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In a nod to its recent success and an expression of confidence in its future, AT&T will boost its dividend by the largest amount ever and buy back as many as 400 million shares of its own stock The AT&T board of directors voted to increase the company's quarterly dividend rate from 35 US cents per share to 40 cents per share. On an annual basis, th...
In a nod to its recent success and an expression of confidence in its future, AT&T will boost its dividend by the largest amount ever and buy back as many as 400 million shares of its own stock The AT&T board of directors voted to increase the company's quarterly dividend rate from 35 US cents per share to 40 cents per share. On an annual basis, th...
In a nod to its recent success and an expression of confidence in its future, AT&T will boost its dividend by the largest amount ever and buy back as many as 400 million shares of its own stock The AT&T board of directors voted to increase the company's quarterly dividend rate from 35 US cents per share to 40 cents per share. On an annual basis, th...
With thousands of companies selling products online to both businesses and consumers, it takes more than nice site design and a shopping cart to be competitive and make money. We know that effective search and navigation leads to more people finding what they're looking for and, therefore, higher conversion rates However, online merchants are now r...
One of the most complex areas of online advertising -- what happens when a prospective customer clicks on an ad -- ironically happens almost entirely outside of the customer's awareness The ubiquitous dancing Santa, robot or alien that we see on so many mortgage refinancing ads actually is only the tip of the iceberg. Once clicked on, that ad must ...
The hot (albeit not necessarily sexy) segment of IT operations -- the analysis and intelligence-gathering from logs and performance management data -- is showing increasing signs of an on-demand future First, Paglo came out last month (in beta) with a free and open source (GPL) crawler service that scours the reams of log files and other electronic...
Hits and misses, must-haves and have-nots, blockbusters and duds. It's that time of year: time to take a close look at what technologies have established a sound foundation to become IT's hottest as the new year unfolds, and which ones may take a hit after a great deal of hype With the ballots tallied, Vista, WiMax, virtualization, unified communic...
Widget syndication firm Clearspring on Monday launched an ad network to give publishers a way to monetize the content within their widgets The Widget Ad Network, which is built on Adify's Build Your Own Network (BYON) platform, provides six different in-widget advertising formats for an easy and scalable solution for monetizing digital content acro...
TheSoftware Freedom Law Center is challenging Verizon's use ofBusyBox open source code in the wireless routers provided to its FiOS customers SFLC has filed suit against Verizon in the U.S. District Court of New York on behalf of BusyBox developers Erik Andersen and Rob Landley, alleging that the carrier has violated the terms of the GNU General Pu...
Though the date didn't garner the advance hype of Cyber Monday, the first Thursday in December actually set the pace for the holiday shopping season so far, with consumers spending a record US$800 million in virtual stores, according to a report released Monday by comScore Thursday, Dec. 6, marked the busiest online shopping day in the history of e...
Toshiba will join the likes of SanDisk and Samsung by offering flash-based solid-state drives (SSD) for notebook PCs during the first quarter of 2008, the company announced Monday. Incorporating flash-based SSD drives instead of traditional hard disk drives into laptop computers results in lower power consumption and faster boot times "Flash memory...
In a deal worth US$117 million, HP is buying NUR Macroprinters, an Israel-based maker of wide-format digital inkjet printers widely used by the commercial graphics industry The deal will enlarge HP's footprint in the world of graphic arts by allowing it to offer more mid-range platforms and technologies based on ultraviolet-curable inkjets, HP said...
Media-focused social networking site Imeem is barely 18 months old, but the fledgling site just went four for four in partnering with major labels: Universal Music Group (UMG) is on board with Imeem's ad-supported music streaming model. Now Imeem users, averaging 19 million per month, can listen to full-length streamed songs and videos from top-selling artists such as Kanye West, Amy Winehouse and Gwen Stefani, among others...
Following in the footsteps of Facebook and MySpace, professional network LinkedIn announced on Monday a platform that gives third-party developers access to its application programming interfaces (APIs) The set of APIs and widgets in LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform -- dubbed "InApps," for short -- allows partners to build LinkedIn featu...
Bidding to stake an early claim on the fast-growing mobile advertising space, Microsoft said Monday it was making display advertising space available on its MSN Mobile portal for the first time and had already signed up advertisers for the service Jaguar Cars North America and Paramount Pictures will be the first brand advertisers to use the displa...
By now, the majority of Web site owners should be aware that good content is a critical ingredient to site success. Before creating the content of a site, however, one must overcome the sometimes daunting task of choosing keywords These keywords are an integral part of any site and serve as the foundation of your targeted content. When picking keyw...
It's not too often the public schools figure prominently in the Linux blogs, but sure enough, this week they drew a surprising amount of discussion on a few different sites Specifically, news broke on Tuesday that the mayor of Birmingham, Ala., has signed a purchase agreement for 15,000 laptops from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), making the city's sc...
There were some interesting things going on last week and one of them I ran into by accident. First, I was amazed that Dell got into Best Buy, as this would be like Apple suddenly becoming a Windows reseller, and it falls into the "impossible" class of accomplishments Speaking of impossible, Michael Bay accused Microsoft of funding HD-DVD to ensure...
At first glance, tech stocks may appear to have missed out on the great stock market rally of 2007. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new all-time high on Oct. 2, the Nasdaq would have had to gain more than 100 percent to match its best level ever Still, for a lot of reasons, 2007 was a strong year for technology stocks, with investor ent...
Coca-Cola has opened CC Metro, the soft drink maker's island located in the There.com virtual online universe. Coke announced the launch of the new community created by Makena Technologies, founder of There.com, Thursday Whether Web surfers will line up to play around in what amounts to a Coke-themed virtual amusement park -- or whether the venture...
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