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Napster president slams ring-tone rip-offs

Napster president slams ring-tone rip-offsBell ringing on cell phone ring tone subscriptionsMobile phone ring tones have become a global industry, worth US$ 4 billion. Ring tones are offered at considerable cost, using marketing methods that have been called dubious. The British High Court recently upheld adjudication by the Advertising Standards...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Advertising & Promotion, developer, investor, Ring Tones, phone, mobile, mobile phone, Advertising Standards Authority, advertisement, Napster Inc., Acon Digital Media

Discussion threads 2005-09-28

Mobile entertainment faces issues

Mobile entertainment faces issuesROKr is just catching up to the phone/music player market!!!!You stated "Samsung's SGH i300 and Sony's Walkman W800 are examples of handsets that play digital music files. But as of yet, getting music onto the phones has not been easy."For close to a year now, I have...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Advertising Standards Authority, investor, Acon Digital Media, Ring Tones, phone, Motorola ROKR, mobile, cell phone, music

Discussion threads 2005-09-27

Additional Resources

Online ad revenue strong first half of 2008: What about the second half?

Internet ad revenue surged in the first half of 2008, up 15.2 percent to $11.5 billion compared to a year ago, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Unfortunately, that duo left their crystal balls at home when it comes to the second half outlook. Simply...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Online Advertising, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Future wireless networks could be powered by "smart lighting"

A light bulb went off in the head of researchers at Boston University about a new wireless networking technology, which was very appropriate considering that it involves, well, light bulbs. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center has been created to develop technology that would allow low-powered...

Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Wireless Networking, Wireless Network, Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Ask revamps for faster Web search, more relevance

Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market leader Google. NEW YORK--IAC Corp's Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Ask.com, Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search, Channel Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Reuters, search, Google

News items 2008-10-07

Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?

Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo. The company's stock reached a five-year low today, closing at $15.31 - or less than half of the $31 per share that Microsoft had offered to pay for Yahoo in February. On top of that, the...

Tags: Google Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Business Structures, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management

The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, projects and services -- all need to be brought into a contextual whole. Not by a common product set, but...

Tags: Business Process, Registry, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Service Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Systinet Corp., HP SOA Systinet 3.0, HP Software, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-10-06

WSO2 eases enterprise data availability for SOA access, consumption

In its initial release, the application supports access to data stored in relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL and IBM DB2, as well as the comma-separated values CSV file format, and Excel spreadsheets. It allows users to authenticate, encrypt and sign services using the WS-Security and HTTP security standards. In...

Tags: Data Service, Web, Database Administrator, Enterprise Data, Web Service, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?

Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

More on wikipedia abuse

More on wikipedia abuseThanks!That's an interesting report - if the research stands up, the method used could form the basis for a more general approach. Thanks for pointing it out.RE: More on wikipedia abuseReaders might be interested in seeing a study on vandalism of US senator's WP articles here :...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-10-04

Panasonic Viera TH-58PZ800U

The big-screen HDTV arena is still owned by rear-projection models, but with every passing year flat-panel versions, especially plasmas, fall in price and become attractive targets for folks seeking massive home theater pictures. But prices haven't fallen far enough yet for most people, so for the foreseeable future big-screen plasmas...

Tags: Quality, TV & Home Theater, TVs, plasma, Panasonic, Panasonic TH-58PZ800U, THX Display Certification

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration

Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...

Tags: Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies

New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform's CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times' Executive Editor John Solomon, there's an interesting story to tell of...

Tags: Story, Editorial Staff, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Sen. Kohl: Justice should look closely at Yagoogle deal

Update: Google and Yahoo agree to "briefly" delay the deal to give Justice time to look into it. New York Times Congress continued its poking around in the Google-Yahoo deal with Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) calling on the Justice Dept. to give the deal strict scrutiny. In...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Law, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs

A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...

Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Yahoo wins confidentiality order for Google ad deal

Yahoo said Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission has granted it a confidentiality order to keep certain parts of its Google ad deal out of the public eye. In its quarterly filing with the SEC Aug. 8, Yahoo redacted multiple details about its search advertising deal...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., SEC, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop

Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopMicrosoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopThis is a great plan brought to you by Microsoft. This laptop will run the Microsoft Windows XP operating system allowing these school children to be compatible with the rest of the world. They can share...

Tags: Notebooks, software, laptop computer, cheap Portuguese laptop, Portuguese laptop, Microsoft Launches, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop

Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country's technological edge in education. LISBON--Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the...

Tags: Software, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Computer, Portugal, School Children, Government Hope, Magellan, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Reuters, laptops, education

News items 2008-10-03

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...

Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-10-03