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AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Agency (NSA) collect and record massive amounts of Americans' Internet communications...
AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Agency (NSA) collect and record massive amounts of Americans' Internet communications...
AOL will buy the content-targeted advertising specialist Quigo, signaling that an aggressive spending spree meant to make it more of a player in the Internet advertising marketplace may be coming to a close AOL parent company Time Warner said it had reached a deal to buy the New York-based firm for an undisclosed sum, though a number of published r...
Flanked by landmark partners including Coca-Cola and Microsoft, Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a new advertising system that allows marketers to tap into the power of personal connections on the wildly popular social networking site Facebook Ads provides a way for businesses to connect with users and target advertising to the particular audiences the...
It's been nearly a month since the British rock band Radiohead shook the music industry by releasing an entire album on its Web site and allowing fans to pay whatever they wanted, down to and including nothing, to download and own the music forever Now, the preliminary sales results are in, as tabulated by comScore....
What are customers around the world saying about the new booming Middle Eastern brands? What are they reading in the brand names? Which ones are they loving and talking about? Which ones can they pronounce, type and remember easily? Are these new local brands leading the charge for global mindshare and creating a sense of greatness, or are they seriously lost in global translation?...
The holiday season may still be more than a month away, but you can be sure marketers and retailers already have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads Consumers are expected to spend roughly US$48 billion on consumer electronics in the fourth quarter, for example, and almost half of that -- $22 billion -- will come from holiday sales, accor...
OK, I get it. I went to the Sales 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week and there was a lot to like about it In my career, I have seen some major back and forth changes in selling, and I have to say that these changes relate more to what is being offered than who we are selling to....
Red Hat has signed a pair of agreements with Sun Microsystems that will help put the open source company on the fast track to delivering a more complete end-to-end application development and runtime stack for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers Red Hat has been heading in this direction for a while now -- its acquisition of JBoss in 2006 brough...
This holiday season, what do you get for the technophile who already has everything? A handful of analysts ticked off some of the items on their Christmas lists, and it was no surprise that they included the most bleeding-edge, technologically advanced -- and slightly off the wall -- suggestions Here are some items sure to impress the tech-savviest...
At a hearing before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan were forced to defend Yahoo's testimony last year regarding its role in the Chinese government's arrest and jailing of journalist Shi Tao The executives were called on to address allegations by Committee Chairman Tom La...
Microsoft is targeting the low end of the enterprise search market with the rollout of a free version of its Search Server 2008 Express Given the price point -- as well as the emphasis on ease of use -- it is clear that the company is catering to SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses), which have been somewhat overlooked by established enterprise...
The 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) hit the picket lines Monday after talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) failed to reach a compromise. At issue are new allocation plans for DVD and digital download residuals. It is the first strike since writers walked out in 1988 Writers are seeking a la...
Sun Microsystems announced modest increases in revenue and profit for its first quarter of 2008 and said continuing the growth remains its "top priority" for the rest of the year The company, now in its 25th year, reported first-quarter net income of US$89 million, which equates to 3 cents per share. During the first quarter a year ago, Sun suffere...
As the Internet and digital technologies continue to play an ever-increasing role on the business side of the music industry, big-name recording artists have begun to turn their backs on their labels and opt instead to strike out on their own Part 1 of this two-part series describes what longstanding acts like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have don...
After the initial warranty period has expired on a desktop or laptop computer, consumers, SOHO (small office/home office) users and SMBs (small- and medium-sized businesses) may find themselves stranded when computer woes strike. Without costly warranty extension plans or an IT department, there is little to do but pay up An alternative to costly l...
Sage Software has upgraded ACT by Sage for Real Estate 2008 (10.0) and ACT by Sage Premium for Real Estate 2008 (10.0) contact and customer management applications. These were introduced last year as ACT's first vertical offerings The company rolled out the two new versions during its Sage Summit customer conference this week in Chicago....
Microsoft and HP announced the availability of the HP MediaSmart Server running Windows Home Server. The new class of server enables consumers to protect, connect and share digital media and documents Aimed at consumers, the MediaSmart Server (MSS) is the flagship product in what Microsoft said is an entirely new category of consumer products....
MySpace and Facebook are the clear winners -- so far -- in the social networking wars, but Yahoo has fired an opening salvo in what may be the next heated skirmish: business and employment networking Yahoo'sKickstart is meant to help college students launch their professional careers....
Samsung has begun sampling new 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64 GB solid state drives (SSDs) aimed at enterprise servers and high-end PCs, the company announced Sunday Using a super-fast SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) II/native SATA interface, the drives offer a sequential write speed of 100 MB per second and a sequential read speed of 120 MB...
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