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The great Internet TV race is on, and the field is crowded -- and getting more crowded all the time. The biggest names in U.S. TV broadcasting want to make sure they stay in the middle of things Part 1 of this two-part series discusses the efforts of some industry giants -- CBS, for example -- to build multichannel digital content delivery systems,...
If you want to see who's winning at retaining and attaining higher-than-ever customer loyalty, look no further than what is really happening inside sales reps, call center reps, their managers, and for that matter, their CEO What is it? It's nothing on the outside -- while a new CRM system on a hosted platform helps, and the analytics application ...
In an effort to clear up some confusion over the ongoing debate regarding open source and what exactly it means, research firm Gartner is suggesting vendors figure out a consistent definition to ease confusion among many buyers An underlying current of confusion reigns among open source users, and the ongoing squabble among vendors has not helped r...
With e-mail's value as a malware delivery agent on the decline, writers of malicious software have boosted their efforts to infect Web sites with their nasty payloads Thousands of malicious Web sites are created on a daily basis to steal information from unsuspecting visitors or plant insidious software on their computers without their knowledge, a...
Four multinational corporations, five global banks, sixteen cities and former President Bill Clinton have formed a consortium dedicated to retrofitting buildings in order to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, according to an announcement from the Clinton Foundation Wednesday during the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York...
Two private equity investors have agreed to acquire Acxiom, a provider of customer data integration technology, data products, database services, IT outsourcing, consulting, analytics, and privacy services ValueAct Capital and Silver Lake, which focuses on large-scale investments in technology-driven growth industries, will purchase 100 percent of ...
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday lifted a preliminary injunction against Google preventing it from displaying thumbnail versions of sexually explicit images owned by adult site Perfect 10 The thumbnail images in question are miniature representations of Perfect 10 photos that are illegally presented on other Web sites. Google inde...
Private equity heavyweight the Blackstone Group is taking another publicly traded software company private. It has announced it will purchase Alliance Data Systems for US$7.8 billion, including the assumption of certain debt, or $81.75 per share in cash. That is a premium of 30 percent over the $62.96 share price with which Alliance Data closed the day prior to the announcement...
Interactive marketing firm 24/7 Real Media has agreed to be acquired by UK-based advertising giant WPP Group, continuing the trend of consolidation in the online advertising space London-based WPP will pay US$11.75 per share for 24/7, WPP said, giving the all-cash deal a value of $649 million....
Simplicity has been an important element in Google's success in the online search world. However, as the company has grown and attempted myriad forays into new ways of finding and presenting information -- images, video, news, maps, etc. -- it has created "silos," perhaps threatening that very simplicity This week's announcement that Google is taki...
HP's second-quarter sales and profit outpaced Wall Street forecasts, even as profit fell compared to a year ago, the worldwide leader in PC sales said Wednesday The company's profit of US$2.1 billion was 7 percent below 2006 levels, largely because the earlier period included a one-time tax windfall, HP noted. Revenue came in at $25.5 billion, a 13...
Nearly a century has passed since the first commercial radio broadcast went out over the airwaves. Aside from the invention of frequency modulation (FM) in the early 1930s and advances in recording and music playback devices, radio technology had remained much the same -- that is, until the late 1990s, when iBiquity Digital developed HD radio, a hybrid system that sends out bundled digital and analog signals...
Zend CTO Andi Gutmans likes to tout the benefits of PHP and Web 2.0 development for business. In fact, he calls Zend "the PHP company." PHP, which stands for "Hypertext Preprocessor Platform," is becoming the language of choice for companies embracing service-oriented architectures, creating and mixing Web services into a whole new generation of sophisticated commercial applications...
When billionaire Charles Simonyi blasted off into space for a visit to the International Space Station last month, he not only made history as the fifth private citizen to fly into orbit. He also fulfilled what for many is a lifelong dream: To explore the final frontier The prospect of traveling into space is one that has captivated people for ages...
Oracle has entered the product lifecycle management (PLM) niche with a flourish through its acquisition of best-of-breed vendor Agile Software While there are other active PLM vendors, Agile offers a difficult-to-replicate line of products and functionality that address product innovation and the introduction process; facilitate the sharing of prod...
Mozilla Labs, the division of Mozilla focused on developing new technology, is working on a new Firefox browser add-on that will let a mobile phone user collect interesting Web content, aggregate the content in Firefox and then access it via a mobile phone The project is called "Joey," named after a baby kangaroo....
It's been a long wait, but for fans of the super popular first-person shooter series "Halo," Tuesday was a very good day indeed. Not only were gamers just hours away from the launch of the multiplayer beta for the highly anticipated game, Microsoft finally announced the game's release date -- Sept. 25 As the day of the beta release arrived, howe...
MySpace won't comply with a request by eight state attorneys general for it to supply information about sex offenders registered on the site, the company announced Tuesday. Citing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), MySpace said it is prohibited by law from turning over the information without a subpoena....
Motorola announced a series of new phones Tuesday, and while all of them have interesting form factors and compelling features, only one -- the Razr 2 -- has the potential to compete with Apple's upcoming iPhone The reasons?...
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed a lawsuit against Dell, saying the personal computer maker misled consumers with its PC financing offers Dell confirmed the suit on Wednesday, and said it intended to vigorously defend itself against it....
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