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Worldwide PC shipments totaled 48.9 million units in the second quarter of 2005, a 14.8 percent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. The PC market exceeded Gartner's previous projections by 2 percentage points Apple Computers showed the biggest growth rate of the top five, with shipments up 31.4 perc...
Internet search powerhouse Google garnered 37.6 percent of all U.S. search queries on the Internet in this year's second quarter, according to comScore Networks, a Net metrics service firm. That's the largest market share that Google has had in a quarter since comScore began compiling its search reports in December 2003 Google's 5.65 billion U.S.
Apple Computer has been talking with major recording companies in efforts to license music videos to sell through its iTunes Music Store, according to a report published in yesterday's edition of The Wall Street Journal The iPod maker may be seeking to replicate its success in digital music downloads with the offering. Apple said yesterday that it ...
The growing number of compromised computers known as "zombies," as well as the growing danger these hijacked systems and networks can bring, have prompted anti-virus company Sophos to provide a service that finds the often quiet, malicious code Experts agreed that zombies, which are typically ceded to attackers through software programs such as Tro...
This has been a bad couple weeks for your country, Pakistan. Every day brings more bad news. The worst indication is the drop in confidence among broad segments of the business community in Pakistan earlier this month, particularly the tech sector, which has been growing at over 50 percent per year and represents one of your strongest bases of support...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags have been around since World War II, when the British Royal Air Force affixed tags to planes as a way to distinguish friend from foe, but it wasn't until 2003, when giant discount retailer Wal-Mart announced that it would require the tags on all shipments from its top 100 suppliers, that the buzz began in earnest...
A number of software and service offerings allow computer users to conduct process monitoring to find out what malicious or hidden programs may be running on their machines, but security experts said the lower-level, PC-specific scanning is too detailed to be useful to most enterprise IT departments UniBlue, a backup and recovery management softwar...
"Speed of Sound" from Coldplay's X&Y album is currently Number 7 in the Modern Rock section of p2pnet's unique Top Ten Music Download chart. And Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." is at Number 8 Cool....
The growing number of compromised computers known as "zombies," as well as the growing danger these hijacked systems and networks can bring, have prompted anti-virus company Sophos to provide a service that finds the often quiet, malicious code Experts agreed that zombies, which are typically ceded to attackers through software programs such as Tro...
A 2002 e-mail claims a SCO Group investigation failed to uncover any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code Groklaw last week posted an e-mail dated August 2002 penned by SCO Group engineer Michael Davidson. The message allegedly made its way to one of the company's senior vice presidents and then on to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride....
Amid ongoing news reports about browser vulnerabilities, an alternative browser maker's promotional Web site fell victim to a hack attack last week Mozilla's SpreadFirefox.com, a community marketing site, was the target of "unknown remote attackers," according to the site's manager. SpreadFirefox boasts an estimated 100,000 users whose data may hav...
EBay is an icon for online merchandising for both private sellers and small companies. However, industry watchers warn that user dissatisfaction over increased rates and its rules could give alternative auction Web sites more market share Rival auction sites are catering both to newcomers to online auctions and unhappy eBay customers, said Chris Fa...
Despite 2004 marketing budgets estimated at US$9.45 billion by the American Bankers Association, 93 percent of banks do not treat inbound consumer inquiries as sales opportunities. They spend money on marketing, but for what? Marketing's purpose is to sell more, to more people, more often, at higher profit margins. But what Datamonitor, New York, u...
We spend a lot of time forecasting the death of Sun these days. Employees have probably forgotten how to spell the word "morale," acquisitions seem more focused on distracting stake holders from clueless executives, and there often seems like a plan to develop more never-to-be-executed, silly strategies there than at any other company that has ever existed...
New electronic privacy laws are forcing businesses to rethink how they handle their digital data. The retail industry is now regulated by new privacy laws aimed at reducing the growth of identity theft and consumer fraud Congress passed The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, known as FACTA, in 2003. This law, which amended the Fair Credit R...
Dell customers are grieving over the computer maker's decision to shut down its Customer Care message boards As the Customer Care boards have been an integral part of the company's Community Forum, the service shutdown has some questioning Dell's commitment to its customers....
Oracle announced a compromise today on its licensing fee structure for dual-core Intel or AMD processors, which moves it closer in line with other software vendors The database vendor had originally said it would continue to calculate licensing fees for its database and middleware products based on the number of processing cores a customer uses, so...
Firefox is close to reaching 10 percent share in the competitive Web browser marketplace, according to the latest data from Web site monitoring firm NetApplications Firefox market share for browser usage grew to 8.71 percent during the month of June up from 8 percent in May, NetApplications' report said. Meanwhile, Microsoft dipped to 86.56 percent...
A 2002 e-mail claims a SCO Group investigation failed to uncover any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code Groklaw yesterday posted an e-mail dated August 2002 penned by SCO Group engineer Michael Davidson. The message allegedly made its way to one of the company's senior vice presidents and then on to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride....
A report by an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) panel on domain hijacking that was intended to raise a red flag in the Internet community about the practice has been met with mixed reaction, leaving at least one victim seeing red The Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) report was issued last week during ICANN...
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