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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 ...

Epicor has released its first major overhaul of its CRM application since the company shifted its product line to the .NET platform. At that time, in 2002, Epicor introduced new CRM functionality that played upon the benefits of moving away from a client-server environment. This release focuses more on integration with third-party productivity applications as well as connectivity with such functions as computer telephony...

NetSuite is the first of the Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors to introduce support for Apple's vaunted iPhone. Called "SuitePhone," it provides native support for Safari, the iPhone's browser, as well as NetSuite's own product line and its role-based dashboards ...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has recast Grouper, a video-sharing Web site it acquired last year for $65 million, to attract a more professional caliber of contributed content ...

Warner Music Group has settled a federal copyright-infringement lawsuit it filed in May against the social networking Web siteImeem. Warner alleged that Imeem had allowed members to illegally download copyrighted material and was operating its site without any sort of copyright compliance or filtering software in place ...

Interactive Intelligence has released its second-generation session initiation protocol (SIP) Interaction Gateway, an appliance that enables connections between traditional T1 and E1 trunk lines and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks. The new version includes support for global protocols, fax support and a more scalable eight-span model that can support 1,000 or more users...

Dozens of documents containing classified information that could affect the safety of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been posted on unprotected servers by military agencies and related companies, according to a survey by the Associated Press ...

Google is building on its popular My Maps tab by releasing application programming interfaces (APIs) that can overlay third-party content onto Google Maps ...

Oracle has rolled out the next iteration of its core database product line. Oracle Database 11g, the company proudly claims, is the result of 15 million test hours and 36,000 person-months of development ...

Microsoft tipped its hand just a little bit more about its forthcoming on-demand CRM initiatives at its Worldwide Partner Conference now underway in Denver ...

FrontRange Solutions has made available version 5.1 of FrontRange Voice, an IP telephony software application that can be installed on the desktop without the need for other equipment. It targets small and medium-sized businesses and offers upgrades in functionality and integration over previous versions ...

Live Earth -- a series of nine concerts held in cities across the world and streamed live across the Internet -- exceeded its founders' most ardent expectations ...

Rock concerts for causes took off in the 1970s, with the Concert for Bangladesh, No Nukes, LiveAid and FarmAid electrifying audiences worldwide. However, Live Earth, a series of concerts beginning on July 7 aimed at combating climate change, will go them one better. With the advent of the Internet and time-shifting television technologies, viewers won't have to be glued to their sets in order to catch the show...

The notorious Norwegian hacker, Jon Lech Johansen -- better known as "DVD Jon" for releasing code that broke DVD copy protection in the late 1990s -- has drawn first blood with the iPhone ...