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Comcast, the largest U.S. cable operator, today posted a third-quarter profit on better-than-expected gains in high-speed Internet customers and raised its full-year outlook for subscriber growth The Philadelphia-based company added 549,100 new high-speed Internet customers in the third quarter, well ahead of aggressive Wall Street estimates of abo...
While its 20 clustered Linux systems joining more than 10,000 Intel Itanium2 processors may put it at the top of the speed list, the scientists whohave access to the new "Columbia" supercomputer at the NASA Ames AdvancedSupercomputing facilities tout the amazing research abilities of the supersystem, which they say cuts more than a year's worth of work down to days...
Aiming to keep all-important software developers eager to work on its platform and to stay ahead of Java-based rivals, Microsoft is laying the foundation for what it sees becoming "software factories" where specific applications can be quickly customized from a base of existing code The software giant unveiled some early stage previews of what it a...
The holiday gaming season officially opened yesterday with the release of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." The third in the immensely popular line of video games -- all of which have been both praised for innovative play environments and vilified for violence and their portrayal of minorities and women -- is expected by analysts to sell at least 4....
Despite strong shipments from top-five vendors Hewlett-Packard and Dell, the worldwide market for hand-held devices has experienced its third successive quarter of year-over-year decline Device shipments totaled 2.1 million units in the third quarter, an 8.7 percent year-over-year decrease, according to IDC's Worldwide Hand-held QView report....
Advertising slogans or taglines pushing sales are great for getting a customer's attention as they often tangle and hold them hostage for a second or two. Some taglines catch the user's attention, but most are simply confusing, causing them to "escape the trap" and run away The combined yearly budgets of all the strangely composed slogans promoting...
SAP and Hewlett-Packard announced today they will jointly offer a business management tool that they say brings enterprise-level best practices to small and medium-size businesses The hosted software will be priced on a per-user basis, starting at $325 per month. SAP's software will sit on top of HP hardware in an HP data center. The cost includes ...
"Spitzer's Iron Wrist Sh*ts To Music Industry." So said Xinhuanet, the Web site for China's official state news agency, Xinhua....
The world's largest distributor of Linux expects 50 percent of its revenuesto be coming from overseas sales within the next year -- a revelation oneanalyst sees as a bit of a capitulation "It's our goal that within the next 12 months, 50 percent of our revenues befrom sales outside the United States," explained Red Hat spokesperson LeighDay....
Broadcom today announced that its Board of Directors has named Scott A. McGregor as president and chief executive officer, effective January 3, 2005 McGregor, 48, will succeed current President and CEO Alan E. "Lanny" Ross, who will retire upon McGregor's arrival....
U.S. consumer confidence took a sharp drop in October, according to a private survey of 5,000 domestic households by the Conference Board The index fell to 92.8 from 96.7, making October the third consecutive declining month. The new rating is the last one before the U.S. Presidential election next week, and is being closely watched for omens of th...
Intel may be abandoning some failed efforts at developing technology -- including a 4 GHz Pentium 4 and silicon for large-screen, liquid crystal televisions -- but the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant is going in the opposite direction on wireless. Today it announced it would throw its weight behind WiMax provider Clearwire Intel said it wi...
Hoping to revive its approach to using sender identification to curb e-mail spam, Microsoft announced it has tweaked its Sender ID specification and that leading Internet service provider America Online has agreed to back it Less than a month after a lack of consensus about the prudence of making Sender ID a widely used standard brought a working g...
The European Commission, the regulatory body of the European Union, today removed the final anti-trust barrier to Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft ...
Xandros today announced the release of xDMS (Xandros Desktop Management Server) for remote management of Linux desktops for the enterprise ...
After making two acquisitions of its own over the past few months, Classmates Online is selling its assets to United Online for US$100 million in a move that will boost United's subscriber base United, which also operates NetZero and Juno services, will add the subscription-based Web site that allows classmates, teachers and friends to find one ano...
In some ways the buzz about business intelligence analytics, an increasingly common add-on to a smart and established CRM system, resembles the buzz five years or so ago about CRM. Organizations have to exercise caution in choosing BI analytics solutions, a single piece of the amorphous CRM puzzle hawked half a decade ago "With the CRM hype of the ...
U.S. firms outsourcing software development and customer service work to firms overseas are largely doing so without regard to the environmental or labor records of those firms. This is a risky path for U.S. companies to follow, according to Trudy Heller of Executive Education for the Environment "I like to use the example of Kathy Lee Gifford's cl...
In the last few years, enterprises have added several tools to their IT data integration toolbox to improve the return on their CRM investments. But most of these companies have not achieved a simple goal: creating reliable, unified views of their customers -- aggregated across data silos -- and delivering these to all customer-facing applications in a timely fashion...
I love life and I love having choices. I guess you can say I am pro-life and pro-choice. Unfortunately, for most people those labels represent the opposing sides of a very divisive issue The curious thing is that these terms are not really descriptive of the issue at all. In fact, unless you know what those labels refer to, they don't even appea...
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