Monthly Archives: August 2005
Google Releases Blogger for Microsoft Word
Google announced earlier this week the release of Blogger for Word, a free add-in, downloadable from the Web, that allows users of the Weblog...
Innovative Backup System Uses Unused Disk Space
A small software developer in Chennai, India has come up with a unique twist on backup that just might give more expensive, established solutions...
Qualcomm Buys Content Delivery Company
Wireless technology giant Qualcomm Inc. on Tuesday announced that it had acquired Elata Ltd., a British mobile content delivery software company, for some $57...
People Who Dont Need People, Are the Luckiest People at the Self-Checkout
Are consumers seeing self-checkout as the anti-customer-service initiative they feared? Not according to the latest industry study, which predicts self-checkout revenue will double this...
Salesforce.com Reports Strong Sales, Subscriber Growth
Salesforce.com Wednesday reported profits of $5 million on total revenue of $71.9 million for its fiscal second quarter, as it continued to show strong...
Blog Search Engine Threatens Ban of Blogger Blogs
Mark Cuban—self-dubbed "blog maverick" and owner of both the Weblog search engine IceRocket and the Dallas Mavericks—has warned that those who use Googles free...
Domain Registrations Soar Overseas
Total Internet domain name registrations have notched an 8 percent increase since the first quarter of 2005 and a 28 percent increase since the...
Managers Underutilize ITIL, Survey Says
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance has fueled interest in the IT Infrastructure Library best practices, but a lack of understanding of ITIL and lack of baseline performance...
Microsoft Ships Zotob Worm Zapper
Microsoft Corp. late Wednesday shipped an update to its malware removal tool to detect and delete the fast-spreading "Zotob" worm family.
Microsoft typically updates the...
RSS Is a Label We Dont Need to See
Regardless of what Dave Winer—or anybody else—thinks, the term "RSS" should never be seen by the average Internet user.
I am weighing in on this...