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The Nielsen Co., based in New York and the Netherlands, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase privately held New York-based IAG Research for US$225 million IAG measures consumer engagement with advertisements and product placements across television and online. The company counts some of the largest firms across the business world among its...
IBM is unveiling upgrades to its WebSphere Premises Server at Impact, its SOA (service-oriented architecture) event taking place in Las Vegas this week The buffed-up SOA software -- Version 6.1 -- and IBM's RFID Information Center will be the two main product spotlights at the event, Scott Burroughs, director of sensors and actuators, told CRM Buye...
A little over a year following the initial release of its Clearspace collaboration platform in February 2007, Jive Software announced the availability of the Clearspace 2.0 Monday The newest iteration of Clearspace enables users to share information and connect with coworkers and business partners in order to increase communication and workplace pr...
On Monday, Yahoo previewed Amp, its new online ad management platform. The platform will allow advertisers to precisely target audiences within geographic, demographic and interest-based categories across a network that includes Yahoo's inventory and that of more than 600 U.S. newspapers within the Newspaper Consortium, the company said Yahoo will ...
It's quiet on the streets of San Francisco today, the first day of the RSA Security Conference, being held at the Moscone Convention Center south of Market Street ...
The European Commission introduced new rules Monday for mobile communications on aircrafts during flights. The new regulations give the airlines a green light to let their passengers talk on their mobile phones midair -- with a few caveats, of course The Commission, however, did not create protections for quiet passengers who might find themselves ...
Microsoft tried to light a fire under its apparently stagnating bid to acquire Yahoo over the weekend, with CEO Steve Ballmer saying a lower price could be in the offing if Yahoo doesn't act soon The Web portal was unmoved, however, saying Monday that its board remained open to a deal with the software giant, but not at the original price of around...
When the Census Bureau sends out its legions of employees to count American heads two years hence, the roughly 140,000 address canvassers and 580,000 enumerators won't be armed with custom-built handheld computers. Instead, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told a House panel on Friday, the government agency will use a paper-based system The U.S....
Few people would dispute the mystique that surrounds the boardroom. This allure has been around for some time, but it was recently heightened by the popular TV series "The Apprentice" with business icon Donald Trump. Boards of directors deal with sensitive issues and handle privileged information, and board meetings themselves call to mind strategy discussion, stock discussions and major contracts...
Last week I was in Shanghai, China -- which is truly an amazing place -- attending Intel's IDF (Intel Developer Forum), where the company is officially launching its new Netbook and iPhone-like MID (mobile Internet device) platforms. This is actually the first time I've seen products that are based on Linux that may exceed Apple's vaunted user experience...
Over the last three years, the number of developers of the Linux kernel has tripled, according to the Linux Foundation. A research team from the organization has reported that the growth of the open source operating system into new areas is attracting more hands-on code writing of the Linux engine The kernel forms the core of the Linux system and i...
Over the past five years, 42 of the technology companies that Mercury Ventures has invested in have made the transition from publicly traded to private firms That is part of a larger trend among smaller publicly traded companies, for whom the benefits of being public no longer clearly outweigh the burdens of complying with the regulatory requiremen...
The financial losses tied to Internet crime reached record levels in 2007, the FBI said Thursday, citing data from its annual Internet Crime Report The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 -- which the FBI operates along with the nonprofit National White Collar Crime Center -- fielded 206,884 complaints of crimes perpetrated over the Internet du...
Microsoft has again decided to let Windows XP operating system (OS) live a little longer This time, the software maker has given the OS a reprieve in order to sell preloaded versions of Windows XP Home Edition in ultra-low cost PCs....
SCO, the company everyone in the Unix and Linux worlds loves to hate, has lost its latest angel investor Private equity firm Steven Norris Capital Partners had filed a memorandum of understanding tentatively offering US$5 million in stock and a $95 million loan the long-moribund SCO would use to pay off creditors and come back to life....
Though the basic outcome of the Federal Communications Commission wireless spectrum auction has been known for some time -- Verizon Wireless and AT&T won major chunks of the spectrum while Google was shut out -- responses to the closely watched event came fast and furious Thursday as the anti-collusion quiet period ended Verizon plans to use the wi...
Adding another bump in the road on the way to WiMax, Sprint has delayed the nationwide launch of its Xohm WiMax network The launch had been expected to happen this month, but now "it's not looking like it will be April," company spokesperson John Polivka told TechNewsWorld....
As technologically advanced as we are in the U.S., we are still in the horse-and-buggy age when it comes to our medical records. A person's records are usually dispersed among a number of healthcare providers, including primary care physicians, specialists, hospitals, emergency rooms, labs, pharmacies and therapists This system is inefficiently fra...
Working with online car sales leads since the early part of the dot-com era, the cofounders of the Detroit Trading Exchange saw firsthand the inefficiencies in the market and set out to address them The result is a robust and active trading exchange where car dealers and others bid to buy more than 300,000 sales leads generated by consumer-facing W...
IBM is putting its heft behind a project that could morph into new way of doing business in Second Life, Linden Lab's virtual 3-D community The two have partnered to build a protected enclave in Second Life where the company can conduct serious business without fear of marauders. While there are more than 100 corporate storefronts in the virtual co...
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