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Now that media companies are exploring Web distribution models and using new technologies, a great deal is being discussed about who controls what when it comes to content. Digital rights management (DRM) has its advocates and detractors, but some type of gateway for the management and monetization of content appears inevitable Business development...
Do you get the analytics you need to drive your Internet business? Is your design team data-driven? Does your whole marketing team understand how to measure its own success? If not, you're one of many organizations struggling to find a place for analytics within the organization. This isn't unusual, and it isn't cause for despair. The analytic fun...
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The question seemingly has no real answer, and biologists can argue either reply ad nauseam. The computer world has an equally pervasive question that cannot provide a single answer: "What are the top three Linux distributions?"...
Last week I set the stage, indicating that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would be taking shots at each other at the Consumer Electronics Show and Macworld, and that much of the drama would occur around the two shows It was a huge mismatch; even if you took Microsoft out of the mix, this was more like an ant against a dragon than even Jack against a gia...
Network neutrality -- an issue that created a firestorm of controversy on Capitol Hill last year -- will be on the congressional agenda again in 2007 thanks to Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Those legislators filed this week what they're calling "The Internet Freedom Preservation Act," which they say will ensure all conten...
A group founded to develop and distribute ultra low-cost computers to children in developing countries is mulling possible commercial outlets for their machines, including using eBay as an inexpensive sales channel The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, the brain child of Nicholas Negroponte, hopes to ship as many as 5 million of the low-priced n...
SAP will miss revenue targets for the 2006 fourth quarter, according to its preliminary review of the quarter's results Wall Street's expectations have been that the company's Q4 sales would increase by at least 15 percent, based in part on SAP's initial guidance for the year, which projected revenue to grow by 15 to 17 percent....
In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular Wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, the company will launch a new multimedia campaign to transiti...
In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular Wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, the company will launch a new multimedia campaign to transiti...
In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular Wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, the company will launch a new multimedia campaign to transiti...
In a testimony to the subscription-based video game model, Blizzard Entertainment on Thursday announced that "World of Warcraft," its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has reached the 8 million subscriber mark "World of Warcraft" has also achieved new regional subscriber milestones, with more than 2 million players in North A...
Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second-largest microprocessor maker, warned Thursday that its fourth quarter results would come in below previous expectations. The news sent the company's shares spiraling and raised questions regarding the overall strength of the technology sector AMD said revenue would come in at around US$1.33 billion for th...
A few weeks ago, Wikipedia inadvertently blocked users in Qatar from amending posts to the collaborative Web site as it hurried to respond to a spike in spam The mistake is easy to understand -- the spam was originating from an IP address belonging to Qtel, the only telecom provider in the country. Qatarians, however, could be forgiven for assuming...
Late last year, a congressional committee began examining the idea of taxing property inside digital worlds such asSecond Life. If that happens, a digital Boston Tea Party should break out, perhaps making it the only place in America where a real revolution could still happen Over the holidays, an article in Esquire magazine lamented that American...
Sony Computer Entertainment is backpedaling on a Monday announcement that claimed award-winning status for its Sixaxis wireless controller for the PlayStation 3 As it turns out, the video game maker did not win a Technology and Engineering Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for Sixaxis....
Three months after being sued by Transmeta for patent infringement, Intel fired back at the smaller chipmaker this week, filing a countersuit that claims Transmeta is using up to seven of Intel's patented technologies without permission Transmeta sued Intel in October, filing an action in U.S. District Court in Delaware that claimed the chip giant ...
Consumers -- at least those that own either Motorola'snew MotoRazr maxx V6 and MotoRazr V3xx devices -- arestarting to downloadYahoo's beta version of its Go For Mobile 2.0, whichlaunched this week at the International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Key among the new features in thisversion is Yahoo's oneSearch search engine, which is designed to ...
In the latest development in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom spying scandal, U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan on Wednesday filed criminal charges in San Jose, Calif., federal court against a private investigator accused of illegally accessing a reporter's private phone records Bryan Wagner was charged with federal identity theft and conspiracy charges. Pr...
Eons, the media company launched by Monster.com creator Jeff Taylor, on Tuesday unveiled a search engine aimed at baby boomers and seniors Dubbed "Cranky.com," the age-relevant search engine is designed to deliver targeted search results to users who are over 50 years old. It combines expert reviews with user ratings and rankings to come up with re...
Dell on Wednesday introduced its new "Plant a Tree for Me" program, in which customers can donate a small portion of the purchase price of a Dell product to funds that plant trees around the world The program, which complements Dell's recycling service it has been offering customers since 2004, is a reflection of the company's overall commitment to...
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