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HP has significantly elevated its efforts to become an indispensable full-service supplier to cloud computing aspirants, especially telecommunications, mobile and Internet service providers At Software Universe in Hamburg, Germany, HP this month announced three new offerings designed to enable cloud providers and enterprises to securely lower barri...

This story was originally published on June 25, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Lacing a shoestring budget with enough green to get your startup up and running takes some finagling. Still, it can be done. If you can't find investor backing right now, then turn to alternative funding routes.

This story was originally published on Oct. 30, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Small businesses frequently rely on a haphazard assortment of tools to manage their CRM processes, such as email, contact managers and spreadsheets. However, such methods are usually not sustainable or scalable. ...

This story was originally published on Oct. 8, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Gamers are often devided into two categories: those who play on consoles and those who play on PCs A console gamer will drop few hundred dollars for Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, or Nintendo's Wii, but a PC gamer w...

This story was originally published on June 24, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Funny thing about economic disasters: They tend to spawn a bevy of new businesses. It's not that a recession is the best time for pie-in-the-sky thinking; rather, it's when pie-in-the-mouth issues become most pressing.

This story was originally published on July 28, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. In the past, businesses typically used lists of leads in a type of marketing strategy that Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid, refers to as "interruption marketing." The goal was to get in front of a potential custome...

This story was originally published on Dec. 2, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. In wanting to give peace a chance, the Dalai Lama and John Lennon don't have much company; fighting and causing trouble seem to be the preference of most of the world....

Am I kidding me? Forecasting the year ahead? Sheesh! One of the reasons the task I set for myself is so daunting this year is that I believe we are in a massive transition state that affects the whole economy, CRM included. I think Tom Friedman got it right in version 2.0 of his Hot, Flat and Crowded, to wit: The root causes of the economic melt...

Today's enterprises are clamoring for software applications that run in a wide variety of environments -- everything from physical to virtual to cloud. If you are a software vendor, how do you make it easy to give them what they want? You could hand customers your software on a CD and let them figure it out. However, in this environment, independ...

I first became aware of cross-site scripting (XSS) nearly a decade ago. At the time, despite being an all too prevalent bug in Web applications, the risk posed by the flaw was of limited value. It was the go-to vulnerability for any pen tester that was having trouble digging up a meaningful vulnerability to add to his audit report. That has all ch...

The mad rush for e-readers this holiday season has led Barnes & Noble to offer in-store certificates worth US$100 to customers who won't get its device, called the "Nook," by Christmas Eve as promised B&N has said that demand is so strong it can't keep up with the orders....

The mad rush for e-readers this holiday season has led Barnes & Noble to offer in-store certificates worth US$100 to customers who won't get its device, called the "Nook," by Christmas Eve as promised B&N has said that demand is so strong it can't keep up with the orders....

The mad rush for e-readers this holiday season has led Barnes & Noble to offer in-store certificates worth US$100 to customers who won't get its device, called the "Nook," by Christmas Eve as promised B&N has said that demand is so strong it can't keep up with the orders....

President Barack Obama named ISF President Howard Schmidt to serve as national cybersecurity coordinator on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. This story was originally published on Nov. 18, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series The Information Security Forum may bill itself as the world's leading independent authority on IT...

A new University of Utah study released Monday provides more fuel for the conviction that sending and receiving text messages while driving affects concentration and reaction times. However, more potential digital distractions lie down the road -- as shown by another Monday announcement: Ford Motor said its second-generation Sync service will turn cars into rolling WiFi hotspots in 2010...

General peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems have been ubiquitous throughout the Internet since the mid-1990s. While such systems were made famous -- or infamous -- by the likes of Napster, the common thread with those systems was the general architecture. P2P systems consist of a distributed network architecture that requires participants to make a portion of their computer system resources, such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth, directly available to other network participants without the need for a central server or host to oversee the exchange. ...

U.S. airlines may not keep passengers waiting in an airplane on a tarmac -- whether for take-off clearance or stalled because of bad weather or just about any other reason -- for more than three hours, according to new rules issued by the Department of Transporation. After two hours, airlines are required to give passengers food and water. The onl...

Motorola appears to be gearing up to release its Android-powered "Sholes" handset in China, kicking into high gear the many rumors that have been circulating in the U.S. about the device ...

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace rely on the trusted nature of the relationship between friends, colleagues, associates and followers. Unfortunately, the level of trust that end-users invest in each other is also being applied to the makers of applications and is perhaps a little over-optimistic. Increasingly, cybercriminals are being drawn by the possibilities opened up by application development on popular Web 2.0 Web sites with the promise of more money, which results in more infections and more potential for something to go horribly wrong with computers being used both at home and in a corporate environment...

Verizon recently doubled its early termination fees (ETFs) to US$350 for customers who want out of their wireless phone contracts -- a fee much higher than competing carriers charge. However, there's no need to worry; the extra money coming into Verizon not only helps the nation meet its mobile broadband goals, it also helps lower-income consumers to consider buying a smartphone...