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PC maker Dell posted double-digit sales growth for its fourth quarter, but missed analysts' profit and revenue targets. The results suggest that the onetime market leader's new retail strategy and turnaround plans are still works in progress Dell's sales rose 10 percent to US$16 billion while it shipped 19 percent more units than during the same qu...

NetSuite has introduced its own version of a development platform -- direct competition for the raft of initiatives and platforms Salesforce.com has designed to entice developers to its product line The difference between them, according to NetSuite, is that it based its new platform on open standards, while Salesforce.com chose to use proprietary ...

XM Satellite Radio Holdings announced double-digit growth in revenues and its subscriber base despite Congressional foot-dragging in regard to its potential merger with rival Sirius Satellite Radio ...

Call center reps get a bad rap. They're expected to be constantly nice in the face of increasingly not-nice customer interactions, field the blunt of management's never-ending drive for increased performance, and solve every problem that randomly hits their line. It's no wonder the industry faces a lightning-fast turnover rate "It's a problem our c...

Reverse shell mergers have emerged as the de facto global IPO marketplace for emerging growth companies. Last year, there were 222 completed reverse merger transactions. Collectively, they were valued at US$8.36 billion, a 14 percent increase over the previous year We expect 2008 to show greater increases with the approval of several new rules by t...

Part 1 of this two-part series discusses on-site search engine optimization; this section focuses more on the off-site search engine optimization and how to get exposure that is SEO-friendly The following details explain how to get visitors to your site and convert them to sales. The following five rules also outline how to submit your Web site to ...

Give office workers familiar with the Microsoft XP operating system an opportunity to try the same navigational tasks at a Linux-based desktop. Then step back and wait for the reaction. First will come the surprised look. Then questions like "where did the command line go?" will soon follow That's the typical scenario Morgan Spencer, public sector ...

If the 2006 online video market was still in the traffic-building stage, 2007 marked the beginning of the monetization stage This new media platform engages a prime audience group for marketers. Online publishers and their technology partners large and small were pressed hard in the last few years by these marketers for quality ad inventory, flexib...

Tension appears to be rising days after a hearing that was meant to help clear the air over the flap involving Comcast's management of Internet traffic. Some groups claim the public was deliberately shut out of the hearing by Comcast, and New York State investigators are asking the cable company to turn over records relating to its practices The Fe...

IBM on Thursday unveiled a prototype green optical network technology that promises to enable the high-speed transmission of huge files with very little power consumption By using light instead of wires to send information, the new technology could allow the transmission of 8 trillion bits (terabits) per second of information -- equivalent to about...

President George W. Bush, speaking at the White House in a press conference Thursday morning, called on the House of Representatives to pass surveillance legislation that would provide retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that provided the government access to their networks without warrants On the surface, the lawsuits -- most nota...

Some legal minds are getting together to see what can be done to make sure that social networking Web sites like MySpace are exclusively kids' space Researchers at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society have been chosen to head up the Internet Safety Technical Task Force -- at the behest of 49 state attorneys general -- to loo...

Sprint Nextel announced a new voice and data pricing plan Thursday, offering customers access to a bevy of services for US$99.99 a month. The Simply Everything plan gives users unlimited access to voice, data, text, e-mail, Web surfing, Sprint TV, Sprint Music, GPS (global positioning system) navigation, Direct Connect and Group Connect As handsets...

Sprint unveiled a US$29.5 billion loss for its fourth quarter, much of it tied to the lower-than-expected value of its Nextel acquisition. The company will not pay out a dividend to shareholders as it seeks to preserve cash resources while it tries to engineer a turnaround plan Sprint had previously warned the write-down and the massive loss were c...

TheAmerican Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation,Public Citizen and twelve media groups are asking a federal court to lift an injunction against the global whistleblower Web siteWikileaks.org Two weeks ago, in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, Judge Jeffrey White issued a permanent injunction again...

In the world of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), the battle for hearts and minds -- not to mention eyeballs and desktops -- heated up this week when Adobe Systems took the wraps off the beta version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and slotted it for public release Adobe AIR, according to the buzz on the street, "blurs" the lines between the...

When in doubt about buying a stock, ask a friend -- or rather, a million friends, Marcus New says. New, 38, has launched -- relaunched, actually --Stockhouse.com, a community of investment experts who provide input on stocks that are hot, lukewarm or downright pestilent Stockhouse.com, a product of Stockgroup Information Systems, has been around 10...

If you are reading this article, chances are you own a pocket PC or Palm-based smartphone or PDA. Chances are also great that you are in desperate need for a mobile Web solution Since the dawn of the Internet, transferring and receiving information has been the ultimate goal. PDAs and smartphones have allowed users to access this information anywhe...

Google Thursday launched a wiki-like Web information-sharing tool that the search company hopes will become a quick-start collaboration platform and a place to tie together work done on its growing family of productivity applications Google Sites is built on the Jotspot platform, which Google acquired in 2006 and is meant to enable groups to collab...

The precarious nature of data security -- and accounts' vulnerability to hackers -- came to light Wednesday when Finjan said it had found a cache of more than 8,700 stolen File Transfer Protocol server credentials The stolen account information, containing usernames, passwords and server addresses, were connected to Fortune-level companies and gove...