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Normally a Wall Street darling, eBay finds itself in the rare position of disappointing analysts and investors with its fourth quarter earnings report and its forecast for 2005 -- and this at the same time it faces a rare competitive threat Investors responded by sending eBay shares lower by more than 20 percent in early trading today. Even a two-f...
Microsoft today upped the ante on Web-based consumer services, announcingMicrosoft Office Outlook Live, which synchronizes Outlook and Hotmailcontent The service will cost US$59.95 a year but is being offered through April 19for $44.95. For that price, consumers get the downloadable Outlook 2003 for Subscription Services, 2 GBof Hotmail or MSN Mail...
Wireless access to the Internet through WiFi hot spots is widening to include more public places, but users of the often free wireless networks are being warned that security risks are also growing The most recent cautionary advice came from UK researchers at Cranfield University who indicated "evil twin" WiFi or 802.11 wireless networks may be use...
One day you are hot, the next you're not. Such is the music business. A day after the International Federation of Phonographic Industries released data demonstrating that the market for digital music is becoming mainstream, another international study reveals consumer dissatisfaction with the channel London-based market research firm Shelley Taylor...
Anyone who sells, advertises or distributes peer-to-peer (P2P) softwarewithout taking "reasonable care" that the software won't be used for anunlawful act would be slapped with a fine up to US$2,500, a year in county jailor both under a bill filed in the California Senate last week Although the measure, filed by Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Los Angeles, is...
NASA's rovers keep rolling toward fresh discoveries The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite, the first meteorite ever identified on another planet, according to officials with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena....
For a technology company, intellectual capital is one of the most important, if not the most important asset. Intellectual capital is more than intellectual property as it is commonly understood in that it also includes a company's trade secrets, know-how, problem-solving methods, customer information, and other confidential information. Intellectual capital has generally been held by courts to be a proprietary interest entitled to legal protection...
In October, IBM released its first ThinkPad with a built-in thumb print reader that tied a scanner device to a security chip for added security. Company officials heralded the new product amid high hopes that this first of its kind biometrics security subsystem will set a new standard for computer makers to follow The response has been so strong, o...
In a brewing battle of online auctioneers, discount e-tailer Overstock.com is taking full advantage of eBay's new, higher pricing. Just days after eBay announced a 60 percent price increase that enraged its Store subscribers, Overstock has reduced its listing fees 52 percent Analysts said eBay could lose market share as a result of its recent prici...
Having gobbled up JD Edwards and PeopleSoft, Oracle yesterday held a comingout party for "Project Fusion," its plan to meld theproducts of the three companies and hold onto the customer base for which it paidUS$10.5 billion "The big news is that Oracle is not forcing customers to migrate," EvanQuinn, vice president of enterprise application researc...
Electronics giant Toshiba this week announced new software that turns mobile phones into remote access controllers for PCs, allowing users to access the Internet and e-mail with a PC desktop displayed on a handset The software, dubbed "Ubiquitous Viewer," provides access to Windows computers and includes functionality for the Microsoft Office suite...
Hoping to gain traction with PeopleSoft customers unnerved by Oracle's recent takeover, SAP has acquired TomorrowNow, a leading PeopleSoft support and maintenance vendor With the acquisition of Bryant, Texas-based TomorrowNow, SAP is working to insinuate itself into the enterprise software upgrade process in companies where both Oracle and SAP solu...
Two new reports say 2004 was a very good year for personal computer sales as demand for mobile machines drove double-digit growth worldwide The reports, from competing research firms IDC and Gartner, also said the year was especially good for Dell, which continued to rein atop the PC sales charts ahead of main rival Hewlett-Packard....
The market for digital music downloads is becoming mainstream, according to a report issued today by the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), which showed paid downloads increasing more than tenfold in 2004 Analysts said the popularity of downloading music from the Internet has profitable implications for record companies lev...
The Internet highway is just a free medium, like the roads and all the highways. Somehow there are those who walk on the roads and those who run, some drive taxis, others drive Ferraris or race tractor-trailers. To each his own, they are all free, and so are the maps. Thank heaven This brings us to two main points: why is 90 percent of the Internet...
As database services become increasingly commoditized, the value of databases depends more and more upon advanced consumer analytics. The technology exists both for aggregating data to input into analyses and for acting on results of such analyses in a multitude of ways and through a variety of channels Although database technologies provide great ...
Brilliant Digital Entertainment and Altnet are still trying to come up with ways to make money out of their TrueNames DRM project Their latest efforts look remarkably like a phishing exercise, almost akin to those Nigerian scams in which industrious scribes send out messages meant to hook the unwary into paying for, well, nothing....
IBM posted fourth quarter results that beat Wall Street forecasts for sales and profits, with all of its divisions turning in strong performances IBM said profit climbed 12 percent to US$3.1 billion, or $1.81 per share, with income boosted by currency exchange rates. Though revenue was up 7 percent over the fourth quarter of 2004 to $27.67 billion,...
Internet service provider Panix had plenty to panic about over the weekend when its domain name was hijacked by unknown parties. The mystery has since been solved, but the aftermath has some pointing the finger at a new policy the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently issued to make it easier to transfer domains The h...
Google added to its big picture today with the release of Picasa 2 photo management software. The search engine company is giving away the new release, a major upgrade from the first version, which it acquired when itpurchased its developer, also named Picasa, in July Picasa 2 is available for download from the Google download site....
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