Jan 24, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: A security expert at Sophos has reminded former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates that his predictions about the end of spam have failed spectacularly.Gates declared in 2004 at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that spam would be "a thing of the past" within five years.However, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant (Read More)

Jan 24, 2009

eCocoma Web Consultant - Web Design, Web Services & Online Marketing for Small Business. Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) is integrating the Tuxedo transaction-processing monitor into its Fusion middleware, giving it the ability to deliver Web services and become a full partner in Oracle's approach to service-oriented architecture.Tuxedo was part of BEA Systems when it was acquired by Oracle last April. Oracle this week iss (Read More)

Jan 16, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: Oracle Corp.'s layoffs late last week, while apparently smaller than reports initially indicated, still show that the bellwether enterprise software company is feeling the effects of the pinch in corporate IT spending. (Read More)

Jan 13, 2009

ReadWriteWeb One of the best features in Google's Chrome browser is the way it handles tabs. In Chrome, when you click a link, the tab that opens appears to the immediate right of the current tab. It may seem like a small thing, but when you have so many tabs open in Firefox that they spill off the sides of the screen, having to scroll (Read More)

Jan 13, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: Since 2005, Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) has said it's working on a next-generation set of applications, called Fusion, that pull together the best features of more than 40 software company acquisitions. Yet some customers, analysts, and others have questioned Fusion's fate, since Oracle hasn't provided such details as a product roa (Read More)

Jan 13, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: Oracle Corp. made "major" cuts in its global workforce on Friday and more are expected to come, say multiple sources and news reports.Sales staff and consultants working for Oracle in North America were hit hard, say sources, as well as employees who had joined Oracle recently through its acquisitions of Hyperion Solutions (Read More)

Jan 13, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: Oracle (ORCL) has reduced some sales and marketing staff, as well as some back office personnel, according to Thomas Weisel Partners analyst Tim Klasell. “Our sense is that the current reduction was well planned and not a hasty reaction to an unplanned event,” he writes in a research note. (Read More)

Jan 13, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: Although Oracle Forms is no longer a flagship development tool, Oracle continues to devote resources so users can store unstructured data such as videos, word documents, and XML documents. In this article, I show how you take advantage of unstructured data in the database -- video, in this case -- and access this data from (Read More)

Jan 11, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: The service disruption which Salesforce.com (CRM) experienced last week came at a bad time for the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing markets. Although I believe the long-term prospects for SaaS and cloud computing remain strong, there are plenty of short-term challenges facing SaaS and cloud computing vendors (Read More)

Jan 10, 2009

reddit.com: what's new online A team of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concluded it certainly isn't as invulnerable as it once seemed. Quite the reverse, for in theory it can be rapidly eliminated using software developed and at least partially disclosed by Georg Wicherski, (Read More)

Jan 09, 2009

Submitted by Stewbagz from blog: Storm Worm Botnet Meets Its Match. (Read More)

Jan 09, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: Software giant Oracle, in India, is reported to have started the practice of linking payments to its 20,000 employees with the number of productive hours they spend in the office.A report in the Business Standard said that the move has resulted in salary cuts for the company, ranging between 10 and 50 per cent across the bo (Read More)

Jan 09, 2009

Submitted by Crow74: When selecting midmarket ERP software for his company, it was tempting for Joerns Healthcare CIO Partha Biswas to go with Oracle. It was, after all, sort of free.His company had spun off from its parent company, Sunrise Medical, in January of 2007. The technology unit spun off at the end of 2007 and needed to select a new (Read More)

Jan 07, 2009

CIO.com - News Big changes are coming to the CRM (customer relationship management) application market this year, with significant financial, strategic and technical implications for customers, say analysts who track the space. . (Read More)

Jan 07, 2009

TechCrunch MOG demo’d the next version of their popular music service to me today, and I was impressed. It combines a best of breed interface with free on demand streaming and a Pandora-like music recommendation engine. The trouble is, it may never launch because only two of the four major music labels are supporting it so far.M (Read More)

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