The phenomenal year of the iPod continues this week following the announcement that the New Oxford American Dictionary has designated "podcast" as the 2005 Word of the Year. According to the dictionary company, just 12 months ago, podcast was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted geeks.
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There's a reason SugarCRM Inc. is fast becoming a serious option on the customer-relationship-management front: constant innovation. And because it's an open-source vendor, SugarCRM doesn't have to innovate alone--it's getting plenty of help from its customers.
 
Hence, the release next week of Sugar 4.0, the most collaboratively produced offering from

Yahoo Inc. on Thursday released in beta an online service that lets registered users post and answer questions, a move that adds a human element to Web searching.
 
The Sunnyvale, Calif., portal said Yahoo Answers complements its standard search engine by letting people ask straightforward questions and receive answers based

Apple on Wednesday celebrated the 100 millionth song downloaded from its European iTunes Music Store.
 
In downloading the milestone song (a recording of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte,”), Ken Reist of Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, won a 17-inch iMac G5, 10,000 song gift card, and two tickets to see Robbie Williams in concert.
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Sun Microsystems is betting on the expansion and success of open source, the need to conserve space, and the desire to keep energy costs down, as it delivers thousands of new servers and releases its UltraSparc T1 processor code.
 
The company is trying to come from behind to beat its

Yahoo Inc. said the company plans to allow computer users to make and receive calls from phones at rates that undercut eBay-owned rival Skype and are significantly below traditional phone companies.
 
Yahoo said on Wednesday a new version of its Yahoo Messenger text, voice and video communications software to be

The sharp rise in rootkits--sneaky software used to conceal malicious code from security programs--is due to spyware and adware purveyors trying to prevent their wares from being easily uninstalled, security experts said Thursday.

Finnish-based F-Secure, which has integrated its BlackLight rootkit scanner into its security suite, claimed that since October, the most

Wireless vendor Bluesocket has upgraded its BlueSecure WLAN management software to strengthen security and improve performance of voice over WLAN.

Bluesocket has addressed the security requirements of VoWLAN by including a stateful firewall that monitors dynamic voice traffic and protects the network, said Dave Danielson, vice president of marketing at Bluesocket, Burlington,

Microsoft Corp. postponed the introduction of the next test release of its Internet Explorer 7 Web browser until sometime in 2006, according to comments posted to the company's site for software developers.
 
In a blog posting on the software giant's MSDN developer site, Dean Hachamovitch, product line manager for IE

NEC said Wednesday it has developed a flexible, paper-thin battery that eventually will be usable by a variety of mobile devices.

The company dubbed the battery ORB, for "Organic Radical Battery." It said it initially would be used in applications such as smartcards and "intelligent paper." It said the battery can fully