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PayPal is going mobile The online payments giant is gearing up to launch a service that would allow its customers to make purchases or money transfers using simple text messaging on their mobile phones....

The world's best manufacturing companies have found that synchronization results can strengthen sales, channel, and marketing operations by integrating product development, sales, and marketing, including channel forecasting, procurement, and production. Taking this a step further, it is possible to turn this synchronization into a significant financial and competitive advantage...

French legislators approved a bill this week that will force technology companies such as Apple Computer to share proprietary technology with rivals. Such a move is not only a recipe for disaster but completely unnecessary The digital music market has always been a tumultuous place. For a long time, Hollywood and Silicon Valley battled over how t...

Sony disclosed more about its next-generation Playstation 3 console, due at the end of the year, by outlining the company's vision for the product, which includes live, multi-player online play and even digital distribution of games through downloads However, much of Sony's strategy still lies in what will be. Meanwhile competitor Microsoft is alr...

In move to cater to the growing demand for high performance multimedia PC products, Dell on Wednesday announced plans to acquire high-end PC maker Alienware Recognized by Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States, Alienware is best known in the consumer market for its products' appeal to video gamers. Terms of th...

The Open Source Development Labs on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Technical Advisory Board. The group's initial goal is to improve communication among Linux stakeholders The OSDL is a non-profit global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux-based operating systems in the enterprise. The group sponsors Linus Torvalds...

Two years ago or so, a handful of upstart companies entered the CRM market offering open source technologies designed specifically for this space. At the time, open source CRM was neither mature nor relevant enough to corporate deployment needs to make much of a dent in the CRM space Fast forward two years. It is difficult to find third-party figur...

Concern that a dearth of external e-mail accounts at the FBI will effect the agency's ability to fight crime and terrorism is "overblown," according to Coleen Rowley Rowley is a former principal legal advisor with the bureau known for blowing the whistle on oversights it made prior to the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001....

Yahoo on Wednesday introduced a public beta of its instant messaging suite with voice capabilities. Consumers can now get a local telephone number in their city of choice for just US$2.99 a month Yahoo Messenger with Voice is going head to head with Skype with a monthly price tag that runs about $1 less than the eBay property's fee. Yahoo will char...

Back in 1996, I was fortunate enough to be one of the first journalists to cover a national political convention online. This was the Democrat National Convention (DNC) in Chicago -- where Bill Clinton was nominated for President for a second time. I covered the event for HotWired.com, a site published by Wired magazine. In those days, not so long ago, really, we were excited to be reporting about politics, in real-time, on the Internet...

At the risk of revealing my age, I can remember when a 10 gigabyte hard drive seemed enormous. Of course those were the days before PCs became vaults for music collections, family photo albums and home video libraries Now, it seems, no matter how much hard disk space we have, we always need more, which is why software makers continue to make progra...

CDC has made another proposal to buy Onyx following its failed attempt in January. At the same time, it announced plans to form a new company to manage the various enterprise applications under the corporate umbrella While the corporate restructuring is not directly related to its new offer for Onyx, CDC hopes it will sweeten the pot for reluctant ...

Samsung says it has begun offering a 32 gigabyte NAND flash solid state disk (SSD) drive, a development the South Korean company calls a "historic milestone" for flash memory as it enters the mass market for notebook PCs, which today rely on hard disk drive (HDD) technology Samsung announced the new flash-based solid state drive at the Mobile Solut...

Microsoft has again postponed the highly anticipated release of the consumer version of Windows Vista, dealing a blow to PC makers who had hoped to ride a wave of upgrades to stronger sales and causing a sell-off of Microsoft stock The software giant now says Windows Vista should be widely available in January of 2007 rather than during the fourth ...

Yahoo on Wednesday introduced a public beta of its instant messaging suite with voice capabilities. Consumers can now get a local telephone number in their city of choice for just US$2.99 a month Yahoo Messenger with Voice is going head to head with Skype with a monthly price tag that runs about $1 less than the eBay property's fee. Yahoo will char...

As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is making news this week with the debut of new industry- and country-specific Top Level Domain extensions, the overall market for domain names continues to burgeon dramatically, pointing to continual, solid growth in the global Internet economy Last year saw significant growth across the do...

Open source technologies may not be taking over the world, but they are finding a niche and a large one at that. To be sure, companies large and small are becoming more comfortable deploying open source technologies on the server Now, an an increasing number of firms are looking into the possibility of mission-critical Enterprise Resource Planning ...

As states and other government jurisdictions continue to enact -- and enforce -- restrictions on the use of cell phones while driving, consumers are suddenly demanding more, easy ways to access their mobile phones and improve their safety A new survey demonstrates that more than 75 percent of cell phone users would like to use speech commands while...

Amdocs continues to leverage its telephony roots to expand into retail banking, introducing three vertical applications for the financial services market under an approach called Dynamic Banking The new products are Dynamic Pricing and Product Bundling, Customer Communications, and Mobile and Micro-payments....

Oracle reported a 42 percent increase in Q3 fiscal 2006 profits, the first quarter following the completion of its acquisition of Siebel Systems New application license revenues were up 77 percent, compared to an anemic 5 percent rate of growth for database and middleware new license revenues....