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More than a third of shoppers who have a poor experience on a Web site abandon the site entirely, according to JupiterResearch, and 75 percent are likely not to shop on that site again That's a loud and clear wake up call to e-tailers. Now that you are awake, it's time to find out exactly what "poor experience" means in the minds of shoppers....
Just two weeks after the debut ofIntel's quad-core chips,AMD on Thursday announced its Quad FX Platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) architecture AMD is touting the Quad FX as the first dual-socket, multi-core desktop PC platform designed to work with Windows Vista Ultimate. Intel, however, won first-to-market bragging rights, releasing i...
Microsoft on Thursday launched its Windows Vista operating system for businesses, along with Office 2007 suite and Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft made the introduction at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York City. The software giant is also celebrating 20 years as a publicly traded company....
File-sharing vendor BitTorrent on Wednesday announced a slew of partnerships with film and television companies, as it slowly boosts its sullied reputation as a tool for media pirates The company has reached agreements with 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media to pub...
A braggingNintendo has declared an early victory over rival Sony in the video console wars Of the more than 600,000 Nintendo Wii systems sold in the Americas since Nov. 19, 400,000 were sold in the U.S. -- at a rate of nearly one unit sold per second since its launch....
Video-sharing phenom YouTube on Tuesday announced a content distribution deal with Verizon, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S The deal marks YouTube's first strategic mobile distribution agreement and could signal a new trend for the Google-owned social networking Web site....
Online retail sales this holiday season will be a healthy improvement over last year, according to research cited inPart 1 of this three-part series on holiday shopping Whereas the consumer drives all traffic to online retail Web sites, the savvy e-tailer can create helpful site search processes in order to raise profits and maximize the consumer's...
Watching the reports of video game console sales early this holiday shopping season has been like watching a thoroughbred horse race. The only problem is two of the horses are already out of the race, at least temporarily As anticipated,Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Nintendo's Wii sold out very quickly due to manufacturing issues -- Sony sold out ...
Online video is eating into the market share of traditional television viewing time, according to a recent ICM survey conducted for theBBC ...
Once considered the dark horse in solar's current race to the rooftop, solar concentrators are making a major comeback Solar investment veterans RockPort Capital Partners and Nth Power recently led a US$8 million Series A round for Practical Instruments. The company plans to use the funds to launch a product that it hopes will give it the market le...
Disney jumped into the video-on-demand cable arena on Tuesday in a mega deal with Comcast The long-term distribution agreement, which includes 10 ABC-owned broadcast television stations and the Disney networks, extends the Disney-Comcast relationship into the next decade....
Palm on Wednesday introduced its Treo 680 smartphone amid plenty of fanfare and even more partnerships The phone is available in four colors -- crimson, copper, arctic and graphite -- and retails for US$399. Cingular subscribers, however, can get the device for $199 through an exclusive deal with the nation's largest wireless carrier....
Unveiling a scaled-down version of its identity management software, IBM on Monday tapped into what it sees as a growing demand among small- to mid-sized businesses (SMB) for online collaboration and secure transactions with trading partners IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway will allow authorized SMB users to securely access th...
The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that ISPs and Internet publishers cannot be sued for posting or distributing libelous material written by others At issue in the ACLU v. Gonzales case was the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which would impose criminal sanctions, with penalties of up to US$50,000 per day and up to six months jail tim...
The holiday shopping predictions are in Forester Research reports online retail sales this holiday season will reach US$27 billion in the United States alone. JupiterResearch is a little more optimistic, adding $5 billion to that cheery figure. Jupiter further predicts that a record 114 million users will buy online this holiday season....
Universal Music Group (UMG) on Friday filed a lawsuit against MySpace.com, alleging that the Web site is building a business based on publishing stolen songs and music videos The suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, called MySpace a "vast virtual warehouse" of pirated copyrighted material that belongs to blockbuster artists ...
Striking back against rival Google, Yahoo on Monday inked a deal with seven publishing companies that will allow more than 150 newspapers to sell ads on its online classified service The newspaper giants involved in the deal include Belo, Cox Newspapers, Hearst Newspapers, Journal Register, Lee Enterprises, MediaNews Group and E.W. Scripps.
Robotics, which has played a longstanding role in industrial applications, has finally entered the classroom in the form of applications for disabled students. It's a trend that could move beyond special needs and into the education mainstream Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of hearing, recently added Anystream's Apreso Classro...
A trio of search titans is joining forces to make it easier for people to find information on the Web. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft on Thursday agreed to support a single open protocol to make Web sites more visible to search engines Sitemaps 0.90 is freely available to webmasters. The protocol intends to make it easier for them to notify search eng...
FormerHP chairwoman Patricia Dunn on Wednesday pled not guilty to criminal charges in connection with the corporate spying scandal that swirled around the technology giant earlier this year. Accompanied by her husband, Bill Jahnke, Dunn entered her plea before a Santa Clara County, Calif., Superior Court judge. She declined to speak to the crowd of reporters who gathered at the San Jose courthouse...
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