SAN FRANCISCO – If wireless telecommunications providers don’t clean up their act, State legislators may have no choice but to bow to pressure from their constituents to regulate. A panel on wireless regulation here today focused on the tension between consumers’ demands and the industry’s business models. The panel, part of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry […]
Consumers are the bleeding-edge testing grounds for any new Internet technology — e-mail, the Web, online video, blogging. After the public shakeout, businesses begin to eye their application. Virtual world technology is next in line for an enterprise upgrade. On Wednesday, IBMand Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, announced an initiative to create open standards […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — For now, Microsoft is ceding the race for users to 800-pound gorilla Google. Instead, executives said, the company will focus on improving the experience for existing users. At its Searchification event, held Wednesday at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, executives briefed analysts, reporters and advertisers on changes to its core technology. To […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The so-called Web 2.0 apps — blogs, wikis, photo-sharing, collaboration, community and other kinds of content generation– still struggle to penetrate the business community. While it’s still tough to get people to change the way they work, there’s a culture clash brewing. Today, Office 2.0, the two-year-old conference dedicated to the use […]
Good neighbors keep an eye on each other and spread the word on dodgy lurkers on the corner. Sun Microsystems, Google and Lenovo want to do the same on the Internet. They’re backing Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute in StopBadware.org, an initiative that aims to […]
Don’t you hate it when your new CRM application crashes your system? Enterprises using Salesforce.com’s hosted applications will soon be able to crash-test their deployments without fear by using Sandbox, an optional service expected this quarter. Customers can use Sandbox to test new applications installed from AppExchange, evaluate new customizations or features before rolling them […]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has become the latest member of a growing group challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) order that all Voice over IP (define) providers must build a standardized wiretap backdoor into their systems. The order would “dramatically increase” the government’s surveillance powers on the Internet, the ACLU said in a […]
If the first item on your holiday wish list is a job, you just may get your wish. That is, if you lay off the eggnog and work the phones. Many people see the time between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays as downtime, a period where business goes into a lull. They are wrong, wrong, […]
The streaming video market seems to have matured — at least in terms of its audience. A research report recently released found that consumers between the ages of 35 and 54 years old accounted for more than 45 percent of all online video watched in August 2005. The research was conducted by comScore Networks in […]
”Oh, no! I forgot about the Web!” This is a nightmare Bill Gates has had before. As he acknowledged in a memo, distributed to news organizations on Wednesday, Microsoft was blindsided 10 years ago by the rise of the Web and Netscape. Now, it’s time to play catch-up again. In that decade, Google grew from […]
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