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SugarCRM Upgrades To 5.1 With Reporting, Analytics, Tracking
Tracker is a new feature that tells an employer which salespeople are making use of SugarCRM's capabilities, which features are most frequently used and which are ignored.

Demand For Spring Skills Dominates Java Programming
Job listings for Java projects that require the open source Spring framework now outnumber those that want Enterprise Java Bean-building skills, the hallmark of traditional Enterprise Java programming.

What Do SMB Wi-Fi Customers Want?
A good percentage of small to medium businesses are planning to upgrade to 802.11n in the next 12 months, according to a survey from ABI Research.

NASA Security Badge Poses Safety Risk
The badge's metal clasps, if installed backwards, will become a projectile when the badge is opened creating a potential eye injury hazard.

Oracle Tabs New CFO, Reporting To Safra Catz
Jeff Epstein most recently served as CFO of Oberon Media, a privately held Internet game technology provider and publisher.

Linux Systems Being Hit By SSH-Key Attacks
The attack appears to rely on stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system and then uses a local kernel exploit to gain root access, whereupon it installs the "phalanx2" rootkit.

Dell, IBM Revenue Growth Double Overall Server Market
The overall market recorded its ninth consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth, increasing sales by 6.4% over the same period a year ago to $13.9 billion.

Virus Found On Computer In Space Station
Citing security policies, NASA would not disclose details about how the virus got on a laptop on the International Space Station.

Spammers Use 'Hijacked' Babies To Lure Victims
The social engineering campaign includes an attached file, purportedly a photo of the recipient's child, but which is, of course, malware.

Internet Explorer 8 Release Approaches As Microsoft Offers Second Beta
The new beta includes a number of new security features, including protection against cross-site scripting attacks and a phishing and malware filter.

Nortel Demo Puts 4G Wireless One Step Closer
The company demonstrates the first live Long Term Evolution handoff between cell sites, but data speeds were lower than what's been promised.

Dell Looks To Tap Emerging Markets With Latest Business PCs
The Vostro notebooks and desktops are tailored for companies and institutions in countries where low-cost, basic computers are strong sellers.

The 'Poor Man's Traffic Intercept'
A weakness in the Border Gateway Protocol makes the Internet's core infrastructure look about as watertight as a screen door.

MIT Model Helps Computers Think Like Humans
The researchers' algorithm lets computers use multiple approaches to examine data, much like the way humans size up the world.

iPhone Password Flaw Discovered
Once the emergency call keypad is accessed through the passcode entry screen, a person only needs to double tap the home button.

Era Of Exclusive Video Game Deals Ending
Rising development costs might force console makers Microsoft and Sony to publish more video games themselves, as independent studios avoid exclusive deals for blockbusters.

Dell Explains Cloud-Computing Trademark Attempt
The computer maker can appeal the Patent Office's rejection of its trademark application for the commonly used term.

hi5 Offers Mobile Social Networking In 26 Languages
The social networking site's hi5 Mobile service is aimed at smartphone and PDA users worldwide.

'Misleading' U.K. iPhone Ad Pulled
Viewers complained that they couldn't access "all parts of the Internet" due to the lack of Flash and Java support on the handset.

Retailers Use Social Media To Spur Back-To-School Sales
Researchers see growth in Web 2.0-style campaigns as fall shopping season kicks off.

Japan's Ricoh To Buy Ikon Office For $1.6 Billion
Office equipment makers have been snapping up distributors to strengthen their sales channels and product offerings.

Nokia Continues Its Cell Phone Dominance
The dual strategy of targeting developing countries with low-cost mobile phones and instituting price cuts for its mid-tier devices helped propel its momentum, Gartner said.

Immersion To Pay Microsoft $20.75 Million To Settle 'Force Feedback' Suit
The agreement stems from a complex arrangement under which Immersion agreed to pay the software maker a portion of moneys obtained from a similar settlement with Sony.

SaaS Doubts Give Remote Infrastructure Services Life
Remote managed services are a stepping-stone toward cloud computing for companies with economic, legal, or security concerns about software-as-a-service, a Gartner analyst says.

Mac Clone Maker Psystar Plans Antitrust Suit Against Apple
Psystar claims Apple's restrictions on third-party hardware makers violate U.S. antitrust laws.

