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As a groundswell of support in this country is building for the development of biofuels as an alternative energy source, Americans are measuring the strengths and weaknesses of every available option. Among these, of all the first-generation biofuels in the U.S., veggie oil is arguably the cleanest, easiest and most straightforward to implement. However, it doesn't have the field to itself. Quite the contrary -- its virtues may actually work against it...
Amdocs, an erstwhile CRM stalwart that has increasingly transformed itself into an end-to-end provider of communications industry software, has filled in missing functionality with a new acquisition The company has signed an agreement to acquire Cramer Systems Group, a provider of operations support systems (OSS) applications. Under the terms of th...
Netflix on Wednesday announced a partnership with NBC in which the broadcast company will offer the online movie rental service's subscribers advanced screening copies of the premiere episodes of its upcoming drama series, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and "Kidnapped." The shows will be made available in their entirety, six weeks before their res...
Fresh on the heels of rival Movielink's announcement of a licensing deal allowing DVDs to be burned from feature film Internet downloads, CinemaNow said its customers could immediately begin burning titles from a catalog of 100 movies with its own burning service The beta service, "Burn to DVD," offers DVD content over the Internet that can be reco...
Microsoft announced Tuesday that that it has acquired Winternals Software and plans to appoint the company's co-founder a technical fellow Privately held Winternals provides systems recovery and data protection solutions to Windows-based enterprises and offers free software tools called Sysinternals. The acquisition advances Microsoft's promise to ...
Shares of Yahoo traded lower by nearly 20 percent Wednesday morning as investors and analysts digested an on-target earnings announcement overshadowed by word that the launch of its long-awaited self-service advertising platform would be delayed Yahoo said it earned US$164.3 million, or 11 cents per share, during the quarter that ended in June. Tho...
While nearly 90 percent of computer users have software on their machines to protect them from malware like viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware, almost two-thirds of those users are reluctant to upgrade the software after it's installed That was the finding in a survey released Monday by security software maker ESET, of San Diego....
I was in Chicago for a few days of R&R when Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, spoke at the Microsoft partner meeting in Boston. As a result, I got news of the company's latest projected delivery dates for its on-demand CRM not from Microsoft, but from Paul Greenberg's blog: "On Demand Means Right This Second, Even for Microsoft." Greenberg makes some good points and I completely agree with him that the second quarter of 2007 is a long time to wait given the speed of evolution we have been seeing in the on-demand market...
The Rice University open publishing project Connexions has scored an on-demand printing deal with Qoop, a content delivery company, aimed at making the educational site's materials more accessible and printable for educators and students Inspired by the open source software movement, where software code is open and shared among developers around th...
A friend of mine once told me he mourned the fading fortunes of point-and-shoot film cameras. It was a momentary lamentation induced by his wife's struggles with her new digital camera Film is simple, he reasoned. You shoot your pictures. You take your film to the drugstore. You get your prints....
Intel officially introduced its Itanium 2 Processor 9000 "Montecito" family of high performance computing (HPC) server processors at an event in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, claiming greater cost and energy efficiency compared to earlier chips Intel said the new Itanium 2 chips, to be built into systems from major server vendors for release late...
Walt Disney is adding steam to Sony's Blu-ray Disc push with its plan to release nine films in that format Beginning Sept. 19, Buena Vista Home Entertainment will start releasing select titles, including Walt Disney Pictures' "Dinosaur" and "Eight Below," on Blu-ray. Those two movies will feature exclusive high-definition short films, called Blu-Sc...
Antivirus and security giant McAfee stirred up some controversy with the first issue of its security journal Sage, highlighting how hackers and creators of malicious software, or malware, are using open source software development techniques to target computer systems and users McAfee, which mainly provides security solutions for Microsoft Windows ...
Microsoft announced it has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of illegal software. These suits are more than double the number of cases Microsoft has filed on any one day -- in fiscal year 2006 it filed 10 cases at one shot. The suits represent the launch of Microsoft's latest and, it says, most fierce pushback yet against software piracy T...
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a partnership with Nortel, its latest effort to put its applications in the center of a unified communications approach that combines Microsoft software with Nortel communications gear The two companies said they had agreed to a four-year alliance that will make Nortel a strategic partner for the software giant as it ...
With debate over the regulation of online gambling continuing in Congress, law enforcement sent a clear message that existing laws would be aggressively enforced Monday by seeking the arrest of both the CEO and the founder of a leading online sports betting site David Carruthers, CEO of BetOnSports, was arrested, and an arrest warrant was issued fo...
Dell on Tuesday unveiled a wireless card that the company says can provide up to five times the speed and twice the range of the industry's widely used 802.11g WiFi technology standard The greatest productivity comes when connected to a wireless Draft 802.11n network router featuring Broadcom's Intensi-fi technology. When achieving optimum performa...
In a move that could help unlock the potential for selling feature-length movies over the Internet, Movielink Monday said it had reached an agreement to license technology allowing downloaded movies to be burned onto DVDs by users Movielink said it had licensed the technology to allow DVD burning but retain digital rights management (DRM) controls ...
In buying a U.S. company, liabilities do not cease once a seller has completed a deal. The allocation of liabilities is usually determined in the acquisition agreement. Acquisition agreements are described in the previous article in this series. Here we examine the role of indemnifications in acquisition agreements The role of indemnifications i...
Investors are grabbing shares in technology companies, as excellent economic reports keep coming from the U.S. government indicating that the federal budget deficit is down dramatically and tax collections have increased by 25 percent during this fiscal year Infosys Technologies last week said it added 38 clients during the just completed quarter, ...
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