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Security Firms Warn of Looming Sober Worm Threat

Joe Payne, vice president of iDefense's Security Intelligence Services division, said the code seemed to represent an example of "hacktivism," which seeks to combine computer security threats with political causes Payne noted that Sober is already one of the most widespread an...

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Shopping in a Maze: Do Your Online Customers Trust You?

Imagine strolling through the front door of your favorite department store, but instead of finding yourself amid a comforting cacophony of display counters, merchandise, and bustling people, you're instead all alone in a strangely geometric room featuring a series of doors labeled "Women," "Men," "Kids," "Casual Wear," "Formal Wear," and "Cosmetics."

TiVo Develops TV-Ad Search to Mimic Web’s Personalization

Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox said the various efforts can be seen as part of a larger push to feed the type of relevant ads the Web has become known for to more media, including traditional TV In particular, Wilcox said, the Yahoo partnership could let Yahoo, with TiVo'...

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‘Microsoft Effect’ Could Change Shape of CRM for SMBs

Joe Horvath is sales director at iFusion, one of those Microsoft CRM resellers. He said customers are already seeing the benefit of Microsoft's product, but that many businesses are still not sure of how CRM will benefit them "A lot of customers are a lot more savvy and becomi...

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Hedge Funds: Investor Beware

The industry as it exists today is a very inviting place for the unscrupulous and/or incompetent hedge fund manager. To read about some concrete examples of this, just do a Google search on the Bayou Group, the KL Group, or Wood River Partners. You'll see how some hedge fund cowboys have bilked the informed as well as the uninformed investor. In fact, if you just scratch the surface of who invested in these funds, you'll find that it wasn't only the "average Joe," but it also includes major investment houses. Very embarrassing!...

Firefox Contest Calls on Independent Filmmakers

How will the filmmaking contest compare in the shadow of the browser maker's last big stunt? Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox told LinuxInsider expects the publicity campaign to bear good fruit Wilcox said running an amateur filmmaker's contest is a smart way to market the ...

Small Businesses Sitting on a VoIP Wall of Worry

The 10 percent figure is a number expected to grow substantially, however. While the technology is still in its early stages, Joe Porus, chief architect for Harris Interactive's technology research practice, said, "I am encouraged to see how quickly businesses are moving toward adoption." Asked to predict the rate of adoption a year from now, Porus said it appeared to be "steadily climbing" and he expects that "2007 might show VoIP as a dominant technology."

SMBs Sitting on a VoIP Wall of Worry

The 10 percent figure is a number expected to grow substantially, however. While the technology is still in its early stages, Joe Porus, chief architect for Harris Interactive's technology research practice, said, "I am encouraged to see how quickly businesses are moving toward adoption." Asked to predict the rate of adoption a year from now, Porus said it appeared to be "steadily climbing" and he expects that "2007 might show VoIP as a dominant technology."

Keyloggers Swiping Heaps of Identity Data

"There are so many victims because so few know the risk or the early warning signs," VeriSign iDefense Security Intelligence Services Vice President Joe Payne said in a statement. "In addition to basic protections like up-to-date antivirus programs and well-configured firewalls, the best defense for keylogging is to carefully track the organizations and hackers who promulgate these programs."

More Keyloggers Swiping Identity Info

"There are so many victims because so few know the risk or the early warning signs," VeriSign iDefense Security Intelligence Services Vice President Joe Payne said in a statement. "In addition to basic protections like up-to-date antivirus programs and well-configured firewalls, the best defense for keylogging is to carefully track the organizations and hackers who promulgate these programs."

Happy First Birthday, Firefox

"Microsoft restarting Internet Explorer development says a lot about Firefox," Jupiter Research Analyst Joe Wilcox told LinuxInsider. "Microsoft might have started doing that anyway because Windows Vista development was cranking up, but I do think there was some relationship between the events."

Juniper Hires Cisco Thorn

Lynn is now one of the most high-profile security researchers in the business -- and he works for Cisco rival Juniper. Is Cisco's loss Juniper's gain? Current Analysis Analyst Joel Conover told TechNewsWorld he does not see any relevant impact on Cisco, other than perhaps a missed opportunity to hire Lynn for itself...

Firefox Takes the Good With the Bad

Jupiter Research Analyst Joe Wilcox, however, pointed out to LinuxInsider that the whole point of a release candidate is to work out all the last minute problems. The fact that there are so many people responding, he said, could stem from one of two reasons "You could look at ...

US Considering Next-Gen Technologies in Hurricanes’ Wake

Last week, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) debuted legislation that would give US$3.3 billion in grants to state and local agencies to build interoperable communications systems over the next five years The Assure Emergency and Interoperable Commu...

Microsoft Realignment Brings Marketing to Fore

"In some ways this is the pushing out at the highest level of the old vanguard," Joe Wilcox, senior analyst for Jupiter Media, told the E-Commerce Times. "These are three presidents from sales and marketing, they're not technical guys. They're [CEO] Steve Ballmer leaders; they're people he's associated with, he's mentored, that he also has a lot of common base with."

Opera Makes Ad-Free Browsing Offer

Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld that the company had a fairly good response to its anniversary promotion. "The response to Opera's free offer was probably a catalyst in this position," he said. "It may have confirmed a strategy that the Opera folks were already thinking about."

Microsoft Files Piracy Suits

Joel Ronning, the CEO of e-commerce provider Digital River, which helps software publishers sell their wares online, said a technological solution to software piracy may lie in the form of next-generation digital rights management "Piracy is a huge concern for every software p...

Opera Orchestrates Free Browsing Strategy

Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld that the company had a fairly good response to its anniversary promotion. "The response to Opera's free offer was probably a catalyst in this position," he said. "It may have confirmed a strategy that the Opera folks were already thinking about."

SAP Buys POS Software Specialist Triversity

SAP and Triversity already have a list of joint customers, including The Body Shop, Casa Ley, Indigo Books, Wawa, and Trader Joe's. Specifically, SAP said Triversity's solutions will complement SAP's portfolio of retail software, tightly integrated through the SAP NetWeaver platform...

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Digital River CEO Joel Ronning on E-Commerce Growth Opportunities

Today, Digital River (Nasdaq: DRIV) rarely finds a customer for which it can't boost revenues, says CEO Joel Ronning. By optimizing Web sites using careful data analytics and by ensuring that one-time customers return again and again, Digital River aims to expand opportunities for its customers. In the process, it keeps growing its business, recently beating second quarter targets with revenue rising nearly 50 percent over the year before. The company also recently boosted forecasts for the rest of 2005...

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