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Nokia Ships One Million N-Gage Game Decks

Nokia announced that it has shipped its one millionth game deck globally since the sales of the N-Gage platform started eleven months ago. According to Nokia, the sale of one million N-Gage and N-Gage QD game decks marks a significant milestone in the world of portable gaming "We're proud to have reached the one million milestone. Thanks to the ent...

Report: Linux Will Enjoy Double-Digit Growth

A new Yankee Group survey shows only 4 percent of Unix users and 10 percent of Windows users have any desire to switch platforms The Yankee Group report, called "Linux, Unix and Windows TCO Comparison," advises corporations to delay a Linux migration -- or any software migration -- until they can satisfactorily answer how a software operating syste...

SCO Reports Loss for Third Quarter

The SCO group reported a net loss Tuesday in its fiscal third quarter, with a significant revenue drop from the comparable quarter of the same period last year. The company noted that its Q3 revenue in 2003 was approximately US$20 million, compared with $11.2 million this year SCO has pointed to a decrease in SCOsource licensing revenue as the prim...

EBay Boosts Presence in Asian Auction Scene

EBay moved to shore up its presence in Asia, announcing that it increased its stake in South Korea-based Internet Auction Co. in a deal worth $325 million and also launched improvements to its Chinese subsidiary EBay said it had agreed to buy just under 3 million shares in Internet Auction Co. from a group of institutional investors. That stake rep...

Best Buy Pursues Electronic Product Code Supply Chain

Best Buy has announced the rollout of an electronic product code (EPC) strategy designed to increase its supply chain efficiency over the next several years The company yesterday said it plans to leverage radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to drive the change. RFID allows retailers to easily and efficiently track products as they move...

Astronomers Find New Class of Planets

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system: two worlds that represent a new category of extra-solar planets. Each of newly discovered planets is roughly comparable to the planet Neptune in our own solar system, says Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, a veteran planet-hunter and a codiscoverer of this pair...

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Blu-ray Adds Microsoft's VC-1 Codec

The Blu-ray Disc Association and Microsoft have agreed to include the VC-1 advanced compression video codec, the proposed SMPTE standard based on Windows Media 9, as a mandatory codec in Blu-ray Disc's BD-ROM specification for video playback equipment Video codecs are used to compress video images for storage to a disc and then decompress them for ...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

What Downloading Market?

It's the dripping tap principal. Eventually, you can't hear anythingelse Repeat something continually and people -- including the mainstream printand electronic media -- will start to believe it, particularly if whatyou're saying comes nicely wrapped in a study....

OPINION

What's Hush-Hush Marketing?

Who are these mysterious and secretive executives behind millions of corporate Web sites? There are millions of very expensive, well-designed Web sites all over the globe. Most have a lot of information to offer, with great graphic illustrations, supportive explanations about their relevant experiences and capabilities with upfront personalities....

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Skype Beta Version Released for Mac OS X

Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype CEO and cofounder....

Free Internet Telephony Now Available for the Mac

Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype CEO and cofounder....

Veritas Buys KVault Software

Veritas has entered into an agreement to acquire KVault Software (KVS), a provider of e-mail archiving software, in an all-cash transaction valued at US$225 million With the addition of KVS, Veritas hopes to offer customers software to store, manage and archive corporate e-mail and data. The idea is to help companies address regulatory compliance a...

Novell Sharpens Focus on Linux

Novell announced Monday that it is consolidating some of its business units in order to concentrate more fully on Linux and identity management Four business units have now been made into two, which will also necessitate management changes at the company....

AMD Announces Dual-Core Processors, Eight-Way Servers

AMD announced this week that with the help of server market leaderHP, it would be demonstrating the industry's first x86 dual-core processor inan HP ProLiant DL585 server powered by four dual-core Opteron processors foran eight-way server A day after Intel announced a march to more efficient, 65-nanometer (nm)technology, AMD executive vice presiden...

FCC Asks Supreme Court To Rule on Broadband

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal that could determine whether cable broadband providers can be forced to open their networks to other Internet providers The request, which FCC Chairman Michael Powell announced Monday, was hailed by some industry groups and slammed by some consumer watchdog or...

Is Microsoft Mellowing Toward Open Source?

A recent blog posting by a Microsoft project manager spawned ablizzard of discussion on one of the Internet's major tech forums andgenerated speculation that Microsoft may be ready to improve its relations with the open-source community Josh Ledgard, a program manager for Microsoft's Visual Studio communityteam, sparked a flurry of comment at Slash...

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Opera Browser Goes Mobile

Opera Software announced that its Opera smartphone browser will soon become available for Microsoft Windows Mobile software Windows Mobile is a new platform for Opera, whose smartphone browsers includes Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology to let users browse regular Web pages on small mobile screens....

Intel Builds New Chips with 65 Nanometer Process Technology

Pushing the number of transistors it can cram onto silicon, chip giant Intel announced a step forward in its advance to the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a move toward further miniaturization to boost chip efficiency and performance In a sign it is on course to begin manufacturing computer chips with the new process -- and maintain the Moore'...

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Outsourcing: The Costs of Compliance

Most U.S. corporate customers of call centers offshore have little or no idea about other voice programs being run at those centers and how those unrelated programs could adversely affect them. Do you? Many U.S. firms have moved key business functions offshore to facilities that are running afoul of state rules governing the operation of voice prog...

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One-to-One CRM with Predictive Analytics

The customer is king again. After decades of mass-market driven customer outreach, which typically lumped customers in large, homogenous segments, a complex mix of socioeconomic factors coupled with a proliferation of new media and technologies have put the customer back in the driver's seat Today's customers perceive themselves as having unique ne...

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