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Will movies be as successful as TV shows and videos have been in moving to the Web? Paramount Pictures is betting yes, with the forthcoming launch of what it claims will be the first studio-backed feature film to make its debut online Coming to the Web on Dec. 19, "Jackass 2.5" is an hour-long film -- including original footage and unseen outtake...
Possibly causing worldwide feelings of deja vu, Opera Software has filed a complaint with the European Commission (EC) that says the bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system amounts to unfair monopolization Opera, based in Norway, developed and distributes the Opera Web browser. In the complaint it filed with the EC, the comp...
Microsoft entered the final stage before the countdown begins for the planned release of its first Windows Vista Service Pack in January. The software giant announced the availability of the Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) release candidate (RC) for public download With the release came more specific details on the contents of Vista's first major update...
Buying sponsored links on a major search engine isn't cheap. Getting to the top of the search engine pile without paying your way requires mastery of search engine optimization -- a craft that often seems to fall somewhere between advanced calculus and alchemy However, for small businesses catering to a local community -- a pizza restaurant, for in...
Leading IT companies are crafting ambitious green technology programs and enacting them throughout their own transnational organizations and along their supply chains, as well as promoting them to customers, as Part 1 of this series discusses Going green costs capital, time and effort, but by finding ways to reduce energy and materials usage, save ...
Tech leaders representing Google, Wikipedia and the Center for Democracy and Technology testified Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which is mulling reauthorization of theE-Government Act. Signed into law five years ago, it requires government agencies make information more accessible electronically Ma...
Continuing an ongoing string of acquisitions, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it acquired Multimap, a leading UK-based provider of location and mapping services The acquisition gives Microsoft powerful new location and mapping technology to complement its existing Virtual Earth, Live Search, Windows Live services and MSN, along with the aQuan...
Pluris, a provider of multichannel marketing applications, has added a fourth product to its lineup with the release of its Marketing Optimization and Recommendation Engine (MORE) MORE packages advanced analytics, a recommendation engine and an optimization engine that allows users to make tailored product recommendations, optimized offers -- a pri...
Users of Helio's Ocean mobile phone and Internet device now have an amped-up YouTube application built especially for their phones, the consumer-focused mobile phone company announced Wednesday On most mobile phone and device services, users have been limited to a passive viewing experience of YouTube, if they're able to gain access to the content ...
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has announced the completion of its LiPS Release 1.0 specifications aimed at fostering interoperability across the Linux-based mobile phone market In June, LiPS rolled out the first installment of Release 1.0, including a reference model, address book and voice call enabler, as well as user interface services ...
United Online is pulling the plug on a planned initial public offering (IPO) for its Classmates Media unit, citing unfavorable market conditions The move is a reminder that the market for technology IPOs and particularly those in the Internet space remains somewhat limited, even though Classmates -- which enables users to connect with friends and a...
Despite being given a deadline of Sept. 30, 2007, to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), many Level 1 merchants -- those that process more than 6 million transactions per year -- still do not meet the necessary requirements. In fact, Visa reports that as much as 40 percent of its Level 1 merchants fall into this category...
Running Microsoft Windows or Apple's Mac OS X gives users about the same amount of flexibility as was offered to early car buyers. They could drive any kind of car they wanted, as long as it was a Model T and as long as it was black When the free open source Linux OS first showed up, early developers offered much the same set of options. Today, how...
There's a lot to "green" in the global IT industry. A growing number of leading IT companies active in business lines spanning the entire industry value chain -- from chip fabrication and equipment manufacturing to retailing consumer electronics -- are now putting themselves at the forefront of the green tech wave For years, tech companies have bee...
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday made good on its promise to deliver its OpenSPARC T2 register transfer level (RTL) processor design to the free and open source community using the GNU General Public License (GPL) The OpenSPARC T2 is the open version of Sun's UltraSPARC T2, a processor that features eight cores and eight threads per core running the Sol...
Even though tablet PCs have been around for about five years, it's a category that until now Dell had not set foot into. That, however, is about change, and it will happen before the year is over The PC powerhouse announced Monday it will begin shipping its new Latitude XT tablet PC this month. The 12.1-inch convertible laptop-tablet XT starts at U...
On Wednesday, open source CRM software developer CentricCRM will announce it is rebranding its application after revamping it and adding new functionality. The company also is changing its name to "Concursive." Now called "Concourse," suite 5.0 offers an integrated CRM, Web site creation, content management and enterprise 2.0 technologies on either...
With sales of Sony's struggling PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console picking up in Europe, Japan and the United States, the company's CEO, Howard Stringer, revealed details of its plans going forward for the console at a press conference Tuesday held in Tokyo The PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo's Wii in Japan for the first time during the first we...
Three months after a messy breakup with Apple's iTunes Store,NBC Universal said Tuesday it will make its catalog of TV showsavailable through a download service made by rival portable device maker SanDisk The shows the studio will offer through Fanfare, SanDisk's Web-based download service, include those from its main network along with USA Networ...
Hoping to add to its paltry market share in the Google-dominated world of Internet search, Ask.com has added a feature that, at the user's request, supposedly deletes records of their online activity. However, the feature might not deliver as much privacy as it seems The new "AskEraser" is being touted by Ask.com as the first product of its kind, a...
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