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Dating website Match.com has announced it will shortly begin checking existing and new members against public sex offender registries. The move follows on the heels of a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a sex offender -- a man she met through Match.com ...
Investors met Google's earnings for the first quarter with a near universal sigh of disappointment. The next sound was the dumping of Google's shares, which fell by some 7 percent in the aftermath. ...
Management troubles! Foolish business decisions! Still no monetization platform of note! All of this is old news about Twitter, but it seems as though reports about these issues have been proliferating lately, both in volume and in detail. ...
CDC Software has upgraded its sales module, Pivotal Sales Force Automation, with enhancements that the company developed by borrowing from the best practices it observed in its clients, Ehab Samy, director of product management for CRM applications, told CRM Buyer. ...
This week Cisco pulled the plug on the Flip camera, a pocket-sized video camera. It was an abrupt and surprising reversal, given the popularity of the camera and the fact that Cisco acquired it from Pure Digital just a few years ago for US$590 million. ...
Sony Entertainment has reached a settlement with George Hotz, aka "GeoHot," the hacker who jailbroke Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console. The settlement was reached on March 31, according to a Sony blog post. The terms were not fully disclosed, but Hotz has apparently agreed to a permanent injunction ...
Time Warner Cable and Viacom are countersuing each other over whether Time Warner Cable has the right to live stream Viacom content to its Apple iPad app, which it released in March. ...
A different type of deployment for near field communications will be rolled out in Salt Lake City in early to mid 2012 -- different that is, from the projects rumored to be under way at Apple, Google and Amazon. ...
The state of Web security has never been pretty, and a new report from Symantec discussing current and future threats only highlights just how risky the Internet environment has become. ...
It appears that Sony is definitely planning to join the tablet wars: Its CEO Howard Stringer told the Nikkei newspaper that the company was planning to deliver a Honeycomb-based tablet no later than the end of the year, and possibly, according to some versions of his comments, as soon as this summer. ...
There are several investors positioning themselves to snap up Blockbuster at its bankruptcy auction, scheduled for Monday. ...
Recently, a customer was using the Navy Federal Credit Union ATM and encountered some difficulty with his account. Concerned, he whipped out his mobile device and tweeted to the world that he was having problems. ...
Google has launched what many see as its answer to the growing phenomenon of social search in general and Facebook's "Like" button in particular: the +1 button. ...
Amazon surprised the music world this week with the rollout of several products that will allow consumers to store and access their digital music in the cloud. ...
Google is working to let Android users make purchases using their mobile devices at retail points of sale, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The company is said to be collaborating with MasterCard, Citigroup and VeriFone on the system, which would be based on near-field communications technology, according to the Journal's anonymous sources.
Last week, at the HP Summit 2011 in San Francisco, the tech industry waited with bated breath for HP CEO Leo Apotheker's first presentation as CEO. Surely, the theory went, he would make a startling pronouncement describing a twist in the company's strategy -- say, a greater focus on developing its own integrated software stack, as opposed to its current strategy of relying on partners.
Social shopping site Groupon clearly had bigger aspirations in mind when it spurned Google's US$6 billion acquisition offer last year. The company is in discussions with Goldman Sachs about going public -- at a $25 billion valuation -- according to a Bloomberg article citing unnamed sources in the know. ...
Oracle CRM On Demand for Partner Relationship Management has integrated a social application that gives users a sense of what customers, partners and employees are saying about a particular sale or activity or client -- and in an orderly fashion. ...
Google has enhanced its Google Docs product with a next-generation commenting system it is calling "Discussions." The new feature builds on Google's already strong collaboration bona fides and brings a small level of credibility to its otherwise dubious social media creds. ...
The National Federation of the Blind has filed a civil rights violation complaint with the Department of Justice, asking it to investigate the adoption of Google Apps by New York University and Northwestern University, as well as some schools in the state of Oregon. ...
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