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The New Year has quickly brought new efforts by satellite radio providers XM Satellite and Sirius to win subscribers and grab market share in the rapidly emerging business XM used the Consumer Electronics Show to roll out several new products, including hand-held radio players meant to make it easier for listeners to carry their satellite radio wit...
Sure, it will be great to have another alternative to iTunes. Urge -- Microsoft's answer to Apple's music store behemoth, unveiled at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show -- looks ready to go head-to-head with more than 2 million tracks for purchase and an all-you-can-download subscription option The Xbox 360 also promises to entertain gadget ju...
Developments at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week suggested that the ongoing battle between the competing Blu-ray and HD-DVD next-generation, high-definition DVD formats could become a long, unproductive war Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates upped the ante, declaring in his keynote address that theXbox 360 game console will fea...
The home-based customer care market -- a small but quickly growing niche of the contact center industry -- could triple by 2010 to 300,000, according to a new report by IDC "Current estimates put the number of home-based agents at 112,000, so that is a strong growth rate," Stephen Loynd, senior analyst for IDC's CRM and Customer Care BPO service, t...
Computer security software firm McAfee has agreed to pay a US$50 million fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in order to settle charges that it pumped up revenue and earnings during the dot-com craze The fine will help McAfee settle charges that it exaggerated both sales and earnings figures by hundreds of millions of dollars betwe...
As the security world awaits yet another Sober variant scheduled to attack today, Sophos revealed the top 10 viruses and hoaxes hindering businesses around the world during December 2005. Sober-Z is atop that list Sober-Z took the world by storm in December, accounting for a massive 78.9 percent of all malware reported to Sophos. Its domination of ...
Peddling pornography has always been big business on theInternet, but apparently it isn't lucrative enough for some skin merchants Pornographers are turning to click fraud to supplement income generated by their Web sites, according to Kessler International, a cybercrime investigations firm based in New York City....
New wireless video processing chipsets that let consumers capture, store and transfer video between various display devices in the home -- TVs or PCs -- debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The chips were developed by ViXS Systems, a Toronto-based developer of video processing technologies, in partnership with Sony and other leading electronics manufacturers...
Anti-spam software provider Mailshell and bulk e-mailer Lyris may not be a likely duo, but the two companies are working together to boost the validity of spam filtering and at the same time allow delivery of messages that might not be considered spam by some recipients Their solution -- which allows users to evaluate e-mail senders based on their ...
The recent addition of ABC, ESPN and other Disney-owned properties to Apple's iTunes media service is just the latest move in the studio's aggressive push to increase digital delivery of its valuable content Disney's willingness to make its content available the way consumers want it -- particularly via Apple's iPod -- bodes well for the company's ...
AfterIntel announced its new "Leap Ahead" branding effort to go along with its Viiv technology, it was inevitable that chip contenderAMD would soon parade its own digital entertainment initiative. AMD did so at this week's Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, touting its "Live" offering, which already has the support of STMicroelectronics and other technology partners, including Alienware, ATI, Broadcom, Motorola, Nvidia and VIA...
Broadcom, a provider of wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, unveiled a high definition decoder chip at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show that it says is the first to be fully compliant with both of the dueling Blu-ray and HD-DVD optical disc formats The chip would enable manufacturers to design products able to decode ...
While much hype has centered on the Xbox 360 gaming console this holiday season, Nintendo grabbed a significant piece of the gaming thunder this year as well, with the company reporting that it has sold some four million of its handheld Nintendo DS devices in the U.S. alone Nintendo said it recently passed the 10 million mark for unit sales of the ...
Hong Kong-based CDC has made a bid for majority control of Onyx Software, after providing institutional shareholders with information on the proposed structure of the merger and the synergies it believes will result CDC went public with its desire to make the acquisition late last year, after trying for several months to arrange a call or meeting w...
Symantec yesterday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire instant messaging (IM) software maker IMlogic IMlogic's technology is designed to control and secure public and enterprise IM networks while ensuring compliance with regulatory and corporate governance policies....
Qualcomm today announced it would conduct a live demonstration of its mobile TV FLO Technology withSamsung Electronics at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas this week FLO Technology, a multicast innovation and key component of Qualcomm's MediaFLO System, is an air-interface system designed to increase capacit...
Cool electronic gadgets can be seductive not only to consumers, but to the makers of the gadgets themselves. And that is costing those makers money According to a report released by Forrester Research yesterday, consumer technology companies are leaving some US$3.8 billion on the table today because they're failing to leverage their knack for selli...
Radio super personality Howard Stern's move to Sirius satellite radio may be a barometer of the new entertainment medium's likelihood to gain mainstream acceptance. While the move is inarguably significant, satellite radio still faces stiff challenges -- including the popularity of Apple's iPods and an upsurge in entertainment programming for mobile phones...
First it was manufacturing, then IT. In 2006 -- despite the recent stem-cell controversy in South Korea -- the biotech industry is likely to continue to outsource research and development, as well as other activities, to science parks and contract firms in Asia In brief, groundbreaking stem-cell and therapeutic-cloning studies conducted by South Ko...
Next year's holiday season will be different in at least one small way than it was in 2005: The U.S. government recently mandated that financial institutions enhance their online security systems by supplementing the traditional technique of passwords and user IDs with another form of user authentication. "The government initiative gives a clear and loud wake-up call to a procrastinating U.S. banking industry that has not moved beyond relying on single-factor reusable password authentication," said Avivah Litan, an industry analyst with Gartner Group...
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