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Systems management appliances provider Kace announced on Monday the integration of the recently acquired AppDeploy Live service with its Kbox Systems Management Appliances The launch provides system administrators with access to two global communities of information to speed day-to-day maintenance tasks and the deployment of software throughout a n...
Are video games truly addictive -- or just really, really fun? That question is at the heart of a controversy stirred up at an American Medical Association meeting that began on Saturday As part of the meeting, the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health presented a report on the effects and addictive potential of video games, concluding with a ...
The saga of the US$54 million lawsuit against a Washington, D.C.-area dry cleaners over a missing pair of pants has come to an end, with Washington Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruling against the plaintiff, Roy Pearson Now, Pearson, an administrative law judge, is liable for the owners' court costs, which come to roughly $1,000. In a later ...
The diverging fortunes of Nintendo and Sony were underscored Monday when Nintendo's total stock market value eclipsed that of Sony for the first time Nintendo, whose Wii gaming console was the surprise hit of last year's holiday season, moved past Sony to become one of Japan's 10 most valuable companies....
Samsung Electronics is now mass-producing the industry's first 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSD) at a whopping 64 gigabytes, making the high-density flash-memory-based drives suitable for widespread ultra-portable laptop use "Flash-based memory drives represent the future of the laptop market," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, ...
Following a 10-day tiff in which eBay pulled out of Google AdWords, the online auctioneer has apparently set its grievances aside and on Friday returned to the pay-per-click advertising program "We are now slowly turning AdWords back on, in a much more limited way than before," eBay said....
With the dust still settling from the abrupt departure of CEO Terry Semel, Yahoo said Sunday it would revamp its advertising sales unit, merging its search and display operations into a single team The company announced the changes along with news of the departure of its longtime advertising display honcho Wenda Harris Millard, who is leaving the c...
Buyers are naturally cautious when considering whether or not to make a purchase from unfamiliar merchants. Even if this anxiety is not justified, the effect on online retailers is often detrimental. Shopper anxiety creates a complicated challenge for online merchants, especially ones without national, trusted brands This phenomenon -- a lack of c...
A new survey conducted by theComputing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) shows that while vendors are gearing up for greater use of radio frequency identification applications in the supply chain, customers have been slow to accept them A whopping 84 percent of technology resellers, solution providers, systems integrators and consultants ar...
It's often said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Nothing could be more applicable to IT management Here are the five most common mistakes repeated time and again by IT managers, along with recommendations for how to avoid them....
This week, if forecasts are to be believed, 19 million of you will line up to buy fewer than one million first-generation iPhones from Apple. Given Apple's history with first-generation products, I'm not so sure that beating each other silly in a line at an AT&T store is going to be worth the trouble Besides, there's already way too much conflic...
Nuance Communications, the lead vendor in the growing speech-recognition software category, plans to acquire Time Warner'sTegic Communications for US$265 million. The acquisition will add $45 million to $48 million in net revenue in fiscal 2008, the company reported The addition of Tegic, which develops predictive text-input software for mobile ph...
A sophisticated group of spammers has been targeting since late May high-salaried workers at selective corporations in a spam attack using e-mail disguised as messages from the Better Business Bureau (BBB), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) A fourth variation of the spam attack surfaced the second week of Jun...
After a ban in Ireland and the UK, as well as an Adults Only (AO) rating from the U.S. Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), Take 2, parent company of Rockstar Games, said Thursday it has temporarily suspended the release of "Manhunt 2" for the Wii, PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PlayStation Portable (PSP) video game systems. The company had originally planned for the game to hit store shelves on July 10 in the U.S. and July 13 in Europe...
Three new robotic vehicles designed by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will embark on an expedition next month to search for life on the Arctic Ocean floor The vehicles -- two autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and a tethered, remote-controlled sampling system -- were designed specifically for the challenges of operating in A...
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has denied a request from Qualcomm to put on hold an order barring phones containing chips made by Qualcomm that have been found to infringe on a rival's patents from the U.S. market The decision, handed down on Thursday, likely leaves Qualcomm with few options for delaying the penalty, and the company ...
As Microsoft's saber-rattling patent infringement claims continue to resound throughout the open source world, Linux distributor Mandriva is the latest player to stand up to Microsoft and draw a line in the sand Last fall, Microsoft and Novell signed a multi-faceted patent-protection agreement, which was later followed by similar agreements with Li...
The Pentagon took an undisclosed number of computers offline on Wednesday after it detected a cyber-attack on its systems earlier this week, Pentagon spokesperson Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler told the E-Commerce Times. This resulted in some of the Pentagon's e-mail systems being taken down Peppler declined to say how many computers were affected, b...
European Union regulators said they would expand their ongoing probe into the privacy issues first raised about search engine giant Google to include other major search tools The decision of the European Commission's data watchdog group, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, to broaden its probe into the privacy implications of rapidly evol...
You may think that you have absolute ownership of your brand, yet if your name identity is shared with hundreds of other products, services or companies, then your brand ownership is hardly absolute What's the point of brand-building if you are simply brand-sharing? Global icons like Sony, Rolex or Microsoft are completely unique around the world; ...
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