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With the holidays approaching, many traditional and e-only marketers hope that the Web tools and designs they developed during 2006 ring in record sales over the Internet. To summarize what improvements online sellers made over the past 12 months, the E-Commerce Times talked to Jim Wehmann, vice president of global marketing for Minneapolis-based Digital River...
Your next operating system move could be to one of the half-dozen most popular free Linux desktop versions instead of to Microsoft Windows Vista. With these versions, you would not have to perform a risky software upgrade, nor would you have to settle for a watered-down Vista option if your new computer were underpowered The Linux operating system ...
Back in July, Microsoft released a dynamite Webcam, the LifeCam 6000, for desktop users. Now it's following suit with an equally impressive version of the unit for notebook users ...
AMD on Tuesday announced its transition from 90 nanometer (nm) to 65 nm process technology. The Athlon 64 X2 dual-core desktop processor is the first product to roll out under the new process AMD's announcement comes months after Intel launched its 65 nm initiatives and is another step toward ever smaller transistors (transistors are the building b...
Leading social networking site MySpace was forced to shut down hundreds of user profile pages after a combination worm and phishing attack struck the site over the weekend The worm, discovered late last week, targeted the Javascript support code associated with Apple's QuickTime player in conjunction with a vulnerability in MySpace itself. MySpace ...
In a breakthrough that paves the way for higher capacity notebook computers and digital music players, Toshiba announced Tuesday that its storage device division broke the 100 GB barrier for mobile hard disk drives (HDD) A new 1.8-inch drive -- model MK1011GAH -- is based on perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), a technology for data recording on...
The chip-making industry appears to be entering a period of consolidation, with a series of deals announced Monday suggesting firms are seeking to expand their technology portfolios and reduce costs by merging with onetime rivals The largest of the deals calls for LSI Logic to purchase rival storage and communications chipmaker Agere Systems for US...
Communications giantBT Group on Monday announced the commercial launch of BT Vision, its new Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service The company is spending about US$198 million to roll out the service with high hopes to attract up to 3 million users and post a profit by the end of 2010....
IBM announced this week that 372 new Linux on Power applications were released in 2006, yielding a total of 2,500 tested Linux-based solutions available for the Power processor platform In addition, Big Blue announced the latest Linux on Power application, the Sybase Unwired Accelerator, which offers mobile access to corporate data stored in ERP sy...
Afternic, the leading U.S.-based domain name reseller, has been purchased by NameMedia in a deal announced on Nov. 28. The acquisition is significant because of the traffic generated from the 1.8 million domain names listed for sale on Afternic's marketplace, as described below We begin here by describing the sale, then compare Afternic to its lea...
Online retailers are looking forward to a robust holiday shopping season this year, asPart 1 of this three-part series points out, and that anticipated success is likely to be due in no small part to the increased focus onsearch engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM), as detailed inPart 2 However, for all the hoopla over SEO an...
Sales executives have long embraced the vision of leveraging incentive compensation to drive performance within their sales teams. In this vision commissions are the reward, the proverbial carrot used to motivate reps to achieve and exceed specific revenue and performance metrics. However, the gap between vision and reality is apparently deep and wide...
Despite its increasing use on enterprise servers and on company desktops, the Linux OS is perhaps moving fastest in the mobile space There are challenges, though, as well as many possibledirections for mobile Linux, raising the prospect of fragmentation....
Whether for business or family fun, everybody takes road trips. When traveling to unfamiliar turf, nothing can make the trip more enjoyable than not getting lost. Traditional Global Positioning Software (GPS) has come a long way. A modern GPS device is something no traveler should leave home -- or office -- without Today's hottest GPS devices come ...
Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will be offering the Samsung Ultra Messaging i600, a full-keyboard phone from Samsung's ultra slim product line powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, in Europe and Asia early next year The i600 is the first phone to offer HSDPA (High SpeedDownlink Packet Access) support, the companies say. Itis also being market...
Qualcomm said Monday it had acquired Airgo Networks, a leading maker of next-generation WiFi tools, and purchased most of the Bluetooth chip interests of RF Micro Devices Qualcomm did not disclose the purchase price it paid for privately held Airgo, whose technology is being built into many notebook computers, home and office-based routers and othe...
In a bid to grab market share in a growing specialty area, Ask.com launched a revamped local search offering Monday, saying it was the first to offer intuitive search for finding neighborhood businesses along with bundled tools such as mapping and extensive, locally focused content With AskCity, IAC/Interactive is attempting to leverage its extensi...
The explosion of digital audio technology has led to a relaxing of cultural and economic barriers worldwide, as detailed inPart 1 andPart 2 of this series Part 3 reviews the ways contemporary artists and distributors can use blogging, streaming, downloading and other nontraditional methods of marketing to get the word out about their creations....
In 1850, Paul Reuter, who later founded Reuters press agency, used a fleet of over 45 pigeons to deliver news and stock prices between Brussels, Belgium, and Aachen, Germany. This was the extent to which they segmented their audience Segmentation by geography is still important and, in fact, has grown increasingly sophisticated -- segmentation is n...
Can you use a reliable, free operating system that can run on new or older computers? How about an operating system that comes packed with hundreds of software programs? Do you want to try out a fully functional OS that runs in a live CD session and can coexist with Windows or Mac operating systems on a dual-boot hard drive installation? The Linux ...
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