IDG News Service - If offering best wishes to a Facebook friend on his birthday isn't enough, users can now attach real gifts to their greeting with an expanded gift service that the social networking Web site announced on Thursday. ...
Tags: Facebook, New York City, networking
SAP is tying the HANA in-memory database to its CRM (customer relationship management) software and other applications, creating a package that will "allow organizations to revolutionize the way they engage with their customers," the ...
Tags: SAP, CRM software, customer relationship management software
IDG News Service-Microsoft has started to adopt some key software development practices from Yammer,the ESN(enterprise social networking)vendor it acquired several months ago. Specifically,Microsoft sees great value in the way Yammer ...
Tags: Microsoft, cloud-hosted suite, dicing user, Yammer
IDG News Service-Oracle on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire project portfolio management(PPM)software vendor Instantis,in a move that will build upon its past acquisition of Primavera.Terms of the deal,which is expected to be ...
Tags: Oracle, PPM, Instantis, EnterpriseStream
Samsung's recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market,analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM's first 64-bit Cortex-A57 ...
Tags: Samsung, server chips, Cortex-A57 processors, Cortex-A53 processors
Russia has introduced a law ostensibly aimed at sites containing images of child sexual abuse and other illegal material, but it has raised fears of censorship. In July, both houses of Russia's parliament voted in favour of the law that ...
Tags: Russian, Internet Blacklist, parliament
It has been a long and somewhat slow journey to get here, but this week the UK finally saw the launch of a 4G network by mobile operator EE. Formed from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, EE has rolled out the faster broadband ...
Tags: 4G network, EE, broadband, mobile networks, 4G, mobile, phone
Microsoft is preparing to release an update to its Dynamics CRM Online software that will feature a new user experience as well as tie-ins to its Yammer social networking software and Skype communication platform,the company announced ...
Tags: Microsoft, Yammer, Skype, CRM Application, PC, Dynamics CRM Online
The trend of online shopping is increasingly becoming popular among the Internet savvy generation today. Many e-commerce websites, offering a vivid array of products ranging from clothing to electronic appliances, have been introduced in ...
Tags: clothing, electronic appliances, furnishings, retail items
While the risk of being hacked,conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year,most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity,both online and off. CSO compiled a ...
Tags: Christmas, Fraudulent auction, payment sites
IDG News Service-Yammer said it has simplified and expanded the ways in which its enterprise social networking(ESN)software can be integrated with third-party business applications. Components from Yammer's ESN software that can be more ...
Tags: Yammer, Social Software, third-party business applications, ESN software
Keynote Speaker Thom Singer discussed networking strategies and the importance of forming long-term business relationships during the AAMA Fall Conference,held in Albuquerque,N.M. During his keynote presentation on Monday,Singer noted ...
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IDG News Service-Facebook,under pressure to cheer up its disappointed investors,posted revenue growth of more than 30 percent on Tuesday,beating Wall Street expectations,but it also recorded a loss. Facebook's revenue for the third ...
Tags: Facebook, revenue, investors, Facebook's stock
IDG News Service-Marten Pieters,MD&CEO,Vodafone Essar,says IT has helped the company serve more customers,conquer rural India,and make Vodafone India's second largest mobile service provider. CIO:What do you think of the low tariff rates ...
Cross-site scripting(XSS)attacks remain the top threat to web applications,databases and websites,an analysis of 15 million cyber attacks in the third quarter of 2012 has revealed. Other top attack techniques are directory traversals,SQL ...
Tags: XSS, Web Applications, CSRF, Cross-site attacks