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There's a winner in the high-stakes mobile TV market in Europe, although the issue is far from decided in other global markets On Monday, the European Commission said it was backing Finland-based Nokia's Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld as its choice for mobile TV technology across Europe....
Intel this week laid out its lineup of new products, which take dead aim at some of the latest hot buttons in computing One is the Dunnington CPU (central processing unit), with six cores, which will be introduced in the second half of this year, and will support FlexMigration, a technology that allows live virtual machine migration across server p...
About eight months after former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio was convicted of selling stock based on inside information he was also shielding from the public, a federal appeals panel overturned the conviction Monday, clearing the way for Nacchio to be tried again before a new judge A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit r...
Yahoo announced it expects to double its operating cash flow in the next three years despite an uncertain stock market and on the heels of Microsoft takeover bid The three-year plan, released Tuesday, said the company expects its operating cash flow to increase from US$1.9 billion to $3.7 billion while generating $8.8 billion in revenues. The growt...
That's it. Dim the lights and start counting your pennies -- if you haven't already begun. We're officially in a recession, according to Warren Buffett, or headed into one, as everyone and their mothers seem to be saying E-tailers shouldn't panic when conducting business during slower economic periods, caution PayPal andJupiterResearch, which are h...
Web 2.0 technology is revolutionizing the way businesses display their wares on e-commerce sites. The service delivery model of Web 2.0 presents a pressing challenge to Web designers in small businesses and home-based businesses. Anyone with a community-based information and public comment Web site is often hard-pressed to offer the look and feel of a modern, interactive portal...
The phone rings and John answers, "Accounts payable, how may I help you?" It's the fourth call John has received from ABC Supply this week. Why? ABC Supply wants payment for an invoice that was sent more than 60 days ago. How is this possible? Actually, it isn't surprising. There is tremendous variability with regard to the purchase to pay (P2P) cycle. Just think of the typical steps required to pay an invoice...
Microsoft's annual lollapalooza of a conference, Convergence, has come and gone, but the blogs it triggered live on. The team behind Microsoft CRM Live -- the on-demand application scheduled to be released later this summer -- has been particularly prolific, with "how-to" posts such as"How to get better performance from the MetadataService,""Mail Merge and more..."; andAccessing CRM Live Web Services...
As our reliance on smartphones continues to grow, so does the fear of losing all the information they contain -- and for good reason. Fierce competition among handset manufacturers and carriers has resulted in a chaotic, seemingly impenetrable jungle of incompatible makes and models with backup and recovery functionality that often proves complicated to use...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been filing and threatening lawsuits all across America in its war to stop illegal file sharing and piracy of music owned by its partner record labels. Many individuals that have faced litigation from the RIAA in the last several years have settled by paying a few thousand dollars Perhaps the...
Japan's four major Internet service provider (ISP) organizations have agreed to cut off Internet access for users who repeatedly copy gaming software and music illegally online The organizations, which include the nation's Telecom Service Association and the Telecommunications Carriers Association, represent about 1,000 large and small domestic pro...
Researchers at IBM have moved a step closer toward the creation of an on-chip optical network, the tech giant said Monday. Calling it a "significant advance," IBM announced the development of the world's tiniest nanophotonic switch designed to route optical data between cores on next-generation high-performance multi-core microprocessors With the t...
In a bid to cut out the middleman and drive its own Web traffic, eBay said Monday it would launch a partner network that will replace affiliate relationships the auction site has long relied on to get users to its site The eBay Partner Network will launch April 1 and give publishers and other partners "expanded access to revenue opportunities" acro...
Traditional advertising business models may not sustain the news business as companies -- and independent bloggers -- seek out niche markets, found a study conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism The State of the News Media study focused on seven areas: restructuring content, emerging business models, traditional advertising models, p...
As Tibetans -- led by Buddhist monks -- rioted in the capital city of Lhasa, burning Chinese-owned businesses and attacking Chinese, Beijing clamped down on YouTube and other media outlets depicting the violence The trouble began a week ago, when Buddhist monks demonstrated peacefully March 10 on the anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese...
Microsoft has licensed Adobe's Flash Lite and Reader software for users of its mobile phone technology "People want vibrant Web experiences and access to entertainment and information anywhere, anytime," said John O'Rourke, general manager of Microsoft's mobile communications unit. "Bringing Flash Lite and Reader LE to the Windows Mobile experience...
Software maker BMC will buy data center automation firm BladeLogic in a move that could help it fend off incursions into its core market from rivals such as EMC and IBM BMC will use BladeLogic's products to round its own business service management software portfolio. When combined, the platform will include tools to help businesses manage informat...
While IT journalists debate whether or not 2008 will indeed be "the year of virtualization," an October 2007 report from Gartner named "Virtualization 2.0" one of the top ten strategic technologies for 2008. There is no doubt that recent years have seen a steady increase in enterprises adopting server virtualization. Yet this rush to stay on the cutting edge of technology can cause organizations to undertake enormous company-wide virtualization initiatives without any idea where to start...
3Tera, based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., has made a sizable step forward in the on-demand or utility computing market. The company provides other enterprises, both large and small, with a new technology called "disposable infrastructure." This technology forms the foundation of its AppLogic product, a first-of-its kind grid operating system that runs and scales existing Web applications...
The front office meets the back office at the Web 2.0 enterprise portal Part 1 of this series discusses the changing role of portals in a Web 2.0 world; Part 2 relates portals to the shifting landscape of e-commerce....
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