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Over the last couple of weeks, I've been meeting with vendors all over the country that range from those that build PCs to those that build tools and parts, to those that build back-end solutions. One common message has come through. They all are targeting Apple as the company whose performance they most want to beat This has more implications for ...
Having an interest in computers and the Internet is one thing, but can going overboard with it qualify you for a deviant behavior diagnosis from a clinical therapists? That may depend on how much time you sit at the keyboard and how much that impacts your job, your family and your other important interests Jennifer Hall Goodwin, president of busine...
The video games industry racked up hardware and software sales of roughly US$1.7 billion in March, according to NPD Group, a consumer sales tracking firm. Total sales in March 2008 were some 57 percent higher than the $1.1 billion the industry made just one year earlier "You'd never know that the U.S. economy was under distress by looking at the vi...
As consumer-focused word processing and spreadsheet applications become less expensive and more available from non-Microsoft sources like Google and Apple, Microsoft is working to ensure that it too has lower-priced, higher-value "essential software" solutions for consumers. The Redmond, Wash., software maker has been secretly working on a new service, code-named "Albany," which the company publicly acknowledged Friday...
Take-Two Interactive Software on Friday slammed Electronic Arts' lower bid for the company. EA on Thursday decreased its offer by 26 cents per share after Take-Two shareholders voted more shares for its top management, ZelnickMedia, at their annual meeting. EA also extended its tender offer by a month The deadline for Take-Two to accept EA's bid at...
Ever heard that story about the mother who lifted the car off of her son? I thought it was an urban legend until I looked it up. But apparently it's true: In 1982, Angela Cavallo saw her son being crushed by a 1964 Impala. Seeing that happen brought Angela to a state of panic so severe that she (temporarily) gained superhuman strength -- enough strength necessary to lift the car off her son...
Brushing aside concerns about a drop in paid click rates and sliding past estimates, Google posted results Thursday showing not only that it remains king of the online advertising space but that it can continue to grow sales and profits in uncertain economic times Revenue at the search giant rose 42 percent year-over-year to US$5.2 billion in the f...
Renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydropower are increasingly becoming more popular. In fact, wind power is the fastest-growing energy source in the world. Presently, there are about 30,000 wind turbines operating worldwide, and that number is ever increasing While this is very encouraging news for our environment, the fact remains t...
A new fashion shopping site from Florida boutique La Ti Da is banking on personalized service to set it apart Visitors to ShopLaTiDa.com, based in Boca Raton, are invited to complete an online profile including profession, style sense, body measurements, preferred designers and areas of shopping where they might need assistance....
In what surely came as a blow to many Linux aficionados, Red Hat announced Wednesday that it will not develop a desktop implementation of the operating system for the consumer market anytime soon "We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future," the company wrote in a post on its blog, cit...
As Americans stretched to pay the tax man this week, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Montebello) was working on the sly to institute a new digital tax. Such a move is not only short-sighted, but also could seriously harm the state's competitiveness It's no secret that the digital economy is a key driver of California's economic growth, ...
Google has released a new version of its Google Earth application, updating it to version 4.3 by adding a more realistic, immersive set of features intended to make the virtual planet feel more like home. In addition to features like the ability to control the sun, Google Earth 4.3 also comes with a lot more real-world data, new photos and cities ready for 3-D exploring...
Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos in February, according to a comScore report released Wednesday at the annual meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. The comScore data shows that the number of videos viewed online has risen by two-thirds since February 2007. Roughly 73 percent of Internet users in the U.S. viewed video online in February...
When UC Berkeley journalism graduate student James Karl Buck was grabbed by police in the Egyptian industrial city of Mahalla El-Kobra while photographing a noisy demonstration, he sent a one-word text message to Twitter: "Arrested." That eventually got him out of jail....
Sales of personal computers continued their growth trends in the first quarter despite the U.S. economic slowdown, according to studies released simultaneously by the Gartner and IDC research firms Notebook sales are driving the PC market worldwide, according to the reports, and there are sharper PC sales in developing markets, such as India and th...
Benefiting from strong overseas sales and a weak U.S. dollar, IBM posted strong quarterly results and raised its guidance, adding to what's becoming a winning streak for technology stocks On the heels of a strong report from fellow tech bellwether Intel, IBM beat expectations for its first quarter, with a 26 percent jump in profit....
Web auction giant eBay posted strong first-quarter results Wednesday despite weaker-than-expected growth in buying activity in core markets such as the U.S. and the UK eBay posted net income of US$460 million, or 34 cents per share, up 22 percent from the $377 million it earned in the same quarter in 2007. Revenue was up 24 percent to $2.19 billion...
When the former vice president of the United States gives a speech at a major technology conference in San Francisco, you'd expect to see a story about it the next day, or -- since it was a technology conference -- later on that same day You'd see a run-of-the-mill story in the Chronicle or the Examiner, read a few paragraphs, marvel that Gore's st...
A firestorm of fury has erupted over behavioral tracking -- the tracking of consumers online by marketing companies and advertisers to serve them up with targeted advertisements when they're on the Web Both consumer organizations and trade and industry groups have responded to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) call for comments on its proposal t...
The acronym GRC (governance, risk and compliance) has become a boardroom buzzword. The reasons? First, there are growing governmental and industry-specific compliance and security regulations. Next, there's the immediate need to effectively manage and mitigate the mounting business and operational risks associated with competing in a complex global market. Traditionally viewed as separate operational silos, organizations are increasingly converging governance, risk management and compliance into an integrated enterprise-spanning framework...
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