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Pronto.com Accelerates Online Shopping Applications with Crescendo Networks

Pronto.com is the Web's fastest growing comparison shopping site, servicing more than 15 million users each month. With business growing rapidly, Pronto.com decided it was essential to upgrade load balancing capabilities, as peak traffic and other stresses were preventing the site from performing optimally. After testing both load balancers and...

Tags: Load Balancing, Site, Crescendo, Pronto.com, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2009-04-27

Pronto.com shopping search emerges in IAC: CEO Interview

Pronto.com shopping search emerges in IAC: CEO Interviewhttp://www.analogstereo.com/chrysler_concorde_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/chrysler_concorde_owners_manual.htm

Tags: Pronto.com, IAC/InterActive Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-02

IAC's Pronto.com: Shopping for a winner

IAC's Pronto.com: Shopping for a winnerhttp://www.analogstereo.com/seat_cordoba_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/seat_cordoba_owners_manual.htm

Tags: Pronto.com, IAC/InterActive Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-02

Pronto.com shopping search emerges in IAC: CEO Interview

“Integrated conglomerate” InterActiveCorp IAC boasts its Pronto.com property is “the Webs most comprehensive comparison-shopping engine.”Developed in-house as an “emerging business,” Pronto.com leverages IAC’s retail and online advertising know-how and targets the estimated $300 billion ecommerce opportunity forecast for 2010.IAC is a highly acquisitive company; It built its “integrated conglomerate” via...

Tags: Business Models, Search, ecommerce, ROI, Search Advertising, IAC, Pronto.com

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Additional Resources

Do you really want to carry another device just for Twitter?

A Twitter Device? Hmmm... it will probably be a hit for christmas and then die a painful sudden death!never really liked their stuffNever really liked their stuff - limited devices for prices that are still too high? No thanks.Frankly, I'm [b]much[/b] more interested in devices with Wi-Fi than with cell...

Tags: E-mail, Cellular phones, Peek Classic, Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

A Peek Ahead ??? A Technology That Should Get More Visibility

Bring back the Palm!Or - bring back the Palm!I've got the Palm T|X - the last PIM device not tied to a phone. No longer being sold, but works great. Yeah, needs a Wi-Fi, but those are pretty common.What the T|X has:-Email available whether online or offline (emails stored...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Marketing research, PIM, Palm T|X, e-mail, Palm!, Palm Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-30

Five classic adventure games that need to be re-released as digital downloads

We're pleased to see some old Lucasarts games come to Steam, but here are five classic adventure games that need to be re-released as digital downloads, pronto. by CNET News.com

Tags: Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-07-27

Nokia Ovi Store fails in many ways, buy with extreme caution

Nokia Ovi Store fails in many ways, buy with extreme cautionTotally Agree!!After hearing your experience on Mobile Tech Roundup with Bejeweled I decided against buying anything from the Ovi stor until they resolve the issue. Really disappointing and should be dealt with pronto if Nokia wants my money. Come on...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Nokia Ovi, Nokia Ovi Store, extreme caution, Ovi

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Microsoft Hotmail blocking GMX mail for some in Europe

Microsoft Hotmail blocking GMX mail for some in EuropeBye MS... joinging GMXThanks ZDNet.. for setting us free.UIsn't interoperability one of Microsoft's pet words?The Microsoft definition of interoperability means to conform to one of their bastardized standards or suffer the "consequences". This may be a case of consequences suffered but...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, GMX, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Twitter: Can it make security a priority?

Twitter has been schooled by a 17-year-old hacker over a generic worm that has plagued the social messaging site.  The big question: Can Twitter take security seriously as it wrestles with uptime issues.  Dancho Danchev has a nice dissection of Twitter's worm issues. Twitter was hit with at...

Tags: Twitter, Dancho Danchev, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Peek Pronto

Last year when we reviewed the Peek, we ragged on it for being an e-mail-only handheld. It just did not seem worth it to us to pay $100 for the device and still have to fork out $20 a month for only e-mail. Still, we liked the design, its simplicity,...

Tags: charger jack, Peek Pronto, e-mail

Product reviews 2009-03-27

Top-visited sites on Cyber Monday: Shopzilla, Yahoo! Shopping, Froogle

November 2008 December 1st Growth Retail Category 42,927 57,129 33% Shopzilla.com Sites 985 1,953 98% Yahoo! Shopping 1,024 1,856 81% Google Product Search 697 1,110 59% MSN Shopping 672 1,108 65% Nextag.com Sites 367 1,010 176% ...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shopzilla, Froogle, Site, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-11

First reviews of Toshiba Qosmio with SpursEngine

More than three months after Toshiba launched its first desktop replacement that makes use of the Cell processor in Japan, the Toshiba Qosmio G55-Q802 has reached U.S. shores and received its first hands-on reviews from PCMag.com and ComputerShopper.com. The Qosmio G55 series is part of a new...

Tags: Toshiba Qosmio, Desktop, Quad-core, Desktop Replacement, Video, Toshiba Corp., PCMag.com, ComputerShopper.com, Qosmio G55, Qosmio G55 Series, Quad-Core HD Processor, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Processors, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-30

DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs

DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabsChrome will have security problems, and they will NOT all of a sudden gainshare. That said, the Google brand is very powerful, and people use it every day to search, and there will be lest resistance to trying Chrome than there was...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Google Chrome, Chrome, DoS vulnerability, Google Inc., DOS, vulnerability

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Major security hole found in iPhone

Major security hole found in iPhonewhose fault?Seems to me you're blaming Apple for bad coverage when you should be blaming O2. Didn't they give you some sort of trial period when you sign up to see how the coverage was in your area?The risk Me-Firsters takeEr, I mean early...

Tags: Viruses and worms, Apple iPhone, security, 3G, security hole, phone

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Does Google need a standards office pronto?

Does Google need a standards office pronto?More Bureaucracy PRONTO> In other words, Google needs http://standards.google.comDoesn't Google have Kinderplex for that purpose?Of course, Reggio Emilia now writes all standards in Italian...

Tags: Quality, standards office, Does Google

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Does Google need a standards office pronto?

Google is increasingly in the middle of multiple efforts like Android and standards development. The problem: Google doesn't have a centralized standards office to manage its efforts. According to open source consultant Stephen Walli, Google needs a standards office as its reach grows. Walli writes in a...

Tags: Google Inc., Standards Office, Walli, Team Management, Blogging, Management, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Google trying to take privacy seriously

Google trying to take privacy seriouslyRE: Google trying to take privacy seriouslyThe whole thing is a legal can of worms which I did not see American judges opening. I hope this will be overturned for it has very serious implications all over the world.While the state may potentially be the...

Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., privacy

Discussion threads 2008-07-05

Exclusive: Pictures of Psystar's corporate home; Clone maker's store is open

Exclusive: Pictures of Psystar's corporate home; Clone maker's store is openSo pull the damn trigger alreadyZDNet is aggravating in their dance around this whole issue of Psystar's legitimacy. You go through the whole order process but you don't place an order. Cowards! Place the order, put it on your expense...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Psystar, corporate home

Discussion threads 2008-04-19

Top-growing US sites in December 2007

The fragrances/cosmetics category climbed 30% to 21.5 mln visitors, making it the top-gaining category for December 2007, led by BathandBodyWorks.com with 4.4 mln visitors (up 27%) and Sephora.com with 4.1 mln visitors (up 41%), according to comScore. Site Nov 2007 Dec 2007 Growth, MTM Rank ...

Tags: Visitor, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-02