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A Delaware judge ruled Monday that Yahoo could not keep secret the details of an investors' lawsuit over its spurning of Microsoft's acquisition efforts. The complaint alleges that Yahoo turned away a US$40 per share offer to be acquired by Microsoft in 2007 -- months before the software company went public with a far lower bid -- and also decline...
Qore, an interactive monthly program, will launch on Sony's PlayStation Network on June 5, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced Tuesday Available the first Thursday of each month, Qore is the current console generation's version of the disk give-aways many PlayStation 2 owners may remember. The discs periodically accompanied issues ...
Beaumont, Texas, has become the testing ground for a new way to charge Internet users for access. It's meant to make heavy users pay more Time Warner will begin rolling out an experimental program that will meter users' Web usage and bill them extra if they download or upload more than a set amount of data....
Wikia Search -- the open source search engine Wikia initially launched in January -- got a fresh start Tuesday. The refurbished version lets users edit, comment on and influence search results After performing a search query on any major search engine, a user typically gets a static results page -- the information it contains is determined largely ...
Microsoft has unveiled an updated beta release of its Silverlight multimedia publishing software. Chairman Bill Gates announced the debut of Silverlight 2 beta 2 at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando on Tuesday. The utility, to be made available for public download by the end of the week, lets developers write Web-based applications using M...
Nintendo's release of the Wii Fit in May brought the up-and-coming gaming genre of exercise gaming, or exergaming, into the spotlight. Suddenly, it seemed, Nintendo was challenging the long-standing stereotype of the out-of-shape gamer sitting on the couch eating potato chips. But is this new trend a valiant attempt by gaming companies to increase...
The Cluetrain Manifesto, written 10 years ago by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, has won over a sizable number of devotees with a simple premise: As the Internet introduces new levels of communication among consumers -- and between consumers and companies -- those companies are going to have to respond with intelligent and direct communication.
The daily need to tap into knowledge relevant to their field is driving tech workers in all types of organizations to scour the Web for timely, up-to-date information, but making sure it's accurate can prove a challenge A recent survey asked tech workers how they search for information, to what degree they use and share it with others, how it affec...
What is a high-end entertainment system? That question can be answered in a variety of ways. For some people, "high-end" means systems bought at a specialty retailer, e.g., Bang & Olufsen, Tweeter or Ultimate Electronics. For others, price determines a high-end entertainment system -- US$5,000, $10,000, or more for a TV with a 5.1 surround-sound system. On the other hand, audiophiles think of a critical listening room equipped with Krell components and B&W loudspeakers when asked about high-end entertainment. For our report, we settled on the following: Home theaters and audio systems that are typically installed professionally as opposed to purchased at retail or online and set up by users...
Seeking to further build on its hosted search and cloud computing efforts, Google on Tuesday launched an updated -- and renamed -- version of its hosted business site search solution The updated version of Google Site Search -- the product was formerly known as "Custom Search Business Edition" -- is meant to give customers more control over what in...
Venezuela is now the latest country to appeal the adoption of an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format Following news last week that the South African Bureau of Standards had sent a letter protesting the decision late last month, Brazil and India joined with their own appeals shortly thereafter....
Graphics chipmaker Nvidia has introduced a new family of processors aimed at the burgeoning industry of mobile Internet devices (MIDs). "Tegra" is the name of a new line of tiny processors smaller than a dime that Nvidia is calling the world's smallest computer on a chip. More than just small in size, the Tegra processors consume very little energ...
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) has accused Facebook, a popular social networking site, of violatingCanadian privacy laws In a 36-page complaint submitted to the Canadian Privacy Commissioner,the CIPPIC outlines 22 separate alleged violations against Facebook. Theorganization claims that it failed to disclose to mem...
In the two weeks following the launch of Nintendo's "Wii Fit" for its popular Wii video game console, consumers have found the exercise game challenging -- challenging to find, that is Trying to locate the US$90 game/controller combo at retailers such as Amazon.com, Best Buy, Circuit City and GameStop will give Wii owners all the exercise they need...
Electronics retail giant Best Buy has announced plans to try out a free electronics recycling program at 117 of its stores. The initiative will start in three cities and could spread to others if it succeeds Best Buy is launching its new program in Baltimore, San Francisco, and Minnesota, with up to two items a day accepted at no charge. The stores...
Adobe has released a new version of its flagship Acrobat product -- v. 9 -- that offers native support of Flash, as well as a beta of online tools designed to enhance collaboration. The dual releases exponentially expand the company's support of Web 2.0 technologies. By embedding Flash support for the first time since Adobe's acquisition of Macrom...
China's telecommunications marketplace will undergo a massive transformation after China Unicom agreed to buy China Netcom Group for US$23.9 billion in stock and sell its own mobile division in a side deal worth another $16 billion The details of the series of deals have been awaited for more than a week, with trading in shares of the various compa...
Part 1 of this series explores the technologies behind analyzing customer behaviors. Part 2 looks into the tools of business intelligence and Web analytics. Part 3 focuses on analytics tools for niche markets. The growing reliance on business analytics at the enterprise level to improve strategic operational decision making and increase corporate...
Though it may seem at times as if the U.S. market is dominated by foreign-made goods, longtime importer Albert Wu believes even more goods could be making their way to consumers Wu and the others behind Internet startup Silkfair.com have long been involved in the importing business, bringing specialty items from markets such as China into the Unite...
There was a time when customizing enterprise software was a long, drawn-out, often painful affair. Then along came Software as a Service, recalls Dan Druker, senior vice president for Intacct, an on-demand financial management and accounting application. It was really easy for Ingres -- a provider of open source database software and one of his co...
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