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Nintendo developers really had no choice but to make the Wii controllers wireless. Whipping around a Wiimote that's wired to the console, which is wired to the TV, which is wired to the wall -- it's just a recipe for domestic calamity So the Wiimote is very thankfully wireless (though you should still be careful of that cord that connects the nunch...

Part 1 of this two-part series on online advertising addresses some basic errors that even sophisticated ad buyers can make: ignoring target demographics' tastes and sensibilities; using archaic assumptions when measuring the success of an online campaign; and failing to plan for follow-up activities such as fulfillment. Part 2 takes a look at some subtler missteps that can derail a strategy just as easily...

Have you ever answered one of those "how was our service?" questionnaires to let somebody know you weren't happy with the experience you'd had, and then never heard anything back from the business that asked? Or maybe this holiday season your boss asked where the staff wanted to go for the office party, only to have him pick his favorite spot regardless. If you've had one of these experiences, or one similar, then you know what it feels like to be asked your opinion and have it ignored. When it comes to Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) this is a cardinal sin...

Adoption of online video is finally moving into the mainstream. Once constrained to companies for whom the production and distribution of video was their primary business, online video is now entering a stage of broad adoption by companies of all sizes who see video as a way to broaden their marketing reach, deepen interaction and increase engagement through the integration of video assets. This is, in turn, creating a need for open standards aimed at the Web development community, rather than the engineering community...

By looking carefully at the technological, environmental and cultural changes required to fully take advantage of the power of video and telepresence, the full story of how companies can successfully implement this technology is being revealed. Based on a survey of over 150 executives for the November report, "Being in Two Places at Once: Telepresence and Videoconferencing," Aberdeen is uncovering how successful implementations of telepresence occur in the enterprise workplace.

Lithium-ion battery maker Boston-Power and partner HP announced Wednesday the upcoming availability of Boston-Power's next-generation Sonata battery cell. The environmentally friendly and longer-lasting battery will be available as an upgrade option beginning in early 2009 The first product released by Boston-Power, the Sonata provides "like-new" p...

One of Yahoo's largest shareholders is urging the beleaguered Internet company's board to sell its search assets to Microsoft Ivory Investment Management, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund, on Wednesday submitted a letter to Yahoo's board proposing a deal whereby Yahoo would sell its search assets to Microsoft for about US$15 billion, or $25 per share...

Fourteen more companies have joined the Open Handset Alliance, throwing their support behind Android -- the open source mobile platform developed by Google. The most notable new member is Sony Ericsson, which, interestingly, is a founding member of the Symbian Foundation The other new OHA members are AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTek Computer, Athero...

The familiar social media paradigm of "Listen ... Learn ... Engage ... Earn" has a correlative imperative: "Publish or Perish," and enterprises probably need to find someone else to do the job for them. But be really careful about whom you select I've covered the specifics of B2B digital media relations and social media marketing in previous articl...

Nearly five years ago, I wrote a white paper that resonated around the industry like a three-point shot clanging off the front of the rim as time expired. A "brick," in the vernacular of basketball; nonetheless, I view it as some of my finest work. The paper, "The New Garage," takes as its premise that cloud computing -- not simply on-demand or S...

As the server virtualization market continues to mature and more companies adopt server virtualization as a standard within their environments, the concerns and questions we hear day to day about virtual infrastructures are changing. We are no longer asked why and how we should use and deploy virtualization, but rather, is this new environment working for us as we expected it would? Do we have it configured correctly, and are we meeting our overall goals for the solutions we built? ...

Sun Microsystems' biggest institutional investor -- Southeastern Asset Management -- plans to add two new members to the struggling server maker's board of directors Memphis, Tenn.-based Southeastern owns 22 percent of Sun's common stock. Founded in 1975, Southeastern has US$34 billion in total assets under management....

MySpace has introduced its own version of single sign-on functionality, a move that follows on the heels of a handful of announcements last week from competing social networks MySpace Open Platform is a suite of products that includes the MySpace Application Platform, MySpaceID -- formerly called "Data Availability" -- and Post-To MySpace.

Novatel Wireless has introduced a new line of devices that essentially creates a mobile WiFi cloud for users. The technology, dubbed "MiFi" will offer users not only broadband-level connectivity but also a rich applications environment for both businesses and consumers MiFi, unlike traditional router offerings that need an external broadband modem,...

Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony announced Tuesday that it will lay off 8,000 full-time employees by March 2009 and slash spending in an attempt to reposition itself for a prolonged global recession. It also plans to reduce seasonal and temporary workers The cuts will leave Sony with 160,000 employees worldwide.

Maybe you've seen more of them during your Christmas shopping jaunts at the neighborhood mall this holiday season than you did last year; people using smartphones while in stores to do Web searches on products, price comparisons, or even to place orders It's a sight that Google hopes will soon be as prevalent as bell-ringing Santas in front of Salv...

Mozilla released the second beta for its Firefox 3.1 Web browser to testers Monday. The latest release comes just seven weeks after the open source software maker launched the first beta of the version currently in the works "It's not even been six months since we released Firefox 3 but what we've noticed is that the Web continues to move really, r...

Until recently, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- covering a myriad of activities related to hacking and intellectual property theft -- was just one of many questionable federal laws on the books. Then came the case of Lori Drew -- the woman found guilty of a misdemeanor under the Act: accessing protected computers without authorization. What Dr...

Voice today is at center stage in the enterprise. Carrier Session Internet Protocol (SIP) trunks, enterprise SIP trunks, converged IP networks, federating private branch exchanges (PBXs), unified communications and communication-enabled applications are but a few of the many voice initiatives you'll find underway in any large enterprise today. Regardless of the initiative, voice communications in the enterprise are undergoing a massive transformational process because organizations can no longer justify the costs of different approaches to voice and data. The reality is there are no longer any technical reasons for voice to not shed its traditional telephony legacy model and follow the Web model...

With each passing year, hackers come up with new ideas, or variations of past ideas, to combine technology and social engineering to deceive users and attack networks for their financial benefit. The mid-2000s saw the proliferation of botnet attacks used for spam, targeted attacks and worse, while 2007 and 2008 have seen the rise of SQL injection attacks and other Web site exploits as hackers increasingly focus on social networking sites to target millions of users...