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• Microsoft Live Search now embedded in Facebook

  When Microsoft announced it had struck a deal with Facebook to integrate its Live Search technology into the Facebook platform, the Redmondians were reluctant to share details. But as of ...

  Tags: Microsoft Live Search, Finance, Microsoft Corp., Redmond Pie Site, Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Blogging, Business Structures, Facebook, Search

  Oct 07, 2008 1:53 PM PDT

• Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offering

  Microsoft has halted -- temporarily, according to company officials -- sales of its Software Licensing and Protection SLP Services product. by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Management, Sales, SLP Services, Business Operations, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Corp.

  Oct 07, 2008 1:43 PM PDT

• Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?

  At the upcoming Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, "platform" will be the watchword of the day. I'm going to be interested to see which cloud platform of the many that Microsoft ...

  Tags: Zurich, Platform, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Mary Jo Foley, Mesh Platform, Business Operations

  Oct 07, 2008 1:05 PM PDT

• Chicken, egg and mobile open source

  Mobile systems are not like server or client systems. The softare needs cooperation to work. The handset maker must load it, or allow it to be loaded. The network must, ...

  Tags: Network, Advertising & Promotion, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Marketing, Mobile Open Source, Internet, Chicken, Mobile

  Oct 07, 2008 12:59 PM PDT

• Online, hard to avoid debate

  Tonight's presidential debate is spring up all over the Net. NBC's Hulu has launched a new Election 08 hub, which PaidContent describes as "an odd mix of debates, speeches, political ...

  Tags: Sales, Richard Koman, Sales Force Management, Debate

  Oct 07, 2008 11:50 AM PDT

• Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

  The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike ...

  Tags: SAP AG, Dennis Howlett, Finance, Forrester Research Inc., Software, Ray, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment

  Oct 07, 2008 11:34 AM PDT

• CIO Sessions: Visa's Michael Dreyer

  Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses ...

  Tags: Payment, Finance, Visa Inc., Larry Dignan, Operational Accounting

  Oct 07, 2008 11:14 AM PDT

• First impressions of the Dash Express connected GPS device

  I checked out a Garmin StreetPilot c580 last summer and thought it was a pretty compelling dedicated GPS system since it had MSN Direct integration to provide some wireless functionality. ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Matthew Miller, Handhelds, GPS, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Device, Wi-Fi, Maps, Display

  Oct 07, 2008 10:58 AM PDT

• Blogger ethics, public relations... and you

  Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether ...

  Tags: Jennifer Leggio, Public Relations, Blogger, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Blogging, Public Relations Professional, Ethics

  Oct 07, 2008 10:51 AM PDT

• Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forward

  A federal judge has ruled that an antitrust suit against Apple and A&T over exclusivity deals for the iPhone may move forward, Ars Technica reports. Apple and AT&T signed a ...

  Tags: Corporate Law, Apple Inc., Richard Koman, Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Security, AT&T Corp., Business Operations

  Oct 07, 2008 10:50 AM PDT

• Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

  Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Phone, Telecommuting, Workforce Management, Telecom & Utilities, Sam Diaz

  Oct 07, 2008 10:42 AM PDT

• Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification

  The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Scammer, SMS, Credit Card, ATM, Consumer Electronics, Device, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Network Technology

  Oct 07, 2008 10:37 AM PDT

• Google is your friend

  I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our ...

  Tags: Web 2.0, Christopher Dawson, Internet, Google Inc.

  Oct 07, 2008 10:13 AM PDT

• Why Agile development matters [podcast]

  Lengthy IT projects are more prone to fail than shorter ones. Agile development can help reduce these failures. by Michael Krigsman

  Tags: Lengthy IT Project, OutSystems, Business User, Agile, Podcasts, Information Technology, End-user Engagement, Internet, Michael Krigsman, Developer

  Oct 07, 2008 10:11 AM PDT

• TRO hearing today on RealDVD

  Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the ...

  Tags: Scripting Languages, RealDVD, CSS, Web Development, DVD, Richard Koman, Software/Web Development, Real

  Oct 07, 2008 10:09 AM PDT

• Apple begins shipping replacement iPhone chargers

  Apple announced a recall of all of its ultracompact USB power adapter for iPhone pictured on 21 September 2008 because its metal prongs can break off and remain in a ...

  Tags: Management, Apple Inc., Strategy, Apple iPhone, Recall, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Oct 07, 2008 9:56 AM PDT

• Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum

  The term "brick" was mentioned in a 9-to-5 Mac rumor piece on 10 September 2008 when their source said that the MacBook update is "all about the Brick." 9-to-5 Mac ...

  Tags: BW, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Brick, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Oct 07, 2008 9:49 AM PDT

• The invisible frontier of our solar system

  On October 19, NASA will launch a new spacecraft named IBEX, short for 'Interstellar Boundary Explorer.' Its mission, which will last about two years, is to refine what the Voyager ...

  Tags: NASA, Orbit, Roland Piquepaille, Spacecraft, IBEX, Earth, Solar System

  Oct 07, 2008 9:46 AM PDT

• The debate over kids and animals

  On the hit list of lead author Dr. Robert Frenck at the University of Cincinnati are exotic cats and raccoons, ferrets, monkeys, Gambian rats, hedgehogs, reptiles, baby chickens and hamsters. ...

  Tags: Kid, Flash Memory, Dana Blankenhorn

  Oct 07, 2008 9:25 AM PDT

• Visa CIO: Michael Dreyer

  Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses ...

  Tags: Payment, Finance, Visa Inc., Operational Accounting, Administrator

  Oct 07, 2008 9:21 AM PDT

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