Articles By Peter Sayer

Yahoo to implement global ‘do not track’ policy

Yahoo Web sites worldwide will comply with visitors' "do not track" preferences starting later this year, Yahoo announced Wednesday.Most major browsers are now able to send a message to sites visited, indicating whether

Published on: March 29th, 2012 Peter Sayer @itbusinessca

Samsung wipes Galaxy Tab 7.7 from IFA stand

Now you see it, now you don't: Samsung Electronics erased all traces of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its exhibition stand at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin on Saturday, just two days

Published on: September 6th, 2011 Peter Sayer @itbusinessca

SugarCRM rolls out white label CRMs, sweetens offerings with iPhone app

SugarCRM has repackaged its open-source, browser-based customer relationship management platform to make it easier for other vendors to put their own brand on products and services built with SugarCRM, the company announced Thursday.

Published on: October 1st, 2010 Peter Sayer @itbusinessca

Google comes up with new way to tell humans from bots

Google has put a new spin on the CAPTCHA, a way of helping Web sites distinguish between human visitors and bots: It wants people to tell it which way is up in a

Published on: April 21st, 2009 Peter Sayer @itbusinessca

Google offers free tool to make voicemail searchable

Google has begun testing Google Voice, a free service that – among other things – will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable. For now, Google will only offer voice-mail transcription

Published on: March 13th, 2009 Peter Sayer @itbusinessca

Microsoft to cut 5,000 as income falls

The company made a net profit of US$4.17 billion on revenue $16.6 billion in the quarter.Software client revenue fell 8 percent, as PC sales slumped and buyers turned to low-cost netbooks. Annual software

Published on: January 22nd, 2009 Peter Sayer @itbusinessca

Some ISPs make big bucks by intercepting traffic from non-existent sites

The interception of Internet traffic to snoop on phone calls or track surfers' behavior is a hot topic -- but what's keeping members of an international Internet security body up at night is

Published on: June 25th, 2008 Peter Sayer @itbusinessca