Manufacturing companies, both big and small, are increasingly looking to technology delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS) models to meet their evolving IT and business challenges. 15 May 2008
Sahara Computers has announced the release of its latest 8-inch sub-notebook into the market. 12 May 2008
The shift in demand from CDs to downloads is taking its toll on Warner Music Group, which reported a loss of US$37 million in the second quarter. 12 May 2008
Verizon announced the latest addition to its line of touch-screen mobile phones Thursday, 8 May 2008. The Glyde from Samsung, available Friday, offers many features that have gained popularity following the introduction of Apple's iPhone. 9 May 2008
Deputy Minister of Communications Roy Padayachee has asked South African consumers wishing to purchase a television set to beware of cheap deals on analogue TVs, as government begins the migration to digital broadcasting. 9 May 2008
One drawback to our portable-music revolution is space. At some point, even with a 160 gigabyte iPod, you run out. So, if you listen to a lot of music through headphones, as I do, there are times when you want fresh tunes. 8 May 2008
With the increased consumer traffic that social networks are generating on the internet, retailers must have a position on social networks, according to Gartner, Inc. Although social networks have tended to centre on younger demographic groups, they are expanding into wider groups that matter to a broader base of retailers such as career-based social networks, shopping-based social networks, and employee groups. 7 May 2008
SugarCRM has released version 5.1 of its open source CRM platform, building on functionality it debuted in last year's milestone 5.0 release, which included new development tools, a new Ajax e-mail client, and a new multi-instance on-demand architecture. 6 May 2008
Most e-commerce sites are approaching their 10th birthday. The standard approach - with left-hand navigation and search, a product catalogue and product detail, cart and checkout - is a tired format. Just like brick-and-mortar stores, Web stores need refurbishing, and retail is the new darling of Web innovation. After all, what major vertical has more to gain from the recent craze in social networks than retail? 5 May 2008
Sony Ericsson announced the launch of the G502 last week, a compact candy-bar phone that extends its range of web-enabled devices to give a broader, mainstream appeal. It brings the power of the web to a more affordable phone segment, enabling even more users to stay up-to-date with high-speed web browsing and fast downloads. 30 Apr 2008
The iMac received its latest performance bump on Monday as Apple rolled out its all-in-one consumer desktop line with new processors and specs. The latest addition to the iMac line is the appearance of new Intel Core 2 Duo processors that offer up to 3.06GHz of power. 29 Apr 2008
What are the strategies, actions, tech investments and services that companies are utilizing to effectively deploy business intelligence capabilities? Aberdeen Research will unveil answers to this question in a new research study that will be published at the end of this month. In this article, David Hatch unveils some of that study's findings. 25 Apr 2008
Private-sector competition and internal acrimony appear to be taking their toll on the One Laptop Per Child organization. Three executives, including its former president, have now departed, and low-cost computers from commercial vendors are starting to invade its once-lonely space in the market. 25 Apr 2008
Subscribers to Microsoft's defunct MSN Music service will lose access to songs they purchased from the store in a few months. 24 Apr 2008
Sony BMG is joining Universal Music Group in allowing users of select Nokia mobile phones access to its entire music catalogue later this year. 23 Apr 2008
Sony is working to roll out a video-on-demand service for the PlayStation 3, and one report says it could happen as early as this summer. However, most Blu-ray DVD players in consumers' homes are actually PS3s. Will offering an online service cannibalize Sony's high-def format? 23 Apr 2008
This title spurred either one of two thoughts: "Oh my gosh, there may be some cool tips buried in this column" or "About time someone got on the bandwagon and beat this shameless channel down". Either way, there are some fundamental things wrong with email as a tool today. 22 Apr 2008
A wave of consolidation has cleared the path for a new group of players in the business intelligence category. They're smaller and more agile, and they are doing things with data sets that previously were believed to be too large to manipulate. 22 Apr 2008
USA - The video games industry racked up hardware and software sales of roughly US$1.7 billion in March, according to NPD Group, a consumer sales tracking firm. Total sales in March 2008 were some 57% higher than the $1.1 billion the industry made just one year earlier. 21 Apr 2008
A raging debate is brewing in the United States over how much information about Internet users advertisers should be able to gather and analyze. A pair of consumer groups is calling for a "Do Not Track" list that Web users can join, while the Newspaper Association of America contends it has a First Amendment right to collect information about its audience. 18 Apr 2008
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