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The Fuse family of software is now under the FuseSource name and has gained new autonomy from Progress Software with its own corporate identity. Part of the IONA Technologies acquisition by Progress Software in 2008, FuseSource has now become its own company, owned by Progress, but now more independent, to aggressively pursue its open source business model and to leverage the community development process strengths.
Microsoft reported strong revenue and solid earnings Thursday, with particular strength in Windows sales during its first fiscal quarter ending September 30. Revenue set a Q1 record of $16.20 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year. Net income was a healthy $5.41 billion. Office 2010, Windows 7 and Xbox 360 consoles and games all spurred growth, the company said.
Swix has enhanced its original application, Swix Analytics — a dashboard that tracks ad campaigns and subsequent user engagement across 20 social media communities — with Swix Social Marketer, a new product that tracks the returns those campaigns are delivering. What Social Marketer does is take the URL of a particular campaign’s landing page and then track the response to it by clicks, conversion and sales.
While the research proves that e-commerce sales will continue to gain popularity as technology advances, there continues to be a correlation with the increased emergence of aggressive cyberthieves who create techniques to breach even the most-protected systems — and use that card data to purchase unauthorized goods and services.
Consumer privacy advocates are outraged that the FTC has decided to stop investigating why Google was collecting personal information transmitted by users over private WiFi networks. Google has admitted to collecting such data — which in some cases included individual emails and user passwords — in the course of mapping WiFi networks as a means of improving the accuracy of its Google Maps service.