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We live in a Web 2.0 world, but when it comes to fighting Internet-borne security threats, many enterprises are armed with only Web 1.0 weapons, according to a study released this week by San Jose, Calif.-based Secure Computing Web 2.0 usage is prevalent in enterprises, the study found, and as a result "the traditional boundary of external versus i...

Channel partner opportunity management firm BlueRoads announced on Sept. 17 a new lead referral moduledesigned to help vendors gain strategic insight into the management of better sales channel yield. The newsoftware module captures new referrals from a vendor's extended partner community and harnesses previouslyuntapped sales opportunities This ne...

The reaction to ISO's recent rejection of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) ranged from triumphant: "Microsoft trounced in document format vote," to cautious: "not so fast." Lost amid the complex ISO process and reports of Microsoft's ballot-stuffing is a clear understanding of just what the fuss at ISO is all about, and its relevance to governme...

The sharing of new technology -- particularly in the high-tech sector -- is taking place faster than ever before, yet economics, political and socio-cultural differences, vested interests and national agendas remain obstacles constraining the potential benefits To a greater degree than in previous decades, commercial organizations and governments a...

Microsoft has introduced HealthVault, a portal for consumers in which they can store their health data -- either manually or by uploading data from, say, a heart monitor -- as well as search for related healthcare information The portal includes an online component and client software called the "HealthVault Connection Center" -- a utility that com...

Research forecasts that Linux will be the top operating system for mobile computing began to look a little more fully baked with the announcement by ARM that it will collaborate with six vendors to finesse a standards-based, Linux-based platform for next-generation mobile devices The company, known for its 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics p...

Silicon Valley venture capitalists Bay Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners have pooled resources with Salesforce.com to roll out a fund that will invest in companies' development activities on Salesforce.com's platform Typical investments will equal about US$500,000 each, totaling $25 million over the next three years....

In a move widely considered only a half-step toward openness, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will open up its .Net source code for developers to view, but not change The source code will be available later this year when Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 are released to manufacturing, Scott Guthrie, a general manager in Micros...

The hit video game "Halo 3" has raked in more than US$300 million and drawn some 3 million gamers to play online on Xbox Live, according to Microsoft. However, the part about "Halo" that really has the Web rumor mill working overtime is whether or not Microsoft and Bungie Studios, the developer behind the game, will part ways mere weeks -- or days -- after the biggest launch in video game history...

Yahoo, eBay and PayPal are teaming up to improve protections against phishing attacks, the companies announced Thursday The companies have adopted a new e-mail authentication technology, developed by Yahoo and known as "DomainKeys Identified Mail" (DKIM), that uses cryptography to verify the domain of the sender....

Toshiba chose the CEATEC electronics show in Japan this week to demonstrate the capabilities of a notebook supercharged with the new "SpursEngine" processor Journalists attending the event seemed particularly impressed with the way the Cell Broadband Engine technology enabled a laptop to sense hand movements and convert them into commands. The abil...

One of the first file-sharing lawsuits to go to trial could be concluded Thursday, and while the case is being closely watched, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it will continue to pursue legal action against alleged music pirates regardless of the outcome Attorneys for the RIAA concluded their case against Jammie Thomas, a...

E-mail marketing works. Seventy-nine percent of consumers have signed up to receive e-mail at least from one company, according to Forrester Research, and two out of three people surveyed said they read e-mail every day of the week. E-mail marketing delivers a US$51.45 return on investment (ROI) for every marketing dollar spent, according to the Direct Marketing Association...

The big news when Saleforce.com released its latest version of what is hot in the CRM space -- Winter '08 -- was Force.com. The immediately understood subtext was that Salesforce.com had officially begun its migration to a platform on-demand company, launching the first salvo in what Denis Pombriant, managing principal of the Beagle Research Group, wrote could be the next platform wars...

Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2007 is You. To summarize their lengthy coverage of this topic, it's all "Web 2.0" technology that enables user-empowering Web tools and Web sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, Google Maps, Twitter, Pandora, Last.FM, Digg and Del.icio.us. These Web 2.0 solutions are rich, interactive, personal, easy to access, easy to use and easy to share with other users...

Adobe this week released its Flex Builder for Linux in alpha mode at the sold-out Adobe Max show in Chicago "Judging by the applause in the auditorium when they announced it during the 'Sneak Peeks' session at Max, Adobe made a lot of developers happy campers," said Forrester analyst Jeffrey S. Hammond, who tracks application development....

Google has added functionality from Postini -- its recently acquired on-demand security provider -- to Google Apps Premier Edition, further leveraging its ambitious acquisition and development platform Google acquired Postini last month for US$625 million in cash. The privately held company services about 35,000 firms, for a total of roughly 10 mil...

Verizon Wireless trotted out four new mobile handsets Wednesday that it hopes will be able to compete against heavy hitters such as the iPhone for a share of the 2007 holiday season market Two of the phones, the Voyager and the Venus, both from LG, include touch screen functionality. The Juke is aimed at music lovers, and the Blackberry Pearl 8130 ...

A federal district court judge issued two landmark decisions Tuesday in a nationwide class action suit against Target charging that the retail giant has "failed and refused" to make its Web site accessible to the blind Brought by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the suit charges that by failing to make its site accessible to blind users ...

Three years after Sony Music Entertainment and BMG Entertainment finalized their Sony BMG joint venture, antitrust regulators from the European Union have again cleared the music industry deal. The decision followed a court-ordered review of the impacts on small record labels European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes made the announcement ...