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Federal prosecutors have drawn first blood in the stock options backdating scandal. Following a five-week trial, Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy and fraud in Federal District Court in San Francisco ...

Recent events have raised questions as to whether San Francisco's municipal WiFi project will ever reach completion. The latest twists in the saga are leading some industry watchers to wonder whether the deployment of WiFi technology across a city may ever reach its full potential ...

Minutes before a looming midnight deadline,California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Friday night decertified e-voting machines manufactured byDiebold Election Systems,Hart Intercivic andSequoia Voting Systems and adopted for use in 39 California counties. The vendors will have 30 days to submit their products for recertification ...

An Ottawa-based provider of CRM for small and medium-sized businesses,The Long Reach Corporation has a surprisingly far-flung customer base, with clients in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan ...

StayinFront has shifted its CRM application to .Net architecture in what is the first major overhaul of its flagship product in two years ...

A tech association representing such industry stalwarts as Google and Microsoft is taking aim at what it sees as a stealth campaign to intimidate consumers from exercising their fair use rights with respect to copyrighted material ...

Shoshanna Berman, an intern in New York City, is happily dating her ideal future husband: a nice, young -- and tall -- Orthodox Jewish man who is also outgoing and easygoing ...

A report commissioned by the Florida Department of State has found flaws in Diebold's e-voting software that could compromise the integrity of its optical scan and touch screen machines. Although Diebold corrected many flaws previously identified, significant vulnerabilities remain, found researchers at Florida State University's Security and Assurance in Information Technology Laboratory...

Sun Microsystems has chalked up its third profitable quarter in a row, a testament that the company's turnaround plan is taking hold ...

Genius.com has released Genius Team -- a new edition of SalesGenius, the marketing and sales application it debuted last year. The new team application automates many of the tasks in SalesGenius and provides a venue for greater administrative control, according to Felicity Wohltman, vice president of marketing for the firm ...

A test of three electronic voting systems certified for use in California has uncovered serious security flaws. Researchers at the University of California conducted the tests at the behest of Secretary of State Debra Bowen under a US$1.8 million contract ...

Microsoft announced plans to acquire online advertising exchangeAdECN -- its latest move in an aggressive strategy to build out its advertising platform ...

Oracle released its latest semiannual upgrade of its Siebel CRM On Demand product. Unlike previous releases that focused on smaller changes and tweaks, Release 14 incorporates substantial improvements to its architecture and integration capabilities. In fact, it is the product's most significant update yet, according to Anthony Lye, senior vice president of CRM On Demand...

If executives at MySpace expected to win praise as good corporate citizens for ridding their Web site of 29,000 registered sexual offenders, those hopes have vanished by now ...

With its sex appeal, direct conduit to YouTube and ability to store videos and music -- advantages hardly conducive to productivity in a work environment -- it would not seem likely that many businesses would want to incorporate the iPhone into their operations ...

It is the rare political debate in which a winner is definitely declared. Sure, there have been a few in which candidates delivered zingers that resonated -- or stung. The Carter Reagan debates ("Are you better off now than you were four years ago?") and the vice presidential debates between Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen ("Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy") top the list...

Avaya is extending its mobile applications to give users of Nokia Eseries business devices the ability to switch back and forth between private WiFi and public cellular networks ...

SAP's profit rose 8.2 percent thanks to a surprising increase in license sales. In response, the company's stock surged to record highs not seen in the last 18 months ...

Google is expanding the size and scope of its newspaper advertising program to include users of its online AdWords service ...

Salesforce.com has introduced its Summer '07 release, dubbing it a "Platform as a Service" product because of the presence of the developer code Apex in the application ...