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SAP to Miss Revenue Targets

SAP will miss revenue targets for the 2006 fourth quarter, according to its preliminary review of the quarter's results ...

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OpenNet Partner Ronald Deibert: Internet Censorship on the Rise

A few weeks ago, Wikipedia inadvertently blocked users in Qatar from amending posts to the collaborative Web site as it hurried to respond to a spike in spam ...

Yahoo Wades Into Hyperactive Mobile Search Space

Consumers -- at least those that own either Motorola'snew MotoRazr maxx V6 and MotoRazr V3xx devices -- arestarting to downloadYahoo's beta version of its Go For Mobile 2.0, whichlaunched this week at the International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) ...

Dell Urges Industry to Go Green

Dell on Wednesday introduced its new "Plant a Tree for Me" program, in which customers can donate a small portion of the purchase price of a Dell product to funds that plant trees around the world ...

55 Percent of US Teens Use Social Networking Sites

More than half of all American teenagers network online, according to new research conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project ...

Automotive OEMs Must Further Tighten Supply Chains

Auto manufacturers face stark choices over the next five to seven years, a period that is likely to see increasing bankruptcies and consolidations, according to KPMG's annual global automotive survey ...

Survey: Customers Want Flexible Return Policies

When Matthew Card tried to return a ski jacket toL.L. Bean's flagship store in Freeport, Maine, he was pleasantlysurprised ...

Year of the Tech Patent Lawsuit, Part 2

One of the most recent cases to go before the Supreme Court, KSR v. Teleflex, was also one of the most significant, at least to patent attorneys, as the basic standards used to grant a patent are now under review. It was a fitting end to 2006, during which a number of high profile patent disputes made their way into mainstream headlines ...

Keep Your Resolutions With a Little Help From the Web

It's 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 2. You are at the local food court for lunch, and acutely conscious of your New Year's resolution, which is to lose those pesky 10 pounds you've been trying to shed forever ...

Banking BPO to Reach $6.7 Billion by 2011

A new report finds that the banking-specific business process outsourcing (BPO) market is poised for significant growth ...

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Avoiding Common Outsourcing Pitfalls

Renault is marketing a car called the Logan -- a starter vehicle that retails for about US$6,300. A safety conscious consumer may pause before getting in -- but he shouldn't, or at least not more so than he would with any other car. Renault is not cutting corners in its manufacturing process. Instead, Renault is reverse engineering its landed costs to make sure its manufacturing and sources processes are done at the lowest cost possible...

Hacker Claims to Have Cracked Next Gen DRM Standard

A hacker who calls himself Muslix64 has Hollywood and music studios on edge this New Year's Eve weekend as they wait to see whether their latest digital rights management software standard will work as designed ...

Microsoft’s RSS Patent Application Raises Hackles

An application that Microsoft filed last year with the U.S. Patent andTrademark Office could be interpreted to give the software giant broad rightsto RSS, or really simple syndication, technology ...

Upstart Search Engine Wikiasari to Take On Google

Since Jimmy Wales' announcment last week that he plans to launch a newsearch engine in Q1 2007, speculation has been rife over what it could mean for the search industry -- and specifically for Google ...

OPINION

Pretexting Problems in Everyday Life

Him: "What purchases have you made lately? Just the last one would be fine." ...

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Sage CRM’s Dave Batt on New Migration Products

Earlier this month, Sage Software announced it had acquired one of its longtime partners, Corum, a Canada-based provider of CRM technology ...

Google Upgrades Blogger Service

Google upgraded its Blogger service from the beta that had been in place. The new Blogger is still only available to a select user group, with Google planning to make the upgraded version generally available in the future ...

M2M to Acquire KNOVA

M2M Holdings has signed an agreement to acquire CRM provider KNOVA Software, in an all cash transaction valued at approximately US$47 million. The deal is expected to close at the end of the first quarter of 2007, subject to approval by KNOVA shareholders ...

Opera Designs Browser for Nintendo’s Wii

Nintendo is providing Wii users with a beta version of Opera's Web browser that has been specifically developed for Wii games and software ...

Year of the Tech Patent Lawsuit, Part 1

What is shaping up to be a landmark technology patent lawsuit,KSR v. Teleflex, is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court right now. At its most basic, the decision could redefine the standard of "obviousness" that is usedwhen deciding whether a patent should be granted for aparticular invention or development ...

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