I.B.M. released a new software to better collect massive amounts of data and display it back in understandable patterns in real-time, reported the
New York Times. This robust software, called System S, has been in the works ...
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After inspiring, leading, and then fueling much of the e-commerce buzz back in the 1990s, when purchasing goods over the internet was still a sort of novelty,
eBay has survived only to see the winds of e-commerce blow ...
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AT&T may be lobbying hard to extend its deal with
Apple to sell the
iPhone exclusively on its network in the United States, but the
Wall Street Journal is saying that AT&T ...
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Open Table is an online reservation website for restaurants all over the country. The concept is simple and brilliant: you choose the state or city you'd like to dine in, give your preferred time and number of guests, and ...
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Scribd is a YouTube-like environment for users to upload and share text documents, anything from research papers and books to recipes and sheet music. Until now that was the extent of Scribd's purpose - to upload and share documents.
Monday, ...
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Not so long ago—2007, to be exact—
Chrysler spent $1.2 billion in US advertising, according to
TNS Media Intelligence, as reported by the
Wall Street Journal. Last year the company pared down to a paltry ...
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Imagine a company that had a record of every dime you ever spent and every dime you planned to spend. You think companies would pay a pretty penny for that sort of data?
Mint.com does, and according to ...
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Back in February we published an article about
using cell phones like credit cards, which was a project headed by MasterCard expected to take flight in the next couple years. Well, a project similar in nature is happening sooner ...
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Hulu and
Nielsen Online just can’t see eye to eye, and millions of advertising dollars, not to mention brand reputation, may lie in the balance.
At issue? Hulu’s audience count.
According to the
New York Times, ...
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Back in the stone age, it used to be that when you got sick, you called up a doctor and he came over to your house and paid you a visit. No forms, no office visits, no fuss—the doctor came, ...
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It seems like the advertising industry is constantly coming up with ways to trick the consumer to watch an advertisement because once the general public figures out the scheme, they figure out a way around it. Take email advertisements for ...
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Based on recent hires and strategic acquisitions,
Apple is quietly building a capability to design and build its own chips, reports the
Wall Street Journal. The move indicate that perhaps Apple is investigating the idea of ...
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Forget the
Leatherman, or the
entrenching tool: the new all-in-one device gaining a strong foothold in the kit bag of the American soldier is
Apple’s iPod Touch, and to a lesser degree, ...
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That’s what mathematician, author, and entrepreneur
Stephen Wolfram aims to find out with a new web-based search engine called Wolfram Alpha (
www.wolframalpha.com), due for beta release later this month. Based on the belief that anything that ...
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Beginning May 17, you will be able to bring your wireless network with you wherever you go (within the U.S) with the MiFi, as reported in the
New York Times. This is a device
Verizon and
Novatel ...
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Virtual currency.
One of the latest crazes are virtual worlds, like
Second Life, where users can create a character representing themselves (or someone completely different) and live a virtual life on the Internet. Users of these virtual worlds can do ...
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Is more than doubling the screen real estate of a garden-variety
Kindle worth less than doubling its asking price at $489? That’s what the online marketing geniuses at
Amazon are hoping, as they introduce the new ...
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Citing an unnamed source who’s “plugged into the Valley’s deal scene and has been recruited by
Apple for a senior position,”
Owen Thomas of Valleywag is speculating that Apple is close to sealing a deal for ...
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Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is curdling the blood of some newspaper and magazine publishers who feel the device offers a poor substitute for the look and feel of turning pages, lacks the ability to handle on-page advertising, and ...
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Amazon is said to be releasing the new Kindle on Wednesday which was made to be more appealing to text book publishers and universities,
reported the Wall Street Journal. The primary upgrades to the new electronic book reader ...
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A pox on the person or persons who first thought it amusing to concoct what has come to be known as a
computer virus: a tiny bit of malicious code that enters into your computer unknown, where it ...
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Monday,
Research in Motion and
Hewlett-Packard announced a partnership that will enable RIM Blackberry users to print documents, websites, and pictures from their mobile devices,
reported Yahoo!. CloudPrint, as it is being called, will give users the ...
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Why touchless technology, of course.
Thanks to the
Apple iPhone, the touch screen interface is now fairly ubiquitous. For smart phones, no longer is it a nice to have feature; it’s a must have feature for smart phone manufacturers ...
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Forget about keeping up with the Joneses. In this unsettled economy, conspicuous consumption is about as fashionable as a Nehru jacket, and frugality is now the new black.
The
Boston Globe reports that cash-strapped consumers are postponing purchases and ...
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What a difference a year makes.
As we reported in
March,
ABC/Disney gave
Hulu the Heisman last summer, saying that they wanted to keep all ABC/Disney content safely in the confines of their own online ...
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As more and more municipal governments across the country look to stretch their budgets even further,
Zipcar Inc. thinks it has a solution: FastFleet.
According to the
Boston Globe, the FastFleet service, to be announced today by ...
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The
Wall Street Journal reports that
Oracle is developing a suite of online software tools, including tools to help businesses run sales campaigns, track employees and job candidates, and manage marketing and products that will be ...
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Well-known among health care information technology professionals these days is that the Obama administration earmarked approximately $20 billion of the stimulus package specifically as an incentive for hospitals to digitize their records by 2011. If they don’t, they’ll get a ...
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