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NCR, the world's largest maker of automatic teller machines, said Monday it planned to split itself into two independent public companies by spinning off its fast-growing Teradata Data Warehousing unit NCR will split by giving shares in the new, stand-alone Teradata to existing NCR shareholders. The remainder of NCR will focus on its core business ...
Auto manufacturers face stark choices over the next five to seven years, a period that is likely to see increasing bankruptcies and consolidations, according to KPMG's annual global automotive survey Some 87 percent of executives said they think the bankruptcy rate will remain the same or slightly increase over the next few years....
One of the most recent cases to go before the Supreme Court, KSR v. Teleflex, was also one of the most significant, at least to patent attorneys, as the basic standards used to grant a patent are now under review. It was a fitting end to 2006, during which a number of high profile patent disputes made their way into mainstream headlines Part 1 in t...
When Matthew Card tried to return a ski jacket toL.L. Bean's flagship store in Freeport, Maine, he was pleasantlysurprised Card, a marketing manager at Davies Murphy Group in Burlington, Mass., bought the jacket online and could not produce a receipt or even an exact amount of the purchase price. Despite that, "they didn't give me a hard time. The ...
Remember when AOL thought it was doing the world's researchers a big favor and made a boatload of online user behavior data openly available? Remember the unintended consequences?...
Yesterday, Bill Gates was supposed to give the best keynote talk in his history, but given I write this column the week before it is published I have no idea whether he actually delivered the goods Steve Jobs doesn't do his thing until after the column publishes and most of you are still in the dark -- probably along with many of his own folks if h...
It's 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 2. You are at the local food court for lunch, and acutely conscious of your New Year's resolution, which is to lose those pesky 10 pounds you've been trying to shed forever You narrow your choices to two options: a fruit smoothie and a bagel from Dunkin' Donuts or a sandwich from Arby's. Which would best help you stay on a ...
XM Satellite Radio said Friday it added 1.7 million new subscribers during 2006, giving it some 7.6 million subscribers as it continues to lead rival Sirius (Nasdaq: SIRI) in terms of total customers The company said it added approximately 442,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter, a key time of the year for the satellite providers as holiday s...
Hitachi on Friday announced a pair of 1 terabyte (TB) hard drives and a new software technology targeted at digital video recording (DVR) applications. The one-two disk drive punch aims to tap into what the company sees as users' insatiable desire for storage Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive targets consumers who want to create, share and store...
SanDisk on Thursday took the latest swing in its memory match against Samsung with the introduction of a 32 GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive drop-in replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive SanDisk's latest NAND flash-based SSD counters Samsung's Wednesday announcement that promised 16 GB memory and advanced 50-nanometer process techn...
Possibly signaling an end to a period of mostly feel-good news for the wireless handset industry, Motorola on Friday said it would fall short of fourth quarter forecasts for sales and profits, leading to speculation that a price war may be in the offing Motorola said the deficiency was being attributed entirely to shortfalls in its mobile device se...
About three years ago, it seemed as though reverse mergers were falling out of favor with the SEC. The agency sanctioned some of the companies that were created by this process and some were actually suspended from trading Now it seems that reverse mergers are once again regaining their popularity. The SEC seems to have learned to live with this so...
Within five years, cable and satellite television providers will be facing a formidable competitor in their market: the Internet By 2011, TV programming delivered over consumer broadband connections will be a "viable alternative to cable," according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research....
Whenever I think of New Year's resolutions, one of Mark Twain's best quotes comes to mind: "A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time." Resolving to change is really what customer relationships and serving customers is all about. How many times has any company implementing CRM, or for that matter, ...
Indications are that 2007 will be a bumper year for the solar power and renewable energy industry, as was noted in Part 1 of this two-part series High oil prices, the war in Iraq and global climate changes have spurred growing concerns about U.S. energy policies, elevating the issue of corporate social and environmental responsibility from the boar...
E-tailers rode a strong holiday season to record-smashing sales for 2006, with revenue topping US$100 billion for the first time, according to the latest data from comScore Networks The report said retail spending reached $102.1 billion for all of 2006, a 24 percent increase over 2005 Web spending levels. Sales during the end-of-year holiday season...
In another move toward digital movie distribution, Hollywood studios on Thursday announced they are backing a new technology that will make more movie titles available for consumers to download from the Internet and burn to DVD Sonic Solutions' industry-approved system, a licensing and certification solution called Qflix, aims to overcome a major o...
The Blu-ray versus HD DVD battle is headed to Las Vegas, with new high-definition products rolling out at International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) next week. However, at least two manufacturers are extending an olive branch, of sorts, in the form of hybrid products LG Electronics on Wednesday said it plans to sell a DVD player that will play b...
In a bid to further broaden its product offerings beyond core Internet gear, Cisco Systems said Thursday it would buy security software maker IronPort in a deal valued at US$830 million Cisco said the cash-and-stock purchase would enable it to extend its "self-defending network" approach to include protections against spam, spyware and other threat...
The proverb "he who hesitates is lost" may be true if you're a member of the Danish aristocracy, but if you've been sitting on the fence about making a move from a point-and-shoot digital camera to a DSLR (digital single lens reflex) model, your hesitation may be rewarded Nikon has introduced a sweet DSLR unit, the Model D40, aimed at consumers wh...
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