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As it awaits the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft on Thursday posted a second quarter that saw sharply lower earnings for a period marked by continued growth in its entertainment division and little progress in its efforts to catch up with Google on the online search front For the quarter that ended in December, the company said revenue was a re...
In almost every industry, new entrants are constantly facing an uphill climb to take market share away from established players. Companies entering the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space can count on having additional challenges, according to a new report by Tier1 Research Right now, there are more than 150 on-demand CRM providers, Tier1 discovered...
The appendage of the letter "i" to a word with the intent of creating an icon is silly. Momentary, short-term fame and glory may be possible, but it is a very dubious tactic for creating a long-lasting, global iconic mark. What makes an icon is the exclusive longevity of its unique name. That's why Rolex works better than iWatch, and Panasonic beats iTV...
In late November, AT&T's Sterling Commerce acquired Comergent, a competitor in the e-commerce/order hub management platform market, for US$155 million in cash The merger brought together two industry-leading companies, though they operated on different orders of magnitude. Sterling Commerce posted revenues of $490 million while Comergent's revenues...
Themis Computer announced Thursday a joint project withTerra Soft Solutions to develop a complete Linux distribution to run on the TPPC64, Themis' new line of 6U VMEbus single board computers based on the IBM PowerPC 970FX superscalar RISC processor The TPPC64 is a high-end computer built around a next-generation single-board computer, featuring an...
Meet Alexandra, the commercial says. She likes her computer. After she plants a smooch on her computer's display, a caption adds, maybe too much Suddenly, Alexandra is called away from her office. Enter Ulf, a "Silent Bob" type. People think he may be responsible for computer problems in the office, we're warned....
Most people have heard about the Nintendo Wii Remote, which some avid gamers have allowed to slip out of their sweaty hands and fly into their high-priced big-screen televisions, cracking glass and becoming the catalyst for news stories around the world In addition to making the news with its Wii video game console, Nintendo will start offering it ...
20th Century Fox has served YouTube and another video-sharing site, LiveDigital, with subpoenas to hand over information about the user who uploaded episodes of the hit TV series "24" before they aired this month. The user also uploaded recent episodes of "The Simpsons." It is not known how YouTube will handle the request. Last year, the firm compl...
In an attempt to capitalize on the PlayStation 3's (PS3) Cell Broadband Engine computer chip technology, Sony announced Wednesday that it has joined with Namco Bandai Holdings to form a new company to develop games for the console The new company, dubbed "Cellius," will have Ken Kutaragi, widely considered the father of the PlayStation line, at the...
AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&T increased its net income to US$1.94 billion, or 50 cen...
AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&T increased its net income to US$1.94 billion, or 50 cen...
AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&T increased its net income to US$1.94 billion, or 50 cen...
In a move sure to bring joy to the hearts of many consumers, Microsoft yesterday announced that it is extending the availability of support for users of Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition by an additional five years over what it had previously announced Since the unveiling of Windows Vista, the latest iteration of the compa...
A former Hewlett-Packard employee facing charges that he stole company secrets from HP has claimed in court papers that HP management tried to obtain trade secrets from rival Dell Karl Kamb Jr., previously vice president of business development and strategy at HP, was sued by his former employer after starting up an LCD display and flat-screen TV c...
Gamers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australasia have two months to save their money for a PlayStation 3 as Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) plans to launch the new console in those regions on March 23 While consumers might still be upset about the debt they accumulated during the holidays, Sony seems confident they'll be ready to...
Amdocs has overhauled the functionality in its flagship CRM-billing suite with the release of Amdocs 7 on Tuesday Providing telcos with support for new convergence technology and services is chief among the new capabilities in the application....
I always chafe at the saying, "The proof is in the pudding" in part because it is a truncation of a longer phrase, but mostly because it means nothing by itself. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" is how the phrase really goes, and it is the one thing that came to mind when I heard about SAP's announcement in Germany about a new business model and new mid-market products...
A strong holiday season rife with hard-to-find gifts helped push eBay to a record fourth quarter, with revenue up 29 percent and profits up 24 percent as the online auction giant soundly beat forecasts and boosted its outlook eBay said revenue was US$1.72 billion compared to $1.33 billion in sales in the last quarter of 2006, edging out analyst for...
The digital lifestyle has taken root in U.S. living rooms, primarily with the TV set and the home PC -- and, like the couch potato, it's beginning to spread From set-top boxes and time/place shifters such as TiVo and Slingbox to iPod's home stereo and TV component, the shift seems to be centered on fun and games....
2006 was a quiet year for buyers and sellers of enterprise applications as Part 1 of this series explains. There were no startling leaps of new functionality; no dramatic bids for competing vendors; and no large plunge in revenues thus prompting vendors to give way at the negotiating table The year wasn't as quiet for small and medium-sized buyers ...
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