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Sparking the interest of retailers around the globe, UK supermarket chain Tesco announced it will be selling Internet-based phone service and handsets on a pay-as-you-go basis Tesco's move is more than a product announcement; by private labeling a VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, service, Tesco is mining a rich new vein of cross-sell and up-s...
In the United States, the Big Four music labels now routinelyblackmail colleges and universities into peddling product via the likes of Napster and iTunes, with school staff working as unpaid public relations and marketing teams EMI, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and Sony BMG wield the threat of lawsuits against students attending schools that fa...
Open-source database deployments rose dramatically in the last half of 2005, and as one might expect, as more IT pros get acquainted with these non-proprietary systems, security is a chief concern. Open-source database makers like MySQL and PostgreSQL simply must answer some of the most prevalent security-related questions in order to win more market share...
Times are changing. Microsoft's Windows operating system, which was originally designed for desktop PCs, is being retooled to support supercomputer applications. With the hope of becoming a key player in that space, Microsoft has poured millions of dollars into its Windows Super Computer Cluster, which is slated to become available later this year. "Microsoft has made a few unsuccessful attempts to become a key player in the supercomputer market but the company could be in a better position for success this time," said Gordon Haff, an analyst for market research firm Illuminata...
Ever since last week's news that the Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated legal action to compel Google to provide it with search-term data, denizens of the blogosphere, news media, everyday users of search engines, and even some members of Congress have been debating the long-term implications for privacy in what may become a landmark struggle Fe...
The day when TV fans watch their favorite prime-time shows on handheld portable devices may be coming sooner than expected. A group of wireless and entertainment companies banded together on Monday to promote the growth and evolution of a digital-video broadcasting standard already in use in Europe The Mobile DTV Alliance, withIntel,Motorola,Nokia,...
For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by Research In Motion, which was hoping to overturn a lower court ruling that could lead to the demise of itsBlackBerry mobile e-mail service in the U.S An interruption of service is probably not imminent, with additional steps still to come, but the failu...
The accounting scandal that rocked the Japanese stock market last week escalated Monday with the arrests of the high-profile CEO and other executives ofInternet company Livedoor. Prosecutors charged Takafumi Horie, the 33-year-old founder of the company, and his colleagues with violating securities laws by filing false earnings reports. The arrests came a week after news broke that investigators had raided the company's offices...
U.S. college students are falling behind their counterparts in other parts of the world in terms of their ability to calculate basic quantitative problems, such as automobile fuel consumption or the total cost of ordering office supplies, according to a new survey from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) The study, funded by The Pew Charitab...
This is the final installment of my three-part series covering this year's Consumer Electronics Show, so this week let's focus on the future There are only a few companies I see as having the breadth to succeed in the battle for the digital home, among them HP and Sony. HP stands out slightly ahead of Sony because it even has networking products. ...
Demand for automotive blindspot monitoring technologies -- which can dramatically improve safety for drivers -- is poised to grow explosively, according to new market forecasts Boston-based Strategy Analytics said manufacturers are beginning to compete by offering different, compelling products and that this niche market will grow to nearly four m...
Following Thursday's revelation that the Bush Administration has ordered search-engine providers to turn over usage records, citizen rights advocates and attorneys have voiced alarm over what many say is an unprecedented invasion of privacy. The administration has said it needs to survey this data in order to build a case against exposing children to pornography on the Web...
Imation on Thursday agreed to acquire Memorex International in an all cash transaction for US$330 million Contigent on financial performance of the purchased business, Imation could pay an additional sum ranging between $5 million and $45 million over a period of up to three years after close. The Boards of both companies have approved the transact...
Nearly nine out of 10 businesses and other organizations faced some type of computer security incident, a fifth of them were attacked 20 times or more and some US$67 billion was lost as a result of the incursions, according to the 2005 FBI Computer Crime survey The report, released Thursday by the FBI, was billed as the law enforcement agency's lar...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers on Thursday confirmed the draft specification for the next-generation 802.11n WiFi standard. The decision could help push 600-Mbps products into the home as early as the first quarter of this year The confirmation ends months of debate over the standard as 40 of the 42 voting companies (with two...
The strength of the Razr phone helped pushMotorola to strong fourth-quarter earnings and revenue results -- but, like other tech companies, it failed to meet or exceed expectations Motorola also acknowledged some operational difficulties, with profit margins lower in the quarter for all of its mobile phones, and some supply chain issues that hurt i...
The world economic landscape is rapidly changing. Assuming that you regard the European Union as one economic entity, as of this writing, there are two economic superpowers. Those two superpowers are the U.S. and the E.U., which have roughly equivalent gross domestic products If your definition limits the term "superpower" to one specific country, ...
The Christmas shopping season may be officially over -- but online shopping continues to flourish with consumers still scrambling to buy iPods, XBox 360s, DVDs and baby cribs and strollers. Cribs and strollers? The Shopping.com Consumer Demand Index (CDI) for the period of December 26, 2005 to January 8, 2006 indicates that indeed, online searches ...
Starting around August of last year I started tracking down SAP users that were early adopters of the NetWeaver platform, and I found an interesting dynamic that led me to continue researching what was going on. What I found was that SAP was attracting entirely new customers based on the NetWeaver platform What makes this unique in the SAP world i...
The debate over "network neutrality" recently heated up with the release of seemingly conflicting poll results from two consumer organizations. Of course, the devil is always in the details, and much of the debate is about whether or not to regulate the Internet preemptively Survey results released on January 18 by the Consumer Federation of Ameri...
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