Sysomos Integrates New Media and Social Networking Into The Enterprise

Sysomos has finally released Heartbeat 2.0, its social network monitoring and workflow management tool for the enterprise. Using Heartbeat can kep track of blogs and forum postings, Twitter posts and now Facebook.  It graphically represents sentiment and keywords used in postings on your company. It can also find and track the most influential bloggers and tweeters writing about your company and has an integrated project management function where users can assign tasks to team members....

Walmart Releases iPhone App

Walmart has just released a free-download iPhone app, which has some pretty cool features.  As expected, it's got a service for locating the nearest Walmart and browsing items on sale. (For now, only electronics items are listed.) On the more creative side,the app integrates with the iPhone's camera to help you estimate the size of an area where you plan to place a TV - you take a picture of an area where you plan to place a tv, drag borders to the appropriate size and the program will re...

Handy Windows 7 License Explanation Matrix

Ed Bott, over at ZDNet News has done some heroic work wading through the morass of Windows 7 licensing agremeents.  We highly recommend checking it out if you are considering an upgrade or are in the market for a new Windows 7 system. Although Bott admits that this information was not easy to come by, he defends (to a point) Microsoft's multi-tier pricing and capabilities for the new operating system, saying in effect that 'All customers don't want the same things'. To which we reply: ...

iPhone App Developer Caught Snooping on Phone Numbers

Vampires Live, Zombies Live and Rockstars Live developer Storm8 has been caught storing users’ cell phone numbers on their servers.  This is a pretty troubling development and food for thought for iPhone owners using third party apps. One lawsuit from a user is already underway. The company is defending itself by saying the situation was caused by a "bug" in its software. Let's hope publicity on this situation will make sure it never happens again.  We're still waiting to hear Apple's public s...

Unreal Engine Developer Kit Now Available For Download… By Anybody

Epic Games and Nvidia have announced that the previously very difficult (and very expensive) to get your hands on Unreal Development Kit for it's newest Unreal Engine 3 is now freely downloadable. Even better, The UDK is free for noncommercial and educational use.  For for-profit projects, licensing terms are 25% of all revenue over $5,000. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQLL92bOJQ] Start your engines, kids.  Go forth and create cool stuff.   The future is bright. UDK inclu...

Sweet Add-On Gives You Firefox 3.7 Functionality Now

Firefox 3.7 promises to have some nifty new features, such as improved memory handling, faster video decoding and improved stability.  But let's not forget about the important stuff  - nifty visual gimmicks!  For one of these tricks, Firefox 3.7 is going to move the progress bar from the bottom of the screen to the top of each tab. Enter this new Firefox add-on, Tab Progress Bar, which replicates this feature in the current stable version of Firefox, so you can enjoy this groovy goodness witho...

Microsoft to Cut 800 More Jobs on top of 5,000 Already Planned

CNN is reporting that Microsoft announced today that it will be cutting 800 more jobs in addition to the 5,000 that it announced it would be cutting earlier this year. These job cuts will be spread across various locations and business units, but the company would not state when exactly they would go into effect. This is the first mass job-cut announcement in Microsoft's 34-year history as a company.

Bookmark Synch Feature Announced in New Google Chrome Beta

Firefox users are probably already familiar with Xmarks, the add-on that allows you to synchronize bookmarks across computers.  This functionality is now under the hood in the new Google Chrome browser beta. This seems to be another area where the unified Google log-in is coming in handy.  Log-in to the browser with your google account, and the bookmark synchronizing feature is active.  All bookmarks are saved and can be accessed on any computer running Chrome (er, the new beta that is...) We'...

Opera Mobile 10 Beta Announced for Nokia/Symbian Smartphones

The just announced Opera Mobile 10 beta has a slew of new features to excite Noka smartphone users.  It looks like the new version has tabbed browsing, and an all around more similar experience to desktop browsing.  The  "speed dial" feature is a set of visual bookmarks that pop up when you open a new tab, and the whole package promises to be than the previous version of Opera for Symbian phones. Here's the link to download it. [via MobileTechWorld]