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The U.S. Senate, echoing a similar bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week, has approved an extension to a moratorium on state and local taxes on Internet access for another seven years. The House's version, however, calls for a four-year ban. The original ban, first imposed in 1998, is set to expire Nov. 1 Both the House and the...
SanDisk filed three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and other removable flash storage products, the company announced Wednesday The actions -- two filed in the United States District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin...
Microsoft posted strong first-quarter earnings Thursday and issued a buoyant forecast, capping a week of positive news for the software giant and prompting investors to send its shares to new high levels for the year Microsoft -- which on Wednesday beat out rival Google to take a stake in Facebook and on Monday finally settled its antitrust case wi...
Google has upgraded its Gmail offering by augmenting it with IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol. Essentially, this level of connectivity allows users to access e-mail from multiple devices while keeping that information simultaneously synced no matter which device or desktop was used to access it ...
Intel is now mass producing its 45 nanometer architecture Penryn processors at a new, state-of-the-art facility in Arizona, and it expects to have the new chips on the market in about two weeks The company spent $3 billion to build the new "Fab 32" processor foundry in Chandler, Ariz., its first high-volume facility capable of creating chips based ...
The Poker Players' Association (PPA) took its fight to reform online gambling laws to lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week when more than 100 poker players took to the capitol. Professional poker players including Vanessa Rousso, Howard Lederer and Victor Ramdin joined PPA executives in Washington, D.C., to drum up support for two bills currently moving through the legislative process...
In many cases, the entrepreneur who had the courage to start a new business was on the right track by choosing a startup that could be both viable and profitable. Yet, the company failed. Why is that? Because of lack of working capital: the main cause of startup failures This kind of failure can be avoided if the businessperson delays the launching...
It should come as no surprise that the marketing industry is evolving as a whole. Marketing experts and business professionals from around the globe are all trying to figure out the best way to target their audience. For years, marketers have said that the best way to sell a product is to reach as many consumers as possible Although reach is still ...
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), a staple in enterprise settings, are starting to gather momentum as a way to connect remote users and branch offices securely to the networks of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Smaller companies are finding VPNs cheaper to operate than more costly dedicated T1 phone lines SMB players have been slow to move...
Who's always there for you, has the power to make you laugh or cry, and wants to keep you entertained and engrossed around the clock? Forget your significant other -- for one out of four Americans, the Internet is just as good That's one conclusion of a new poll released Wednesday, which found that a full 24 percent of respondents said the Internet...
Facebook members can now access the social networking site on the go -- as long as they have a BlackBerry smartphone. Facebook Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and Research In Motion President and Founder Mike Lazaridis demonstrated the new service Wednesday during the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment Show in San Francisco "Facebook is one of the fastest...
Motorola reported third-quarter net profits of $60 million, a dismal number compared to the US$968 million in profit it enjoyed a year ago but better than the net losses it suffered in the past three quarters The fact that the Schaumburg, Ill., electronics maker turned a profit in Q3, albeit a slim one, gave a bump to its stock price as analysts an...
Microsoft will pay US$240 million for a small ownership stake in Facebook and the right to deliver ads to its members around the world, a move that values the four-year-old social networking firm at $15 billion The agreement, billed as a strategic alliance by the two companies, calls for Microsoft to become the exclusive ad provider for Facebook --...
A Moscow-based software maker filed this week for a U.S. patent on a technology it claims will significantly reduce the time it takes to crack computer passwords The Russian company, Elcomsoft, said in a statement that it has discovered "a breakthrough technology that will decrease the time that it takes to perform password recovery by a factor of ...
IT industry titans including Microsoft and Symantec announced Tuesday at the RSA Conference Europe the formation of the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode), a non-profit organization solely dedicated to fostering greater trust in information technology products and services by advancing proven software assurance methods The g...
There's been a bioterrorism attack in Chicago. You must find a way to administer medicine to roughly 3 million people in less than 48 hours. You need to set up points of dispensing, create makeshift care facilities, obtain refrigerated trucks and create morgue space -- not to mention handle crowd control. What do you do? The best way to prepare for...
The scattered and raging wildfires in southern California are consuming homes at a wicked pace, having burned more than a 1,500 buildings, with tens of thousands more downwind and in danger. A half-million people have evacuated, President Bush has declared a state of emergency and through it all, everyone from reporters at traditional news outlets to everyday people are turning to technology to cover and share the latest news...
Google andNielsen have formed a relationship designed to help advertisers create targeted ads for viewers and track how and where their advertising dollars are delivering a return. Under the agreement, Google will provide Nielsen's demographic data through its Google TV Ads advertising platform Google TV Ads is part of the search giant's foray into...
Amazon's stock was down about 12 percent Wednesday despite posting earnings that were better than expected and predicting a record holiday quarter, as a lower-than-expected profit outlook weighed on investors The e-commerce giant managed to post a four-fold increase in net earnings for its third quarter, growing net income to US$80 million, a 313 p...
Dell on Tuesday announced the XPS 420, "a premium multimedia PC" designed to let users go semi-pro in editing their pictures and videos and posting them online with the pre-configured system "Our goal is to help people turn their digital lifestyle dreams into reality, whether its viewing family moments and memories, telling your story with photos a...
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