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Rupert Murdoch'sNews Corp. on Wednesday unveiled My Network TV, a stripped-down, prime-time only network that will feed racy shows to the WB and UPN stations, which are set to merge My Network TV will be heavily promoted on the MySpace Web site, the hugely popular youth-targeted social networking site that News Corp. has purchased and plans to use ...
Google is venturing into new Internet waters -- again The search giant officially launched Google Page Creator on Thursday to beef up its ever-evolving Web-based toolbox. Google's new service will compete with products from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and MySpace....
Microsoft this week released the latest beta version of its Vista operating system, allowing large enterprises to test drive all of its new features and provide technical feedback prior to deployment. The Community Technology Preview is the fourth in a series of early Windows Vista builds being provided to companies in the Windows Vista Technical Beta Program, and is the first "feature-complete" release...
Research In Motion continued to score victories at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week, with another disputed patent held by NTP ruled to be invalid -- but the BlackBerry service faces a critical courtroom showdown on Friday That's when a judge will hold a long-awaited hearing on whether to issue an injunction requiring at least the part...
Sun Microsystems on Thursday said it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Aduva Aduva's solution attempts to ease the management of open- and mixed-source server stacks. Aduva's technology competes with products from Levanta, Red Hat, PatchLink and BigFix....
With the rollout of Microsoft CRM 3.0 now underway, expectations are running high that this is the version that will finally push Microsoft far into the small and medium-sized (SMB) CRM vendors' turf "This is the first time Microsoft CRM is ready for prime time," Yacov Wrocherinsky, president and CEO of Infinity told CRM Buyer. "It will absolutely ...
Despite some chest beating by the entertainment industry Wednesday over the shutdown of one of the biggest index servers on the eDonkey network, a raid by Belgian and Swiss police seems to have had little impact on file-sharing traffic "We have seen no effect on the eDonkey traffic levels," Andrew Parker, chief technical officer at CacheLogic, a UK...
U.S. advertisers have turned the practice of "product placement" into a lucrative market. This advertising phenomenon makes possible the insertion of an advertiser's product into a film, television program or video game The estimated value of the total product-placement industry in 2005 -- when you include other creative arrangements such as barter...
Windows has overcome Unix to claim the server sales crown for the first time, according to IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker The Windows server market continued to show solid growth, with factory revenues increasing by 4.7 percent year over year. Overall, Windows servers accounted for US$4.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005, repr...
High performance computing is not just for academicians and scientists anymore. This application of computer technology to highly complex scientific and engineering workloads is making its way into commercial settings as companies recognize its value as a competitive tool HPC reduces the time it takes to get results and products to market, speeds u...
Law enforcement officials in Belgium and Switzerland raided the headquarters of a key portion of what has been described as "the world's largest peer-to-peer facilitator" this week, shutting down eDonkey's Razorback2 file-sharing server on the grounds that it allowed more than a million users to illegally access copyrighted music, movies, games and other digital content...
Sprint Nextel posted sharply lower profits in its first full quarter as a merged company, saying the cost of combining the wireless powerhouse with the traditional long-distance company kept profits down even while the company added subscribers Sprint Nextel said it earned US$197 million, or 7 cents per share, compared with $437 million, or 29 cent...
Microsoft's rivals on Wednesday banded together to bring a new charge against the software giant to the European Commission: unfair competition Microsoft "threatens to deny enterprises and individual consumers real choice," the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) argued. The ECIS was formed in 1989 and includes IBM, Oracle, Sun Micr...
Somewhere between no-frills Craigslist and intricate eBay lies the new e-commerce offering introduced by Santa Monica, Calif.-based TagWorld last week TagWorld, a high-energy social networking space launched last November, is combining the new service of free online classifieds, which includes images and personalized storefronts, with auction featu...
In 1932 Solomon Linda wrote a song he called "Mbube." He and the Evening Birds recorded it as a 78 in 1939 and by 1949, some 100,000 copies had been sold. If you were around in the '60s, you'd have known it as "Wimoweh" (from the Zulu "uyiMbube") Then it showed up as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in Walt Disney's "The Lion King."
I spoke with a group of investors last week about the importance of the emerging field of platform technology. They were interested in investing in a company that was looking for additional late round funding and they wanted to know a few things. What is the market for this new technology? Who will buy it? Isn't the market already saturated with applications and application technology?...
Back in the 1950s, Elvis Presley and other recording artists put out plenty of hit singles like "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Hound Dog," and consumers clamored for the tunes. By the 1960s, with the success of "The Beatles (The White Album)" and blockbusters from other big groups, the album became the main medium of music sales Now, because of digital d...
Depending upon who you ask, click fraud -- the practice of triggering pay-per-click fees by clicking on an advertising link with dishonest motives -- is either a minor nuisance for the search industry or a huge risk to one of the fastest-growing segments of the Web business Nearly everyone agrees that the problem of click fraud is nothing new, howe...
Big Blue is heading off the tiniest transistor boundaries with a new way of extending today's chip-manufacturing technology to generate smaller chip circuits, the company said this week Indicating its technology may postpone a "high-risk" conversion to difficult and expensive alternatives for the semiconductor industry, IBM said its scientists have...
Salesforce.com has introduced a new application to give users status updates about system performance. Uponlogging in, they can access current information about incident reports, maintenance schedules and other performance-related topics. The service is free It is little secret that Salesforce.com customers have been frustrated by a number of syste...
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