News Oracle Gets More Social and Takes on Adobe with FatWire Acquisition Oracle announced today that it will acquire FatWire. Financial details were not disclosed. FatWire bills itself as customer experience management company and provides tools for content management, community forums, analytics, digital asset management, etc. It sounds very much like what Adobe is doing with its Digital Enterprise Platform… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Digital Lifestyle The State of the Online Help Desk I had one of those terrible and all-too-typical experiences yesterday. I had to call a customer service number. I called, struggling with the voice-activated answering system, cursing vociferously in hopes of triggering some sort of special mechanism to connect me directly to a real person. Finally my turn in the phone queue came and - of… Audrey Watters View comments
Government The EFF Supports Puerto 80 The Electronic Frontier Foundation is firing back at the U.S. government for domain seizures related to a Spanish sports streaming site Rojadirecta..com. In an amicus brief filed by the EFF Monday, the open-Internet advocate sided with a petition from Puerto 80, the company behind the sites. The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency… Dan Rowinski View comments
Browsers Mozilla Release Firefox 5 With "Do Not Track" Support Across Platforms, Including Android Just three months after the hugely successful release of Firefox 4, Mozilla has released the newest version of its browser, Firefox 5. There's little fanfare today, unlike with the previous releases of Mozilla's browser. That's because much like the rapid release cycle of Google's Chrome browser, Mozilla has moved to a faster development cycle… Audrey Watters View comments
mobile Nokia N9 & N950 Revealed: Meego Lives, Even As it Dies At Nokia's Connection event in Singapore, the handset manufacturer unveiled its first (and last) MeeGo-based phones, the N9 and its developer counterpart, the N950. The N9, once representative of Nokia's vision for its smartphone future, the heir apparent to Nokia's Symbian, is now just a model of "what could have been." Too bad it's so gorgeous… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments