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After months of speculation and rumors about its mobile plans, Google and a raft of supporting companies gathered Monday to announce Android, a new platform billed as the first truly open and comprehensive application for mobile devices The platform is the result of a collaboration including T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others through the ...
The two leading social networking sites -- Facebook and News Corp.'s MySpace -- are both launching advertising programs this week aimed at allowing marketers to tightly target their audiences by using information from user profiles and other data MySpace announced the pending launch of "SelfServe by MySpace," an advertising-ordering, creation and s...
Seeking to unlock value from a years-long acquisition spree, IAC/Interactive said Monday it will split into five publicly traded companies, leaving the Ask.com search engine as the core IAC holding, along with other Internet interests IAC's board has approved a plan to spin off four new companies: HSN, which will hold the company's retail interest,...
Considering putting an e-mail disclaimer at the end of the e-mail that says, in effect, "Hey, don't read this!" is every bit as effective as a park flasher telling you not to look -- how much protection does that overly verbose threat actually carry? "The e-mail disclaimer is more of a back-up plan for that OMG moment when you send an e-mail to the...
I've been covering the Leopard launch for the last three weeks and will now wrap it up. There have been some issues with the new OS, but nothing critical, and it appears to be a near-flawless launch Moving to a more interesting battle, Black Friday is coming up and it looks like the HD DVD folks are planning on nailing the Blu-ray folks to the wall...
An autonomous robotic SUV from Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team won the US$2 million prize in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Urban Challenge by successfully completing an urban obstacle course faster than 10 other finalists in the race, held Nov. 3. "Boss," as the robotized 2007 Chevy Tahoe is called, averaged 14 miles per hour over 55 miles...
In what may well be one of the most unusual computing tasks performed by the Linux operating system, Terra Soft Solutions integrated its Yellow Dog Linux distribution and the Sony PlayStation 3 to guide a specially designed driverless car competing in the qualifying rounds for the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) autonomous vehicle challenge in Victorville, Calif...
More than 300 completely new medicines, vaccines and treatments for more than 150 conditions have entered the U.S. market since 1990, with a raft of benefits for consumers The need for many surgeries has been reduced; survival rates are higher; quality of life has improved. Indeed, between 1986 and 2000, the average life expectancy for Americans an...
Calabrio has upgraded its workforce optimization products, which go to market through several channel partners, including as an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) to Cisco's Unified Contact Center product line The company upgraded Workforce Management to version 8.1 and Quality Management to version 2.4. The latter in particular offers a signifi...
Hackers were able to make their copies of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) and PlayStation 2 (PS2) versions of the game "Manhunt 2" even more violent less than one day after the game was released Oct. 31 The discovery could put Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiary Rockstar Games on the defensive once again, handling another round of bad press abou...
Ottawa, Canada-based Wi-Lan has filed two separate infringement suits against 22 chip suppliers, equipment vendors and electronics retailers. The targeted companies include Acer, Apple, Atheros, Belkin, Best Buy, Broadcom, Buffalo Technology, Circuit City, Dell, D-Link, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Infineon, Intel, Lenovo, Marvell Semiconductor, Netgear, Sony, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Westell Technologies and 2Wire...
Eleven robotic vehicles will compete in the final race Saturday of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge event, the group announced Thursday Selected from a group of 35 that participated in qualifying events over the past week or so, the 11 finalists will now have to successfully complete a complex, 60-mile urban cou...
CreditCards.com, a Web-based distributor of credit cards to consumers, hopes to raise as much as US$185 million through an initial public offering (IPO), the company said Friday The Austin, Texas-based firm still does not have a firm date for its offering, first announced in August, but in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...
TV and movie writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are expected to hit the picket lines as early as Monday after failing to reach agreements with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) The two factions are waging a pitched battle over DVD and digital distribution residuals, a growing profit center for media content ...
As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) geared up for its Town Hall meeting at the end of this week focusing on electronic behavioral marketing techniques, privacy advocates banded together to urge the agency to give consumers a way to opt out Specifically, nine privacy organizations have requested that the FTC consider implementing a "Do Not Track" ...
Wal-Mart stores across the U.S. held a special promotional HD DVD player sale this week, offering Toshiba's HD-A2 DVD player for a mere US$98.87. The sale was part of Wal-Mart's Secret In-Store Specials promotion designed to jump-start the holiday buying season Wal-Mart's promotional materials noted that the specially-priced unit wasn't available i...
Media giant Viacom, which has invested heavily to expand its footprint on the Web, said its "Transformers" movie franchise and the sale of its music publishing business helped it record an 80 percent jump in third-quarter earnings Viacom earned US$641.6 million, or 96 cents a share, up 80 percent when compared with $356.8 million, or 50 cents, a ye...
Anticipation is building as Google prepares to formally introduce its social networking platform. Called "OpenSocial," it provides tools for developers to create applications and widgets that can be ported to any participating network. Partners that have signed on range fromFriendster toPlaxo to Salesforce.com -- and, most notably, in the last 24 hours, MySpace andBebo...
This month America's first baby boomer, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, signed up for the Social Security benefits she will start to collect in January. The new phase of life that she and her generation are entering is creating demand for new industries that affect everyone, one of which involves "brain fitness." Brain fitness is exactly what it sounds ...
In the shadow of the towering Hollywood sign, executives in the film, TV, music, telecom, Internet and technology industries are convening this week to compare notes on a new starlet: the tech-savvy consumer -- one who wants an all-access to pass to any and all content online More than 2,200Digital Hollywood conference attendees are crowding the ha...
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