NEW YORK - Online advertising jumped 25 percent this year, raking in a cool $20 billion, but Internet executives say that figure could have been even higher if advertisers had reliable and consistent ways to measure online audiences.
NEW YORK - Nortel Networks Corp., the Canadian maker of telecom equipment, filed a lawsuit on Friday against Vonage — claiming that it violated nine patents related to Internet phone services and related features such as 911 and 411 calling and click to call.
NEW YORK - Online advertising jumped 25 percent this year, raking in a cool $20 billion, but Internet executives say that figure could have been even higher if advertisers had reliable and consistent ways to measure online audiences.
DENVER (Billboard) - After 2006 -- a year when virtually no one managed to launch a digital music service in competition with Apple's dominant iTunes -- 2007 was a refreshing change of pace.
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is working on a new Internet encyclopedia that will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from their knowledge.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google is building its own version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which consistently ranks among the most visited websites in the world.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In the latest twist in the ever-shifting digital video recording industry, the nation's leading satellite broadcaster DirecTV has purchased most of the assets of ReplayTV, an early pioneer of DVRs that was crushed into near oblivion years ago after a court battle with Hollywood.
DENVER (Billboard) - The 2007 mobile music market could be summed up in one phrase: "It's the device, stupid."
CALGARY, Alberta - Piotr Staniaszek normally pays $147 a month for his cell phone. So he was more than a little surprised to learn his November bill had ballooned to $59,000.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) said on Friday it will offer a "rain check" program to deliver the Wii in January to shoppers who can't buy the game console during the holiday season due to inventory shortages.
Bargains abound among the refurbished and older computers on sale, some of them returns from corporate leases. Used servers can be had, too.
TOKYO (AFP) - Worldwide sales of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 are expected to reach 11 million by the end of this fiscal year, a senior executive said in an interview published Saturday.
DENVER (Billboard) - Total video game sales (hardware and software) through October was $10.5 billion, compared with $7 billion for the same period last year, according to data from NPD Group.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) said on Friday it will offer a "rain check" program to deliver the Wii in January to shoppers who can't buy the game console during the holiday season due to inventory shortages.
NEW YORK - To deal with frustration among holiday shoppers hunting for its Wii game console, Nintendo Co. and retailer GameStop Corp. are launching a rain check program.
Shoppers use Internet searches to find that perfect gift. Search engines still drive the most traffic to retail sites, accounting for 29% of their traffic, while social shopping sites, coupon Web sites, and gift card searches also have seen a surge this year.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In the latest twist in the ever-shifting digital video recording industry, the nation's leading satellite broadcaster DirecTV has purchased most of the assets of ReplayTV, an early pioneer of DVRs that was crushed into near oblivion years ago after a court battle with Hollywood.
DENVER (Billboard) - The 2007 mobile music market could be summed up in one phrase: "It's the device, stupid."
DENVER (Billboard) - After 2006 -- a year when virtually no one managed to launch a digital music service in competition with Apple's dominant iTunes -- 2007 was a refreshing change of pace.
Bargains abound among the refurbished and older computers on sale, some of them returns from corporate leases. Used servers can be had, too.
CARACAS (Reuters) - A video of a Gucci- and Louis Vuitton-clad politician attacking capitalism then struggling to explain how his luxurious clothes square with his socialist beliefs has become an instant YouTube hit in Venezuela.
It's hard to think of a higher-profile device than Apple's iPhone or one that has had more attention from hackers. In 2007, hackers broke Apple's security system by exploiting several vulnerabilities. Now, security researchers at Arbor Networks are predicting that the iPhone will be subject to "serious attack" in 2008.
San Francisco - During a weeklong period in mid-November, security experts with Symantec observed roughly 65,000 new applications being downloaded onto the computers of customers participating in a new research project -- based on their analysis of the software, as many as 60 percent of the programs were malicious.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Internet chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate person, trying to win your personal data and not your heart, an online security firm says.
NEW YORK - Some popular online retailers don't do enough either to inform customers how their personal information could be used or to give them control over it, according to a public interest research group.
A hole in Microsoft's Access database permits hackers to install software on vulnerable systems, the US-CERT team warns.
DENVER (Billboard) - The 2007 mobile music market could be summed up in one phrase: "It's the device, stupid."
It's hard to think of a higher-profile device than Apple's iPhone or one that has had more attention from hackers. In 2007, hackers broke Apple's security system by exploiting several vulnerabilities. Now, security researchers at Arbor Networks are predicting that the iPhone will be subject to "serious attack" in 2008.
Features include the ability to search for photos in albums or through community photos as well as add Google Gadgets.
Apple released an update on Thursday for QuickTime that fixes several security issues in the application.
Among technology companies, Apple is often perceived to have something that the likes of rivals Dell, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard lack—that indefinable element of cool. Apple carefully cultivates a specific image for itself, and a cornerstone of those efforts is its advertising, especially the 30-second spots that air on television.
As interest grows in the open source suite, Sun decides to offer back-line support for firms that distribute OpenOffice.org.
San Francisco - Sun plans to announce on Monday that it will provide support for the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite, citing a wave of momentum behind the open-source project.
Open source code is aimed at sophisticated Web 20-style apps such as live help, dashboard performance monitoring and guided self-service.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software — freely distributed programs that anyone can modify — the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.
The source code for Adobe's messaging, data, and remote procedure call services will be packaged under a new open-source product called BlazeDS.
NEW YORK - To deal with frustration among holiday shoppers hunting for its Wii game console, Nintendo Co. and retailer GameStop Corp. are launching a rain check program.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Not even a blackout could put a damper on festivities at one Japanese aquarium where an electric eel is being used to light up its Christmas tree.
BOSTON - IBM Corp.'s expansion in developing countries shows no sign of relenting. The technology company revealed Friday that it now has 73,000 employees in India, almost a 40 percent leap from last year.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) said on Friday it will offer a "rain check" program to deliver the Wii in January to shoppers who can't buy the game console during the holiday season due to inventory shortages.
NEW YORK - In one high-tech thriller after another, the hero attaches a tiny tracking device on the villain and follows him as blinking dot on a computer screen.