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Google said it would release another 5.3 million shares of its stock for public sale, claiming it wanted to be ready to meet higher demand for its shares as it enters the Standard & Poor's 500 index and in the process raise additional cash for "general corporate purposes." The move, which will reap Google about US$2 billion at current prices, immed...
Hardware and electronics makers are carrying on what has become a heated format fight as they ready new, high-definition DVD players for the market, choosing to build hardware for either the Sony-backed Blu-ray discs or rival Toshiba-supported HD DVD format While there have been some demonstrations of players that can play both types of new DVDs, t...
Novell's SuSE Linux CTO is leaving the company, marking the second departure from its open source group in the past few months Novell has confirmed that Juergen Geck plans to depart at the end of the week. The departure was "mutually agreed upon and amicable," according to Novell spokesperson Bruce Lowry....
YouTube is drawing the eyeballs of millions of viewers and the ire of some major television broadcasters with its viral video service. Now the company is also drawing the eye of E! Networks, a producer of entertainment news and lifestyle-related programming YouTube and E! are partnering to bring a new broadband offering to the Internet airwaves cal...
A case that could dramatically alter the way keyword search advertising is sold has closely moved toward a court date, with Google's practice of letting anyone bid on certain keywords -- and whether the practice may constitute trademark infringement -- at issue The case of Edina Realty, Inc. vs. TheMLSonline.com is different than the large number o...
If you're ever starved for conversation at a cocktail party, bring up the subject of computer support. It's sure to start a buzz in the room, since almost everyone has a horror story to tell about the topic The reason everyone has a terrible tale is that customer service in the PC industry is at a woeful state, according to David A. Milman, CEO and...
Former Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) banker Frank Quattrone -- who became a poster boy for all of the excesses of the dot-com era on Wall Street -- recently had his conviction for obstruction of justice overturned by a U.S. Appeals Court in New York City Now, speculation is growing that Quattrone, famed for allegedly inflating the prices of cer...
Handset vendors have been frantically trying to innovate in an effort to keep their products from becoming commodity items. Consequently, they have incorporated a number of new features into their products, such as cameras, and are offering slim, sleek designs available in a variety of colors. Now, their ongoing quest is leading them into a new area: scanning...
Dell has unveiled its latest notebook computers, boasting a lighter, slimmer design that incorporates wider screens and built-in cellular wireless capability that will work with Cingular, Verizon and Vodafone services for mobile connectivity The new Dell Latitude D620 and D820, aimed at the business market, also feature Intel Core Duo processors. T...
Backers ofBluetooth wireless technology this week announced their selection of the WiMedia Alliance ultra-wideband specification, which promises to increase the speed and capability of the close-in wireless solution The move will not only extend Bluetooth capabilities for current low-power uses such as in mice, keyboards and headsets, said the Blue...
Kana has updated Response, its e-mail response management application, and Response Live, its live chat and Web collaboration module. The new versions provide better integration across customer touch points, along with additional functionality that allows desktop agents to answer customer questions more quickly Most of the enhancements are found in...
The TiVo v. EchoStar Communications patent trial officially began on Wednesday. Now it's up to a Texas jury to decide whether the satellite TV giant stole TiVo's technology that allows viewers to skip commercials In a case that could have stock market and cable television industry repercussions, TiVo alleges that EchoStar, operator of the Dish Netw...
European Union regulators said they have warned Microsoft that Vista, the first new version of Windows in six years due out later this year, could face scrutiny on anti-trust grounds if third-party products cannot be made to work with the new platform There is no formal investigation yet under way into Vista. A spokesperson for the European Commis...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced new intellectual property licensing initiatives for its mouse and keyboard technologies. The hardware licensing initiative is a first for the software giant The initiatives make Microsoft technologies, including U2 interface detection and switching technology, Tilt Wheel and Magnifier tool, broadly available to thir...
StreamCast Networks has filed suit against Skype and Kazaa in a U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, claiming copyright infringement violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, otherwise known as the Rico Act StreamCast Networks, which developed and distributes the Morpheus file-sharing and search ...
As a legendary poet-songster once insightfully intoned, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but it helps if you have an Oregon Scientific regional weather station The Tualatin, Oregon-based company pulled the wraps off its latest meteorological information center in January at CES, the annual show of shows for GadgetSphere...
Microsoft is pushing distributors and resellers to enlarge its CRM market share through the introduction of two new initiatives: a new professional Dynamics CRM edition for service providers that has been enhanced to make both hosted and on-premise deployments easier; and new prepackaged connectors to help enterprise-sized firms connect Microsoft CRM to their back office...
A new flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has come to light, but the software giant does not expect to issue a patch for it until April 11. However, at least two outside firms have issued patches that may be used in the interim The Microsoft vulnerability exploits the way Internet Explorer handles HTML code objects, according to Sandeep Dhameja, ...
The lengthy patent battle between e-commerce giant eBay and a small firm that says it came up with the popular "Buy it Now" technology first will get a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday The focus of the hearing will be whether MercExchange should be granted an injunction barring eBay from using its "Buy it Now" feature, which lets buy...
StreamCast Networks has filed suit against Skype and Kazaa in a U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, claiming copyright infringement violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, otherwise known as the Rico Act StreamCast Networks, which developed and distributes the Morpheus file-sharing and search ...
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