Monthly Archives: January 2007
Multichannel E-Commerce Inefficiency Can No Longer Be Ignored
Few have argued that multichannel marketing isnt attractive and most probably essential, and fewer still have questioned the maddening inefficiency of such a system.
An...
RIM Licenses Kodiaks Push-to-Talk for BlackBerry
Kodiak Networks announced Jan. 4 that it has signed a global licensing agreement with Research In Motion to feature several mobile applications, including push-to-talk,...
Cisco Buys E-mail Security Specialist IronPort
Cisco Systems announced on Jan. 4 that it has agreed to buy IronPort, a provider of messaging and Web security appliances, for approximately $830...
Company Throws Down Gauntlet for Hackers
Wibu-Systems USA is challenging hackers around the globe to take their best shot at cracking their encryption technology.
Its a winner-take-all contest, and the prize...
Google Reader Adds RSS Trends
Wow, this is cool, and it's going to finally get me to change over to Google Reader for good.The Google Reader team has just...
Google Calendar: Proving Google’s “Points of Entry” Strategy Works?
LeeAnn Prescott at Hitwise reports that traffic to Google Calendar recently surpassed MSN Calendar and is set to surpass Yahoo Calendar in the next...
SanDisk Ships New High-Speed Solid State Drive
Solid state drive and memory-card maker SanDisk on Jan. 4 introduced a 32GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive that can be used as a drop-in...
No GPLv3 for MySQL … Yet
Kaj Arno, MySQL vice president of community relations, quietly revealed on his blog before Christmas that MySQL has changed its license to "GPL2 Only."
This...
Download: Intertainer v. Google, Apple and Napster
I didn't have a chance yesterday to find the Intertainer v. Google, Apple and Napster lawsuit, but I ran across it this morning and...
Novell to Buy XenSource? Altiris?
Matt Asay, formerly the man in charge of Novells Linux and open-source strategy, thinks that Novell may be getting ready to buy up Altiris...