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There are two schools of thought when it comes to consumer video editing programs One school believes that most videographers want to create their movies with as little human intervention as possible....
Microsoft's efforts to build out its advertising network received a considerable boost with the announcement that Facebook has signed on with the company to receive online advertising services As part of the multiyear contract, Microsoft will be the exclusive provider of banner advertising and sponsored links on Facebook, which will use the company...
Former eMachines owner Lap Shun Hui has offered to buy the retail operations of PC maker Gateway, to whom he sold his firm in 2004, for US$450 million Gateway saw its stock price rise more than 22 percent Wednesday following news of the offer and said its board of directors, as well as financial and legal advisers, were reviewing Hui's unsolicited ...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday activity carried over from last week into this one as the software giant promised to issue a fix for its latest Internet Explorer security patch, which apparently carries a security bug of its own The vulnerability could allow attackers to take complete control over a Windows PC running IE 6 with Service Pack 1 and the MS0...
IBM is making yet another splashy acquisition, this time in the data security arena. The computing giant will pay US$1.3 billion to acquire Internet Security Systems, it announced Wednesday The deal, which values ISS at $28 per share in cash -- an 8 percent premium over the previous day's closing price -- gives IBM access to that firm's software, a...
Microsoft on Tuesday launched a legal campaign against parties that register Web addresses designed to attract visitors by using trademarked terms and common misspellings of more popular domains The software giant filed three lawsuits this week against alleged "cybersquatters" and "typosquatters." Microsoft estimates that these types of individuals...
To some observers, it may seem like closing the barn door after the horses have escaped, but next month a group of high-tech companies -- including leading notebook computer makers Dell, Lenovo, Apple and Hewlett-Packard -- will be holding a summit meeting in San Jose, Calif., to get the ball rolling on manufacturing standards for lithium-ion batteries for portable and handheld electronic devices...
Google made its presence felt in the front office market in a big way this week when both Salesforce.com and NetSuite announced within hours of each other their embrace of Google AdWords as an integral part of their marketing solutions. To be sure, the AdWords platform by itself will not solve the lead generation challenge faced by most marketers, but this approach does at least recognize the need to close a loop when a customer expresses a need and it offers a helpful solution...
With multiple delays and dropped components for its next-generationVistaoperating system,Microsoft has stirred up plenty of confusion and criticism amongsoftware developers Now other software makers, such as Qt cross-platform development framework provider Trolltech, are trying to take advantage of what they describe as "developer alienation" due t...
Users want to keep their data safe from outsiders but they do not want their securitysecurity to make their computing experiences tedious. Vendors often find it difficult to maintain that delicate balance, but that could change if a new encryption technique gains momentum Ideally, users want their data to be encrypted as it moves from their desktop...
YouTube is exploring ways to monetize its traffic flow of 100 million downloads a day by launching a pay-for-play video advertising service. Its inaugural spot is a promotion for Paris Hilton's new album, "Paris." YouTube will feature one ad each day, which site visitors can rate and comment on in the same way they evaluate consumer-created videos....
First it was support for e-mail marketing, then it was a user interface that displayed real time system data -- also known as the "Dashboard." Now the latest must-have feature in on-demand CRM, at least as evidenced by two separate offerings, is paid search Both NetSuite and Salesforce.com have introduced new features that support paid search adver...
In a move to compete with Google's controversial book search service, LibreDigital on Tuesday announced a service of its own that allows book publishers to digitally capture and deliver controlled book content online LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, said its Warehouse service makes it possible for publishers to bring their top titles to the W...
Cisco sealed a deal this week to buy another consumer-oriented technology company, this time acquiring video-on-demand player Arroyo Video Solutions for US$92 million The Arroyo buy is representative of the dominant networking gear maker's overall effort to connect to homes the way it has to businesses, Yankee Group Senior Analyst Zeus Kerravala to...
In a move that could spark a price war in the emerging video download marketplace, Guba Tuesday slashed prices for purchasing and renting newly released films and television show episodes Guba cut prices on new release movies from US$19.99 to $9.99, said it would make older movies from its catalog available for $4.99 instead of $9.99, and reduced p...
Microsoft is extending an olive branch of sorts to rival Mozilla Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, has offered to help Mozilla make sure its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client run smoothly on Windows Vista....
Two employees were fired and a top executive has voluntarily left AOL, the direct result of the public disclosure of millions of supposedly private search records AOL said Chief Technology Officer Maureen Govern is leaving the company and reports suggested that two other employees were dismissed. One was the researcher who put the data onto the Web...
The debate over net neutrality is getting a bit belligerent online. A senior executive at cable companyComcast is challenging the CEO ofeBay, Meg Whitman, to a debate on the topic A copy of a recent e-mail between David Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast, and Whitman has surfaced on the Web. "Getting the government to regulate the Internet ...
Online surveys are becoming more popular and easier to use, and while their ability to find out exactly what customers want promises a goldmine for CRM, their real potential is not always tapped "There's a lot more work that needs to be done by the organization than simply ask the questions and look at the answers," said Esteban Kolsky, research di...
To-do lists have been a staple for software writers since the invention of the personal computer. Maybe that's because we all have things to do and never tire of finding better and faster ways to get them done For many of us, a simple pad and paper, or the rudimentary to-do list in a personal digital assistant, will meet our needs, but when our r...
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