Mozilla's 'Ubiquity,' A Command Line For Web 2.0
The goal is to make it easier to combine data in the Web browser and allow users to define their own commands, like macros than span applications.

Amazon Buys Social Network For Book Lovers
Shelfari is a nearly 2-year-old social networking Web site in which users build virtual bookshelves of the book titles they've owned or read.

Inventor Sues Google, Verizon, Others On 'Visual Voicemail'
Klausner Technologies previously sued and won settlements from Time Warner's AOL and Vonage Holdings.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil Interviewed
We caught up with the visionary inventor at SpeechTek 2008, where he talked with <i>InformationWeek</i> about speech technology, his new cellphone reading machine, and two new movie projects.

FAA Computer Glitch Causes National Flight Delays
The problems began when an Atlanta facility that processes flight plan information went down due to a software malfunction, FAA officials said.

Blame iPhone 3G Reception Problems On Carriers, Not Handset
A global survey of owners found their iPhones operated with very slow speeds, especially in metro areas like San Francisco.

Aircell Signs Up Fourth Airline For Wi-Fi Service
CEO Jack Blumenstein expects there will be some 2,000 commercial airplanes offering Aircell's in-flight Gogo Internet service by the end of next year.

Obama's VP Text Reached 2.9 Million
With the success of the announcement, advertisers may take a closer look at SMS as a marketing tool, Nielsen Mobile said.

Nations Respond To Google Earth Threat
From banning Google Earth to simply ignoring the mapping service, countries are working to deal with potential security violations arising from the images Google makes available online.

Acer Drops Mini-Notebook Prices
The Windows or Linux-based PCs include 1.6 GHz Atom processors, built-in Webcams and Wi-Fi support, and a three-cell rechargeable battery.

Adobe Launches Photoshop Elements 7, Photoshop.com Storage
New features in Elements 7 include a tool that lets users brush away unwanted images, such as passers-by in a photo's background.

Online Pharmacy Risks Rising, Report Finds
Criminals are trying to take advantage of consumer interest in low-cost medicines by offering counterfeit drugs and spamming to drive sales at online pharmacies.

Disney Exec Wins Award Named For 'Last Lecture' Author Pausch
Ed Catmull is the first winner of the award, which will be given annually by Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.

QuickBooks Comes To iPhone, BlackBerry
The application will enable customers to get an up-to-date view of their finances from a smartphone.

AT&T Adds Two International Data Plans For iPhone
While still expensive, the latest offerings are hundreds of dollars less than pay-per-use international data roaming charges.

Qatar Telecom To Pursue Rapid Expansion
The company's recent acquisitions include a stake in Kuwait's National Mobile Telecommunications.

Internet Explorer 8 To Include 'Stealth' Privacy Mode
Microsoft's forthcoming Web browser will feature four tools that let users surf the Web anonymously.

HTC Adds Windows Mobile Smartphone
The HTC S740 has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, integrated Wi-Fi, 3G capabilities, assisted-GPS, and is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1.

Acquisition Scorned By Zi, Nuance Sues For Patent Infringement
The patents involved are entitled "reduced keyboard disambiguating system" and were obtained by Nuance when it acquired Tegic last June.

National Tech Medal Winners Include eBay, OS Creator, And Net Engineer
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is the nation's highest honor for technological achievement.

Facebook Blocks Scrabulous Worldwide
The social networking site's ban on the word game follows a legal dispute between the game's creators and Hasbro.

HP Closes $13.9 Billion EDS Acquisition
The deal creates the world's second largest IT services and outsourcing vendor, trailing only IBM.

Nvidia CEO Huang Outlines Smartphone Strategy In Battling Intel
The graphics chipmaker's mobile strategy revolves around the smartphone, which "will become the next personal computer," said CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at Nvidia's Nvision 2008 conference.

Q & A: Futurist Ray Kurzweil
We caught up with the visionary inventor at SpeechTek 2008, where he talked with <i>InformationWeek</i> about speech technology, his new cellphone reading machine, and two new movie projects.

Nokia Rolls Out Pair Of N Series Smartphones
The Nokia N85 and N79 pack integrated Wi-Fi, 3G capabilities, built-in GPS, and robust multimedia functionality over a Symbian operating system.
    
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