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Best Buy Cruises for Green With Electric Vehicles

Best Buy is rolling out a pilot program for a new product category: electronic bicycles, scooters and Segways. The company has announced it will be selling these vehicles in 20 stores in Washington, Oregon and California, with electric motorcycles to join the mix later this summer. ...

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SaaS Keeps Recession Wolves at Bay: Q&A With E2open CEO Mark Woodward

It is has been a roller-coaster year for E2open CEO Mark Woodward, mainly because that is how long he has been at the helm of the Software as a Service provider of supply-and-demand chain, procurement, and B2B integration applications. ...

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The Cloud's Growing SLA Ecosystem

It's been four months since Google announced it would This story was originally published on March 10, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. ...

Dish Network DVR Features Get Stay of Execution

The final day of reckoning in the four-year battle between TiVo and EchoStar has been pushed out a little further. Late Wednesday evening, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted EchoStar's request to stay a contempt order imposed by the U.S. District Court the day before, until its appeal can be heard. ...

Green Dam Protesters Wait for China's Other Shoe to Drop

China reversed itself Tuesday, lifting the mandate to install Web-filtering software on all personal computers sold in the country. The Green Dam-Youth Escort software -- ostensibly a means to stem the flow of pornography -- was to be installed on all computers shipped into China beginning July 1. ...

Firefox 3.5 Streaks Onto the Web

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5, the latest edition of its open source browser, one year after its release of Firefox 3. ...

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ERP Should Pay for Itself in a Year: Q&A With xTuple CEO Ned Lilly

The universe of enterprise resource planning providers is huge; ditto for open source. The space where twain meet? Not so much. xTuple is an open source ERP provider, and CEO Ned Lilly says there are few fellow travelers on his company's path. ...

Kayak Makes Waves Over Bing's Design Similarities

Microsoft is the target of yet another legal challenge -- this time from the online travel Web site Kayak, which has sent the software giant a letter noting similarities between its own site and Bing's travel service. It has asked Microsoft to take steps to address the matter ...

Windows 7 Likely to Get Chilly Reception at Enterprise Door

Right now, Microsoft is focusing on the consumer market by getting Windows 7 out in time for the holiday season and announcing price points compatible with recession-era budgets. ...

Pros Cool, Bloggers Warm Toward Microsoft's Security Freeware

A beta version of Microsoft's free computer security software is now out. Microsoft Security Essentials, or SE, aka "Morro," replaces Redmond's OneCare subscription service ...

Microsoft Puts Price Tags on Windows 7 and Holds Its Breath

Microsoft has announced price points for its highly anticipated Windows 7 operating system, which is expected to be generally available on Oct. 22. OEMs will start shipping new machines with Windows 7 on Oct. 2 ...

MySpace Hunkers Down in US

Social networking pioneer MySpace is planning to close at least four offices in overseas markets, as well as eliminate two-thirds of its staff outside the U.S. Specifically, it is going to cut 300 of the 450 jobs that are based in global markets. ...

Nortel Asset Sale Punctuates End of Era

Nortel Networks has agreed to sell its two advanced wireless technology business units to Nokia Siemens for US$650 million. The companies hope to close the sale by Q3 of this year. ...

RIAA Beats Minnesota Mom to the Tune of $1.92 Million

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota mom who has been at the center of the RIAA's legal battle against music piracy, has been found liable for illegal file-sharing in the retrial of Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset ...

Microsoft Hauls Click Fraudsters Into Court

Microsoft has initiated a civil lawsuit in the Western District of Seattle seeking US$750,000 in damages from three individuals in Vancouver, British Columbia, for committing click fraud. The three alleged fraudsters are two brothers and a mother -- Eric Lam, Gordon Lam and Melanie Suen -- who, according to Microsoft, have deployed botnets to drive up clicks at Web sites that compete with theirs.

IBM Offers Platform for Diving Into the Cloud

IBM had added a new service-and-hardware offering to its cloud computing repertoire. The bundle targets users seeking a single jumping-off point for deployment of a cloud environment focused on a discrete task, such as a test bed for application development ...

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Turning 'Interesting Moments' Into Sales: Q&A With Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez

If there is any one characteristic of the current economy that stands out, it is that people are just not buying. From billionaires to budget shoppers, frugal is in. ...

Feds Freeze Accounts Holding Online Poker Winnings

It looks as though the Southern District of New York has opened a new front in the war on Internet gambling. ...

Computer Accident Study Highlights Hazards of Home Office

Computers are the cause of a surprising number of serious injuries every year -- usually to children. The number of acute computer-related injuries increased by 732 percent -- from nearly 1,300 to approximately 9,300 injuries per year -- according to a study conducted by the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital from 1994-2006...

China's New PC Policy Injects Big Brother With Steroids

China is stepping up the monitoring of its citizens' Internet activity. A new directive requires PC makers selling products in the country to include software that can filter out pornography and other online content the government deems inappropriate. ...

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