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Sony Ericsson announced on Wednesday it will begin manufacturing low-end color screen and music playing mobile handsets in India through an agreement with its global outsourcing manufacturing partners, Flextronics and Foxconn The phones, intended for local distribution, will not only offer a competitive price, but will also include features customi...
Online auction giant eBay is reportedly cracking down on the sale of "virtual assets" won in online games like "World of Warcraft," a move that comes as good news to other companies making money by hosting virtual asset sales and bartering Millions of people worldwide are avid players of the online games. Over time, as they gain expertise, players ...
Media conglomerate Time Warner posted strong fourth quarter results Wednesday, despite a decline in revenue from online unit AOL (America Online). The company's Q4 profits were up 34 percent over the previous year Revenue at AOL, which is continuing to undergo a massive transformation from dial-up Internet access provider to free-to-all Web portal ...
Google has added new security and search features to its smallest search appliance, the Mini, which is designed for the small and medium-size business market The latest Mini, version 2.2, now has some features previously available only on the company's Search Appliance, Kevin Gough, enterprise product manager for Google, told TechNewsWorld, and its...
As more phones and other small-form handheld devices get "smarter," so does the potential for people to use them more often, and for many varied and different purposes. The number of mobile cell phone subscribers worldwide surpassed 1 billion in 2006, and technological innovation continues apace as time to market for new products continues to shrink...
Open source database developer MySQL has launched an attack on the enterprise database business. The company on Tuesday revealed a new enterprise subscription pricing strategy that lets organizations deploy an unlimited number of MySQL databases in their environment and still get enterprise-class levels of support and monitoring services directly from MySQL...
Some bloggers amaze me -- not by what they say, but by how much they say. It seems to me sometimes that a lot of these guys must be sitting in front of their keyboard 18 hours a day filling screen after screen with their prose Maybe the moles of electrons they produce every day is better described as typing than writing, but their dedication can't...
Music label Sony BMG has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that it violated federal law by installing spyware and digital rights management (DRM) software onto music CDs without telling consumers The deal calls for Sony BMG to allow consumers to exchange CDs purchased before the end of 2006 for new discs that...
Want to put the pedal to the metal? Or maybe teleport to the year 2636 and battle a bevy of aliens bent on dominating Earth? All that and more is possible following the release of four new classic games on Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console. "Mario Kart 64," "Contra III: The Alien Wars," "Bonanza Bros.," and "Comix Zone" debuted on the Wii Shop Channel Monday, bringing the total number of games available to 46...
Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular have settled a lawsuit over their secret use of adware Internet software programs as marketing tools filed by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo As part of the settlement, Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular agreed to pay US$35,000, $30,000 and $35,000, respectively, to New York to cover penalties and i...
Some TomTom satellite navigation systems installed in cars might actually be steering drivers in the wrong direction -- at least when it comes to navigating their PCs That is because a "small number" of TomTom Go 910 satellite navigation devices were shipped last year with two Windows viruses preinstalled, the company has disclosed....
A problem that arose in NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the weekend means that many of the orbiting telescope's key capabilities may be permanently lost, officials announced Monday The observatory entered protective "safe mode" on Saturday as a result of a power malfunction in its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the primary instrument aboard ...
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has announced his intentions to seek a seat on the board of directors of No. 2 mobile handset maker Motorola The company said Tuesday it had received notification from Icahn that he intended to have himself nominated for one of 12 seats on the company's board when it holds its next annual shareholders meeting. That m...
Consumers got their first official look Tuesday at Microsoft's new operating system Vista. Businesses, though, have been able to eyeball the software since November of last year, and eyeballing seems to be all they're doing with the new OS "Among my colleagues, none have installed Vista, which is understandable, because it is a new operating system...
SugarCRM, a provider of open source CRM, has added multichannel marketing and business analytics functionality to its Sugar Open Source, Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise product lines This development is welcome news to those companies that are investigating open source as a viable alternative to packaged and on-demand CRM systems -- a group...
SOA is like an orchestra, a root system, a 30-mile wide fungus, an amoeba, a 1930s Hollywood movie studio and perhaps an independent film built from a loosely coupled team. It's an intellectually wild, yet illuminating, ride Recently, I sat down with a panel of analysts -- independent industry analyst Steve Garone, research consultant Joe McKendric...
Thanks to the increased processing power of today's microprocessors and significantly improved data access and storage technology, it has become easier than ever to apply some rather sophisticated statistical analyses to better understand both business processes and customer behavior However, the rapidly growing amount of data that businesses are c...
The open source Bandit and Eclipse Higgins projects, both of which are working toward providing an open and consistent approach to identity management, have announced they have created a reference application that showcases open source identity services that interoperate with the Microsoft Windows CardSpace identity management system In addition, t...
With the upcoming release of Apple's iPhone, smartphones are becoming one of the most hyped categories of consumer technology today. The combination of telephone technology with e-mail, Internet access and multimedia -- among other features -- serves many consumer needs in one tidy, sleek little packet "Top-end devices today are like mini-laptops ...
Social networking Web site MySpace and verification companySentinel Tech are teaming up to help protect children from online predators The companies announced on Monday that they will donate the Sentinel Safe database technology program, designed to let users identify and remove convicted sex offenders from online communities, to theNational Center...
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