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The Motion Picture Association of America continued its assault on filesharing, joining with police in Europe and the United States to try to stopdefendants that John Malcolm, the MPAA's director of worldwide antipiracyoperations, called "parasites, leeching off the creativity of others." Monday, a series of raids around Europe shut down several pe...
They've become another symbol of the holiday season -- the menorah, the Christmas tree, the colors of Kwanzaa, and now the holiday worms that hide in online greetings, e-mails and Web sites This year's malicious software, or malware, arrived yesterday in the form of a new Zafi worm variant, Zafi.D, which purports to bear happy holidays but is reall...
In a deal that further reduces the number of large wireless companies in the U.S. and leaves three heavyweight companies to duke it out, Sprint said today it would buy Nextel Communications for about US$35 billion in stock and cash The merger, rumors of which began to circulate last week, will instantly double Sprint's base of subscribers to some 3...
Melodeo and Warner Music Group today announced they have signed an agreement to allow consumers to securely download entire tracks from WMG's music catalog directly to their mobile phones Melodeo, a Seattle-based company, provides music to wireless subscribers through a mobile-music solution installed on the wireless phone....
Gaming console giants Nintendo and Sony are enabling music and video playback on their popular gaming devices in an effort to dominate the lucrative market, expected to account for sales of $2 billion in the United States this year Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) went on sale in Japan this week and essentially sold out its first production run of...
The second week of the prime holiday shopping season accounted for US$2.2 billion of online purchases, with the number of transactions up 21 percent over the same week last year, according to VeriSign's latest e-commerce data Monday, December 6, was the peak day of the week, accounting for 5.4 million transactions, surpassing the "Black Monday" res...
There are thousands of very, very small companies out there who will develop a logo at no cost, a tagline at no cost, get you a free domain name and a free Web site at no cost. I guess the next big thing will be that they also write you a fat check -- all for free. Who are these enterprises and how are they doing this? The Internet has removed the ...
Big Music's claim that its sue 'em all campaign is driving people away from sharing files over the P2P networks has once again been seriously questioned The latest figures from P2P network research specialists Big Champagne show strong increases in use of popular file sharing nets in the U.S. and globally, despite the fact that last month, the reco...
Undaunted by the failure of the recording industry to convince courts to hold peer-to-peer networks responsible for piracy, the movie industry is taking its own legal action against server operators they say have enabled "hundreds of millions" of copyrighted files to be shared illegally The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said it was f...
Microsoft has announced a beta version of its new MSN Toolbar Suite, which includes desktop search functionality designed to help users quickly find virtually any type of document, media file or e-mail message on their Windows-based PC MSN Toolbar Suite is the promised response to the Google Desktop Search product released in October. Both search t...
Usage of Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to fall in the United States, dropping 1.09 percentage points to 91.80 percent of the browser market between November 5 and December 3, more than triple the rate of loss of the previous month, a study shows Meanwhile, over the past month, the U.S. browser usage share of Firefox, the upstart Mozilla-bas...
The New York Stock Exchange and IBM announced in a conference call todaythat TradeWorks, a new processing system complete with custom hand-helddevices -- all designed and built by IBM -- was up and running on the tradefloor "The key point is that the NYSE represents the largest application in theworld," Mike Gilpin, a Forrester Research analyst, to...
Two of the world's largest electronics makers, Samsungand Sony, announced today a broad cross-licensingagreement that will allow each company to take advantage of the other's technology The companies, which reported negotiating the dealfor about a year, said they would bothbenefit from one another's substantial patentportfolios. They highlighted di...
IBM said grid computing is moving beyond the early adopter phase andannounced today a series of "Think Grid" workshops to help its businesspartners learn more about creating, selling and using enterprise grids The three-day workshops will be held in IBM Innovation Centers in Hursley,UK; San Mateo, California; and Waltham, Massachusetts; and will be...
Google's quest to aggregate all content on the Web has expanded to encompasswhole libraries The search engine company announced it would be scanning all or parts ofthe collections of the New York Public Library, Harvard, Oxford,Stanford and the University of Michigan, which will then be searchable online....
The Internet's governing body has cleared the way for two new top-level domains, one of which is designed to make it easier for users to find information on mobile devices and a second that would be set aside for job postings The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it was negotiating the parameters for giving final appr...
The U.S. browser usage share of Firefox, the upstart Mozilla-based browser that has become a champion of the open-source movement, has grown by more than a third over the past month, according to the latest independent study from WebSideStory, a provider of on-demand Web analytics According to the study, for the one-month period from November 5, 20...
While there are still a few days left in the holiday shopping season, all signs point to merry profits for portals. In the effort to catch that cash, this year has seen some eye-catching promotions from old favorites and some new players with promising propositions It's all about the customer's shopping experience, according to analysts. Those with...
We live in a data-rich world. Data is everywhere you look, and used in so many ways -- to build e-mails, generate lists, create target groups, form reports, even to construct the foundation of a valid strategy. Yet data remains an elusive and stubborn beast, and it can become a point of contention between the users (the marketers) and the keepers (the technologists)...
Holiday shopping sure has changed. This year, my shopping list includes all things digital -- a TiVo box, some DVDs, perhaps even a digital camera. A generation ago, consumer goods did not come with microprocessors. Back then, once you bought something, you owned it. You could use it however you wanted without ever worrying about the manufacturer...
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