Alex Goldman

NEW YORK — Companies need to know about and respond to criticism on the Internet, said Matthew Brown, Forrester Research analyst at the Enterprise Search Summit in his speech on connected structured and unstructured information. He pointed to a complaint about BMW posted in 2007. He said that companies lack the analytical tools to find […]

NEW YORK — High-definition voice might be next great buzzword when it comes to mobile phones, conferencing and telecommunications in general. But is it overkill? At the HD Communications Summit last week, executives from Broadcom, Polycom and AudioCodes said that government, telecoms and even regular consumers will find value in high-definition technology that delivers all […]

Spam continues to surge and now comprises 90.4 percent of all e-mail, according to the latest report from anti-spam firm MessageLabs. The firm, a unit of security player Symantec, said in its May report that spam grew more than 5 percent from the 85.3 percent it recorded in April. “Much of this increase is attributed […]

Adobe is re-thinking how it responds to incidents, writes code, and issues patches, a blog post by Brad Arkin, Adobe director of product security and privacy revealed. The JBIG2 zero day flaw in its Reader and Acrobat products was a wake up call for the company, Arkin wrote. “Everything from our security team’s communications during […]

Experts predicted that the economy would make this the year that many organizations switched to Linux. A coming Windows 7 upgrade considered to be better than Vista — seemed to increase the odds. Indeed, some organizations have switched to Linux, but a recent report, “Linux on the Desktop: Lessons from mainstream business adoption” from Freeform […]

They say we don’t need fat pipes. They say that if we were offered it, we wouldn’t buy it, and that the telcos don’t want to sell it to us either. But there are a few use cases, as Amazon pointed out last week. In a blog post, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels noted that the […]

NEW YORK — Or maybe Pulver wants to be HD’s vice president of marketing. In the speech that opened the HD Communications Summit last week, Jeff Pulver, the show’s organizer, unveiled an HD marketing association called HD Connect, which is also the title of a recent manifesto by Pulver colleague Dan Berninger. Pulver was introduced […]

Another day, another Facebook phishing scam — and another reminder of online criminals’ persistence in targeting the social networking giant. The most recent scam is known as “areps.at,” after the domain to which it initially directed users to trick them into disclosing their Facebook login information. The areps.at domain has since been blocked, though the […]

VMware’s vSphere 4 is available now, one month after it was first announced (which was the day before VMware reported its Q1 results). The product comprises VMware’s strategy to maintain its lead in virtualization and to compete in cloud computing. Releasing a new product in the middle of tough economic times was made all the […]

Controversial online ad firm NebuAd shuttered its U.S. operations almost a year ago, but new indications suggest that at least part of the company is alive in the UK under a new name, INSIGHTready. The INSIGHTready Web site contains only a single page, an e-mail link and the slogan, “Powerful Solutions for the Advertising Industry.” […]

NEW YORK — John Chen, Sybase CEO for the past 11 years, told analysts that he and Larry Ellison have a long history in a talk on analyst day at the New York Stock Exchange last week. It dates back at least seven years to when Sybase, then a pure database company, entered the enterprise […]