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Imagine a world where you could run bothLinux andApple operating systems on the same high-performance Mac laptop. That day may be coming sooner than Mac fans think. Red Hat has confirmed it is pursuing the development of a Linux distribution for the new Intel-based Macs Red Hat is no stranger toMacintosh -- Fedora and other Linux distributions supp...
The global market for high-definition televisions (HDTV) and their ancillary products -- personal video recorders, DVD players, game consoles and set-top boxes -- will eclipse US$25 billion this year, according to a report released Wednesday by ABI Research, of Oyster Bay, N.Y As the HDTV market grows, commoditization will threaten margins and attr...
Since the revelation last week that the Justice Department has subpoenaed Google for search term data, Internet users have been awakened to its profound ramifications. At some date in the future, many fear, they may be confronted with questions by the government or from law enforcement agencies about their own search behavior Companies may be just...
As the dust settles on this latest season's holiday shopping data, there is yet one more issue to consider before this time next year: conversions The recent release of the Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a study produced by ForeSee Results and FGI Research, revealed that consumer satisfaction with most of the top 40 retail Web sites dropp...
New research indicates that the number of mobile phone subscribers will increase by upwards of 50 percent in the next four years According to the latest research from the wireless network strategies service of Boston-based Strategy Analytics, the mobile industry is on course for 2.5 billion subscribers by the end of 2006, and 3.5 billion by the end...
Academic officials from Oxford University and Harvard Law School announced Wednesday a plan to publish the names of "badware" senders in an attempt to thwart makers of malicious software such as viruses, worms, deceptive adware and spyware The new initiative, StopBadware.org, will also involve prominent technology companies including Google and Su...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a decision to license all the Windows Server source code for technologies covered by the European Commission's legal decision of March 2004 The voluntary move is designed to address categorically all of the issues raised by the Commission's December 22, 2005, Statement of Objections, the company said....
Along with its preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter, SAP gave the markets notice that its hosted-CRM application will be available in February. CEO Henning Kagermann made the revelation during an analyst briefing on Wednesday morning As with previous quarters, SAP's earnings reflect the company's ongoing momentum. Its software reven...
Ask Jeeves this week announced the launch of its first proprietary image search technology. The company also unveiled plans to move into Germany with a locally targeted search site Ask Jeeves' new technology includes its first internally created index of Web images, further improvements to its image search ranking algorithms and new search suggesti...
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) will pay US$7.4 billion to buyPixar, the groundbreaking animation studio co-founded byApple CEO Steve Jobs. The deal is noteworthy not only for the potential future benefits entailed in an Apple-Hollywood link, but also because it immediately vaults Disney back to the top of the industry it all but invented Jobs, who...
SplendidCRM, formed in November 2005, is getting set to enter the increasingly crowded open-source CRM marketplace It released a second beta version of SplendidCRM 1.0, an application licensed, in part, under the SugarCRM Public License. It plans to offer this version -- give or take a few tweaks -- during Q1, the company's founder, Paul Rony, told...
Recent research suggests that satisfaction among customers of 40 top retail Web sites dropped over the holiday season So says the Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a study produced by ForeSee Results and FGI Research. The Index measures the top 40 retailers by revenue and provides a comparison of online shopper satisfaction between the holid...
Looking for a new cellular service? If so, there are more choices available now than just those from traditional carriers, such as Cingular and T-Mobile USA. Increasingly companies like ESPN and its parent, the Walt Disney Co., are entering the cellular services market, too. "Many firms view offering cellular services as a way to increase brand awareness and customer loyalty," said David Chamberlain, a principal analyst with market research firm In-Stat...
IBM introduced the next version of its corporate messaging software, Lotus Sametime 7.5, at the Lotusphere show in Orlando, Florida, along with several new partner-enabled applications for the Lotus platform -- such as video conferencing, VoIP and compliance technology What is catching the eye of many users, though, is the new connectivity between ...
News programming channel Times Now will put video news content on Reliance India Mobile cell phones in India, a potentially huge marketplace that has shown early demand for mobile video The companies announced Tuesday that English-language Indian news programming for mobile phones will soon be offered to Reliance subscribers in the country, where c...
Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt aren't getting a raise this year. Each is slated to make in 2006 exactly what they took home last year: US$1 Google said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the three top executives would again forgo all but the token take-home salary. Instead, they wi...
Opera Software is going smaller in order to get bigger The Norwegian browser maker on Tuesday announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, a full Web browser that runs on a wide variety of mobile phones, including low- and mid-end handsets....
Microsoft received both good and bad news on the antitrust front. The European Commission (EC) has granted the software maker extra time to meet specific requirements before facing stiff daily fines. On the other hand, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said the company appeared to be falling behind on compliance with the terms of its U.S. antitrust settlement...
IronPort Systems has launched a new anti-spam system for its e-mail security appliances that employs reputation assessment technology to filter unwanted messages. The company announced this latest enhancement to its SenderBase technology on Monday The new technology measures the behavior and traffic patterns of a Web site to assess its trustworthin...
Apple Computer's introduction of its video iPod set off a big bang that will fuel phenomenal market growth for years, according to a report released Monday byABI Research While the push to video online started well before the launch of the video iPod, ABI acknowledged, Apple's announcement triggered an online video explosion that echoed throughout ...
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