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Yahoo said Thursday it had agreed to buy Bix.com, a site that enables users to create online contests that others can judge as the portal bids to bolster its lineup of social networking offerings The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Yahoo said that Bix.com founder and CEO Mike Speiser -- also the co-founder of user-generated content ...
Hewlett-Packard reported a four-fold increase in profits for its fourth quarter on a more modest rise in sales, as the top PC maker turned in results that exceeded Wall Street forecasts In fact, the company's full fiscal year results showed it moving past IBM as the world's largest technology company in terms of revenue, with sales of US$91.7 billi...
Avaya on Thursday made two related announcements: the acquisition of enterprise mobility software maker Traverse Networks; and a new product strategy centered around unified communications ...
Without fanfare -- in fact, there was no official announcement made at all -- China decided to stop blocking its citizens' access toWikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia The move hints that China may be loosening its control of public access to the Internet and other forms of media. The country's tight grip on information access is legen...
An emerging trend in the embedded market is the decoupling of software from hardware. This trend has allowed vendors to optimize revenues by pricing and selling software and the features it enables separately from the device on which the software runs Software is often a critical component of embedded systems, but many embedded vendors have difficu...
Although the U.S. alternative energy and clean tech industry is still playing catch-up with Europe, investments have been picking up in recent years -- and quickly -- as detailed inPart 1 of this two-part series on alternative energy Despite a lack of strong leadership at the federal level, governments in prominent states, notably California, are i...
This week the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released "American Made: The Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals on U.S. Competitiveness," a new study that reveals something that Silicon Valley netizens already know but scream for others to recognize: The immigration debate affects America's economy in a big way When most ...
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has explained how the batteries of portable electronic devices could be wirelessly -- and safely -- recharged Such a technological feat could be accomplished by matching the source andreceiver in frequency, similar to radio, MIT Assistant Professor Marin Soljacic said at a physics conference in San...
Two private equity firms have agreed to buy Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) for US$18.7 billion, ending weeks of speculation about the sprawling radio network's fate, including rumors of interest from Google Clear Channel said Thursday it would be acquired by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital Partners, two giant Boston-based equity a...
FormerHP chairwoman Patricia Dunn on Wednesday pled not guilty to criminal charges in connection with the corporate spying scandal that swirled around the technology giant earlier this year. Accompanied by her husband, Bill Jahnke, Dunn entered her plea before a Santa Clara County, Calif., Superior Court judge. She declined to speak to the crowd of reporters who gathered at the San Jose courthouse...
Dell shares fell Thursday after the computer maker said it would delay its quarterly earnings report and acknowledged that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) began a formal inquiry into the company's past accounting practices The announcement came at the last minute, as Dell was set to report earnings after the stock markets closed on Thu...
Microsoft is flexing its muscles this week with strong moves against its rivals. The software giant on Monday released the Zune digital media player hoping to take a bite out of Apple. Three days later, the company inked a mobile search deal with Sprint Nextel, leaving Google out in the cold ...
AOL on Wednesday launched the latest version of its instant messaging (IM) service, AIM 6.0, which boasts offline messenging, an improved user interface, and enhanced support for blogging and other social networking activities AIM 6.0's community-building orientation should be a plus as AOL shifts from a strictly a dial-up service model to an adver...
Online securities trading was a big fad a few years ago, but some of the major players disappeared from the scene after the dot-com fallout. However, many do-it-from-home traders cannot resist the Internet's speed and convenience, and there are still plenty of firms to accommodate them Although some major brokerage companies swore they would never ...
Mozilla claims that the anti-phishingmeasures in its Firefox Web browser are superior to those of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), based on a report released Wednesday by software testing companySmartWare While IE owns around 80 percent of the browser market, it also draws the majority of Internet attacks, including those known as "phishing" -- ...
When it comes to gadgets, thin is in. From the latest nano from Apple to the recent crop of slim bar-phones, chunky is strictly L7 for the electronic hipster Among the trimmest of the new cell phones is the Samsung Trace (SGH-t519), distributed exclusively through T-Mobile....
Microsoft on Tuesday released six security fixes to address a diversity of bugs in Windows and Office. The security flaws range from important to critical, the company said Five of the vulnerabilities carry Microsoft's most severe rating: critical. All six allow a hacker to execute code from a remote location. Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Agen...
Microsoft is beating the WiFi drum in a pilot project designed to push MSN content and services to wireless users -- and to generate advertising revenue Following in search rival Google's footsteps, the software giant on Wednesday inked a deal with MetroFi to publish its content over MetroFi's WiFi network in Portland, Ore....
Over the last week, two partnerships -- Pegasystems and IBM,and Amdocs and SAS -- have emerged to offer new CRMapplications for the banking industry The timing no doubt was happenstance, but the dual product rolloutsillustrate the attraction this sector has for theCRM industry. In fact, banking is the top industry-specific vertical in the CRM space...
Regulators from the European Union (EU) say Microsoft continues to lag in its compliance with the conditions of its antitrust ruling and have again set a deadline for the software giant to make changes or face additional monetary penalties European Commissioner Neelie Kroes has given Microsoft until Nov. 23 to meet the requirement that it supply co...
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