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- Photos: More phone fun in Japan
- Part two of CNET News.com's tour of KDDI's Designing Center in Tokyo.
- Tags: KDDI Corp., tour, Tokyo, Japan, telephone
- Image galleries 2006-10-18
- Photos: Phone fun in Japan
- KDDI's Designing Center, located in Tokyo'sground zero for trendy teens, keeps tabs on the latest in mobile phones.
- Tags: photograph, KDDI Corp., mobile, mobile phone, telephone, Japan, Tokyo
- Image galleries 2006-10-16
- Mobile Carriers and Credit Card Business: A Brief Study-Focusing on KDDI THE CARD
- This white paper introduces credit card services offered by two mobile carriers in Japan, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI au, mainly focusing on the service by KDDI au. Recognizing the credit card business as a promising income source in the matured market, the mobile carriers in Japan have...
- Tags: Mobile, Credit Card, KDDI Corp., Mobile Carrier, Sales Channel, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Services, Sales, Marketing
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Conversion of MP3 to AAC in the Compressed Domain
- This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for conversion of an MP3 stream into Advanced Audio Coding AAC. Generally, this kind of conversion, transcoding, requires full decoding and reencoding. However, the re-encoding based transcoding process may result in degradation of quality and take longer than encoding from a PCM signal. This...
- Tags: Domain, Degradation, KDDI Corp., MP3, Conversion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- White papers 2006-07-09
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- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...
- Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?
- What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we’re afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?
- Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot
- So, EDS is gone again, subsumed by HP. But, lo and behold, H. Ross Perot is back, just in time for the presidential elections. Now, you can view his slides about the dangers of the federal deficit and debt online, any time you want. Or, hear him posit...
- Tags: Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Highest-paid US public company executives
- Associated Press published a list of highest-paid public company executives out of S&P 500 index. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. ORCL, $84.6 mln John Thain, Merrill Lynch & Co. MERPO, $83.1 mln Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. CBS, $67.6 mln Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., $65.3 mln Bob Simpson,...
- Tags: Company Executive, CBS Corp., GPS, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
- If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...
- Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- 3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage
- Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming. Flashback When I bought my first external hard drive - 30 MB for $300 - I...
- Tags: 3D, Phone, Killer Application, Storage, Cell Phone, Video, Terabyte Notebook, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Robert Meltzer, CEO of VisaNow offers this guest blog post on the questions we should be asking the candidates on the ever-contentious H1-B issue. Consistently throughout U.S. history, immigration has been a divisive topic. Cultural biases, misconceptions, racism and fear continue to influence both opponents and...
- Tags: U.S., H-1B Visa, Immigration System, H-1B, Government, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- MySpace lands official presidential debate gig
- News Corp.-owned MySpace is continuing its push to become the online destination for U.S. politics amongst the social networking generation. by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Network, MySpace, MyDebates.org, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, LinuxWorld, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Cloud Computing, Help Desk, Data Centers, Corporate Communications, It Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- The Linux computing crowd smells blood and wants to make a run at Microsoft's Vista operating system. Coinciding with LinuxWorld, IBM, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat issued a joint statement promising "Microsoft free" desktops across the globe. I doubt it...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Cablevision, part 2: Is RS-DVR like a VCR or a copy shop?
- (See Part 1: Buffering is not copying) Direct liability for creating playback copies The plaintiffs charged that Cablevision violated its reproduction right by creating copies for playback to customers. The question here is who made the copies. "If it is Cablevision, plaintiffs' theory of...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., VCR, Netcom, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying
- This Cablevision decision looks like it may make its way to the Supreme Court on questions of the interpretation of the Copyright Act, so I'd like to take an in-depth look at the decision PDF. It's long so I'm dividing it into several posts. Technology First...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Buffer, DVR, Memory, Digital Video, Development Tools, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
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