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PeopleSoft Founder Duffield Takes The Wraps Off His New Company, Workday
November 06, 2006
Building off the Salesforce.com model, Workday aims to provide business software as a service.
Brief: Nintendo's Wii Console Poised To Ship
November 01, 2006
Nintendo said its manufacturing facilities are working to gear up the supply chain pipeline to keep retail shelves filled, but believes demand will outpace supply.
Microsoft Speeds Up Actions Against Counterfeit Auctions
October 31, 2006
Microsoft sued sellers who allegedly used eBay or other online auction houses to sell counterfeit software.
Wearable iPod Hits Stores Friday
October 31, 2006
About half the size of the original Shuffle, the new half-cubic-inch iPod contains 1 Gbyte of flash memory that holds up to 240 songs.
Wal-Mart Takes Its Lumps Online, But Charges Ahead With Refreshed Site
October 30, 2006
The new site, 13 months in the making, arrives in time for the holiday season.
Time To Teach Digital Etiquette, Experts Suggest
October 27, 2006
As cyberbullying increases, users on YouTube and elsewhere are trying to do something about it.
Poll: 35% Of Americans Get Election Info Online
October 27, 2006
More than half of those who describe themselves as liberals are more likely to obtain election information from the Internet compared with 42% of moderates and 39% of conservatives, according to the AP/AOL News poll.
Special Effects House Taps Sun Storage
October 26, 2006
Rhythm & Hues Studios has installed a StorageTek SL 500 to replace an older system no longer up to massive storage management tasks.
Entertainment Execs Envision Internet TV For The Masses
October 25, 2006
Consumer-generated content isn't alone on the Web. Now the professionals want to get more involved, too.
Metadata, Analytics To Push Next Wave In Search
October 25, 2006
Finding what you want via Internet search engines will likely get messier before it gets easier, but industry watchers predict the eventual advent of smarter searches that "learn" as they go.
Brief: Veeker Gets Mobile Video Uploaded To Web
October 25, 2006
A one-year-old San Francisco startup launches its flagship service that lets consumers upload pictures to the Internet from their mobile phone.
Walmart.com Relaunches With Open Source Features
October 25, 2006
The retail site includes open source OpenLaszlo and Flash, but excludes the HUB, Wal-Mart's experimental social networking site.
GoTV Offers Verizon Subscribers Mobile Content
October 24, 2006
Content includes fantasy sports that allow fans to track teams, player statistics, and scores.
IP Theft Up In First Half Of Year: Report
October 24, 2006
The United States is at the top of the intellectual-property theft list, with 205 violations and $51.7 million in losses, according to a new study.
Retail Kiosks Dispense Custom Digital Tunes
October 24, 2006
Not only does the software give consumers more choices for digital music, but it also frees up shelf space for fast-selling items without completely eliminating slow-moving content from stores. Analysts also believe the kiosks will reduce product returns.
Boy Scouts Can Earn Anti-Piracy Badge
October 23, 2006
The Motion Picture Association of America and the Los Angeles Boy Scouts introduced the program to help raise awareness of respecting copyrights.
Study Of IBM Deaths Links Chip Manufacturing To Cancer
October 20, 2006
The research, recently published in a scientific journal but originally started for the landmark IBM case that has since cleared IBM of wrongdoing, says workers in the chip-making trade are at higher risk for brain, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and kidney cancers.
Sony Debuts PS3 Games, Online Strategy
October 20, 2006
Sony ticks off a list of video game titles and lays out its online strategy for the PlayStation 3 game console, which is expected to ship in November.
Microsoft Readies Audio-Visual Conferencing Platform
October 20, 2006
Microsoft has developed an audio and video teleconference system known as RoundTable that will begin shipping next year.
Deloitte 500 Spotlights Fast-Growing Tech Firms
October 19, 2006
Although the growth rate for top performers is still high, the trend line since 2002 continues to fall, according to a Deloitte analyst.
Brief: Dinged By Visa, Allofmp3.com Shifts To Ad-Supported Model
October 19, 2006
A music download site in Russia is apparently shifting to an advertiser-supported business model after Visa International stopped processing credit card payments from the site, which the credit card giant says violates piracy rules.
Scientists Take 'Cloak Of Invisibility' To The Next Step
October 19, 2006
Researchers manufactured the cloak, first talked about in May, by using "metamaterials" precisely arranged in a series of concentric circles that confer specific electromagnetic properties.
Brief: Archos 604 WiFi Hits Stores Soon
October 18, 2006
There's another competitor on the way for iPods and Zunes. The Archos 604 WiFi multimedia system has begun shipping to retail stores.
AT&T Builds Wi-Fi Network For California City
October 18, 2006
Riverside's free service will be supported via advertising space on the network's home page.
Hell.com, Idea.com, Hi.net In Domain Name Land Grab
October 18, 2006
Cost.com, DigitalCameras.com, DownloadGames.com, and Hell.com are all heading for the auction block at an Internet marketing conference on Oct. 27.