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Google stock soared today after the company posted quarterly earnings that far exceeded Wall Street expectations, with growth doubled over a year ago and revenue skyrocketing to US$1.03 billion from $512 million a year earlier The report said net income came in at $204.1 million, or 71 cents per share, in the fourth quarter that ended December 31.
In a move likely to spur more speculation about its overall strategy for expansion, Google has won approval to become a registrar of domain names The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently granted Google registrar status, giving it permission to sell specific domain names in seven top-level domains, including .com...
Sun Microsystems this week unveiled new pricing for its grid computing, storage, developer and desktopservices, as well as for its Java Enterprise System (JES). The move is viewed as an attempt to adjust how enterprises pay for IT resources At its analyst summit in Santa Clara, California, Sun said that it would deliver IT resources through a utili...
Your logo is not that important these days, as most customers have no motivation to remember the subtle intricacies or bizarre approaches to logos that are intended to stimulate demand. They are already flooded with colorful graphic look-alikes and continuously regenerated blasts from every corner Today's customers are in need of a simple name to f...
Open source is undeniably on the march. Linux continues to grow at a torrid pace -- now forecast by IDC to represent a US$35 billion market by 2008 -- though it has yet to significantly breach the desktop market. Mozilla's Firefox browser debuted with much fanfare recently, with over ten million downloads recorded in a single month. So far, open source has captured plenty of converts and customers, not to mention media attention and the ire of Microsoft. Is there nothing to slow its mighty advance?...
Security advisor Kaspersky Lab reported last week that Russia had earned the dubious distinction of becoming the ninth country with a confirmed infection of a virus targeted at Bluetooth devices. The Cabir.a virus had already stricken handhelds in the Philippines, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, China, India, Finland, Turkey, and Vietnam These...
In a reminder of a lingering threat to the growth of online commerce, a new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says identity theft -- such as phishing over the Internet -- continued to be the most prevalent form of consumer fraud reported to authorities last year In fact, complaints stemming from online activity dominate the list of top...
Vodafone's Japanese unit plans to release a mobile phone next month that answers to motion commands, just the latest development in what analysts say will be an explosion of features for phones as carriers and cell phone makers look to push the envelope The new phones, made by Sharp and distributed by Vodafone, include a motion-control-sensor, a ch...
Social networking software and Web-based tools have proliferated in the past few years. These networks operate by creating a tree of contacts beginning with the user, followed by the friends and associates to whom she or he extends an invitation, the friends to whm they extend an invitation, and so on. The contacts are then linked in varying degrees and can act as an introduction of sorts...
A free software program to help parents police illegal movie and music files on their household computers is garnering mixed reviews The application, called Parent File Scan, was unveiled last week by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) -- alongside an announcement of the organization's intent to file more lawsuits against people who i...
Internet marketers have to walk a narrow line in pitching messages to potential customers during online visits. While marketers try to gather useful customer information to provide follow-up targeted messages, consumers often provide false answers to personal questions or will leave the Web site without pursuing a transaction Consumers often falsif...
Large patent portfolio owners seem to be in a particularly generous mood these days. A few weeks after IBM announced it was giving away 500 patents, Sun jumped on the bandwagon by announcing that it is releasing more than 1,600 patents associated with the Solaris OS, a move they describe as eclipsing any other vendor's contribution While IBM's pate...
Last Thursday the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) boasted it had launched another 717 lawsuits against people who share music online, bringing the total number of those victimized to a shocking 8,423. By the weekend, however, Google had indexed a only a handful of links on the story, which didn't even rate a headline on the main news page...
Technology researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found that radio frequency identification (RFID)technologies used for automobile locks and easy-pay gasoline systems are sorely lacking inprotection, warning that opportunists could easily exploit the weakness for ill deeds The researchers, led by Avi Rubin, technical director of the Johns Hop...
Storage giant EMC today announced updates of two backup products, just days after it went on the attack, beginning a campaign -- "Safe Switch" -- to lure customers from its rival and the leader in the backup software market, Veritas EMC has released Legato NetWorker 7.2 and Dantz Retrospect 7 for Windows. NetWorker targets enterprises that have lar...
Microsoft and representatives of the European Union (EU) are locked in discussions over exactly how a stripped-down version of Windows that has the controversial Media Player removed will be marketed in Europe Microsoft previously said it would comply with a ruling that it offer a version of Windows that does not contain the Media Player software, ...
A clear demand for mobile multimedia services is emerging, according to new consumer studies conducted for cell phone maker Nokia, and analysts said adoption of the services is set to take off in the coming years and will drive new form factors According to the studies by MORI, a UK-based market researcher, services like push-to-talk, also known as...
Take-Two Interactive Media may not have hit a home run, but the video-game maker swatted a solid double against its major opponent, Electronic Arts, when it cemented a deal with Major League Baseball Take-Two, developer of the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, signed a long-term agreement with MLB and the MLB Players Association for third-...
SBC Communications said today it will take over its former parent company, AT&T, in a stock-and-cash deal worth around US$16 billion, a blockbuster takeover that marks just the latest major shift in a rapidly evolving industry Over the weekend, the boards of both companies approved a deal in which AT&T shareholders will receive stock worth $18.41 p...
SBC Communications said today it will take over its former parent company, AT&T, in a stock-and-cash deal worth around US$16 billion, a blockbuster takeover that marks just the latest major shift in a rapidly evolving industry Over the weekend, the boards of both companies approved a deal in which AT&T shareholders will receive stock worth $18.41 p...
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