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In a move to take a slice of iTunes' e-commerce pie, News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox Entertainment Group and Burger King Holdings have joined forces to bring hit television programming to MySpace.com members. The move marks MySpace's entry into the e-commerce arena as the social networking site seeks to monetize older episodes of "24" for US$1.99 a piece...
More and more mortgage shoppers are going online to find loans, but when it's time to seal the deal, most prefer to take their business offline, according to a study scheduled to be released Tuesday by Forrester Research and Compete Inc., both based in Boston Over the past two years, consumers researching mortgages online have increased 17 percent,...
Buying a U.S. company offers a quick and easy way to acquire a client base without having to build one up slowly through traditional sales and marketing efforts, efforts that can be expensive, time consuming and not always successful. As described in part one of this series, acquisitions can provide U.S.-based expertise and infrastructure that can be used to re-invent and re-energize a business by shifting some portion of its production and service operations to more competitive locations...
If retail marketers are going to capture the loyalty of the next generation of spenders, they're going to have to get hip to the new Web, according to a report from Forrester Research "The 73 million people under the age of 18 in the U.S. represent one thing to marketers and sellers: the next generation of spenders," wrote Forrester analyst Carrie ...
CRM vendors -- the champions of customer service best practices -- received dismal ratings for their own treatment of online customers in a survey conducted by the Customer Respect Group and sponsored by Select Selling, a provider of sales methodology tools The Customer Respect Group has rated customer service in such industries as banking, airline...
Open source development has always been an international phenomenon. After all, the killer app of the movement -- Linux -- was born in Finland, and the quintessential dual licensing business was started in Sweden with mySQL. Companies like Red Flag have stepped up in Asia to take Linux into double-byte territory The very essence of collaborative ...
Startup cellular carriers are beginning to view the United States' immigrant population as an underserved market. "Carriers have done a good job in penetrating most adult demographics, so they are now searching for niche groups that don't rely on their services," said Marina Amoroso, an industry analyst with market research firm Yankee Group With c...
Hoping to gain the same market success with the Palm operating system (OS) as it has with the Microsoft Windows version of its Palm Treo smartphones, Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) has released the Treo 700p, featuring version 5.4.9 of the firm's original operating system in a new device The Treo 700p bumps up wireless bandwidth with its EvDO wireless capabil...
Debate has swirled recently around the practice of allowing movie lovers to download films from the Internet, burn them onto a DVD, and watch them in the comfort of their own living rooms. Now a controversial segment of the film industry is set to pave the way for more conservative studios that may be waiting and watching to see how this experiment pays off...
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a lower court review of the eBay and MercExchange case, a decision that could have far-reaching impacts for small firms that hold technology patents -- and larger companies that often find themselves locked in patent litigation The high court's unanimous decision sets aside a lower court ruling that barred eBay fr...
Google may be moving deeper into Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) territory, with a little help from Nokia The Finland-based personal communications device maker is adding Google Talk to its soon-to-be-released handheld Internet browsing product. The partnership could help Google extend its reach into mobile communications....
Seeking to expand its reach and to lock in more high-value business customers, Qwest Communications said Monday it would buy OnFiber Communications, a provider of custom-built high-speed network solutions for large businesses Qwest said it would pay US$107 million to acquire privately held OnFiber, which is based in Austin, Texas. Qwest also said i...
The music industry isn't what it used to be, as we saw in last week'sPart 1 in this three-part series. The rapid advent of new digital audio technologies has created a wealth of options and opportunities -- as well as panic, consternation and sometimes radical change -- for recording companies, broadcasters and musicians, not to mention the listening audience...
Unica has introduced a new Web analytics application that is based partly on technology it acquired from Sane Solutions and then rebranded under its family of products Affinium NetInsight offers flexible reporting and viewing capabilities that are adaptable to most business scenarios, Carol Meyers, SVP and chief marketing officer at Unica, told CRM...
President Bush this week created an "ID theft prevention" task force by executive order, and Internet security executives are reacting positively, if cautiously, to the new federal initiative "This task force should help improve coordination among federal, state and local authorities. It's a positive step toward addressing the problem of identity t...
The market for gallium-arsenide (GaAs) technology -- spurred by the mobile phone industry and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- could ascend to US$3 billion this year Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that GaAs device revenues will grow by 36 percent over 2005 to 2010, breaking...
Lawmakers are ratcheting up their attempts to provide some level of protection to minors who might be victimized by online predators Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., has introduced a bill that would prohibit anyone under 18 from using school or library computers to access online communities such as the wildly popular MySpace.com and other chat r...
A report saying that a popular electronic voting machine can be tampered with to alter or erase votes has prompted states that have purchased the devices to order increased security ahead of upcoming elections On Thursday, Black Box Voting, a nonprofit group, issued a report based on the findings of Harri Hursti, a Finnish computer expert. The repo...
Microsoft this week made available its first ever software patch for another vendor's product, plugging a critical Windows hole that endangered users of Adobe's Flash Player Microsoft signaled the third-party patch may be the first of more to come, which has broad implications for security and other software vendors. The move comes after Microsoft'...
You may have thought there was a television channel for everything and everybody, but DirecTV is the first to launch a channel for viewers too young to complain about the programming. Some child experts, though, are complaining that the viewers are too young to watch television in the first place Amid heated debate, BabyFirstTV launched a premium c...
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