The Wall Street Journal
reported last month that
Intel and
Yahoo will join forces to make web services available on television.
Rather than put entire pages of web content on television, as was done in ...
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In a move that makes the virtual world even more real, retail giant
Kohl’s Corporation announced last month that its Abbey Dawn collection, a new line of apparel for teens and tweens won’t be sold in its stores, ...
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Visa will join with Google to use its Android mobile phone operating system to offer special deals and services to its customers.
In a deal that “has the potential to change the advertising model in the US,” according to ...
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What does Singularity and Midori have in common? Though the former sounds like a New Age spiritual cleansing method and the latter is melon-flavored liqueur, both are actually code names for operating systems being developed by Microsoft that aren’t based ...
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As if things could get any worse for Microsoft Vista, BusinessWeek is reporting in its 22 September 2008 edition that Hewlett-Packard, the world’s premiere PC maker, has assembled a group of engineers to develop software that will allow HP customers ...
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Pound another nail into altruism’s coffin.
Improv Everywhere, an organization that “causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places,” recently partnered with Yahoo! to help promote the company’s new “Start Wearing Purple” campaign.
“It was a good fit,” said Improv Everywhere ...
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Back in the prehistoric days of computing, terminals were dumb mechanical devices; nothing more than a keyboard and a cathode ray tube attached to a mainframe computer via an electronic umbilical cord. The computing action took place on the mainframe, ...
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These are tough economic times, especially for retailers facing recessionary forces and faltering stock prices. To counter the economic malaise,
major retailers like Macy’s are turning to store-by-store initiatives to drive sales.
Coming to the rescue of large-box retailers ...
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Now that a few months has passed since Apple made the software development kit for the iPhone widely available, and began selling applications via the iTunes store, it’s time to gather a little metrics. For instance, what sort of apps ...
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As a “gift to his fans,” filmmaker Michael Moore released
Slacker Uprising, his new film, online. The cost of the download?
Nada.
According to
Wired—quoting the Associated Press—this represents the first major film to be released in such ...
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If Microsoft didn’t revolutionize the browser with Internet Explorer 6, it certainly set the browser standard—fairly or unfairly, depending on where you stood vis-à-vis the whole Netscape deal. In any event, the history is hard to re-write; developing sites to ...
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Google and T-Mobile released their new G1 cell phone in New York City on Tuesday, September 23rd. The G1 is the first phone to carry Google’s new Android operating system for mobile phones.
The G1 is based on the HTC Dream ...
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Google will soon be completing a deal with NBC Universal to broker ads sold on its network. The move will allow Google to broaden its reach deeper into the market; currently the internet giant ...
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These days, it’s all about cloud computing. First came Software as a Service (SaaS); quick on its heels came Platform as a Service (PaaS). Now, according to
eWeek’s Jason Brooks, no longer will developers need to code parts ...
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According to the Wall Street Journal this weekend, Apple announced it will be exchanging power adapters for its 3G-enabled iPhones due to the possibility that the metal prongs on the adapters could break off inside power outlets, causing the potential ...
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Backed by some heavy hitters, including
Google,
03b Networks is expected to announce plans to launch as many as 16 satellites that could bring internet service to underserved areas of the globe, like Africa, the Middle ...
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WiFi may soon become so ubiquitous that everyday items as cameras, televisions, keyboards, and mice are powered by it, according to some experts. The prospect of this sort of ubiquity has venture capitalists foaming at the mouth, but the prospect ...
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Everyone has a friend who can quote even the most obscure movie lines verbatim. Now, with VooZoo, Facebook users can “quote” lines and scenes from Paramount films to their friends by sharing the actual film clip with them.
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According to the Wall Street Journal this week, the recent failure of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., along with the collapse and subsequent take-over of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America, represents the greatest restructuring to the banking industry ...
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Cloud computing, software as a service (Saas), Google Apps, Google Chrome, Google Earth—Google Universe. What’s next in store for Google? How about an operating system for smart phones.
In the next few weeks, Google plans to enter into the mobile phone ...
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According to
AdWeek’s Doug Melville, it very well may be.
Melville, who sits on the Leadership Council of the Cellular Telephone Industry of America, believes that “data is becoming the new voice.” In other words, more and more people—especially ...
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It may not be as sleek, angular, and aggressive as the concept prototype, but
GM unveiled today the production version of the Chevy Volt, which will be available to consumers in 2010.
According to GM, the concept car’s aggressive ...
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To win on the field, a football team requires speed, strength, skill—and brains. And modern information technology is helping NFL teams to become even more successful, both on and off the field. According to the September 2008 issue of ...
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With the
release of JavaFX Script, a simpler scripting language for writing applications that run on Java-equipped PCs and devices, Sun seems to be making a play at being more relevant to those who develop Rich Internet Applications ...
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In its first major redesign in more than two years,
Yahoo Inc. is planning to redesign its site to allow users to plant widgets on personalized versions of their home page. Among other things, these widgets will allow ...
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In a presentation Tuesday in San Francisco, Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs announced that the new iPod Nano would be Apple’s cleanest and most toxic free iPod to date. According to Jobs, the new Nanos use arsenic-free glass, are ...
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One of the joys of watching a slasher-type horror flick is the delight you can take over your superiority to the characters on the screen: you know not to open that closet door but they don’t; you know how to ...
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You have your work life and your home life, and unless you are one of those mythical beasts whose vocation is their avocation, or you are independently wealthy and can afford not to work, never the twain shall meet. For ...
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“The 21st Century Begins Now,” hails the cover of the latest issue of
Esquire magazine—only the text on this cover doesn’t just sit there. It blinks. And that’s not all: the advertisement on the inside cover blinks as ...
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In a presentation Tuesday in San Francisco,
Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs announced that the
new iPod Nano would be Apple’s cleanest and most toxic free iPod to date. According to Jobs, the new Nanos ...
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