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Back in the good old days of 2005, most American youngsters didn't start fiddling with electronic gadgets until they were about eight years old. Now, six-year-olds know how to use cell phones, DVD players and just about anything else with an "on" button Such are the findings of the NPD Group, a research firm that's been keeping tabs on the penetrat...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have issued new joint guidance for their field offices for the protection of wetlands and bodies of water that are protected under the Clean Water Act The new guidelines come in the wake of last year's Supreme Court decision over the identification of wetlands, streams a...
eBay will move to ban international sales of ivory-based products from its auction platform, the company said, citing a recent report showing that the vast majority of such items contain illegally obtained ivory Scoring public relations points by following the call of a leading international animal rights group, eBay said the ban would go into effe...
Has your company defined a Web analytics strategy yet? If your answer is no, then ask yourself: Why not? Companies with defined analytics programs are realizing double-digit growth in new Web site visitors, returning visitor traffic and conversion rates. The barriers to entry for adopting analytics technologies that can dramatically improve online businesses have never been lower...
If there's one thing Windows users share -- other than their conflicted emotions toward Microsoft -- it's an insatiable yearning to boost the performance of their computers Windows, despite all its warts, gives them a dizzying number of ways to to do that -- with the right tools....
HTC has launched a Windows Mobile smartphone with a touch screen interface strikingly similar in concept to Apple's upcoming iPhone The new phone, dubbed the "HTC Touch," is a multimedia handheld system with an animated 3-D user interface called "TouchFLO" that allows users to move through on-screen options by sweeping their fingers across the scre...
Microsoft has launched a music promotion effort designed to promote new music artists through its Zune, MSN and Xbox-focused electronic outlets. Dubbed "Ignition," Microsoft says the program will provide a steady stream of new music through online access to exclusive content, free song and video downloads, streaming videos, editorial features and artist playlists...
Intel unveiled its 3 Series chipset family designed for playing high-definition media and for supporting the company's 45nm Penryn processors due later this year The highly anticipated chipsets, formerly codenamed "Bearlake," were presented at the Computex Taipei trade show in Taiwan....
Digital music startup Lala.com has launched an iPod-compatible online music service that allows users to play songs online for free, the company announced Tuesday. In the future, it will reportedly allow users to download individual tracks without digital rights management (DRM) protection directly to their iPods Users of the free service can liste...
Openwave Systems, a top provider of software solutions used in the communications industry, has rejected an offer to be bought out and taken private, bucking a recent trend that has seen scores of companies swallowed up by private equity firms The Redwood City, Calif.-based company's board voted to reject the unsolicited offer made by two funds man...
Microsoft is slated to garner the majority of IT development spending over the next six months, according to a survey of more than 300 developers by Evans Data The reason is more complex than Microsoft's dominance on the desktop or in corporate IT. Rather, developers are gravitating to Microsoft and other leading tech and software providers because...
Search engine Ask.com unveiled a major overhaul Tuesday that includes a new user interface and a wider variety of content, including video, returned in regular search results The revamp is the latest in a series of moves undertaken by Ask as it bids to remain a player in the search space dominated by Google and Yahoo, and is aimed largely at making...
Worldwide revenues from standalone open source software will reach US$5.8 billion by 2011, according to a report released last week by IDC Revenue from open source software will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent from 2006 to 2011, according to predictions from the Framingham, Mass.-based research firm....
Originally established as part of a series of the global system for mobile communications standards in 1985, short message service, or SMS, has come to play a pivotal role not only in the evolution of personal mobile communications but in the development of m-commerce as well In 2006, SMS -- also known as "text-messaging" -- accounted for a large m...
Ending weeks of speculation, Salesforce.com has unveiled an expanded partnership with Google that will start by combining the on-demand software firm's Web-based CRM product with Google AdWords The two companies, which have been linked in rumors for weeks, launched the product Tuesday in 43 countries and in 14 languages. It will create a single Web...
Red Hat's Fedora Project has released the Fedora 7 version of the Linuxoperating system, which features a new build capacity allowing for the creation ofcustom appliances to meet individual needs Fedora 7 offers users an appliance development platform that it says is 100 percent opensource, with an entirely free distribution build tool chain. The F...
A Congressional committee last month gave universities with high volumes of student piracy violations 30 days to return a survey on Internet piracy and network practices. The committee is scheduled to resume its meetings Tuesday in Washington The letter hints that Congress is stepping up its crackdown on Internet piracy by college students in an ef...
If the reports of Avaya's acquisition are accurate, Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners are near to closing the largest leveraged buyout of a computer networking company Avaya, TPG and Silver Lake are declining to comment on the reports, but according to the New York Times, the two private equity firms will pay about US$8 billion for the c...
Microsoft and Linux distributorXandros announced a broad agreement on Monday based on several technical and intellectual property commitments aimed at extending the software giant's relationship with commercial open source vendors The technology-sharing agreement with the Linux distributor marks the latest in a series of deals designed to help the...
Flextronics International is set to buy rival electronics manufacturerSolectron for US$3.6 billion in cash and stock in a move to cut costs and expand its product line The smaller Milpitas, Calif.-based Solectron will become a subsidiary of Flextronics in a merger that will create a single contract electronics manufacturing company with more than $...
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