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Bert Nordberg, a 14-year veteran of telecom system provider Ericsson, has been named president of Sony Ericsson, the firm's joint cellphone venture with the Japanese consumer electronics giant. He'll be succeeding Hideki "Dick" Komiyama, a Sony executive who has led Sony Ericsson since 2007 and is now headed for retirement. Nordberg will be co-pre...
It is surprising -- albeit perhaps inevitable -- that the Obama Administration, which so ably navigated the Internet and Web 2.0 technologies during its presidential campaign, has stumbled using those same tools now that it is in office. The White House has received a large number of complaints from people who say that they have received unsolicit...
It turns out that the video game entertainment category is not recession-proof after all, judging from the NPD Group's most recent monthly report. Retail sales games in July -- the fifth straight month to register a decline -- plummeted to US$848.8 million, a 29 percent drop compared to this time last year. That was far worse than the 15 percent decline analysts had expected.
Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas has issued an injunction against the sale of Microsoft Word after a jury found that Microsoft had infringed on a patent held by a Toronto-based company The plantiff, i4i, sued Microsoft in 2007, alleging that Microsoft Word unlawfully infringed on its patents based on XML, DOCX and DO...
Google's social network Orkut reportedly plans to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, igniting a long-simmering debate over continued use of the 8-year-old version of the browser. The current version is IE8 Microsoft intends to maintain support for IE6 in conjunction with its support for Windows XP -- the OS that originally delivered it. Ext...
VMware is acquiring SpringSource, an enterprise and Web application development and management company, to eventually build out a Platform as a Service offering. Under the terms of the agreement, VMware will pay approximately US$362 million in cash and equity, and it will assume approximately $58 million of unvested stock and options....
Oracle is giving users of JD Edwards -- one of the myriad enterprise software suites the company has acquired over the last decade -- a new set of tools to leverage through its value chain planning applications. It's upgrading the JD Edwards offering with a bundle of supply chain management (SCM)-related applications and best practices that Oracle...
Nambu is shutting down Tr.im -- a Web service that allows users to create a small URL to stand in for a long one, usually to save space in a blog post or tweet. Its reason? It has not found a way to make the service pay -- or a buyer interested enough to gamble on it. The logical partner, according to a corporate blog post announcing the decision,...
Target is taking control of its e-commerce operations and striking out on its own. The discount retailer plans to build and manage its own platform for Target.com when its current contract with Amazon.comruns out in 2011 Target has outsourced its Web site's platform and fulfillment operations to Amazon for the last eight years. In announcing the de...
Google will be acquiring video compression technology provider On2 Technologies in a stock deal valued at US$106.5 million. The deal, which requires On2 shareholder and regulatory approval, is expected to close in Q4. Google did not respond to the E-Commerce Times' request for an interview in time for publication....
More details about the Yahoo-Microsoft Internet search agreement have been revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Some of the details come as little surprise -- namely, that Microsoft will be hiring Yahoo employees, specifically 400, as part of the proposed partnership. The regulatory filing also quantified what Microsoft would b...
Intel has built an application that will connect Facebook's masses to a volunteer computing application designed to boost the research efforts of three nonprofit organizations. Progress Thru Processors is launching as a public beta and is available to all Facebook users. It runs as a background process on the computer, automatically directing idle...
There are always niche vendors developing new applications around functionality that doesn't quite fit into a defined software category. When the analyst community takes note -- and then decides to give the category a name -- a bona fide trend is established. That is happening to SpringCM -- a Software as a Service provider of functionality that h...
Joel Tenenbaum's fate was probably already sealed before he went to trial for the copyright infringement of 30 songs by Nirvana, Green Day and the Smashing Pumpkins, but the 25-year-old college student made sure of it on Thursday when he admitted on the stand that he did in fact download and share the songs. The next day, the federal judge overs...
Now that Microsoft and Yahoo have finally come to terms on how they will work together to gain turf in the search advertising market, they must convince antitrust regulatory authorities both in the U.S. and in Europe that their union will create more competition -- not less. That will be no easy task -- a fact that executives from both companies h...
Microsoft and Yahoo have inked an Internet search advertising agreement, finally entering a partnership that seemed to die more than one death over the past two years. In broad terms, the deal gives Microsoft access to Yahoo's content and advertisers, with its AdCenter platform serving as the interface. Yahoo will be the front-end face of the part...
Not surprisingly, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries -- and, to a lesser extent, biotech -- are waiting with great interest to see how the health insurance and care plan making its way through Congress will look in its final form. What many probably have not realized is that the companies that sell and market to these entities are just as interested -- and just as likely to have their business models impacted to some degree...
Overstock.com is a retail site that, similar to Amazon.com, sells products in just about any consumer category, from clothes to electronics to home goods to furniture. Not surprisingly, it hid a major skid last fall when the U.S. economy went into seizure. "We were growing 27 percent through the first part of the year," CEO Patrick Byrne told the ...
Overstock.com is a retail site that, similar to Amazon.com, sells products in just about any consumer category, from clothes to electronics to home goods to furniture. Not surprisingly, it hid a major skid last fall when the U.S. economy went into seizure. "We were growing 27 percent through the first part of the year," CEO Patrick Byrne told the ...
Overstock.com is a retail site that, similar to Amazon.com, sells products in just about any consumer category, from clothes to electronics to home goods to furniture. Not surprisingly, it hid a major skid last fall when the U.S. economy went into seizure. "We were growing 27 percent through the first part of the year," CEO Patrick Byrne told the ...
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