8.1, an application that builds on its acquisition of Telephony@Work, an on-demand provider of IP-based softwareinfrastructure for hosted contact center services, made exactly a year ago Its CallCenterAnywhere was a multichannel contact center application that provided an out-of-the-box alternative to the...

Political Web sites abound on the Internet. A recent visit to just a few of them turned up a couple of polls asking variations of the question whether Dick Cheney should be impeached for violations of several U.S. laws Personally, I would have loved to have seen the results of the polls, which I enthusiastically answered more than once. However, bo...

Another voice has chimed in on the controversial and complex debate over net neutrality In a newly released report, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission urges policymakers to exercise caution in establishing regulations that would require high-speed Internet service providers to treat all content the same way....

Google has been ratcheting up its campaign to compel Microsoft to further open its Vista operating system to third-party search engines Its latest tactic entailed petitioning the judge overseeing Microsoft's antitrust agreement with federal and state governments to extend it past November, when most of the terms are set to expire....

The saga of the US$54 million lawsuit against a Washington, D.C.-area dry cleaners over a missing pair of pants has come to an end, with Washington Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruling against the plaintiff, Roy Pearson Now, Pearson, an administrative law judge, is liable for the owners' court costs, which come to roughly $1,000. In a later ...

A new survey conducted by theComputing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) shows that while vendors are gearing up for greater use of radio frequency identification applications in the supply chain, customers have been slow to accept them A whopping 84 percent of technology resellers, solution providers, systems integrators and consultants ar...

Nuance Communications, the lead vendor in the growing speech-recognition software category, plans to acquire Time Warner'sTegic Communications for US$265 million. The acquisition will add $45 million to $48 million in net revenue in fiscal 2008, the company reported The addition of Tegic, which develops predictive text-input software for mobile ph...