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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....
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....
Graphics card maker Nvidia announced Monday it has agreed to acquire Ageia, creator of PhysX, technology that adds a higher level of real-world physics realism to video games Financial details of the deal were not disclosed....
AOL has reached a deal to purchase affiliate marketing network Buy.at in an effort to expand its online advertising platform Buy.at, which operates networks in the U.S. and the UK, will become part of AOL's New York-based Advertising.com and Platform A online marketing organizations....
The research arm of Microsoft already had an international reach; now, the company is tapping into the scientific prestige of the U.S. East Coast The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will open its first research lab in the region -- in Cambridge, Mass. -- in July....
Private, personally identifying information is everywhere, from portable computers and digital devices, to the Internet and private networks. This data can be obtained so easily -- either through technology or more mundane means -- and its theft is so often glamorized on film, that it is starting to attract a younger generation to criminal ranks Th...
There were approximately 40 million women among the 90 million people watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, and Pats fan Andrea Learned was one of them. The night was a letdown for Learned the sports fan -- but not for Learned the marketer and author of Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy -- and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market...
Notebook computers are all the rage, and an ever-expanding emphasis on mobility is forcing both consumers and business executives to purchase these devices "2007 was a very good year for notebooks: Sales were up 20 percent," said Roger L. Kay, president of market intelligence firm Endpoint Technologies Associates....
Intel has unveiled a trio of new technologies at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco: the Tukwila Itanium chip -- which has a record 2 billion transistors; the Silverthorne mobile processor; and a method for doubling the capacity of phase-change products The conference started on Sunday and continues through Feb. 11....
The Industry Standard, one of the dot-com era's most prominent magazines, relaunched on Monday as a Web-only, community-driven Web site The property, originally owned by Standard Media, is now run by the Boston-based IDC, a 44-year old information technology research firm. The site will consist of news and analysis from outside contributors and pro...
After Microsoft made its move to acquire Yahoo, the blog chatter started almost immediately. Initial postings hit the Web with notes of surprise before the more thoughtful ruminations started to hit, not to mention the tongue-in-cheek name-crunching that produced hypothetical monikers like -- "Microhoo!" and "Yahsoft" Marketing and social media-foc...
The online video distribution sweepstakes gained another entrant Monday, with cable provider Cablevision throwing its resources behind a joint venture with Popcorn Home Entertainment that will offer movie downloads the same day they are released on DVD Cablevision said the service will enable subscribers to its iO TV digital cable service to downlo...
Microsoft announced the first stage in the launch of its first service pack (SP1) for the Windows Vista operating system (OS) Monday The service pack -- filled with performance, compatibility and reliability updates for versions in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese -- was released to manufacturing a move that enables Microsoft's OEM par...
As Yahoo continues to overhaul the focus of its music business, the company will migrate its online music subscription customers in the coming months to Rhapsody America Yahoo will shut down its Music Unlimited service and divert subscribers to Rhapsody, a digital music venture of MTV Networks and RealNetworks....
Super Bowl XLII may have been an historic upset, but the Internet traffic driven by the multimillion-dollar advertising largely held true to form Web hosting and domain registration company GoDaddy.com appeared to have once again stirred up the most excitement, using a tried-and-true formula -- a tantalizing, suggestive ad -- and a new twist to dri...
In 2005, notebook computers accounted for 50.1 percent of all computer sales. In 2006, shelf space for notebooks increased 44 percent while desktop shelf space (and sales) went down by 23 percent. What does this have to do with a data center? Everything At Journyx, where I manage IT, we presently have about 25 employees. Of those, 11 have laptops i...
"Get it in writing" is a quaint concept in the electronic information age -- especially in B2B e-commerce, where a more suitable direction may be: "get in it cXML." Every industry has major players moving back-office functions from sourcing and procurement, to invoicing and payment to the Web. Supplier networks from Ariba, Perfect Commerce and Quad...
This last week I spent some quality time at HP, and I'm frankly amazed at what the PC team has been able to accomplish in terms of overcoming what I've termed the "Big Company Disease." However, as I watched them struggle to create the best user experience on the planet, one that exceeded what Apple currently provides, I constantly saw Microsoft as...
Just a few short months after Google and the Open Handset Alliance announced Android, the LiMo Foundation on Monday began rolling out its own, competing Linux-based software platform for mobile devices The first release of the LiMo Platform will be available in March, and the application programming interfaces (APIs) are immediately available to de...
The world of open source mobile platforms is starting to get a little crowded Over the past couple of days, rumors began flying that Dell is getting into the game with a phone based on Google's Android platform. Dell denies it, but the amount of attention that is being paid to this segment of the market is notable....
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