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Oracle has rolled out its CRM On Demand Release 10, upgrading the customization features, deepening list management functionality and introducing additional vertical expertise Typically, releases of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications tend to be more frequent than enterprise software upgrades -- and thus comparatively routine....

The American Electronics Association is reporting that the tech job market is getting hot again, with a net gain of 61,000 new good-paying technology gigs added to last year's pool of 5.6 million Although some U.S. states lost technology jobs while others gained, the overall increase marks an end to a long tech job skid....

Worldwide personal computer sales grew by as much as 13 percent in the first quarter, with consumers in the United States helping to push sales above forecasts, and with some rivals gaining ground on longtime market leaderDell Preliminary data show 57 million PCs were sold in the first quarter, 13.1 percent ahead of the same time frame last year,Ga...

Apple v. Does -- a case with broad implications for bloggers and journalists and their right to protect the confidentiality of their sources -- began on Thursday before a San Jose, Calif., appeals court Apple Computer has sued several unnamed individuals, called "Does," for allegedly leaking information to online reporters, in this case, bloggers, ...

A group of technology industry leaders on Wednesday launched The Green Grid, an effort to help reduce growing power and cooling demands in enterprise datacenters AMD, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and IBM are the founding sponsors of the organization whose goals are supported by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Alliance to Save...

A malware-for-sale ring used to distribute customized copies of a data-pilfering Trojan has been cracked by two computersecurity firms ...

For years, one of the biggest struggles many Internet companies faced was figuring out how to convince Web users to turn over their hard-earned money for content -- content that many believed was freely available elsewhere Whether it was music -- paid downloads versus file-swapping -- classified-style sales on Craigslist and other free sites versus...

Several CRM (customer relationship management) and BI (business intelligence) vendors have announced support for Google's new addition to its enterprise search feature, OneBox for Enterprise. The list includes Cognos, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAS Institute Google has released a number of tools aimed at the enterprise in recent months, s...

Motorola, Nokia and other handset developers are generating plenty of kudos for the designs of sleek, new clamshell mobile phones, but there is less innovation, and more marketing flash, there than meets the eye, experts tell TechNewsWorld A new report by the Boston-based research consultancy Strategy Analytics examined the secrets of the Motorola ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a lawsuit filed by Reverend Jerry Falwell that touched upon issues key to business concerns, such as commercial versus noncommercial speech, and addressed a concept described as "initial interest confusion." At least, those topics are indicative of Falwell v. Lamparello's significance to the...

Fresh off its stunning acquisition of high-end gaming computer competitor Alienware, Dell has unveiled a pair of high-power, high-price notebooks for gamers Described by the computer giant as "Dell's fastest consumer notebook," the new XPS M1710 will be packaged in a magnesium-alloy chassis in stylish black or red models. Priced at US$2,600, the ne...

Meet Mapusaurus roseae, the largest carnivore on Earth recorded to date. Paleontologists working in the Patagonian wilderness in Argentina who found the remains of the 41-foot long and 15,000-pound dinosaur species said it roamed Earth 100 million years ago and was far bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex "This is the fourth species of carnivorous dinosau...

Riding on the back of the second annual E-mail Authentication Summit in Chicago, Microsoft on Tuesday claimed rapid adoption of its Sender ID framework for e-mail authentication to fight spam. It also launched improved postmaster services for consumers There has been a threefold increase in Sender ID adoption among Fortune 500 companies, increasing...

Chinese President Hu Jintao met withMicrosoft Chairman Bill Gates and toured thesoftware giant's Redmond, Wash., headquarters Tuesday. The meeting comes shortly after Microsoft announced deals that will ensure its Windowsoperating system will be featured in millions ofPCs sold in the world's largest country The Chinese leader and Gates did not publ...

Personal computers may dominate Internet usage today, but mobile phones are poised to invade that territory with wireless browsing capabilities, a new study says Internet access via the mobile phone actually outpaces wireless access from a notebook PC in many of areas of the world -- a statistic driven largely by the massive install base of mobile ...

Kana has updated its knowledge management and customer service suite, IQ 9.1, with new workflow capabilities that give users more control over content translation. Other upgrades provide more precise ways to document changes to the knowledgebase for compliance purposes "We had a lot of customers and prospects asking for these features," CTO Charles...

Google has upgraded its search appliance line, bringing to theenterprise the concept of "OneBox" search to help expedite Web searches. Google also added several key partners as it seeks to beef up its product line aimed at big businesses and organizations The Mountain View, Calif.-based company plans to add asoftware upgrade to the Google Search Ap...

Nintendo this week released an American version of Japan's No. 1 brain training game, "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day," for the Nintendo DS Japanese neurologist Ryuta Kawashima, who maintains that regularly doing easy and fast-paced mental activities can keep brains young, strong and sharp, worked with Nintendo to create the brain exe...

The White House and the Pentagon aren't the only government agencies embracing public key infrastructure (PKI) -- encryption -- for Internet security. State agencies in Illinois, and other states, like Virginia, are as well, and, in a twist, they are now farming out the management of the services to third parties More than 100 government agencies i...

Technology is all around us. We work on computers, listen to MP3 players, talk on smartphones, snap photos with digital cameras and, well, you get the picture. Technology makes every day life easier -- when it works. What about when it doesn't, or at least when you can't figure out how it does? Many consumers are overwhelmed by the headache of figu...