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The New England Patriots NFL football team now has customer information from ticket reselling service StubHub. The team reportedly gained access to 13,000 records of people who purchased, sold or bid on Patriots tickets on the site after taking StubHub to court Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Allan van Gestel ruled that StubHub had to turn the i...
One quarter after delivering a rare earnings miss, Google promptly returned to form Thursday, trouncing analyst expectations with strong revenue and earnings growth for its third quarter Google said profit rose 46 percent to US$1.07 billion on a 57 percent rise in sales to $4.23 billion. It was the 13th consecutive quarter since going public in Aug...
A group of heavy-hitting media and Internet players have hammered out a plan to thwart the uploading and Web publication of copyrighted material, particularly video clips Key to the plan's effectiveness is technology that will determine if content being posted to Web sites, such as MySpace and Veoh, is copyright protected....
The Linux-based mobile device marketplace is growing and thriving, and Nokia is but one beneficiary, though a strong one indeed As a sign of the times, Nokia's Thursday launch of the "Internet Tablet" device N810 represents a move away from phones and into new opportunities in mobile devices where chatting, finding airports, capturing the moment, h...
Sony continued its seemingly weekly shuffle of models and pricing Thursday, this time shifting focus to stateside and announcing the imminent arrival of the 40 GB PlayStation 3 as well as lower pricing for the 80 GB model. The news comes after similar changes were made first in Europe and then in Japan in the first two weeks of October Gamers anxio...
The music industry switched gears last week in its legal campaign to squash piracy of its intellectual property and filed a lawsuit against Usenet.com which it calls "a haven for those seeking pirated content." In recent months, the industry, through its trade organization -- the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) -- has attempted to ...
SAP has had a wealth of good news to share this week, as it announced a planned acquisition, reported rosy earnings and scored a significant coup First, with an eye toward ramping up its capabilities in business rules management, SAP announced Wednesday that it plans to acquire Yasu Technologies....
PayPal transacts more than US$1,500 every second of every day, with millions of people around the world relying on the robustness of its system It comes as a surprise to many people that PayPal runs such a large financial services company on an open source platform, but that's precisely how we're able to deal with the two competing demands our busi...
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are common in enterprise settings as a way to connect remote users and branch offices securely to the corporate network. VPNs extend a corporation's reach to support worldwide locations The same usefulness is gaining the attention of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Smaller companies are finding VPNs cheaper...
A teenager from Washington state was arrested last week on charges of hacking into an Orange County, Calif., 911 system and tricking the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) into sending a SWAT team to an innocent couple's home in Lake Forest The accused perp, 19-year-old Randall Ellis of Mulkiteo, Wash., will be brought to California where he...
Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew more than 14 percent in the third quarter, according to two reports, with HP and Apple posting strong market share gains PC shipments rose 14.4 percent in the quarter to 68.5 million units, according to Gartner. Rival market research firm IDC, meanwhile, pegged growth at an even more robust 15 percent,...
In a move echoing one made by rival Facebook earlier this year, MySpace plans to open its platform to third-party application developers The wildly popular social networking company owned by News Corp. plans to formalize its relationships with developers and will release a MySpace application programming interface (API) development platform in the ...
Sony is shuffling its Cell Broadband Engine deck chairs in an effort to cut losses related to production of PlayStation 3 game consoles and improve the units' efficiency and pricing The company is selling to Toshiba its fabrication facilities in Nagasaki, Japan, a deal expected to take place by the end of March. Production of semiconductors, includ...
A massive write-down in the value of its Skype Internet calling subsidiary sent eBay to its first quarterly loss in its nearly decade-long history as a public company, but the auction giant otherwise managed to beat expectations and boosted its outlook eBay had warned it would take the hit on its Skype investment previously, and on Wednesday formal...
Thursday marks the official stable release of Ubuntu 7.10, but by Wednesday -- with the Ubuntu community Web site ticking off the time as "1 day to go" -- the Internet was awash in glowing tributes to Ubuntu's latest advancement Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for desktops, laptops and servers. In preparation for the event, developers got to work wi...
There are many reasons why a company might opt to conduct virtual meetings rather than face-to-face ones. Cost is one, particularly with fuel costs soaring; having a widely dispersed base of employees, clients or partners is another common one An increasing number of companies are also meeting up in the virtual world because of concern about the en...
"We need more leads!" cries the sales manager. "What happened to the ones we gave you last month?" replies the marketing manager. "Those leads were lousy" retorts the increasingly frustrated sales manager... and so goes the never-ending lead "quality vs. quantity" debate in many organizations New research suggests that this stereotypical back and f...
Radio frequency identification technology (RFID) vendors are now seeing demand from a wider range of end users for a broader range of applications -- from ID and access control to asset tracking, traceability and supply chain management. Vendors and developers are looking forward to the day when process improvements and demand reach a point where competing suppliers will drive down costs and lever RFID growth to the next level, as was discussed in Part 1 of this series...
MySpace users will soon be able to chat by phone thanks to a new partnership between Skype and the popular social networking site, the companies announced Wednesday MySpaceIM with Skype is a new product that integrates MySpace's instant messaging client with Skype's free voice-calling capability using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Launching ...
Consumers shopping for touch screen-enabled mobile handsets this holiday season will soon have to wade through a whole slew of the newfangled devices as every week seems to bring another announcement from carriers. In keeping with the trend, Sprint unveiled its new Touch phone developed by HTC "Touch by HTC is unlike any other wireless device becau...
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