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In a move aimed at generating revenue from the vast amount of data the social networking behemoth has accumulated about its millions of users, MySpace unveiled plans today to launch a new advertising platform to allow small-business owners, bands and politicians to purchase, create and analyze the performance of display advertisements on the popular social networking site.

When serial software entrepreneur Desmond Miller was looking for a new venture seven years ago the burgeoning mobility space presented an irresistible opportunity.

Sydney-based O4 Corporation continues to win international business with one of India's largest ISPs, Sify Corp, announcing a partnership to deliver field force automation.

The Internet has brought a lot of business to My1Stop, a Kansas, U.S.-based printing company. About half of its $US20 million in annual revenue comes from Web traffic, says Michael Joseph, vice president of e-commerce.

As corporations increase adoption of content syndication tools, NewsGator Technologies has improved its enterprise RSS system with an AJAX Web interface, tagging capabilities and support for BlackBerry devices and collaboration platforms from Microsoft and IBM.

Social bookmarking and IRC (Internet relay chat) top the list of must-have tools for organizations looking to leverage Web 2.0 technologies within the enterprise, according to a Web 2.0 Expo panel moderated by Rob Rueckert of Intel Capital.

For the second straight year, American Express is the top-rated company in the U.S. for privacy based on responses from more than 7,000 participants in an online survey conducted by Ponemon Institute, a U.S.-based privacy think tank.

When CIO H. James Dallas attended his first NASCAR race about 10 years ago, he learned some fast lessons -- not about driving stock cars around an oval at high speeds, but about fostering innovation within an IT department.

It's a change that's making more of a soft clatter than a loud crash. Compelled to achieve closer alignment with company needs and business demands, IT has once again entered a time of transformation. Where once IT solely helped support the business, now it must help define the business.

CIO Steve Olive isn't handing out any gold stars to IT for providing good PC support or networking service at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. Consistently reliable and excellent IT service should be a given, he says.

Portland Trailblazers fans are using a new social networking Web site set up last week by the team to join together and lobby the National Basketball Association to add Trailblazers power forward Zach Randolph to the lineup for Sunday's NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas.