Alex Goldman

Organized crime is now able to target individual enterprises and to exploit weaknesses in any partner, Web site or application, well-known or obscure. Criminals are exploiting the dispersed nature of today’s supply chains — as well as social media and other online applications that may be able to traverse the enterprise firewall unscanned — in […]

Honolulu, Hi.-based SaaS provider Phase 2 is today releasing a suite of IBM applications delivered on the SaaS model: a monthly per user subscription fee and no term commitments. The apps are: Lotus Quickr (document sharing) for $12.99, Notes (e-mail) for $12.99, iNotes (Web only) $9.99, and Connections (social networking) for $2.99. “Connections is the […]

Salesforce now has an accounting application, an app that promises to grow the Force.com cloud ecosystem. Harrogate, UK-based CODA today released the full version of its cloud computing accounting software, CODA 2go, which retails at $125 per user per month, with cheaper (but undisclosed) pricing for read-only users. CODA 2go runs on Salesforce‘s (NYSE: CRM) […]

In order to obtain some of the money in the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus, organizations will need to prove that they are competent and can deliver a public good, said experts at the recent Freedom to Connect conference. Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Group noted that his law firm has posted basic information […]

Campbell, Calif.-based Exalt Communications is an unusual wireless equipment manufacturer. The company specializes in point-to-point (PtP) microwave backhaul. Mark Davis, Exalt’s senior director of product marketing, says that the company, founded in 2004, has last mover advantage, incorporating the latest innovations in software-defined radios and signal processing technology into its products. The company addresses a […]

The Internet is changing our country by changing how we interact with our media and government, said speakers here at the Freedom To Connect conference on Tuesday. “We’re talking about more than technology and politics here,” said Timothy Karr, campaign director for Free Press. “We’re talking about a movement.” Karr defined three movements that are working […]

SILVER SPRING, MD — Even though the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus will not deliver broadband to everyone in the United States, it will achieve its goals, said experts at the Freedom to Connect conference yesterday in a panel called How to Get and Spend $7,200,000,000.00 and more: What the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) […]

Thomas Friedman Source: Melissa C. Beckman SILVER SPRING, MD — We need massive change, author Thomas Friedman told the Freedom to Connect conference, calling for a green revolution to solve the nexus of problems that gives his most recent book its title, Flat, Hot, and Crowded. “It’s not a revolution if nobody gets hurt,” he […]

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Internet is changing our country by changing how we interact with our media and government, said speakers here at the Freedom To Connect conference on Tuesday. “We’re talking about more than technology and politics here,” said Timothy Karr, campaign director for Free Press. “We’re talking about a movement.” Karr defined […]

While the IP telephony industry may be coming together today at the VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, it’s still wrangling with fundamental issues that keep it fractured and too expensive. For one thing, even though much of the industry has embraced common technologies like Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP , it’s still far from a […]

Reuven Cohen achieved Web-wide notoriety yesterday when Steven Martin, Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) director of platform development, criticized the efforts of his fledgling cloud computing industry association in a widely discussed blog post. The repercussions continue to play out today. A comparatively small player in cloud computing, Cohen, CEO of Toronto-based cloud computing startup Enomaly, has […]

As the code also known as Conficker, Downadup, Kido, Confick and the April Fool’s Day worm starts its countdown, security vendors are cautioning users that if they’ve implemented basic security on your home computer or network, they’ll be fine. Others, however, face risk from a worm that’s spread rapidly and without a clear indication of […]