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Of all the groups that have hurt the movie studios' financials through illegal file-sharing and piracy, college students have been the most egregious offenders, the Motion Picture Association of America has long maintained. In fact, it provided statistics two years ago that blamed college students for more than 40 percent of the film industry's losses...
eBay confirmed Wednesday that its president and CEO, Meg Whitman, will step down after a decade at the helm of one of the most successful e-commerce companies in the world. Investors brushed aside the succession news to focus on the auction company's relatively weak forecast for 2008 Whitman will leave eBay at the end of March; eBay Marketplaces ch...
Prior to Tuesday, there were still a few investors optimistic that tech stocks would remain the proverbial safe haven. It was a reasonable stance, given that the focus of responsibility for the mounting economic troubles in the U.S. has been the housing market Then Apple -- which routinely surpasses analyst expectations -- released its sobering out...
It's long been a management axiom that the knowledge and abilities of employees are among the -- if not the -- most valuable of an organization's resources. While this is generally held to be true -- even in capital-intensive industries -- it is particularly valid for knowledge-intensive businesses Every year, companies spend and invest large sums ...
HP announced Thursday a three-part software governance initiative to help companies address the legal, financial and security demands associated with using free and open source software (FOSS) The company is donating its intellectual property for monitoring open source products to a new open source community. It is also founding a new organization ...
Microsoft recently announced RFID (radio frequency identification) enablement for its BizTalk Server software and numerous supporting RFID partner companies. These announcements and the use cases and solutions resulting from them reflect Aberdeen Group research, which shows that 62 percent of survey respondents now cite data integration as their chief cost concern regarding RFID...
Not to be bested by the likes of Apple and Motorola, Dell and Microsoft are joining forces to create (Product) Red PCs that will help African women and children with HIV/AIDS The PCs will be crimson versions of Dell's XPS One line running Microsoft Windows Vista, and as much as US$80 of the purchase price will be donated to The Global Fund via (Pro...
In telephone parlance, any tangible progress Motorola was hoping to make in the fiercely competitive cellular phone business is on hold, as its newest products have failed to connect with consumers Shares of Motorola fell nearly 23 percent in midday trading to a five-year low after the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company reported Wednesday a profit plun...
One year after a proof-of-concept hack for pharming wireless routers hit the Internet, network security company Symantec issued a warning that more attacks are on the way The new attack -- which targets wireless routers -- is similar to other pharming hacks in that it reroutes the domain name system (DNS) server used by any device that connects to ...
Information infrastructure solution provider EMC introduced the enterprise version of its Mozy online backup product Tuesday: MozyEnterprise, powered by EMC Fortress "Our strategy is focused on bringing new Software as a Service offerings to market, powered by EMC," said Tom Heiser, senior vice president and general manager of EMC's new Software-as...
Suddenly, of the hundreds of available colors, there is a rush all over the world to paint almost everything green -- green paint, green ribbons, green wrappings and green fabrics are everywhere Green logos, green billboards and almost politically correct green ties are becoming the most fashionable and trendy statements. Just like a year-round St....
IBM continues to emphasize software as part of its future road map. In laying out a plan to use its Lotus franchise to expand the number of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using its applications, Big Blue is taking aim at a key part of rival Microsoft's core market At its annual Lotusphere trade show this week, IBM announced it would creat...
I was speaking with a CRM vendor the other day about positioning and messaging for sales force automation. The vendor was telling me that the company wanted a back-to-basics message that would focus on the importance of SFA (sales force automation) in helping salespeople recover some of the time they invest in unproductive activities On the face of...
"Do you remember where you were on Y2k?" Ask that of most IT professionals and you're almost sure to get a conversation started. While the non-IT crowd was off partying like it's 1999, many of us spent the new year in the office, on call or tied to our pager. Even those of us who weren't directly involved in the actual change-over probably still re...
Polymer Vision, a Philips spin-off, announced Tuesday the upcoming availability of a combination mobile phone and e-reader with a with a five-inch rollable display. Dubbed "Readius," the device provides users with the functionality of an e-reader in a highly mobile cell phone-sized package, the company said "People are demanding greater choice and ...
One year after Microsoft's Vista operating system came to market, the company announced a change to its end-user licensing agreement, now allowing users to run the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions in a virtual environment ...
European approval of Google's US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick may be in doubt as privacy hearings held by the European Commission get underway. The hearings are focusing on whether Internet protocol, or IP, addresses should be considered personally identifiable information (PII) The risk to the pending deal, which has been approved in the...
If Meg Whitman validates media reports that she is exiting the CEO post at eBay, she will depart with the glow of having finished a masterful job of transforming an obscure San Jose, Calif.-based auction site into an archetypal business model with yearly global sales of nearly US$6 billion On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported Whitman was pl...
Online retailers today are facing what may seem to some as contradictory business challenges: delivering a superior online customer shopping experience and securing transaction information to protect customers and comply with regulatory mandates such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and data security breach laws To meet...
Optimizing the value of customer data and respecting customers' privacy are two immutable and opposing forces that companies always try to balance -- usually unsuccessfully. Few for-profit firms have proven themselves able to avoid challenging the privacy boundary when captivated by the lure of data monetization Some consumer advocates have put up ...
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