Google Insights for Search Keeps Yahoo, Microsoft at Bay
Google launches Insights for Search, a Web analytics tool designed to keep advertisers connecting with customers and enterprises online. Such tools are also what keeps Google ahead of Yahoo, Microsoft and the rest of the search advertising pack. - Google Aug. 6 released Google Insights for Search, a neat little tool that can help
advertisers better engage with their audiences.
Good customer engagement will keep advertisers from taking their online ad
campaigns to Yahoo and Microsoft. Google's search analytics tools fuel
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Ready for RTM
Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing after several delays. Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will help Microsoft compete with Oracle and its 11g database, and IBM and its DB2 9.5 database. SQL Server 2008 will be generally available within two weeks. - After delays and speculation, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is being released to manufacturing Aug. 6.
Microsoft officials did not give a definitive general availability date, but a spokesperson said it is expected to be within two weeks. Pricing for SQL Server is expected to remain the same, which M...
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ClearCube Virtual Desktop Offerings Expand
The ClearCube Virtual Desktop Infrastructure suite is expanding to include a new blade chassis, additional thin-client PCs, support for Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor and an update to its Sentral management software. In building out its virtualization offerings, ClearCube is competing against the likes of HP and IBM when it comes to PC blades. - PC blade vendor ClearCube is expanding its desktop virtualization infrastructure offerings to include a new blade, chassis and thin-client PCs, along with support for Microsofts Hyper-V hypervisor.
ClearCube, which has been moving away from its origins as a traditional hardware vendor to expand int...
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Borland is Bullish on Agile Development
Borland is adopting agile development as a core tenet of its software delivery strategy as a way of speeding up application development and saving costs. - Borland Software is going full bore into agile software development.
On Aug. 6 at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto, Pete Morowski, Borland's senior vice president of research and development, is scheduled to present a session entitled quot;Driving Agile Transformation from the Top Down. quot;...
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IBM, Linux Dealers Seize Chance to Market 'Microsoft-Free' Desktop
The slow adoption of Vista is giving IBM and Linux distributors an opportunity to convince enterprises that there are good desktop software alternatives to Windows. IBM, Canonical, Novell and Red Hat will work with hardware makers to market custom-designed PCs preloaded with Linux and Lotus word processing and collaboration software. - SAN FRANCISCO IBM's front-line Linux and open-source troops were out in
full force at Linux World Conference amp; Expo Aug. 5 in their continuing
effort to remind the community at large that the company is serious about
becoming more open-source-minded in enterprise product development.
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DOJ, Secret Service Move Against International Hacker, ID Theft Ring
The U.S. Attorney and Secret Service claim an international crime syndicate was behind the identity theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from TJX Companies, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW. The Department of Justice and Secret Service allege that the hackers used wardriving to hack networks and sniffer programs to capture card numbers and customer data. - In what is believed to the largest hacking and identity theft case ever
prosecuted, the Department of Justice said Aug. 5 it has indicted 11 people for
the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers.
According to the DOJ, the card numbers were obtained by quot;wardrivin...
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11 Charged in TJX Network Security Breach, Identity Theft
The U.S. Attorney in Boston and Secret Service charge 11 with identity theft of millions of credit and debit cards from the TJX database breach. More than 40 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen when hackers breached the network of TJX and stole customer data from retailers BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW. - BOSTON (Reuters) The U.S. government charged 11 people on Tuesday
with stealing tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from
major retailers including TJX Cos Inc, in one of the largest reported
identity-theft incidents on record.
The U.S. Attorney in Boston said those charged were inv...
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Delta Prepares Wi-Fi Launch
Delta plans to offer complete wireless Internet service, including access to corporate and personal e-mail accounts, SMS texting and instant messaging. Delta officials say the Wi-Fi service, supplied by Aircell, will work with laptops, smart phones and other PDAs. - Delta Air Lines officials said Aug. 5 the airline will begin
introducing Wi-Fi service in fall 2008 for its entire U.S.
domestic fleet, offering wireless broadband connections by summer 2009. The Wi-Fi
service will be installed by Aircell, which won an exclusive frequency license
from the Fede...
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Symantec Unveils Virtual Desktop
Symantec's virtual workspace offering will let enterprise users take their business desktops with them wherever they go. The technology comes from nSuite, which Symantec is buying. - Symantec has a new take on the virtualized desktop that should catch some attention from enterprise and mid-range companies, although it really doesn't yet have a specific product name.
Describing it only as a quot;virtualized workspace, quot; Symantec officials Aug. 5 announced that they wil...
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Central Desktop to Challenge Microsoft SharePoint, Google Apps in Collaboration Software
Central Desktop is one of several Web collaboration startups trying to compete with Microsoft SharePoint and Google Apps for a share of the Web collaboration market. Central Desktop has added a database API that enables enterprise application integration, time-tracking tools and a help desk application atop its messaging and collaboration tools. - Central Desktop, one of several Web collaboration software providers trying
to compete with Microsoft SharePoint and Google Apps for a share of the SMB Web
collaboration market, has added time tracking, support and help desk
applications and a new database API that
lets teams integrate data from...
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