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Yahoo Expanding Ad Network to Small Web Publishers

Yahoo has launched a self-service ad-placement network that is designed to offer small publishers, including bloggers, access to revenue from contextually relevant advertising, a service already offered by rival Google Yahoo said the beta version of the expanded Yahoo Publisher Network is aimed at small- and medium-sized Web sites and is currently ...

Vonage Makes Deal for WiMax VoIP

Vonage has taken a step into the WiMax world, making a deal with TowerStream, a provider of high-speed Internet access. The deal is the first of its kind between VoIP and WiMax services "TowerStream is not one of the largest providers, so it's a modest deal," Roger Entner, vice president of wireless telecom Ovum, told TechNewsWorld. "It's the firs...

Report: PDA Popularity Picks Up After Slump

Amid an apparent struggling market over the last two and a half years, personal digital assistants (PDAs) are growing in popularity and moving the handheld segment market positively toward a record year in 2005, research firm Gartner said this week In its recent report on PDAs -- defined to include Research in Motion's BlackBerry, but not smartphon...

Intel Teams With Boeing for WiFi on the Fly

Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet Connexion, a business unit of the airplane maker, already has WiFi hotspots in place on 70 planes on Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Japan Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines and China Airlines. Austrian Airlines, Korean Air, El ...

OPINION

Why Are Brands Culturally Profiled?

It's no secret that consumers all over the world are far more politically savvy than they were a decade ago. They clearly support or oppose their own country's internal or external governmental policies Equally, and more often, they are fully aware of the major foreign policies of the other foreign governments and have a sense to measure their dire...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Disposable Video Camera Convenient, Accessible

At first blush, the idea seemed a little wacky to me But when drug store giant CVS announced its US$29.95 one-time-use digital video camera (DVC), I couldn't resist the temptation to check it out....

Nevada Casinos Moving Into Mobile Gambling

Casinos in Nevada might become the first to explore a new area of the Internet gambling frontier, enabling users to gamble on mobile devices while they're in and around casinos A recently passed law makes Nevada the first state in the U.S. to allow the use of hand-held devices for gambling at casinos and resorts. Gov. Kenny Guinn has signed the leg...

IE7 Is Better, But Won't Pass 'Acid2' Standards Test

Microsoft has signaled while its next version of the Internet Explorer Web browser, IE7, will be improved, it will not pass the browser standards test known as Acid2, and will not address all of the issues that hold up Explorer developers, including Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation and support The news came from Microsoft's Chris Wilson,...

Open Source Group Proposes Software Ratings Plan

Because open-source software is written by individual developers or groups of developers on their own time and with their own resources, the quality of the product is an unknown To combat that problem, Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation; Intel; O'Reilly CodeZoo, a repository of open-source code; and SpikeSource, which certifi...

Aggregator Dogpile Says Not All Search Alike

Dogpile.com, the most heavily visited meta-search engine on the Web, has said it would add Microsoft's relatively new MSN Search tool to the array of engines it uses and also said that contrary to popular belief, different search engines provide vastly different results The addition of MSN Search means ...

Intel, Boeing Promote In-Flight WiFi

Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet Connexion, a business unit of the airplane maker, already has WiFi hotspots in place on 70 planes on Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Japan Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines and China Airlines. Austrian Airlines, Korean Air, El ...

Pop-Up King Follows the Money to New Focus

Claria Corp. makes some US$100 million a year selling pop-up advertising on the Internet, but with the launch of its PersonalWeb product this month, it's hoping to hitch a ride on a bigger gravy train With PersonalWeb, a permission-based vehicle for slotting customized advertising into Web pages, the company is diverting its focus away from the $50...

OPINION

Blowing It With China

American relations with China may be seen from both a political perspective and in regard to how U.S. firms are seeking to enter the Chinese market. We begin here with the political perspective and then examine strategies for U.S. firms seeking to enter Chinese markets It can be hard for many people outside the U.S. to understand U.S. foreign and e...

OPINION

Why All CDI Styles Are Not Created Equal

Today, the Consumer Data Integration (CDI) market has attracted several technology vendors from areas like ERP, CRM, data quality, and master data management. Unfortunately, while there is consensus that a CDI hub is critical for tying distributed customer data into unified views, there is rampant confusion on how best to implement such a hub Curr...

Choosing a Storage Vendor in a Consolidating Market

It's a good time to be in the storage business. There seems to be plenty of revenue for the top players in the face of growing demand for data protection. Likewise, there are a slew of reputable vendors giving IT managers market options galore A quick storage industry snapshot shows the worldwide market is posting double-digit growth quarter after ...

Group Claims US Inflating Broadband Growth Figures

Is the Federal Communications Commission distorting statistics on broadband subscriber growth in the U.S.? An activist group in New York City thinks so, and has filed a complaint against the FCC, suggesting that the agency is inflating the figures for political purposes Last week, TeleTruth, an alliance for consumers' telecommunications rights head...

Google Seeks to Patent RSS Ad Approach

Seeking to lay claim to a technology that could help create a syndication network for advertising that would be distributed the way blogs and other newsfeeds are now, Google has applied for a patent for its RSS advertising feed RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a widely used technology that enables content to be fed automatically to various Web...

Microsoft's 'Advantage' Has Its Drawbacks

Microsoft's latest effort to validate the legitimacy of Windows copies and thwart software piracy has been hit by a hack published online that illustrates easy bypass of the new software scheme, known as Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Microsoft is requiring the validation process for all updates and downloads of its software, except for security u...

Yahoo News to Provide Video From CNN.com, ABC News

Yahoo today announced agreements with both CNN.com and ABC News in which both news organizations will provide daily video news feeds to Yahoo News starting next month CNN.com will offer extensive video clips daily and ABC News will offer a robust package of on demand video content. All of the video will be available for free to Yahoo users, and wil...

Ask Jeeves Launches Sponsored Listings Auctions

Ask Jeeves launched a new paid listings program today, putting an automated, self-service auction system in place that mimics what search leaders Yahoo and Google offer to advertisers The company said the Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings system would make it easier for advertisers to buy, manage and optimize their paid search listings campaigns. Analy...

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