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In the aftermath of the SCO Group filing for bankruptcy on Friday, reactions from analyst and community quarters are less gleeful and more sober about lessons learned There weren't any champagne corks popping at the headquarters of the Linux Foundation following Friday's announcement....
No. 1 handset maker Nokia said Monday it will buy Enpocket, a startup that focuses on creating and delivering targeted brand advertising to mobile phones Finland-based Nokia did not disclose the purchase price it paid for the privately held firm, but said it will use the acquisition to "accelerate the scaling of its mobile advertising business."
A software tool is released with a performance guarantee and the promise of periodic updates. Another commercial application for the market? Not quite. Rather, this is emblematic of how malware writers are doing business these days "We definitely see much of the illegal online activity becoming more professional and adopting behavior and practices ...
The free music download site SpiralFrog.com has finally croaked its first notes The company's online launch has been in the works since August of last year, and the company missed its well-publicized December 2006/early 2007 launch plans, apparently due to executive shakeups....
After seeing its fortunes rise and then tumble as an Internet access provider, AOL, a division of Time-Warner, announced a series of changes the company hopes will make it a contender in the ever-expanding online advertising market The new enterprise, named "Platform A," will be accompanied by a change of scenery from Dulles, Va., to New York City....
T-Mobile USA plans to acquire cellular company SunCom Wireless Holdings for US$1.6 billion in cash and assume SunCom's net debt of $800 million, the companies announced Monday The acquisition will extend T-Mobile's network coverage in the southeastern United States and the Caribbean through the addition of SunCom's roughly 1.1 million customers in ...
A European court upheld the European Union's sweeping antitrust ruling and the penalties against Microsoft, saying regulators acted within their authority when they issued a record-setting fine, forced Microsoft to produce a new version of Windows and required the software giant to share how its server products work The Court of First Instance foun...
Yahoo is beta testing a new social networking site that, among other things, allows users to annoy their friends One of the unusual features of the new service -- currently called "Mash" and available by invitation only -- is the way it lets members fool around with other members' profile pages. In fact, according to a Yahoo blog about the site, pe...
Google -- the company that championed the concept that no piece of information was too small not to be indexed for public consumption -- is calling for the development of a global privacy standard The Internet has been leveraged in countries that have no such policies, said Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer in an address to aUnited Nati...
Imagine a world in the not-too-distant future where anyone can work from anywhere, using whatever communication device they have at their disposal (laptop, iPhone, etc.). This type of world is not hard for us to imagine After all, many professionals are finding that they have less and less of a need to be in an office to get work done, and the auto...
The contact center has become the focal point of customer interaction. The method by which the customer interacts with the contact center dwarfs all other modes of interaction. Whether it occurs via phone, chat, e-mail, self-service Web or self-service IVR the customer is inundating the contact center with transactions and requests for information ...
In a busy two days of announcements last week, MySQL, the Sweden- and U.S. West Coast-based vendor of the open source MySQL database, said that business users can expect an enriched Enterprise Edition collection of software, service and support, called "MySQL Enterprise." The other leg of the announcement is that alpha and beta versions of open sou...
I just came back from the Atlantis resort and a nice vacation playing on some incredible water slides, swimming with dolphins, and floating on a mile-long endless pool I had a ball, but it appears that others decided to be very busy in my absence. AMD, for one, brought out its long-awaited Barcelona chip. In thinking about it, however, I no longer ...
Search engines have taken on the role of parents doling out rewards as well as punishment to companies building Web sites. The punishment comes from two sources. For one, the search engines are flawed, often unable to work with various types of information "At one time, search engines could not make sense of PDF data, but that was one shortcoming t...
Enigmatic artist Prince says the Internet has allowed third parties to steal his works and may sue sites such as YouTube that benefit fromthe unauthorized use of his music The bone of contention for the artist who once changed his name to a symbol is unreliable or insufficient filtering of content, which leaves artists or their representatives resp...
Bank of America has quietly raised ATM fees it charges noncustomers to $3. The bank has more than 16,000 national branch location machines; of these, some 6,000 are located in such public places as malls, movie theaters and stadiums. Fees to use these ATMs will remain $2 The bank raised its fee to pay for upgrades to its ATM network, it said....
Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new law on Thursday banning teenage drivers from using all electronic devices while behind the wheel Beginning July 1, 2008, drivers under 18 will be forbidden from using cell phones, pagers, laptops or other electronic devices while driving. Violations will result in a US$20 fine for the first of...
Users of Microsoft's Windows operating system may be surprised to learn that Microsoft has been secretly updating their PCs even after they've activated a feature that seemingly prevents automatic updates So far, discovery that Microsoft is changing code on users' PCs without their knowledge is limited to a single program -- the Windows Update prog...
Less than a month after it launched Sky in Google Earth with astronomical images from around the universe, Google announced on Thursday that it is taking its space fascination a step further by sponsoring a contest to fly to the moon Offered in partnership with the X Prize Foundation, best known for the US$10 million Ansari X Prize for private subo...
In conjunction with the Huffington Post Web site and online magazine Slate, Yahoo is offering users the ability to grab video clips of "debate" answers from Democratic presidential candidates and use them to make their own mashups Billed by Slate as the "first-ever online-only presidential mashup," the endeavor features videotaped answers to seriou...
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