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Research In Motion has restored service to millions of BlackBerry users in North America who lost their connections Tuesday night The company has not said why its network was interrupted over a period of several hours....
Yahoo reported first quarter net earnings down 11 percent from Q1 of last year as the global Internet brand faces stiff competition from search-based advertising leader Google Google captured a first-place 48.3 percent of the U.S. search market as of March 2007, compared to Yahoo's second-place ranking of 27.5 percent, according to the latest data ...
In yet another not-so-subtle challenge to the dominance of Microsoft's Office software suite, Google announced on Tuesday that it will be adding presentation software to its Google Apps suite of office software Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the new presentation software at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Due this summer, it will com...
Comics lovers who couldn't believe Captain America died last month will soon be able to resurrect him on their game consoles Sega and Marvel Entertainment have struck a deal wherein "Cap" and fellow Marvel Hall of Fame superheroes Incredible Hulk and Thor will star in new video games. The companies said the exclusive, multiyear, global licensing ag...
With near-simultaneous announcements on Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show in Las Vegas, Microsoft and Adobe have started a turf war over the future of Internet video and next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) solutions On one hand, Microsoft announced Silverlight, which is a cross-platform browser plug-in ...
Mega e-tailers have harnessed the Internet with such finesse that their Web sites seem to run on magic. However, the trade is a tricky business, and the options are few "It's the transactional piece that's the roadblock," Gartner Research Vice President Gene Alvarez told the E-Commerce Times....
Last week, I got into the idea of evolution as it relates to the technology market and used Microsoft and Salesforce.com to illustrate the need to keep multiple plans percolating so that a company can take advantage of a move in the market Evolution is an important filter through which I view the world; some people see baseball metaphors but I wond...
Transparency has become a rallying cry for critics of existing electronic voting systems made by secretive corporations jealously guarding the software code inside their products. One way to assure transparency in voting systems, those critics maintain, is to require the disclosure of any code used in a voting system or use open source software for those systems...
There may be few things as disturbing to Internet users as the thought of someone spying on them and capturing their every keystroke. Unfortunately, this has been happening more frequently as the use of keyloggers, phishing and spoofing grows In 2006, Keylogging was the fastest-growing type of malware in what Kaspersky Lab calls the "TrojWare" cat...
AOL is hoping new interactive programs scheduled to be broadcast on its Web portal will snap up valuable advertising dollars that agencies normally shell out on television shows Time Warner's AOL Internet division on Tuesday announced the production deals for five new Web-based programs in conjunction with Dreamworks Animation, "Big Brother" produc...
Microsoft released a new Windows Media Player (WMP) plug-in for the Firefox 2.0 open source Web browser Monday via its Port 25 blog. The official plug-in is one of several Microsoft is developing at its Port 25 Open Source Software Lab, according to the company "I am very proud to announce that we have released another official Microsoft plug-in," ...
Private equity investors are interested in acquiringBCE, the parent company of Bell Canada, the country's largest telecom provider. BCE has confirmed news reports that it is indeed in talks with pension fund managers to take the company private Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a U.S. buyout firm, along with three Canadian pension funds -- the Canada ...
The gaming world is awash with rumors that Sony may consider bumping up the size of the hard disk drive in its PlayStation 3 (PS3) gaming consoles. The conjecture, now brewing for several weeks, reached a crescendo Tuesday following reports that a Sony spokesperson had addressed the rumor Users who store many games and other content on the PS3 may ...
Personalized home page pioneer Netvibes is unveiling a way for anybody to become the ruler of their own "Universe," Web 2.0 style The company on Tuesday announced the beta launch of Netvibes Universe, a system that allows the creation and online publication of personal Web portals (which Netvibes calls "Universes,") that can include numerous types ...
Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have released the Sparc Enterprise Server line, six new servers designed to address a growing demand for increased computing power and energy efficiency in enterprises The companies introduced the T1000 and T2000 entry-level servers that run on the Sun-designed UltraSparc T1 processor; the midrange M4000 and M5000 and t...
The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) delivered a severe blow to Internet radio operators Monday when it upheld its earlier decision regarding royalty rates that must be paid to artists for music played online The result is -- unless Congress intervenes -- royalty rates webcasters must pay will increase on May 15 between 300 and 1,200 percent, retroact...
Over the past couple years, the buzz in retail and e-commerce has been all about optimization -- everything from optimizing your Web site for natural search, to pricing and inventory optimization, and even getting optimized motion-control shoes for running Now, the hot buzz word is "on-demand," often mixed freely with Software as a Service (SaaS).
CEOs and CIOs are quick to tell their corporate superiors that today's mobile workforce is changing. Workers are younger and nearly always on the move. This new trend toward mobility disperses a company's workers geographically These mobile workers are armed with the latest arsenal of communications weaponry. Their pocket office tools enable them t...
Electronic Arts (EA) and Endemol announced Monday that they are partnering on Virtual Me, a new avatar-based offering in digital entertainment that is expected to span the worlds of TV and video games The technology combines cutting-edge avatar creation technology from EA with popular TV formats from Endemol to give consumers a way to meet, compete...
Toshiba on Monday announced it is adding a new high-capacity portable hard drive to its already well-established product roster of televisions, laptops and DVD players The Toshiba model 200GB is a USB 2.0 portable external hard drive that comes in capacities ranging from 100 GB to 200 GB and has the largest capacity yet in a portable, according to ...
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