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As part of its strategy to build advertising revenue over the Internet, The New York Times Co. said yesterday that it will buy About.com from Primedia for US$410 million. The Times Co., which owns The New York Times, The Boston Globe and more than 40 other Web sites, said it plans to enhance About.com's content, coverage and visibility This is the ...
Samsung Electronics stayed a bit ahead of the curve with its announcementyesterday that it has developed the first working DDR3 DRAM (dynamic randomaccess memory) device The 512 MB DDR3 (double data rate 3) can process dataat 1,066 mbps, which Samsung equated with 8,000 newspaper pages a second. Itis expected to be available in early 2006....
These appear to be trying times for officers and directors of publicly held companies. But are they really? Many people involved on the management and directorate level with public companies are quite leery nowadays. But should those of us involved with corporate boards and corporate governance be afraid, or just cautious? In my opinion, there is no real need for concern...
Many manufacturers rely on special pricing requests, or exceptions to standard pricing, for a large part of their indirect channel revenue. Even for direct accounts, many manufacturers have given their sales managers and regional directors control over price limits to increase responsiveness. But these strategies don't pay off for either manufacturers or software vendors. That's because the systems that support special pricing are broken...
Every year, the RSA security conference convenes in San Francisco to discuss the latest technology and issues involved in information security. The event still feels a bit like pre-tech bubble days, with free gizmos galore, but the topics, such as identity management, looked to the future. One of the more contentious issues involved the use of RFID, or radio frequency identification tags...
Linux software vendor Trolltech says 20 mobile phone and hand-held device manufacturers are working on products that use its version of the open-source platform Trolltech said some 50 vendors are using the Qtopia platform and other embedded Linux programs that it offers in a range of devices, including some 20 that make or design mobile phones....
Researchers at Intel have claimed a breakthrough with a continuous-wave laser created with standard silicon manufacturing, calling it a world first that could lower the cost of high-quality lasers for optical devices used in mainstream computing, communications and medical treatment Applications of the technology, still at least a few years from co...
Microsoft announced today an offer to replace the power cords on 14.1million Xboxes worldwide because they can overheat, causing smoke and firedamage, the company said The affected game consoles were made before January 12, 2004, except in continental Europe, where the cutoff date is October 23. 2003....
Following competitors' footsteps on a path that promises to obliterate the line between what once were standalone devices, Sony Ericsson said it plans to launch a line of phones under the Walkman brand that are much a portable music player as a phone handset The devices are just the latest to take aim at the dominance in the portable digital music ...
Another strain of the MyDoom worm is on the loose and is spreading quickly today, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The new MyDoom variant emerged yesterday and can use search engines Google, Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista to try to gather e-mail addresses to send itself to The original version of the MyDoom worm disrupted Google for a short while la...
In recent months, the pharmaceutical industry has stepped up its fight against online pharmacies on three fronts: First, it is strongly lobbying governments on all sides including those of the U.S. and Canada; second, it is teaming up with companies in other industries to mount indirect campaigns against online pharmacies; and third, it is exploring technology to counter the movement of pharmaceutical products across borders that forms the backbone of the online pharmaceutical industry...
These are exciting times to be a data analyst. I say this because two of the biggest barriers that have traditionally prevented analysts from effectively leveraging and acting upon data have been greatly reduced The time required to compile and process data to make it useful for analysis (which can be up to 75-80 percent of the total time requireme...
When it comes to high-speed data networks, users tend to focus on cable modems or digital subscriber lines, but they do have a third option: satellite services. Though not nearly as popular as the others alternatives, satellite systems have found a growing number of fans. Approximately 100,000 consumers and businesses in the U.S. rely on them for Internet access...
In response to high double-digit growth in 2004 in the number of customers deploying IBM collaboration software on the Linux platform, IBM today announced plans to invest US$100 million over three years to expand Linux support and technology across its Workplace software portfolio Big Blue said the expanded Linux support will help give customers th...
IAC/InterActiveCorp, the parent company of Expedia, the Home Shopping Network and Hotels.com, posted a quarterly loss today. IAC said operating income before amortization was strong at Home Shopping Network, but its travel business made only slight increases IAC recently announced plans to split in two by spinning off Expedia and related businesses...
Using an old-fashioned con, thieves posing as legitimate businesses were able to extract the personal information of thousands of consumers from ChoicePoint, which stores Social Security numbers, credit reports, addresses, and other data for the vast majority of Americans The company sells the information to local, state, and federal government age...
Microsoft this week signaled its new anti-spyware technology will be provided to Windows XP users who have upgraded with Service Pack 2 (SP2) at no charge, also announcing a more secure version of its Explorer browser that will be released separately from the next Windows operating system The news -- a departure from the company's previous stance o...
The end result of approval of the recent spate of telecom mergers might be a sharp reduction in the choice that both consumers and businesses have to access the Internet. This is the point that some industry and consumer groups are planning to argue to regulators While there are varying arguments about whether there will be any impact on end-user p...
Worldwide PC shipments are expected to slow in 2005 as the latest replacement cycle ebbs, Gartner says. However, the research firm still predicts 9 percent growth as compared to last year Gartner expects shipments of mobile PCs, such as laptops, to drive market growth by increasing 17.4 percent in 2005. Meanwhile, desk-based PC shipments are only f...
E-commerce -- recently created by the Internet and Web sites -- is now a fully matured mammoth and has connected with a few big punches in the first round of fights between the old and new economy. What once had been just a simple information page for a business on the Internet is now, in a majority of cases, a powerful Web-portal-come-real-money-making-gatekeeper to the entire organization...
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