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Spending your tax refund before it arrives? You might want to rethink that plan -- and not just because it's fiscally imprudent. There is a growing chance that this tax season you'll learn for the first time that you were the victim of identity theft at some point during the last year ...

IBM has introduced a mashup portfolio designed to help line of business users create applications for specific situations ...

AnOpinion issued by the influential European Commission Article 29 Data Protection Working Party could have a major impact on the way search engines do business ...

Much ink has been spilled about what, exactly, has been the secret of Barack Obama's overwhelming success. There is no denying his charisma or the appeal of his message, but a behind-the-scenes look at how his political machine operates -- namely, how it empowers its people on the ground to operate -- is worth a look as well ...

IBM is unveiling upgrades to its WebSphere Premises Server at Impact, its SOA (service-oriented architecture) event taking place in Las Vegas this week ...

When the Census Bureau sends out its legions of employees to count American heads two years hence, the roughly 140,000 address canvassers and 580,000 enumerators won't be armed with custom-built handheld computers. Instead, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told a House panel on Friday, the government agency will use a paper-based system ...

IBM is putting its heft behind a project that could morph into new way of doing business in Second Life, Linden Lab's virtual 3-D community ...

Oracle has gone to the debt markets to fund its US$8.5 billion purchase of BEA Systems. The company has priced an offering in three series of investment-grade notes for a total of $5 billion ...

SAP has signaled its intention to hand the leadership reins to board member and deputy chief executive Leo Apotheker, naming him as co-CEO to serve alongside current chief Henning Kagermann, whose contract expires in 13 months ...

HP has released a number of new offerings targeting the mid-market, including new Linux management tools, remote security access products and -- for companies embarking on a customer relationship management implementation -- two new additions to the HP ProLiant server line that include configuration blueprints for two popular applications: Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Oracle's Siebel CRM...

A network intrusion atAdvance Auto Parts has put the credit card, debit card and checking account information of up to 56,000 customers in jeopardy ...

You would think, based on blogosphere chatter, that Starbucks invented Web 2.0. The company's introduction ofMy Starbucks Idea last month has inspired numerous bloggers -- some who make it their business to follow Web 2.0, some who could care less about the space -- to post about the new site ...

SynerG, formed in 2005 to develop interactive business mashups, has released its first product -- a contact center application -- from beta ...

Oracle's shares fell 7.2 percent Thursday on news that the company did not sell as many new licenses in its third quarter as expected. The stock closed at US$19.43 per share, down from $20.94 a day earlier ...

As an executive at Callidus Software, Chris Cabrera was frustrated at the mid-market deals he often had to leave at the wayside. There were firms that basically could not afford Callidus' on-premise incentive compensation software, nor the integration and implementation costs that would accompany such an investment ...

Every year,Beagle Research Group scours the tech landscape in search of a few good companies that are developing technologies not only novel to the customer relationship management industry, but also likely to reinvent business processes in their particular niches ...

Having your customers comment on your policies, products or employment practices is one thing. Having them suggest ideas for improving said policies and products -- in a public forum where participants can vote on these ideas, no less -- is an entirely different matter ...

A storm building around a 15-minute online Dutch film critical of the Quran is emblematic not only of the growing ability of cyber forces to banish divergent views -- but also, more specifically, the utter unwillingness of domain name registrars to stand firm against those viral tides of protest ...

Alec Saunders has 1,400 people he calls "friends," at least on Facebook. Some are truly friends from his real life -- many are business contacts, and some are people he met online ...

Avaya has introduced Intelligence Presence, a new software application that gives users -- both in corporate environments and call centers -- the ability to view so-called presence information across multiple sources ...