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Microsoft announced it has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of illegal software. These suits are more than double the number of cases Microsoft has filed on any one day -- in fiscal year 2006 it filed 10 cases at one shot. The suits represent the launch of Microsoft's latest and, it says, most fierce pushback yet against software piracy T...
Salesforce.com has released Summer '06, the quarterly update of its flagship on demand CRM application. Improved lead tracking is one of the enhancements in this version, which happens to be Salesforce.com's 20th release. Also, new scripting features for sales beef up the application's sales guidance functionality Salesforce.com has also released a...
The blogsphere is buzzing with a report made by a Skype competitor -- who also helpfully provided screenshots illustrating the event -- that Skype's protocol has been cracked by a Chinese engineering team Charlie Paglee, head of VoIP provider Vozin Communications, claims in his blog, VoIPWiki Blog, that a team at an unnamed research institution rep...
The Department of Homeland Security is testing a new digital emergency system that, once implemented, will deliver alerts to any device that can receive a text message It is expected to go into effect by the end of 2007 after testing, largely carried out through its partnership with the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS), is complete....
Microsoft has announced plans to write Dynamics CRM Live -- its own Software as a Service CRM offering -- on the same code base used for earlier versions of its on-premise application and for the hosted offerings of its partners Right now, only the partner hosted offering and the on-premise application are on the same code base....
Google is planning to open a new, 1,000-employee facility in Michigan that will handle its highly profitable AdWords operations -- but Google watchers using this particular decision to augur the company's direction are likely wasting their time Other than reinforcing Google's intention to continue expanding its AdWords program, which is hardly a se...
SAP Business One will incorporate new e-commerce and CRM capabilities from the company's recently completed acquisition of Praxis Software, a privately held SAP Business One partner whose software allows users to set up online stores The new functionality will also augment Business One's existing CRM capabilities with campaign management and self-s...
For the first time, IBM is making Lotus Notes available for Linux. The initial offering, part of version 7, supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 3 The company will add a Notes client for Novell Suse Linux Desktop within three months. These are the first Linux-based business applications from IBM....
Business intelligence applications have always delighted company executives -- at least as they watched simulated exercises on a sales rep's laptop. Real-world execution, though? Until recently, that has left much to be desired To be sure, it is not entirely the fault of the vendor. Earlier generations of BI applications have been beset with proble...
The minute he heard someone use "I googled him" in a sentence, Robert Beard, president of Lexiteria, which publishes alphaDictionary.com, knew the word was likely to be a keeper "It's a very good sign," he told TechNewsWorld, "when a word assumes its own characteristics. When it expands or contracts in meaning, for instance, it has a good chance of...
Erstwhile open source CRM vendorTechWhale Solutions is getting set to launch its beta 3.0 version of BlueWhaleCRM in August, which the company says will significantly leverage AJAX and ATLAS technologies. In preparation, TechWhale has rolled out an interim release, version 2.0, based on the .NET framework "This latest release is strictly a maintena...
Two class action lawsuits are targeting Windows Genuine Advantage, one of Microsoft's initiatives to stem the massive piracy of its applications. Both suits claim that WGA, which is just a year old, functions essentially as spyware on licensed Microsoft users' PCs in violation of California and Washington's consumer protection and anti-spyware laws...
A district court judge has dismissed the majority of the claims the SCO Group filed against IBM in 2003, which purported that IBM had committed copyright infringement by contributing Unix code to the Linux operating system Last year, IBM asked the court to limit the scope of SCO's claims on the grounds that SCO had not provided enough information o...
Channel partners serving U.S. small and medium-sized businesses can expect their sales to this group to rise by 17 percent to US$154 billion over the next year, according toAMI Partners SMBs can expect to see a greater selection of customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) managed security, and IP telephony applicat...
Earlier this month,Aprimo released Marketing 7.5, a milestone for the company in many respects. It is the first release that incorporates Ensemble, a product acquired from DoubleClick, and it provides business-to-consumer (B2C) campaign management capability for the first time Marketing 7.5 is also the first major release overseen by Chief Marketin...
Sprint had a problem ubiquitous to all retailers: a percentage of customers unhappy with its products and services. However, for Sprint -- one of the nation's largest wireless telecom providers with a complex supply chain that touches upon numerous and overlapping related customer service processes -- the original problem quickly mushroomed to affect other parts of its organization...
Stung by the unprecedented number of identify thefts and data losses that have occurred in recent months across academia, the private sector and the government, a group comprised of representatives from each of these areas has formed the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection To be based at Utica College in New York, the Center's...
Oracle is replacing the IBM tech stack that has supported the Siebel OnDemand application with, not surprisingly, its own tech stack, according to statements made by executive vice president Charles Phillips during a recent conference call Before its acquisition by Oracle, Siebel had a close relationship with IBM, Oracle's main database rival. Thos...
A post made to Microsoft's blog, IT BlogWatch, indicates the company is quietly abandoning WinFS, its once-heralded search and data management technology for Vista It is not a stretch to say the blog posting was more an exercise in public relations spin than an informative read....
Salesforce.com is venturing into the partner relationship management space with the release of Partnerforce, Salesforce Partner Edition PRM, a software category related to CRM, focuses on connecting and maintaining relationships with direct and indirect partners instead of customers....
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