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"Does negative press make you Sicko?" That's the title of Google ad rep Lauren Turner's post in a new company blog for the healthcare industry. "Sicko" is a reference to Michael Moore's latest documentary, now out in theaters, which examines access to healthcare in the U.S ...

NetSuite made its long-anticipated move toward becoming a public company, filing the necessary paperwork on Monday. The company plans to raise up to US$75 million with its initial public offering of common stock. The filing did not state the number of shares or the expected IPO price, however ...

ATG has introduced a service center application for its e-commerce suite, ATG Commerce, that builds on some of the company's previous acquisitions. The Commerce Service Center contact center application integrates e-commerce functionality with back-end order administration, sales support and customer care ...

Oracle has released Contact Center Anywhere 8.1, an application that builds on its acquisition of Telephony@Work, an on-demand provider of IP-based softwareinfrastructure for hosted contact center services, made exactly a year ago ...

Political Web sites abound on the Internet. A recent visit to just a few of them turned up a couple of polls asking variations of the question whether Dick Cheney should be impeached for violations of several U.S. laws ...

Another voice has chimed in on the controversial and complex debate over net neutrality ...

Google has been ratcheting up its campaign to compel Microsoft to further open its Vista operating system to third-party search engines ...

Next year, when taxpayers call theInternal Revenue Service for help answering questions as they fill out a return, they will know how many minutes they will have to wait on hold before they can speak with an agent ...

The saga of the US$54 million lawsuit against a Washington, D.C.-area dry cleaners over a missing pair of pants has come to an end, with Washington Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruling against the plaintiff, Roy Pearson ...

A new survey conducted by theComputing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) shows that while vendors are gearing up for greater use of radio frequency identification applications in the supply chain, customers have been slow to accept them ...

Nuance Communications, the lead vendor in the growing speech-recognition software category, plans to acquire Time Warner'sTegic Communications for US$265 million. The acquisition will add $45 million to $48 million in net revenue in fiscal 2008, the company reported ...

Earlier this month, it looked for a while as though there might be another wave of multi-jurisdictional investigations against Microsoft reminiscent of the antitrust saga that began in 1998. Google had been complaining -- first behind the scenes, then publicly -- about the lack of access for third-party search engines in Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista...

The three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court has upheld a ruling that grants extensive new privacy protections for e-mail users. It is an ambitious decision -- said to be the first for the Circuit Courts -- and one that is almost surely headed to the Supreme Court for review ...

Oracle is enhancing the mobile options it offers to Siebel CRM On Demand customers through partnerships with best-of-breed application vendors and device manufacturers. Earlier this year, for example, it announced a partnership with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. More recently, it struck a deal to integrate Siebel CRM On Demand withVettro's portfolio of mobile on-demand sales applications...

Of the 88 White House officials who also have e-mail accounts with the Republican National Committee, some 51 are missing records, according to a House Oversight Committee interim report released on Monday ...

LG Electronics has filed a countersuit against Hitachi alleging that the firm has infringed seven of its patents that relate to plasma display panel (PDP) technologies. The suit comes in response to similar accusations made by Hitachi against LG Electronics in April -- namely, that LG was improperly using Hitachi's PDP patent ...

Salestream Software has launched an upgraded version of its e-mail marketing add-in for Microsoft Outlook. PoliteMail 2.0 allows users to craft 1to1 marketing messages instead of generic e-mails. Its major selling point is that users don't have to leave Outlook to use PoliteMail ...

Given that a swarm of presidential candidates in both the Republican and Democratic camps have participated in several formal television debates, many voters may already be feeling election fatigue some 18 months before the big day. That should not stop viewers from tuning in on July 23, however, when eight Democratic presidential candidates will debate once again in South Carolina. The difference? The event will be sponsored by YouTube andCNN -- and the questions won't be fired by sober-faced, polite journalists; they'll be coming from, well, anybody...

Oncontact Software has released a new version of its CRM (customer relations management) suite that is fully interoperable with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. This is the first release in a two-part rollout: Oncontact will release an enhancement to its Web offering in August ...

The FBI is launching a new initiative in the cyber crime wars, taking on the criminal organizations -- the so-called "botherders" -- that have gathered under their control compromised or zombie PCs. The bot herders' purpose is to send out malware or spam and phishing campaigns over the Internet that cannot be traced back to their origins ...