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Vodafone has signed an exclusive partnership deal with social networking Web site MySpace, allowing its customers to access and update their MySpace pages from their mobile phones, according to the telecom giant The deal is expected to help Vodafone, Europe's biggest mobile operator, boost mobile usage and data revenues, while at the same time laun...
If hours of prerecorded TV content aren't enough for TiVo subscribers, Amazon will offer a solution. The digital video recorder (DVR) pioneer and the supersized online retailer announced their new "Amazon Unbox on TiVo" (AUT) service Wednesday For Amazon, the joint venture provides a captive audience more than one million strong....
The vow Tuesday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs -- that he would willingly remove copyright protection from songs sold at his company's iTunes store -- was cheered by those who've been arguing that digital rights management (DRM) systems are a failure Advocates for music-sharing freedom said they expect music labels will eventually abandon the practice, bu...
Networking gear giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday posted strong quarterly earnings and issued an upbeat forecast, which drove the company's shares higher and may raise expectations for the technology sector as a whole during 2007 Cisco said it earned US$1.92 billion, or 31 cents per share, in the quarter ending in December, a 40 percent jump from $1.3
Click fraud is a growing problem for online advertisers who rely on paid search services. Marketing experts are urging e-commerce vendors have to take proactive steps to combat it Online advertisers pay the search engine company hosting their ad a set amount of money each time a computer user clicks on the ad. Click fraud occurs when an individual ...
Salesforce.com issued a press release last week that by now looks rather ho-hum by its standards. The company announced that Deloitte & Touche had signed on as a systems integration partner and that got me thinking about how many things have changed, and how many have not It wasn't that long ago that Marc Benioff was comparing Salesforce with Sieb...
With Apple grabbing all the headlines of late with its iPhone, it's difficult for other spiffy mobiles to garner any mindshare in the market. That's a shame because a recent offering by Samsung deserves some attention The new cell phone -- Samsung's answer to Motorola's Razr -- is called the Sync (a.k.a. SGH-a707) and it contains quite an array of ...
Wal-Mart Stores has launched a new service providing movies and television episodes for sale online The company will offer about 3,000 movies and TV shows on the beta version of the online download store, at price points that -- true to Wal-Mart's ethos -- are cheaper than many of those offered at Apple's iTunes Store, the retail giant's main compe...
Sony Ericsson unveiled its slimmest Walkman phone ever on Tuesday. It's only 0.38 inches thick and has several new music features The matchbook thin device, called the "W880," packs music features into its ultra-thin design with a handset preloaded with Walkman Player 2.0, Disc2Phone music management and TrackID music recognition applications, the ...
As momentum builds behind two-factor authentication for increased security of sensitive and private data, two UK-based researchers say they have found a way that hackers can thwart the smart card and PIN (personal identification number) approach now being rolled out in England Chip and PIN is a UK government-backed security measure that requires cu...
As part of Safer Internet Day, which is being celebrated Tuesday in 40 countries around the world, a group of more than a dozen European mobile phone companies joined together in Brussels, Belgium, to sign an agreement to help make mobile phones safer for children By signing the European Framework on Safer Mobile Use by Younger Teenagers and Childr...
Microsoft Excel users should avoid opening or saving any file attachments sent via e-mail if the message is not from a trusted source or arrives unexpectedly, the company said following public reports of zero day attacks exploiting a flaw in the spreadsheet program Security firm Secunia ranks the vulnerability as extremely critical because it can a...
Eastman Kodak shoved its way into the tough world of desktop printing Tuesday by tipping a sacred cow of the segment: the overpriced inkjet cartridge For a decade, other printer makers relied on the model pioneered by Gillette, which gave away its razors but charged customers a premium to buy replacement blades. Printer companies, including market ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday ordered DRAM chipmaker Rambus to license its technology to third parties and capped the amount the company can charge others for using the technology -- penalties stemming from a long-running antitrust probe The FTC's remedy is designed to correct "effects of the unlawful monopoly Rambus established in t...
In recent years, smaller businesses have often struggled between managing costs and finding tailored services suited to help efficiently manage their information technology systems, but a recent surge in vendors targeting the small to medium-size business (SMB) market has virtualization right around the corner VMware, a provider of virtualization s...
Last November, the Librarian of Congress adopted half a dozen exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), among them one that might give cell phone phone users greater freedom to move between carriers with their mobile devices That exemption allows users to legally unlock their cell phones, according to two attorneys with Banner & Wi...
If you've ever watched a late night spy movie on cable, you're probably already familiar with the concept: Access to a highly secured area or object requires two separate keys each in the possession of a different individual. Some financial companies handling sensitive customer data over the Internet appear to be thinking along the same lines Emplo...
eBay business unit PayPal revolutionized the payments industry and catapulted e-commerce when it emerged as a credit card processor for person-to-person transactions on auction sites Today, about half of PayPal's payments volume is from credit cards, but the service also allows consumers to register deposit accounts rather than using credit card fi...
Organizations of all types are increasingly turning to business intelligence (BI) applications -- a combination of data mining, statistical, and numerical analysis and data visualization -- to better manage and make sense of the ever-growing amounts of data they are collecting Continuing the mantra of Part 1 of this two-part series, BI solutions ar...
In the coming weeks, the US$100 laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation will go into wide-scale production. From there, the laptops will be sent by the thousands to emerging economies in Africa, South Asia and South America Meanwhile, in the United States, PC makers, private foundations, government agencies and others strive ...
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