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Just a week ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit to be held in Germany next week, President Bush Thursday outlined his own proposal to combat global warming A group of 15 or so nations will be invited to a meeting in the United States this fall as part of a plan to agree upon a global target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 20...
eBay has bought community-based Web search tool StumbleUpon for US$75 million. The auction giant is once again reaching outside its core business for a strategic acquisition -- one that straddles search and social networking Along with StumbleUpon's technology, eBay said the purchase provides an established user base of 2.3 million people who turn ...
Many technology analysts and gadget lovers found themselves this week scratching their heads, rubbing their chins, squinting their eyes and exhibiting other signs of uncertainty about the need for, and future of Palm's latest device, the Foleo Billed by Palm as a "smartphone companion product," the Foleo doesn't come close to a full notebook comput...
Motorola will cut another 4,000 jobs on top of the 3,500 layoffs it previously announced, the company said Wednesday. This move sets up the No. 2 handset maker to slash 10 percent of its workforce as it bids for enhanced profitability The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company remains on track to reap US$400 million in savings for all of 2007 from the firs...
As the market for online banking matures, competition is heating up for a group of consumers no longer loyal to their primary financial institution Some 31 percent of online consumers who have a checking or savings account are "switchers" -- people who can be enticed to desert their primary bank with promotional offers like high interest rates on d...
The flap erupted earlier this month The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) started sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requests to Digg.com and a slew of other popular blogging sites on which users had posted a 32-hexadecimal digit code, a processing key that could be used to circumvent digital rights management (DRM) protecti...
At US$30 million a ticket for orbital space travel and about $200,000 for suborbital trips, demand can only go so far. Before space tourism can really take off -- so to speak -- prices are going to have to come down, and that may require a new business model Part 1 of this three-part series discusses the latest advances in commercial space travel.
Google's mapping technology is zooming down from its overhead views and placing users on the street with the freedom to check out restaurants and landmarks and even home in on bus stops or street signs to make travel plans The new feature in Google Maps provides panoramic, 360-degree street-level images for maps of San Francisco, New York, Las Vega...
Google's acquisition of DoubleClick may be under scrutiny for potential antitrust and privacy violations, but that's apparently not stopping the search giant from snatching up another smaller firm -- this time, security software maker GreenBorder In what's likely an effort to reassure Web users fearful of attacks, Google confirmed Wednesday that it...
CBS has acquiredLast.fm, a social networking Web site, for US$280 million. The London-based operation focuses on music and has more than 15 million active users CBS has reportedly been working on this deal for some time, the end goal being to allow Last.fm users to post CBS video clips to the site....
Microsoft has taken the touchscreen PC concept in a new direction, amping it up with a 30-inch screen, giving it five eyes and turning it horizontal to create a coffee table that can sense multiple touches at the same time Based on Windows Vista and called "Microsoft Surface," the new computer can also sense -- through the use of five cameras mount...
Rupert Murdoch, who lost a chance to buy YouTube last year when the massive video-hosting site was gobbled up by Google, has snagged two other Internet companies that are popular with young people: Photobucket and Flektor Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media (FIM), which owns the heavily visited social networking hub MySpace.com, announced the acquisiti...
Antispyware legislation awaiting Senate action offers little promise of meaningful prosecution against violators, said Ron O'Brien, a senior security analyst with antispyware firm Sophos The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an antispyware bill that would impose specific penalties for scammers accessing computers without authorization while ...
IBM has cut more than 1,500 additional jobs from its information technology services unit, the company said Wednesday. The move is the latest in a series of changes to revamp the company to better compete in a changing technology landscape Big Blue laid off 1,573 more people from its services business in North America this week, bringing the total ...
Microsoft garnered a lot of buzz this week after reports broke the software giant had shipped its 1 millionth Zune -- putting it ahead of a company goal set shortly after it launched its MP3 player in November. However, those reports apparently were jumping the gun Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, was qu...
Corporations appear to be spending more time and money on regulatory compliance now than at any other time in recent history. In fact, the largest U.S. corporations spent an average of US$4.6 million implementing Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) section 404 controls in their first year of implementation, and Forrester Research estimates the five-year cost of Basel II implementation for the largest banks to be $150 million...
A new installment of Mozilla's sterling e-mail program, Thunderbird, has been released, and while this new variant doesn't blow the doors off its predecessor, version 1.5, it has some tantalizing enhancements that spurred me to upgrade to the new edition without hesitation A major change in the application that immediately attracted me to it was it...
Turn on your monitor and boot up your computer, because class is in session. Many college students now raised on the Internet and mobile devices will not be limited to sitting in traditional "brick-and-mortar" classrooms as schools look to the latest offerings in virtual technology and Internet broadcasting to update education New developments have...
Sony has developed a display screen so thin it can bend like a piece of paper while at the same time showing full-color video In the continuing race to shrink the size of gadgets while increasing the amount of cutting-edge technology crammed inside, Sony has topped its competitors with the release of a 2.5-inch display that is only 0.01 inch thick....
Avaya is reportedly negotiating with private equity companies and at least two competitors about selling portions or all of its multifaceted telecom portfolio Private equity firms are dazzled by Avaya's US$6 billion cash flow and low debt levels, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Silver Lake, a private equity firm that specializes i...
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