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Securing Web applications is the No. 1 problem facing security professionals today. With 162 million Web sites in existence and millions more popping up each month, the sheer size of the problem is staggering -- not to mention the fact that nine out of 10 Web sites have serious vulnerabilities that can put critical customer data at risk. In fact, a new malware-infected Web site is discovered every 14 seconds. So, why aren't more companies solving this problem?...

I sometimes forget about the fact that people are trying to do business and that their business is top of mind -- not CRM. That point was brought home to me last week when I was on-site with a client I won't give too many details, but the company has no CRM per se, just some spreadsheets they use for forecasting, a customer database shared with ER...

Increasingly, managers find themselves leading teams that are scattered in different cities or even continents, working on projects which have to be flexible enough to rapidly evolve to meet changing business needs. In this environment, business managers are starting to learn what software developers have known for years: Wikis provide a simple but powerful boost to collaboration and can quickly improve business productivity...

The disconnect has never been more pronounced between the supply and demand of H-1B visas, the visa program that allows guest workers in the United States The technology industry has been at the forefront of the H-1B visa debate, lobbying for the government to allow more foreign workers into the U.S. each year....

A British government agency has complained to the European Commission about the lack of interoperability in some of Microsoft's applications, but regulators are reportedly not opening a new formal inquiry on the complaint The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) filed the complaint with the UK's Office of Fair Trading la...

Dell has reportedly decided to scrub several models in its high-end line of XPS PCs. The computer maker is turning away from the XPS machines to limit competition with its Alienware systems, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Dell acquired Alienware back in March 2006 but allowed the gaming PC maker to continue to operate independentl...

Star gazers and astronomers now have a powerful new tool that will allow them to surf the skies from their desktop. Microsoft unveiled the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope (WWT) Web application Monday. The software creates an experience that users of all ages will find captivating, said Frank Reddy, a senior editor at Astronomy Magazine....

HP is placing a US$13.9 billion bet that it can wrest a piece of the tech services outsourcing market from IBM. It has announced it will acquire EDS for that sum "The combination of HP and EDS will create a leading force in global IT services," said HP CEO Mark Hurd in announcing the proposed acquisition....

The restaurant-slash-arcade-slash-bar Dave & Buster's is the latest U.S. outlet to suffer a breach of its credit card processing system Hackers based in Ukraine and Estonia -- assisted by a guy in Miami -- installed packet sniffer malware at the point of sale systems in several D&B outlets, which siphoned off "Track 2" data as the information was b...

Video is changing the way we use the Internet for entertainment, education, blogging, product promotion and so many other forms of content. Services like YouTube, Metacafe, Google Video, AOL Video and a host of others have created an enormous online viewing audience by making it easy for anyone to upload, search and share videos. Online video vi...

SAP held its massive annual conference, Sapphire, last week and made the usual flurry of announcements and presentations to its 15,000-some attendees. Still, as is typical of most conferences, the best information filtered out between the official scheduled events CRM guru Paul Greenberg reports on some of these in two blog posts: Random Gems from...

With the long-anticipated arrival of the next installment in the "Grand Theft Auto" (GTA) series, Liberty City does little to disappoint. Car chases, assassinations and shady drug dealers still litter the landscape of Liberty City, yet this game adds an in-depth view from the perspective of the main character. The player's own choices and actions are more evident in "Grand Theft Auto IV" than in previous titles. This break from traditional "GTA" games not only allows the main character to evolve more freely but also allows the interactions and cut scenes to change throughout the game...

eBay has changed the payment policy for its Australian site to require all transactions to be completed using its PayPal payment platform, a move that has outraged users Down Under and one that reportedly could lead to more changes around the world. eBay announced last month that it would make the change to PayPal-only listings, with the switch be...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) introduced its new high-end handset Monday, the BlackBerry 9000, a.k.a. "Bold." Aimed at business pros and power users, Bold updates the product line with a device aimed at taking on Apple's iPhone. It's the first new model from RIM in over a year "They're really just trying to take the BlackBerry franchise...

It seems as though everyone wants to be both social and portable these days. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MySpace all have recently trumpeted their latest efforts at openness. Are they really the same? ...

Powerset, a new Internet search engine company, has launched a proof-of-concept salvo in the search engine war -- a natural language processing engine that attempts to understand the meaning behind a search phrase and the text it's searching against. Instead of returning a long list of results that simply contain the key words a user enters, Powerset attempts to unlock the meaning encoded in ordinary human language...

Sprint Nextel posted results Monday that show the third-largest telecommunications firm continues to struggle amid high rates of customer defection and financial losses of more than a half billion dollars Released just days after Sprint announced an ambitious plan to partner with Clearwire on a national WiMax wireless broadband company, the company...

Shortly following Microsoft's release of the third service pack for its Windows XP operating system, reports of problems regarding the SP's installation began appearing on blogs and the Windows XP Newsgroup XP users have experienced an assortment of issues both with the installation itself and after the installation, ranging from failed and frozen ...

Long before social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook set up shop online, there was a social element to playing video games. Gamers have always congregated together, extolling or deriding the merits of one game over another, participating in tournaments and broadcasting their gaming exploits and accomplishments However, the flap that eru...

Bronto Software is no dinosaur Founded by former Red Hat executives and launched in 2002, the e-mail marketing software provider has certainly seen its industry and marketplace evolve and change dramatically around it....