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A coalition of both right- and left-wing groups called on Congress Monday to "save" the Internet by requiring network neutrality through law "Whenever you see people on the far left and far right joining together about something Congress is getting ready to do, it's been my experience that what Congress is getting ready to do is basically un-Americ...
Acquisition of existing enterprises offers the quickest, safest route to entering new markets and expanding rapidly within existing markets. The alternative route is organic growth through traditional sales and marketing efforts We begin here by recognizing the limits of conventional sales and marketing campaigns, then shift to discussing minimum ...
ACT is offering users new collaboration and productivity functionality with the addition of five companies to its Add On partner network. Launched in August 2004, the program grew to include 25 featured products in the first year. It currently includes 61 add ons The new partners announced Monday, Alexander Vikhorev, Exponenciel, Equisys, Infinite ...
Everyone has heard stories about predators lurking online, searching for young children on whom to prey. The sorry truth is that the problem is growing increasingly severe. Fingers are pointing in every direction; no one really knows where to place the blame "It's not windows and cellar doors that sexual predators look for. It's your child's comput...
Microsoft and AOL on Monday joined forces with the United Kingdom's new Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Center. The alliance could see photographs of convicted pedophiles posted on the Internet The organization will bring together law enforcement officers, specialists from children's charities and industry to focus on high-risk, hig...
Citing strong interest from multiple potential buyers, Cendant said Monday it is now considering selling its travel services division, which includes the Orbitz and CheapTickets Web sites The sale of the unit is being mulled along with a previously announced plan to spin off several of its business lines as a way of reducing debt and reviving its l...
Intel is making its first platform pitch to the enterprise with its new vPro package, promising desktop security and manageability, energy savings and support from a long list of technology partners, including Symantec, Cisco, Lenovo, Microsoft, Novell and others While Intel indicates the effort will resemble its wireless platform push with Centrin...
Microsoft came out swinging Monday, telling a European court that regulators made "serious errors" of judgment when they found thesoftware maker guilty ofantitrust behavior more than two years ago -- among them forcing it to produce a version of Windows that consumers don't want. Attorneys for Microsoft began presenting arguments in what is slated to be a five-day hearing before the EU's second highest court...
VMware and a group of hardware, software and service providers on Monday announced the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to build joint virtual desktop products together. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, NEC, and Sun Microsystems are among the more than 20 companies that make up the new alliance Virtualization is a technique for deploying techn...
A new mode of movie ownership is briskly emerging -- one which someday may challenge the hegemony of the digital videodisc (DVD). During the last few weeks, Hollywood debuted two films, "King Kong," and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," via a new media, broadband, Internet-based "download-to-own" service, as well as on DVD The market could be ...
This week I'm speaking at the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego on why the PC OEMs don't, and probably never will, fully support Linux on the desktop. This is somewhat of a deja vu for me since a decade ago my team made a similar presentation at IBM on OS/2 and why it wouldn't beat Windows in its time. For the purpose of this piece I'm using the word "Linux" as an open source OS catch-all so I don't have to call out every distribution or variant...
Popularity may be a menace as well as a benefit for the open source software movement, according to an analyst at Forrester Research in Boston, Mass In a report titled "Vendors Refine Their Open Source Strategies/The Risk of Subverting Open Source Freedoms Mounts," Senior Analyst Michael Goulde cautions the open source community about the corruptin...
Over the last several weeks,Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) has shipped approximately 100,000 cases of Huggies brand diapers and similar products toWal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) using Gen2 RFID (radio frequency identification) tags -- the initial step in a full deployment to all customers using this technology, the company said Gen2 is the newest RFID protocol a...
In the art house film, "Wit," Emma Thompson plays an always-acerbic college English professor whose approach to life is challenged by the sudden onset of cancer, and the resultant treatment of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy regime is often worse than the cancer itself, what with countless visits to the hospital, as the film demonstrates, quite ably...
Sony lowered the price of itsPlayStation 2 game console by US$20 to $129 as gamers wait for the next generation of the machine, PlayStation 3, expected in November The Japanese electronics giant is advertising the price cut with an Internet and print media blitz in the hope of driving sales before the PS2 is eclipsed....
The United States is still the top spam-relaying country, but Asia could soon dethrone it as the spam king, a new study says Sophos' latest "Dirty Dozen" report on the top 12 spam-relaying countries during the first quarter of 2006 concludes that the United States is still sending more spam than any other nation despite its aggressive regulatory ef...
Opera Software on Thursday announced the first public Beta of Opera 9. Opera has been testing the free browser software since last October The Norwegian software company's latest version includes widgets, small Web programs that run in their own windows on users' desktops. The Opera 9 Beta also features support for BitTorrent, a popular file downlo...
Leading e-tailer Amazon.com and top online wireless re-seller InPhonic said they have struck an agreement to make InPhonic's Wirefly the exclusive third-party seller of mobile plans and services on the Amazon site Starting in the third quarter, InPhonic will become the first third party provider of wireless service products on Amazon's now-sprawlin...
For retailers, there is nothing more sacred, outside of the holiday shopping season, than a successful multichannel operation Same-store multichannel buyers -- that is, those who shop both in a retail store and online -- spend 14 percent more annually than single channel buyers do, according to JupiterResearch....
Last year, Congress passed the Real ID Act, a law that calls for standardization of drivers' licenses across the country by 2008. The current reaction from states like California and New Hampshire raises questions about how a national ID system would affect civil liberties, putting welcome pressure on the federal government California might have a...
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