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Cingular Launches Mobile Music Onslaught

Cingular Wireless on Thursday threw down the mobile music gauntlet with several digital media partnerships and the launch of Cingular Music. However, it may be too little too late when it comes to competing with the market leading iPod Cingular Music, which teamed with Microsoft to incorporate Windows Media digital rights management into select han...

Microsoft Aligns With Open Source Vendor Zend, PHP

Microsoft announced Tuesday a close technical collaboration with Zend, the programming language vendor that currently dominates Web-based scripting with the open source PHP language Microsoft and Zend said their collaboration would provide a production-level PHP runtime environment for the next rev of Windows Server (Longhorn), Windows XP, Windows ...

Plugging In: Can E-Commerce Leverage Social Networks?

Auction site eBay has always had considered itself a community, making it an early adopter of some of the aspects of social networking, which is presently red hot. Today, its sellers and buyers are able to reach beyond the virtual walls of eBay to tap into existing social networks, something more e-commerce companies are seeking ways to duplicate T...

Winning Philosophies for Boosting Consumer Loyalty

There's an oft-heard slight in professional realms: "Those who can't do, teach." If taken seriously, this notion would leave marketers lost in their attempts to build consumer loyalty Loyalty-building efforts are far-reaching and far-roaming, having scaled a precipice of marketing interest in the late 1990s and answered to a well educated and often...

Broadband Access: A Hotel Must-Have for Biz Travelers

A struggle is taking place between frequent business travelers and hotels over high-speed Internet access, with guests demanding free access and hotels trying to recoup their costs Hotels generally do not employ full-time IT staff, choosing instead to outsource the task of connecting and supporting hundreds of guest rooms with around-the-clock, hig...

Access Announces Linux App Framework for Mobile Devices

Access this week announced a Linux and open source software application framework for mobile devices, which will be open to developers under the Mozilla Public License The Access application framework is tuned for mobile phones and devices, and includes services for installing, managing and allowing communication between software applications....

Nintendo Announces Wii Lineup, Supply Shortages

Nintendo is pulling out all the stops for the launch of its next-generation video console. Nintendo will make about 4 million Wii systems available globally during the next six weeks, beginning with the Nov. 19 launch in the Americas The company expects supply will be outpaced by demand, based on retailer orders and consumer requests. Nintendo said...

AT&T Unveils Plans for Digital Living Room

Bidding to stake a claim in the converged world of Internet and entertainment, AT&T Wednesday unveiled an expanded Homezone service. The product integrates high-speed Internet service with satellite TV and home networking functionality to create a digital living room where a single device controls content from multiple sources and funnels it to television sets, stereos and other gadgets...

AT&T Unveils Plans for Digital Living Room

Bidding to stake a claim in the converged world of Internet and entertainment, AT&T Wednesday unveiled an expanded Homezone service. The product integrates high-speed Internet service with satellite TV and home networking functionality to create a digital living room where a single device controls content from multiple sources and funnels it to television sets, stereos and other gadgets...

AT&T Unveils Plans for Digital Living Room

Bidding to stake a claim in the converged world of Internet and entertainment, AT&T Wednesday unveiled an expanded Homezone service. The product integrates high-speed Internet service with satellite TV and home networking functionality to create a digital living room where a single device controls content from multiple sources and funnels it to television sets, stereos and other gadgets...

New Spy Sweeper Includes Sophos AntiVirus Component

Webroot Software this week announced the availability of Spy Sweeper with Antivirus, a new product developed in partnership with software vendor Sophos Webroot produces anti-spyware products for consumers, enterprises and small-to-medium businesses....

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An Alternative Guide to Election 2006

You didn't have to be at the meet and greet event thissummer when Virginia Senate hopeful George Allen referred to his opponent's volunteer -- who was present in the crowd video taping the speech -- as "macaca," a remark perceived as a racial slur against the Fairfax, Va., native of Indian descent All you had to do wastype a few keys atYouTube.com,...

Americans Plug Into Internet for Election Info

More than a third of Americans are turning to the Internet for information about the elections next week, according to a poll released by the Associated Press and America Online last Friday The telephone survey showed that 35 percent of Americans are using the Internet to get information about the upcoming elections....

Holiday Scammers' E-Greeting Card Tactics

As e-tailers prepare for a booming online shopping season, e-scammers are already making moves to gather stolen identities Researchers at Exploit Prevention Labs recently uncovered a major cyber criminal ring operating in Australia using what appear to be Yahoo Greetings e-cards to infect thousands of computer users with malicious keylogger malware...

Microsoft Adds 85 Features to Xbox Live

In a move to one-up the competition during the peak season for video game console sales, Microsoft on Tuesday launched its fall Xbox Live Update complete with more than 85 new features Xbox owners can download a free system update that offers new features, enhancements and support for native high-definition 1080p games and movies, along with faster...

Google Scoops Up Wiki Tool Maker JotSpot

Emphasizing its belief in the value of user-created content and online collaboration, search giant Google has acquired JotSpot, a startup that develops online collaboration tools known as "wikis." Wiki tools, which are increasingly being embraced by the corporate world, let users create, modify and even delete information in documents others in a group have worked on...

Microsoft Rolls Out Media Player 11 for Windows XP

Microsoft has released Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP. Besides offering such incremental improvements as better sync and search capabilities, this latest download is the first with URGE -- MTV Networks' digital music center -- directly embedded into the application as a default setting. This release also lets consumers test drive Media Player 11 for Windows Vista...

Newspapers Suffer as Web Use Grows

Continuing and accelerating a long-term trend, U.S. newspapers lost significant circulation in recent months as more of the population turned to the Internet to get news and information, according to an industry report released Monday The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) said its analysis of circulation reports did contain some good news, how...

eGain Introduces Service 7.6

eGain Communications on Monday released the latest iterationof its self-service application, eGain Service 7.6.New features include guidance on complex customerinteractions and tweaks to security, as well as additionalprocess improvement. The changes, eGain CEO AshuRoy told CRM Buyer, are based on either customerrequests or the company's experiences in the field...

Seagate Pushes Hardware-Based Encryption

Seagate Technology on Monday took another step into the security arena with a new encrypted hard drive. The company plans to start shipping units to notebook manufacturers in early 2007 Seagate's goal is to simplify the security and management of private data stored on computing devices, including PCs, notebooks and mobile devices, by protecting da...

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