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E-mail marketing is one of the most cost-effective ways to get your name in front of prospective or existing customers, to generate sales or stay top of mind The e-mail messaging that clogs in-boxes around the world is known as spam, and with good reason: It is unwanted. Its solicitations are rarely acted upon. These annoying distractions offer lit...

Consumer electronics will become an exploding market over the next six years for chipmakers who incorporate security features into their silicon, according to a research report released last week While hardware's role in protecting content on consumer devices is small today, that won't be the case in the coming years, according to technology resear...

Citing limited bandwidth and potential security issues, the Pentagon has cut off U.S. troops' access to several social networking and other high-volume Web sites. Soldiers can still post to MySpace and YouTube -- two of the banned sites --but only from outside networks However, most overseas military personnel, including thousands stationed in Iraq...

In response to a Supreme Court ruling that found carbon dioxide qualifies as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, President Bush has called for changes designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2008 "Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) must take action under the Clean Air Act regarding greenh...

DirecTV could test a high-speed Internet delivery service over power lines within the next year, chief executive Chase Carey said Monday Carey's comments came during the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in New York....

Microsoft's push to get the free and open source software (FOSS) world to license its technology has ignited a firestorm of criticism and speculation. The software behemoth's actions have perhaps also generated a strong dose of fear, uncertainty and doubt -- aka FUD -- in the minds of open source developers, providers and users Microsoft's latest l...

Windows Vista is selling faster than any of its predecessors and exceeding Microsoft's own expectations, Chairman Bill Gates said as he kicked off the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles on Tuesday One hundred days after Vista launched in January, the latest version of Windows had sold 40 million copies, twice as ...

Social networking site MySpace has announced that it will launch a group of branded channels for video content produced by partners such asThe New York Times,National Geographic, and Octane TV. Each channel will be housed within the MySpace Video area of the site and will feature content customized for various MySpace audiences by the media partners...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales unveiled on Monday a comprehensive legislative proposal entitled the "Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007" that would toughen copyright protections, including penalties for the attempt to infringe on a copyright Speaking before members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Pi...

A former Oracle vice president has settled insider trading charges that he used information gained through his wife -- an assistant to Oracle's swashbuckling, acquisition-hungry CEO Larry Ellison and other company leaders -- to buy and sell stock in companies that Oracle was planning to purchase The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed it...

Microsoft will literally place its stamp on a new wave of qualified mobile phones that are designed to be compatible with its main communications products The software giant unveiled 15 phones made by a variety of vendors including Samsung, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Asus, GN, Polycon, Tatung and Vitelix that come with stickers alerting customers...

There's a new wave of changes headed for the TV and film industries: Television viewers can choose what they watch, when and how they view programs and -- with the advent of wireless mobile broadband and smaller viewing screens -- where they catch up on their favorite shows. That's just the beginning The interactivity of the Internet, the emergence...

It has taken some time to assemble the ingredients, but the CRM (customer relationship management) industry is finally poised to deliver robust mobile offerings. If you think you've heard this before, that's because you have -- in 2004, in 2005 and, yes, last year as well To be sure, there are mobile CRM apps available on the market that have attra...

Analyst and fellow blogger Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch on the interesting findings from a recent Unisys-sponsored survey by Forrester Research on open source use in enterprises. The bits on SOA (service-oriented architecture) were particularly revealing, and add more grist to the mill of evidence building around the compelling economics that bind open source products and SOA activities...

A number of firms have recently launched remote home monitoring services. Are they able to do so because of widespread broadband adoption or consumer demand? The answer is both, but to examine this issue in more depth, we should explore both sides and see what conclusions can be drawn....

Last year marked the first time clothing retailers attracted more online shopping dollars than computer and software e-tailers took in, according to a report released on Monday Travel continues to eclipse all other forms of consumer spending online, however, accounting for US$73.4 billion in revenue in 2006....

Competition is pushing all types of businesses toward greater mobility as companies ready plans to adopt mobile applications for core business activities Business mobility has gone mainstream, according to a global survey conducted by Nokia and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in cooperation with the CIO Forum....

Attorneys general in eight states announced Monday that they have sent a letter to MySpace requesting information about sex offenders using the site Last December, MySpace said it had hired Sentinel Tech Holdings to check the site for registered sex offenders. That search uncovered thousands of offenders with MySpace profiles, according to Connecti...

For the makers and fans of the blockbuster games "Halo" and "Halo 2," Tuesday will be almost like Christmas Eve. "Halo 3" is set to go live with its public beta Wednesday For two years, gamers have been counting the days until they could get a glimpse of the game in action....

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled plans to replace its Athlon processor line with a new quad-core chip for desktop PCs in an effort to keep pace with chief rival Intel AMD will launch its quad-core desktop processors under the name "Phenom" later this year, shortly after the company unveils its quad-core Opteron processor, dubbed "Barcelona," for...