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Online video watching is growing rapidly, and where the eyeballs go, you can expect advertisers to follow Sixty-five percent of U.S. broadband users watch video online at least occasionally -- a substantial increase over last year, when that number was 44 percent, according to a report released last Friday by JupiterResearch....
Mozilla released a new version of its Firefox Web browser Monday which includes fixes for two vulnerabilities disclosed by Secunia, an Internet security firm, earlier this month. The two flaws, which involved conflicts with Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), kicked off a round of finger pointing as both companies claimed the problem lay with the code of the competing browser...
Several major trends are impacting the service provider industry The commoditization of voice and bandwidth: Voice is evolving from a service to merely an application, and consumer bandwidth cost per Mbps (megabit per second) has decreased by roughly 60 to 70 percent in the past five years....
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on the rules governing the upcoming auction of the controversial 700 MHz radio spectrum band, taking a middle ground that may or may not result in a significant changes for the wireless broadband and cellular service industry Signals broadcast in the 700 MHz band spectrum, which runs from 698 to 806...
AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung Sync and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music service lets customer preview and purchase music via their wire...
AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung Sync and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music service lets customer preview and purchase music via their wire...
AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung Sync and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music service lets customer preview and purchase music via their wire...
Adult movie makers in Japan have apparently found a way to have their wares mass-produced on Blu-ray Discs, something that has been hampered, to date, by Sony's antipornography policies A Japanese company is creating adult films on the Blu-ray Disc format at a disc production facility in Taiwan that has the Sony equipment, according to reports from...
Sun Microsystems has chalked up its third profitable quarter in a row, a testament that the company's turnaround plan is taking hold Profits for the server company's fourth quarter were US$329 million, or 9 cents a share -- a significant step up from the 5 cents a share analysts expected. It is also a 180-degree turn from where the company was a ye...
Sirius Satellite Radio further shrunk its net loss in the second quarter, thanks in large part to 561,493 new subscribers and a revenue growth of 51 percent over the same quarter a year ago, the company reported Tuesday Revenue reached US$226.4 million, while the number of subscribers rose to 7.1 million, the company said. Sirius's net loss improve...
Genius.com has released Genius Team -- a new edition of SalesGenius, the marketing and sales application it debuted last year. The new team application automates many of the tasks in SalesGenius and provides a venue for greater administrative control, according to Felicity Wohltman, vice president of marketing for the firm "A lot of our users had e...
Web analytics usage has reached mainstream status, with 82 percent adoption among companies surveyed recently by Aberdeen Group. However, a vast range of maturity exists regarding analytics process, data analysis and corporate understanding of Web metrics. A fundamental impediment precluding many companies from building a successful analytics program is a lack of skilled employees required to manage, distribute and analyze Web analytics...
The Internet is the greatest educational tool since the advent of books, but it is also a sinister playground for prowling predators searching for young prey It is particularly unnerving to think that these predators can enter a living room undeterred by locks or alarms, and unseen by parents or the family dog....
What should the virtual world do when a neighborhood becomes a den of iniquity? The only appropriate response is to dive in and clean it up, according to Jesuit scholar Antonio Spadaro In an article in the Catholic journal La Civilt Cattolica, Spadaro writes that Second Life and sites like it should be considered locations for mission work, just as...
With the Federal Communications Commission due to vote Tuesday on how to auction off the wildly anticipated 700 MHz (megahertz) band of wireless spectrum, speculation is running rampant about the likely outcome The stakes are about as high as they come -- an estimated US$15 billion, according to reports -- and so is the tension. AT&T and Verizon ha...
Perhaps hoping that lightning can strike the same company twice, Sony announced Friday it has signed an exclusive deal with Rockstar Games, maker of the famous and infamous "Grand Theft Auto" (GTA) series, to bring a new upcoming franchise exclusively to the PlayStation 3 (PS3) The deal is a rarity in the industry, as game developers wait to see ho...
A test of three electronic voting systems certified for use in California has uncovered serious security flaws. Researchers at the University of California conducted the tests at the behest of Secretary of State Debra Bowen under a US$1.8 million contract Their mission was to try to compromise the integrity of the voting systems provided byDiebold ...
Verizon posted strong financial gains for the second quarter of 2007 Monday, calling out its growth in wireless and high-speed Internet subscribers The diversified phone company's net profit rose 4.5 percent to US$1.7 billion, up from $1.61 billion from the same period a year earlier. Verizon's operating revenue rose 6.3 percent to $23.37 billion....
Google and YouTube are planning to unveil copyright protection technology that goes above and beyond what some observers think is even possible A Google lawyer told a judge that Google it is creating a database of video "fingerprints" and a system that will match them against uploaded clips to screen out those that appear to be copyrighted, accordi...
As part of its ongoing effort to develop an open search engine that will compete head-on with the likes of Google, Wikia has purchased the Grub Web crawler tool and released it under an open source license, the company announced Friday Wikia, founded in 2004 by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales along with Angela Beesley, announced the open search proje...
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