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File-sharing vendor BitTorrent on Wednesday announced a slew of partnerships with film and television companies, as it slowly boosts its sullied reputation as a tool for media pirates The company has reached agreements with 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media to pub...
Grisoft recently released several new versions of its AVG antivirus software for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD open source platforms The latest upgrade adds more features to the existing support for GNU/Linux users and provides first-time support for FreeBSD users....
Spending on online video advertising will soar throughout this decade with sales predicted to break the billion dollar barrier in 2008, according to a report released this month by research aggregator ...
Salesforce.com made another announcement this week. This time they have announced a new integration facility that is based in part on the announced, but as yet undelivered, Apex programming language Not to quibble, Salesforce has had a good year but it is slowly beginning to get into a futures game. The Apex language and the integration facility,...
Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices heard arguments concerning a basic tenet of patent law. In addition to being new, any invention for patent must be deemed "nonobvious" over what is already known; i.e., the innovation must represent some technological advance -- even if slight ...
The French parliament this week announced that its 1,000-plus desktops will be running Linux andopen source applications beginning in June 2007, ending the governmental body's reliance on Microsoft Windows Although the adoption of Linux and other open source software -- as well asopen standards such as the open document format (ODF) -- is gaining m...
Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, on Tuesday cut its short-term profit forecast and said it expected slower growth overall heading into 2007 During its annual Capital Market Days event for industry and stock market analysts in Amsterdam, Finland-based Nokia rolled out a series of forecasts for its own growth and for the overall mobile ...
A braggingNintendo has declared an early victory over rival Sony in the video console wars Of the more than 600,000 Nintendo Wii systems sold in the Americas since Nov. 19, 400,000 were sold in the U.S. -- at a rate of nearly one unit sold per second since its launch....
Shares of Palm dropped sharply Tuesday after the hand-held device maker said its quarterly revenue would come in well below earlier expectations Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Palm said it now expects revenue of US$390 million to $395 million for its second quarter, which ends later this week. That is compared to earlier guidance, issued in late September...
Video-sharing phenom YouTube on Tuesday announced a content distribution deal with Verizon, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S The deal marks YouTube's first strategic mobile distribution agreement and could signal a new trend for the Google-owned social networking Web site....
Salesforce.com on Monday introduced ApexConnect, a new family of integration tools that connect its on-demand customer relationship management solution with back-office systems ...
Online retail sales this holiday season will be a healthy improvement over last year, according to research cited inPart 1 of this three-part series on holiday shopping Whereas the consumer drives all traffic to online retail Web sites, the savvy e-tailer can create helpful site search processes in order to raise profits and maximize the consumer's...
There are lots of software programs, as well as e-mail add-ons, to fight spam, but none are as clever or will give you the visceral satisfaction of Nyms Nyms, which is sold on an annual subscription basis of US$19.95, is the cerebral spawn of the folks atAnonymizer, an Internet privacy andsecurity outfit out of San Diego, Calif....
Watching the reports of video game console sales early this holiday shopping season has been like watching a thoroughbred horse race. The only problem is two of the horses are already out of the race, at least temporarily As anticipated,Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Nintendo's Wii sold out very quickly due to manufacturing issues -- Sony sold out ...
Spam is reaching unprecedented levels according to a survey released earlier this month by Internet security vendor Postini. The firm reported a 59 percent increase in spam from September to November, when it processed nearly 70 billion e-mail connections. Unwanted e-mail has now reached a whopping 91 percent of all e-mail, it said By most measures...
With the Web industry watching closely as it tries to navigate the treacherous waters of online copyright law, Google is facing a lawsuit from a French company that says the search engine did more than just help users find an online copy of its film Paris-based Flach Film is alleging copyright violations, saying Google helped distribute "The World ...
Cyber Monday, the recently nicknamed kick-off to the online shopping season, arrived to heavy fanfare Monday and appeared to be greeted by millions of eager and ready-to-buy shoppers, many of whom got the ball rolling early by jumping online last week Cyber Monday was largely invented by the online retail industry to match Black Friday -- the day a...
Online video is eating into the market share of traditional television viewing time, according to a recent ICM survey conducted for theBBC ...
Sterling Commerce, anAT&T subsidiary, last week acquired e-commerce platform provider Comergent for US$155 million in cash -- further evidence of the rapid development and consolidation taking place in the B2C and B2B market sectors Sterling Commerce and Comergent are best known for their state-of-the-art service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based s...
Music has transcended cultural and economic barriers worldwide, thanks in large part to the growth of digital audio technology, as noted in Part 1 andPart 2 of this series Throughout history, broad groups of species have undergone periods of rapid evolution and radiation. The same can be said today of digital music technology. From MP3 streaming an...
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