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Yahoo is helping make location more global with the launch of its new Fire Eagle platform. Fire Eagle lets users update their location in one centralized place, then have that data broadcast to a number of services The launch opens up new possibilities for developers. Because the platform is open, any service can put the data to use -- and plenty a...

Brocade Communications' fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 90 percent as a result of fast-growing sales of its new network switching products and professional services business The San Jose, Calif.-based company reported earnings of US$20.3 million on $365.7 million in revenue, compared to $10.7 million in earnings on $327.5 million in revenue duri...

Studies announced this week by What They Play, a parents' guide to the video games their kids play, suggest that many parents are more concerned about kids being exposed to adult-themed video games than they are about kids viewing pornography or experimenting with alcohol Anxiety about video games superseded parental concerns about their children d...

Right now, the global business community at large is curious to discover the charm of Dubai and what it is about its business community that works so well. The outside world wants to know, who these people are, how they run their projects, and what they do exactly that is so grand and magical? While the rest of the world looks in, a recent report o...

Kathleen Gilroy, cofounder of Swift Media Networks in Boston, eats, lives and breathes Web 2.0. Not only is her latest business venture focused on Web 2.0 services for conferences, but she's also used just about every Web-based tool there is to run her own various startups. With five full-time staff members, she has become a well-seasoned user of blogs, wikis, collaboration tools and just about any other free or low-cost service she can leverage.

This week, Sage Software is bringing out version 11 of ACT, its high-flying contact management software. ACT has been around since the mid-1980s and has been through multiple incarnations and owners in that time. ACT was what you used back then if you were tired of keeping notes on paper and wanted to improve the way you sell. I can remember a DOS (disk operating system) version of the product that would look almost alien in comparison to today's slick GUI (graphical user interface) version. ...

If John McCain wanted a strong woman on his side, he couldn't have done much better than Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP who has recently been making a name for herself on the political scene Fiorina has been serving as an economic adviser and advocate for the McCain campaign, and there have been rumors that she is a vice-presidential hopeful.

Dell announced on Tuesday seven new laptop models aimed at what it termed today's "digital nomads." The new laptops are the fourth generation of the Dell Latitude line and are designed with light weight and durability in mind The Latitude laptops use new proprietary Dell technology that extends battery life up to 19 hours on a single charge, the co...

The timing is suspicious: Just as Russian tanks began their physical assaults on Georgia's armies, that country's civilian communications infrastructure started coming under attack in cyberspace Yet there is no direct evidence that ties this Internet warfare to the Russian government, and it may stay that way even as Georgia's president shifts his ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced the upcoming availability of what it says is the world's fastest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. The card is part of AMD's ATI Radeon 4800 X2 series. It's the most powerful graphics technology to come out of AMD, delivering a 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power -- that's 2.4 trillion floating point operations per second.

Many Google Gmail users who tried to access their accounts Monday found the service dark. For a period of roughly two hours, users would log on to be greeted with an error message. The outage was caused by a temporary glitch in Google's contacts system, which was preventing Gmail from loading properly, according to the company. Google did not retu...

Tiffany has appealed a ruling in a federal court that online auction company eBay isn't responsible for keeping its users from selling fake jewelry that uses Tiffany's trademark Tiffany, one of the world's most recognizable brands in the jewelry sector, filed its suit against eBay in 2004, claiming that most of the items bearing the Tiffany name on...

Lenovo's going big with its latest laptop offering, the 17-inch W700 ThinkPad Workstation. The 8.3-lb. machine boasts a high-resolution WUXGA display and a host of powerful features to boot The W700 -- starting at US$3,500 -- is without doubt targeted at engineers and other users who need high-performance hardware and displays. It opens up a new ki...

HP on Tuesday announced partnerships with five printing vendors to grow its portfolio of security and manageability enterprise printer and imaging offerings. The new solutions range from check printing security to document capture The new additions to the HP Solution Business Partner (SBP) program is aimed at managing and securing workflow in imagi...

These days, when you hear about downloading music for free, it's usually bad news: a lawsuit from a label, a threat from an ISP, or a crackdown from the government. Now, though, a new startup is turning the tables and encouraging fans to grab all they want -- without paying a single dime. TrueAnthem considers itself a modern-day music label. Launc...

Microsoft will be rolling out eight CRM "accelerators" for its Dynamics CRM product line in the second half of 2008. On the Javista blog, Microsoft's Reuben Krippner gives readers a thorough update on what they will offer customers. On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog, he shares information for the analytics add-on Krippner promises to blog abo...

In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company's plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that will help migrate virtual machines between different hypervisors and virtualization platforms I sat down with Crosby, who joined Citrix from XenSource, ...

In July, Nielsen Media Research reported "watching video on the Internet is no longer a novelty; 119 million unique viewers viewed 7.5 billion video streams in May 2008. In addition, as of Q1 2008, 91 million Americans (36 percent of all mobile phone subscribers in the U.S.) owned a video-capable phone." As content owners look to mobilize their vid...

Yahoo announced a change in its targeted advertising privacy policy Friday. Beginning in late August, users will be able to opt out of customized advertising on the company's main page. The move is an expansion of the Internet portal's opt-out program for targeted ads provided by Yahoo on third-party networks The announcement was part of Yahoo's re...

I certainly don't want to give the impression that I'm too old-school for this new-media, all-digital, high-definition world. Like every other red-blooded American male, I loves me some special effects; the more explosions, computer-generated graphics and visual fireworks the better, as long as they don't completely obliterate character and story B...