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• Moto's new status symbol: Mobile phone made from recyled plastics

  Mobile phone big-wig Motorola plans to start shipping during this quarter a mobile phone, the MOTO W233 Renew, with a housing that is made out of recycled water bottles. The ...

  Tags: Moto, Phone, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy, Motorola Inc., Plastics, Mobile

  Jan 13, 2009 6:18 PM PST

• Salesforce cans European Dreamforce

  In a surprise announcement on Salesforce.com, the company has cancelled spring's European Dreamforce conference: It continues to become clear that the demand for cloud computing is growing faster and spreading ...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dennis Howlett, Sales, Event, Conference, Sales Force Management

  Jan 13, 2009 6:05 PM PST

• AVG snaps up Sana Security

  One of the last stand-alone host-based intrusion detection product vendors has been picked up by an anti-virus firm. The Redwood City-based HIPS vendor Sana Security has been acquired by the ...

  Tags: Firewalls, Finance, Adam O'Donnell, Operating Systems, Networking, Software, Security, Network Security, Sana Security Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions

  Jan 13, 2009 5:57 PM PST

• Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?

  So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his ...

  Tags: Federal Government, Government, Wireless And Mobility, FCC, Broadband Internet, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Telecommunications, Network Technology, Interactive Corp.

  Jan 13, 2009 5:36 PM PST

• Privacy flaw haunts Apple Safari RSS reader

  There's a major privacy problem with the RSS reader built into Apple's Safari browser. According to an alert from Brian Mastenbrook, there is a serious Safari vulnerability that allows a ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Flaw, Web Browser, RSS Reader, RSS, Apple Mac OS, Web Browsers, Ryan Naraine, Apple Safari, Operating Systems

  Jan 13, 2009 5:28 PM PST

• Google launches Quick Search for Mac

  Google launched an experimental application that can basically be used in as a replacement for Spotlight. Is it better? Well, it does seem speedier to me, but it's not a ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Garett Rogers, Hardware, E-mail Providers, Internet, Gender And Diversity, Desktops, Google Inc., Apple Macintosh

  Jan 13, 2009 5:20 PM PST

• This ain't no movie: Erin Brockovich blogs TVA's coal ash

  The country's most famous anti-pollution lawyer writes about the Tennessee coal ash spill. Here's TVA's front page, with its latest company updates onthe runaway coal ash. Here's TVA's aerial map ...

  Tags: Blog, TVA, Pollution, Harry Fuller, Coal Ash, Ash, Movie, Tennessee

  Jan 13, 2009 4:15 PM PST

• Two-front attack on the snow in U.S. mountains

  There's been considerable written about the gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere and the shrinkinhg of glaciers and mountain snowpack. Now comnes research confirming there is a second man-made pollutant ...

  Tags: Attack, Snow, Harry Fuller, Mountain

  Jan 13, 2009 3:56 PM PST

• Obama's Dr. Energy

  The nominee for next Energy Secretary faced his Senate hearing today. Dr. Steven Chu, head of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been outspoken in his views on global warming, energy ...

  Tags: Dr., Harry Fuller, Obama

  Jan 13, 2009 3:43 PM PST

• Ya-hoooo: There's a new sheriff in town and her name is Bartz!

  First impression: New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz strikes me as a no-nonsense, roll-up-your-sleeves, not-afraid-t0-get-dirty, working type of gal. She tells it like it is and doesn't mince words - even ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, CAD, Sam Diaz, Software, Business Operations

  Jan 13, 2009 3:20 PM PST

• Will Cisco and AT&T Go Mano-a-Mano in 2009?

  What's in store in 2009 for Cisco?  Can you say s-e-r-v-i-c-e-s. Just put yourself in John Chambers' shoes. You're looking for ways to grow the company, ways that will appeal ...

  Tags: Unified Communications, Cisco Systems Inc., AT&T Corp., Chances, Dave Greenfield

  Jan 13, 2009 3:15 PM PST

• Oracle drops critical database server patch bundle

  Oracle has dropped the first quarterly critical patch update for 2009 -- with patches for 41 vulnerabilities in a wide range of database server products. The January 2009 CPU includes ...

  Tags: Ryan Naraine, Databases, Hardware, Data Management, Database Server, Software, Security, Enterprise Software, Oracle Corp., Vulnerability

  Jan 13, 2009 3:12 PM PST

• We're all dead - get over it

  I've been scratching my head the last few days wondering why Bill McDermott, SAP's CEO of global field operations would flat out contend that: SAP is positioned to gain share ...

  Tags: SAP Sales People, SAP AG, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Dennis Howlett, Middleware, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Jan 13, 2009 2:49 PM PST

• Layoffs at large software firms - Fact or Fiction?

  Did SAP & Oracle cut loose staff? There have been a number of web sites reporting planned or executed layoffs at various software firms. Some of the rumored layoffs are ...

  Tags: Layoff, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Corporate Law, Finance, Brian Sommer, Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Oracle Corp., Investment

  Jan 13, 2009 2:23 PM PST

• Yahoo confirms Bartz in charge; Can she save Yahoo?

  Yahoo has confirmed that Carol Bartz is its new CEO. Now the real fun begins: Turning around Yahoo amid a horrid economy and deciding whether to do a search deal ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Law, Finance, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Larry Dignan, Mergers & Acquisitions, BoomTown, Business Operations, Investment

  Jan 13, 2009 1:58 PM PST

• Top 25 coding defects listed, surprising nobody with a clue

  The SANS institute has produced a list of the top 25 classes of programming flaws. The list won't make the flaws go away, but it does provide software purchasers with ...

  Tags: Management, Adam O'Donnell, Tools & Techniques, Software

  Jan 13, 2009 1:52 PM PST

• BlackBerry Curve 8900: the "nissed as a pewt" review

  Research in Motion via their PR company sent me a BlackBerry Curve 8900 to play with for a fortnight. I've just spent the last three days writing a post, of ...

  Tags: BlackBerry Curve, Zack Whittaker, Phone, Handhelds, Hardware, RIM BlackBerry, Facebook

  Jan 13, 2009 1:49 PM PST

• A new member of the Office 14 family: Office for Sales

  Several years ago, Microsoft execs seemed to be leaning toward delivering different versions of Office that were tailored to particular verticals. As time went by, I assumed that plan had ...

  Tags: Office Business Application, Sales, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Office, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Sales Force Management, Office Suites

  Jan 13, 2009 1:16 PM PST

• Select testers get Office 14 alpha release

  I know I said just yesterday that no testers seemed to have any Office 14 code yet. Well, surprise, surprise, some external testers say they've now got access to documentation ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Tester, Office Suites

  Jan 13, 2009 1:03 PM PST

• 8 Predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2009

  We are starting 2009 off in a particularly inauspicious economic climate, though as we'll see, important opportunities also exist. 2008 was a very tough year for many businesses and industries ...

  Tags: Management, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Dion Hinchcliffe, Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, Information Technology, Strategy, Business, SOA

  Jan 13, 2009 12:17 PM PST

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