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Subscription digital music service Napster posted one of its best quarters as a public company, with record revenue and a smaller financial loss The Los Angeles-based firm lost US$2.8 million, or 6 cents per share, in its third fiscal quarter, compared with a year-earlier net loss of $9.5 million. Revenue rose 15 percent to $32.8 million, the most ...
Despite its problems, Yahoo is playing it cool when it comes to Microsoft's bid of US$31 a share, or $44.6 billion, even though the offer was 62 percent higher than its Jan. 31 closing price of $19.18 a share Yahoo is "thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives," CEO Jerry Yang wrote in an e-mail to staff. Yang and cha...
eBay has taken the controversial step of banning sellers from posting negative comments -- or even giving neutral feedback -- about the buyers with whom they do business. The new rule, which will take effect in May, is apparently a reaction to sellers flaming buyers who posted negative information about them eBay's announcement of the rule change e...
The era of the virtual bank appears to have taken a major step toward reality with the unveiling of Remote Deposit Capture from CheckFree The Atlanta-based company's new technology could ultimately mean consumers can avoid a trip to the bank to deposit checks by simply making such transactions online....
Internet and network gear maker Cisco Systems posted second quarter results that were in line with expectations, but stayed true to recent form among fellow technology firms by disappointing analysts and investors with its outlook The current business climate is "challenging" in both the U.S. and Europe, said Cisco CEO John Chambers. Any downturn w...
In an effort to boost its market share in China, Google is reportedly in the final stages of a deal with Universal Music Group that would enable the Internet search giant to provide free music downloads to Chinese users Google, the No. 1 search engine in other large markets such as the U.S., significantly trails Chinese search site Baidu in China....
It wasn't so long ago that the chief technology officer was sequestered in the IT department, cut off for all intents and purposes from the hub of enterprise power. It is different now, of course: The CTO position has grown in visibility over the last 10 years and become more closely tied to that of the CEO It is understandable, then, that many cus...
In order to turn bigger profits from their armies of compromised computers, hackers this year will use a new tactic in targeting master boot records with viruses that plant rootkits on computers' hard drives, security experts warn. These infections activate during the boot sequence before the operating system starts The MX Logic Threat Center has i...
Adding another twist to its efforts to gain business adoption for its Web-based applications, Google has released a Team Edition of Google Apps Google Apps Team Edition allows users to sign up using their work e-mail addresses to gain access to a suite of Apps -- Google Docs, Calendar, Google Talk, but not Gmail -- and enable instant collaboration ...
Amid solid earnings that hit analysts' marks, Time Warner announced on Wednesday that it would radically restructure -- and possibly sell part of -- its AOL Internet service provider division, ending a tumultuous experiment between the old and new media stalwarts Overall, Time Warner's revenues grew slightly to US$46.5 billion, spurred on by its ca...
Microsoft may have set its acquisitive sights on Yahoo, but that apparently doesn't mean it's neglecting its own digital advertising platform. In fact, the company on Tuesday demonstrated seven new technologies from Microsoft adCenter Labs Included among the technologies Microsoft unveiled were algorithms in content analysis and computer vision for...
As repair work gets under way, rumors are flying thick and fast about the cause of a series of undersea cable cuts in the Middle East in recent days The latest is that a fifth undersea cable has been cut -- or it could be a second cut to Flag Telecom's FALCON (Flag Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network) cable near the Egyptian port of Alexandria, which wa...
A partnership between Texas Instruments and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has produced a proof-of-concept microchip architecture that is 10 times more efficient than current technologies The design -- which was presented on Tuesday at the International Solid State Circuits Conference -- uses a redesigned memory and logic architecture to...
Who are the new champion nations on the global stage delivering the finest performances and altering the course of branded imagery of goods and services? Where are the old traditional nations and what's happening to them today? The global shifts on image repositioning are causing minor quakes throughout various continents as brand new landscapes ar...
As the number of identity theft victims continues to mount, so has the amount of data and information related to such events -- and the time and resources devoted to better understanding, analyzing and devising measures that can better prevent such occurrences, as is seen in Part 1 of this series "The stakes are already quite high when it comes to ...
I got a statistic stuck in my head last week during a visit to a client in California. Sometimes you hear or see something so interesting for its oddity that it stays with you no matter what. For me, this was one of those times There are actually two closely related bits of information, and both relate to the call center. Ready? In the business-t...
Not quite five months after its US$350 million acquisition by Yahoo, open source e-mail operator Zimbra Tuesday unveiled its Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 5.0 software This next-generation product has features for reading mail and creating documents offline from a Web browser....
WiFi was supposed to effortlessly connect us to the world on the run Instead we're all on the run seeking a connection....
Millions of protesters against the outlaw Colombian group FARC gathered in more than 140 cities around the world to protest its brutal tactics and to call for the release of the estimated 3,000 hostages the group still holds FARC has been terrorizing Colombian and foreign visitors to the country for years, kidnapping the famous and quietly rich -- ...
The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum fromAloha Partners in a deal worth US$2.5 billion It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus interest....
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