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In separate filings, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the World Privacy Forum have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AOL's release earlier this month of search term queries that had been made by 650,000 of its users over a three-month period. "This release was a violation of section 5 of The FTC Act," Pam Dixon, president of the World Privacy Forum, told the E-Commerce Times...

More companies are viewing the Software as a Service model as a viable delivery option for functions beyond CRM -- the area in which it has probably developed the greatest traction -- according to a new study by Aberdeen ...

Microsoft has released the beta of a desktop blogging application that it hopes users will use in conjunction with either Windows Live Spaces, its own browser-based blog application, or a third party application such as Blogger, LiveJournal, Typepad or WordPress ...

Oracle has released the next version of PeopleSoft's CRM application, version 9, fulfilling a promise made to PeopleSoft customers concerned over Oracle's acquisition of the vendor ...

Not long ago, if a company wanted to outsource non-core operations -- such as contact center or back office processes -- India was the locale to choose. End of story ...

In what appears to be a victory for plaintiffs, a decision was made last week to consolidate seventeen class action lawsuits against telecom providers that are cooperating with the U.S. government's widespread surveillance of its customers. These cases will be moved to the California federal court where the first suit was filed against AT&T in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation...

Logitech and Skype have developed a new product to target Skype consumers who miss the sophisticated call features of their traditional, deskbound telecom systems but still want to use the Internet-based network. Named EasyCall Desktop, the product includes a mouse, headset and speakerphone ...

Software systems -- from off-the-shelf applications to enterprise suites -- have become easier to use and implement, Stephen Kerr, a managing consultant in PA Consulting Group's IS Implementation practice, is the first to admit. That relative ease of implementation is obvious from the end-user's perspective, at any rate ...

AOL's accidental release of search term queries made by its members over the course of three months -- many of which were specific enough to identify actual users -- is bound to cause trouble for the search engine industry in Washington. Privacy advocates have already starting calling for stricter controls on what data search engines can retain. One bill, admittedly still bottled up in committee, is the Eliminate Warehousing of Consumer Internet Data Act, proposed by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.)

Loyalty Lab, an on-demand CRM application for consumer brands, has introduced Loyalty 2.0, an upgraded product to help retailers and grocery stores incorporate e-commerce channels into their first-generation loyalty programs, and to better segment their customers. It is part of the summer 2006 release of Loyalty Lab's CRM Suite ...

Wincor Nixdorf, a German-based provider of IT applications for the banking and retail industries, has introduced its eServices platform in the United States for the first time ...

AOL has apologized for inadvertently posting on the Internet search data of 658,000 AOL members that used the proprietary software to conduct searches over a three month period. The data, which has since been taken down, had been collected for academic researchers and did not directly connect search terms to users' names ...

As senior director of product marketing for the identity practice at Sun Microsystems, Rob Beauchamp remembers -- and it was not that long ago -- when integration was considered a tactical process with the objective of knitting together systems and applications as quickly as possible ...

Earlier this year, IBM announced that its joint sales revenues with mid-market independent software vendors (ISVs) reached US$1 billion worldwide ...

Google is issuing warnings to Web surfers when they are about to click on a Web site that could be hiding malware able to infect their computer ...

Increasingly, healthcare and financial services firms are investigating contact center applications that offer biometric security features -- specifically voice authentication -- as a way to meet new regulatory demands, according to one company active in this area ...

FrontRange has upgraded its HEAT Service and Support, a help desk and external customer support tool, for the first time since the beginning of last year, excluding the handful of patch versions the company has issued since then ...

Microsoft is steadily advancing its plan to make Windows Live an entertainment and communications hub with its rollout of Windows Live Spaces. The next generation of the company's blogging service, it now focuses heavily on social networking ...

When designing a Web page, where exactly should one place the icon to let the consumer know Live Chat is available? On the home page? In the service section? Should that icon be flashing? What color should it be? ...

On July 27, by a vote of 410 to 15, the House of Representatives passed the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), which will restrict access to social networking sites such as MySpace.com and other interactive services at schools and libraries that receive federal funding. The rationale behind the DOPA is to keep teenagers and children away from these Web sites, many of which have become stalking grounds for pedophiles...