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Intel and Taiwan firm Asus have teamed up to produce a line of low-cost mobile PCs with at least one coming in at under US$200. The two companies made the announcement this week during the 2007 Computex computer trade show held in Taipei, Taiwan The new line of computers will focus on providing users with comprehensive Internet applications based o...
Since the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) in 2002, board members have become increasingly aware of potential liabilities to board service. Though much of this worry is unfounded, some things still should be watched closely For information in addition to this article, please see my E-Commerce Times article: Board of Directors: Should You Serve?...
An innovative three-dimensional search program puts a unique spin on Internet searching. All results are displayed in a 3-D space that users can navigate and manipulate SpaceTime presents all search results, shopping windows and browsing activity in a continuous 3-D stack that merges results to save time and improve browsing efficiency....
Banks looking to increase opportunities to cross-sell products to their online customers will turn in the coming years to Web-based personal finance management tools to do so, according to a research report released Tuesday "With the online banking market maturing, banks are seeking ways to engage their customers on their Web site[s] beyond just ch...
How can companies establish effective customer relationship management in the heat of battle? We're not talking about a military action; the conflict in this case exists between entertainment companies and their customers "For the most part, the entertainment industry and its customers have been at war," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Gr...
Google's mapping service just introduced a new feature called "Street View," offering detailed photos of addresses in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami. While the company might not be breaking any privacy laws, the service raises concerns that need to be addressed The photographs are not live and were taken from a device with mu...
Sony, maker of the embattled PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console, said Thursday it plans to lay off employees of its U.S.-based game unit. The job cuts, according to Sony, are part of a corporation-wide restructuring effort In April, Sony announced that it would cut up to 160 jobs from its European facilities. The layoffs, which represented an 8...
"Modular" and "virtualized" are now buzzwords of the enterpriseserver world, andSun Microsystems is aiming to offer both with its rollout of the Blade 6000 Modular System. The line of servers includes models that run onIntel's and AMD's processors, as well as on Sun's Memory installed in the high-end models of the 6000 series doubles that of server...
Monster Worldwide, the parent company of leading online job recruiter Monster.com, shook up its management team Wednesday, and in the process has shed a little stock value Shares lost about a dollar over most of the Thursday, rebounding a little from a low of US$44.40....
A former substitute teacher for a Connecticut middle school has been granted a retrial following a conviction that launched a wave of sympathy and outrage Julie Amero could have been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of exposing her students to Internet pornography. However, the defense countered that the porn was on the scho...
It's hard to avoid comparisons between Microsoft and Salesforce.com this week. While many see a zero sum game being played out in which Google plus Salesforce.com somehow equals a diminished Microsoft, I think there's more Late last week, Microsoft announced a new product, the Surface computer, occupying a category all its own. At the same time, Sa...
Microsoft and South Korea's LG Electronics (LGE) have announced a patent cross-licensing deal, similar to one Microsoft recently signed with Novell, that allows LG to use Microsoft technology in its products while giving Microsoft access to LG's intellectual property The deal means LG can use Linux in its products without fearing litigation from Mi...
Forget Nintendinitis -- the new affliction for those who enjoy gaming just a little too much may be "Acute Wiiitis," which was first reported Thursday in a brief posted to the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site "A healthy 29-year-old medical resident awoke one Sunday morning with intense pain in the right shoulder," wrote Dr. Julio Bonis of...
Online advertising continues to grow at a steady pace, with first quarter spending on Web-based advertising reaching a record level of US$4.9 billion That represents a 26 percent increase when compared with the first quarter of last year, when $3.8 billion was spent, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) said in a report prepared by that trade g...
As any gadget-happy music lover knows, the Holy Grail of mobile personal electronics is having all functions on one slim device: voice calls, photography, music, mobile Internet access, personal organizer, calendar, and maybe a few little PC applications on the side. However, most multifunction devices released so far fall short in some way -- too big, low resolution, not enough music storage...
Theme-based cities are cropping up at a phenomenal rate in the Middle East, with some one thousand projects currently underway. Developing brand and name identities for them has, in many cases, become a nightmare Except for a very few, they tend to occupy just a few acres -- or even a single large dwelling. Now this requires a new definition of the...
Call center software developer CosmoCom normally has an appetite for enterprise-scale customers. Now, it is employing a new business model with a product introduced in South Korea aimed at small and mid-sized businesses CosmoCom teamed with KT Networks -- a company within the Korea Telecom family focused on network integration and telecom service -...
At the end of 2006, more than 100 million households in the United States subscribed to Internet services, cable or satellite television and other telecommunications services. By 2012, the number of new subscribers will increase by some 50 million households As the technology behind Internet, pay TV and telecommunications services improves, the var...
Two hedge funds are pushing TD Ameritrade Holding to pursue a merger with a rival firm, the online brokerage announced Tuesday As an attachment to its regulatory filing, TD Ameritrade included a May 29 letter from hedge funds Jana Partners and S.A.C. Capital Advisors, which own an aggregate of about 50 million shares of the company, equivalent to 8...
It is perhaps one of the most distinctive sounds in video game history -- the "wakka, wakka, wakka" of 1980s pop culture phenom "Pac-Man." Now, 26 years after the game was first introduced, Microsoft has kept the beloved sound but flipped the script on Pac-Man, Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde with the game's first revamp since its worldwide release. Game designer Toru Iwatani, who brought the world the first "Pac-Man," was also behind the creation of the latest game...
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