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- Semantic Web enables innovative steps at Reuters
- Global news agency Reuters is one of those venerable organisations that it's hard not to respect. Superficially, at least, it would be easy to assume them to be an organisation whose days must surely be numbered in a world where the data they used to monetise is increasingly available on...
- Tags: Web, ClearForest Corp., Reuters Ltd., Calais API, Podcasts, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- RIM CEO: The Geeks Did It!
- Reuters is reporting that the CEO of RIM is attributing the outage that hit North American email network to problem in a service upgrade: "At the core virtually all these things tend to happen on service upgrades," Balsillie said in an interview with Reuters at the...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Reuters Ltd., E-mail, Manufacturing, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Syria cracks down on dissent by blocking Facebook
- Syria is blocking Facebook in an attempt to squelch dissent, Syrian activists and bloggers say. And Facebook is just the most visible part of a broad crackdown on the Internet. "Facebook helped further civil society in Syria and form civic groups outside government control....
- Tags: Syria, Facebook, Reuters Ltd., Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Gender And Diversity, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Europe to iPhone so far: Yawn
- Â Well, so far, anyway. Reuters is reporting that in spite of a crowd of 200 iPhone purchasers crowding around a T-Mobile shop in downtown Cologne, Germany before the store opened, informal canvasses of citizens near a similar facility in Frankfurt issued shrugs when...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Downtown, Service, Reuters Ltd., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Vonage settles patent suit with Verizon for no more than $120 million: now they'll turn to AT&T
- Reuters reports this afternoon that Vonage says it has settled a patent disput with Verizon. Vonage said the final terms of the settlement depend on a court of appeals decision on Vonage's petition for a rehearing on its patents, but the amount will be capped at $32...
- Tags: Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Reuters Ltd., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Money, money, money says Morgan. Learn to spell trillion.
- Reminds me of an ancient folk song that went, "green, green, it's green they say, on the far side of the hill." Now Morgan Stanley puts the top of the hill about 22 years away, but they also predict a lot of green along the way. S'pose MS...
- Tags: Reuters Ltd., Morgan Stanley, SunPower Corp., FuelTech, Web Site Development, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- Act quickly? What government they talking about? One not invented yet?
- Well, folks, there's another United Nations report due out this fall. Today Reuters tells what's in the research summary that will shape that report. Reuters saw a "table indicating worsening damage such as bleached corals, coastal flooding, increasing costs of treating disease, deaths from heatwaves and rising risks of...
- Tags: Government, Reuters Ltd., U.N., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-02
- ISO vote on OpenXML nears
- The International Organization for Standardization ISO is voting this weekend on Microsoft's OpenXML format, which Redmond has been pushing as "open enough," as it competes with Open Document Format, which is already an international standard, Reuters reports. Opponents of OpenXML say the format is needlessly bloated -- running 6,000...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Standards, Reuters Ltd., ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- The password to enter this blog: jatropha
- Several items involving India are worthy of note: ranging from Nokia to jatropha. We'd better start with that one.Jatropha's a native forest shurb that thrives across lowland India. It's getting attention and being farmed now because it produces oily golf-ball-sized fruit that can be used to make biofuel....
- Tags: India, Password, Blog, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Reuters defensive play: acquires StarMine
- Reuters defensive play: acquires StarMineThereīs a downside to it..Maybe itīs a great way to get new data resources, but how accurate will it be? Thereīs no proper way to verify the accuracy and reliability of the data you acquire and thatīs because you lack controll of the Source systems of...
- Tags: Financial accounting, StarMine, Sh#t, Reuters Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Reuters defensive play: acquires StarMine
- Reuters is acquiring StarMine for an undisclosed sum. StarMine provides specialized analysis and equity research tools to 350 investment companies. To me this is a defensive move. At one time, Reuters, along with Bloomberg and Thomson had the provision of real-time information for the investment banking market to themselves. But...
- Tags: XBRL, Reuters Ltd., Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Reuters inks $1 billion IT outsourcing deal
- Reuters inks $1 billion IT outsourcing dealReuters inks $1 billion IT outsourcing dealHuge mistake on Reuters part. Everyone knows that when you outsource your IT the savings get dminished by high turnover rate, administration work being done half way, and other factors. If you want the best quality...
- Tags: IT Services, outsourcing, Reuters Ltd., IT outsourcing, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Reuters (widget)
- Reuters widget displays up to ten of the top headlines from Reuters news channels including Top News, Business News, Technology, and Oddly Enough, among others, and makes getting a stock quote simple. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Reuters Ltd., Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-06-21
- FBI visits Second Life
- Reuters is reporting that Second Lifes makers, Linden Lab, have invited the FBI into the virtual world to investigate and advise on the possible illegality of gambling in-world:"We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- ReutersReload (widget)
- A new Reuters TV widget that reads RSS video feeds from Reuters (8 channels), performs XSLT transformation into HTML, and uses DHTML animation effects. It features a small video player WebClipping and uses bidrectional widget to DHTML communication.
- Tags: DHTML, Animation, Video, Reuters Ltd., Scripting Languages, Corporate Communications, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-03-27
- The ultimate revenge? Novell's Allison to join Google
- The ultimate revenge? Novell's Allison to join Googleawesomeit'd be nice to see more people leave the dark sideMJF Should joinMary-Jo Foley should join the National Enquirer. Her type of journalism would be more at home there. Let's keep ZDNet to news and facts not GOSSIP...So much for principleI suspect, due...
- Tags: Operating systems, VPNs, Servers, Network security, Reuters Ltd., Novell Inc., Allison, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-21
- Yahoo and Reuters launch the latest citizen journalism experiment, but will users bite?
- Yahoo and Reuters launch the latest citizen journalism experiment, but will users bite?No...Because Yahoo and Reuters are not Google and YouTube. Also, this does not have Apple's backing either. The initiative would have more credibility had these guys been involved.
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Reuters Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Yahoo and Reuters launch the latest citizen journalism experiment, but will users bite?
- The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo and Reuters have gone into partnership in a push to get "the public" to submit their newsworthy photos and videos for inclusion on Yahoo news, and throughout the Reuters network.From the NYT report:Starting tomorrow, users will be able to upload photos and...
- Tags: video, Yahoo! Inc., Reuters Ltd., Yahoo, YouTube, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Reality TV enters Second Life
- Reuters is reporting that the popular reality TV show Big Brother plans to "expand into virtual reality with a new edition in the online world of Second Life".Adam Pasick the Second Life embedded reporter also known as Adam Reuters writes:Endemol will select 15 international Second Life contestants to spend at...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Reuters CIO: David Lister - Transcript
- Reuters is best known as a famous international news agency with almost 3,000 journalists and photographers in 130 countries, filing two and a half million stories a year for an audience of over a billion people a day. But more than 90 per cent of Reuters' revenue...
- Tags: CIO, Financial, Information Technology, Business, Technology, Reuters Ltd., Term, Capability, DL, Strategy, Product Development, Product Marketing, Financial Accounting, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Finance, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
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