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What does marketing resource management mean to you? Does it mean the same thing to your coworker? Your competitor? The vendors who sell these solutions? The acronyms used to define the marketing automation space -- MRM, MOM, EMM, DAM, etc. -- have undeniably become so ambiguous that it's not uncommon for one to define another With some vendors ...

Open source security products do not generally carry the same following as their business suite andoperating system brethren. However, the same reasons for supporting open source products in general also apply to open source security applications Open source security applications are free, or at least much less costly than their proprietary counter...

It is sometimes interesting what people get excited about, and the Apple loyalists evidently got really excited about a question, which some thought I had asked, surrounding why there is no "Intel Inside" sticker on Apple Notebooks (I wasn't actually there, and I already knew the answer) I think the real answer to that question is actually kind of ...

WiFi has became pervasive. Not just laptops, but an arsenal of palmed-sized devices including smartphones, PDAs (personal digital assistant) and mobile media players, now connect to the Internet using Wireless Fidelity technology However, many users are clueless about security and connect to password-protected accounts and financial Web sites think...

Sony has partnered with a U.S. waste management company to provide customers with an easy way to recycle their old TV sets and other Sony-branded products. The Japanese firm has tappedWM Recycle America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, for the Sony Take Back Recycling Program Starting Sept. 15, Sony customers can take their unwanted ...

Twenty-five years ago Friday, the very first compact disc was produced by Royal Philips Electronics at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, Germany. It was Aug. 17, 1982, and the CD was "The Visitors" by ABBA Fast forward to today, and it's hard to imagine life before CDs were around. At the same time, though, it's not entirely clear what the next 25 ...

IBM and Sun Microsystems announced Thursday the two long-time rivals have formed a partnership that will bring Sun's Solaris operating system to IBM servers. The "comprehensive relationship" will see both companies embark on a mission to jointly serve enterprise clients seeking to run the OS on IBM's BladeCenter servers and IBM System x servers IBM...

HP brought joy to the hearts of many investors Thursday when it reported revenues for the third quarter that blew away analyst expectations by more than US$1 billion Net revenue increased 16 percent over the year-ago period to $25.4 billion, while net earnings reached $1.8 billion, up 29 percent over the same quarter a year ago. Earnings per share ...

Nokia has thrown another punch in its longstanding patent battle with Qualcomm by asking the government to block imports of some Qualcomm products In a complaint filed with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), Nokia alleges Qualcomm engaged in unfair trade practices by infringing on five Nokia patents in its CDMA (code division m...

The storm cloud that's been hanging over Dell's headquarters may be finally lifting. After the PC and server manufacturer restated its earnings from 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Thursday -- and admitted to the widespread practice of inflating its financial results -- investors have responded positively, giving a modest boost to the price of Dell stock...

A survey done by the U.S. Commerce Department stated that of every 10 small businesses, seven will survive their first year, three will still be going after three years and only two will remain after five years. These are quite startling numbers and really beg the question: "Why do startups fail?" The answer is amazingly simple and can be reduced t...

Small to medium-sized e-commerce companies can go a long way toward marketing themselves online by doing some simple search engine optimization (SEO) and taking the time to foster some inbound links to their site Both can be done without an advanced degree in computer science, and both can cost little or no money....

Fears that traffic demands on the Internet are outstripping the Net's capacity to handle them may be premature, though continuous Net growth will necessitate new networking techniques and technologies in the future Much of the fear that traffic would overwhelm capacity can be linked to growth figures in recent times....

Software as a Service (SaaS) pioneer Salesforce.com exceeded analyst expectations for its second quarter, registering net income of US$3.74 million -- a 3 cent per share increase -- and revenue of $176.6 million. The Street had been expecting it to bring in just $174 million in sales By all measures, Salesforce.com performed well. Total revenue for...

McAfee has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo's popular instant messaging solution, Yahoo Messenger. McAfee's Avert Labs is a security research firm designed to tackle security issues as soon as they trickle into the world, and the crew first noticed the potential flaw on a post on a Chinese-language security forum The flaws, according to ...

A software problem at Skype left many users of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service unable to log in or make calls Thursday, and with little hope for relief until Friday, the company said "Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype," the company wrote on its support blog at about 2 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, or about 10...

A Russian court acquitted Denis Kvasov, chief of now-closed music site AllofMP3.com, of copyright violations in a case widely seen as a test of Russia's commitment to protecting intellectual property under global agreements The site sold individual music tracks at below market value without the permission of copyright owners, according to plaintiff...

The bad news just keeps on coming for Take 2 Interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games The firm revealed Wednesday that following a year-long informal investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the handling of certain stock options grants, the company received a Wells call on Aug. 9 from the Staff of the Division of Enfo...

Sprint Nextel formally announced plans to make a major bet on WiMax, a next-generation technology for high-speed wireless Internet communications that the telecom and wireless company plans to invest as much as US$5 billion in over the next 10 years Sprint announced it will market its WiMax offering under the brand name Xohm -- pronounced "Zoam" --...

Sonos, which sells wireless, multi-room home audio systems, has introduced new software that allows users to access Sirius Internet Radio Called "Sonos System Software v 2.3," the new offering enables Sonos owners with Sirius subscriptions to access Sirius programming and control their listening with the handheld Sonos Controller. Sonos' components...