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Verizon To Charge Content Providers $.03 Per SMS

Oct 11th, 2008 · It appears that Verizon is going to start double-dipping by charging both consumers AND content providers for SMS text messages. Verizon has informed content partners that it will levy a $.03 charge for messages sent to customers, effective November 1. …
see also: Partners · consumer · player · media · mobile · customers · Texting

Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University?

Oct 11th, 2008 · The university I attend is currently looking to change the way in which is provides its students with an email service. In the past they used a legacy mail system which can no longer fit their needs. A committee has narrowed the possibilities down to …
see also: software · integrated · Google · service · Microsoft · students · Yahoo

Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University?

Oct 10th, 2008 · The university I attend is currently looking to change the way in which is provides its students with an email service. In the past they used a legacy mail system which can no longer fit their needs. A committee has narrowed the possibilities down to …
see also: software · integrated · Google · service · Microsoft · students · Yahoo

Verizon To Charge Content Providers $.03 Per SMS

Oct 10th, 2008 · It appears that Verizon is going to start double-dipping by charging both consumers AND content providers for SMS text messages. Verizon has informed content partners that it will levy a $.03 charge for messages sent to customers, effective November 1. …
see also: Partners · consumer · player · media · mobile · customers · Texting

Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod

Oct 9th, 2008 · Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known in the industry as 'Woz', believes that the iPod is on its way out and has revealed his discomfort with some aspects of the iPhone. Wozniak said that the iPod has had a long time as the world's most popular …
see also: Google · service · provider · world · products · Apple · consumer

Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September

Oct 7th, 2008 · As I predicted a week ago, it looks as if the third quarter was ugly for software vendors, due to the economic crisis. SAP said 'The market developments of the past several weeks have been dramatic and worrying to many businesses. These concerns triggered …
see also: software · service · business · industry · Vendors · Companies · financial

AMD To Spin Off Fabrication From Design Work

Oct 7th, 2008 · I.M.O.G. was one of many readers to write with the news that "Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce Tuesday that it will split into two companies — one focused on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly business of manufacturing …
see also: business · history · fabrication · company · expense · Intel · Companies

AMD To Spin Off Fabrication From Design Work

Oct 7th, 2008 · I.M.O.G. was one of many readers to write with the news that "Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce Tuesday that it will split into two companies — one focused on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly business of manufacturing …
see also: business · history · fabrication · company · expense · Intel · Companies

Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September

Oct 6th, 2008 · As I predicted a week ago, it looks as if the third quarter was ugly for software vendors, due to the economic crisis. SAP said 'The market developments of the past several weeks have been dramatic and worrying to many businesses. These concerns triggered …
see also: software · service · business · industry · Vendors · Companies · financial

Report Says China Will Demand Source Code

Oct 5th, 2008 · An anonymous reader alerts us to a two-week-old story that hasn't gotten much traction in the press to date. A Japanese newspaper and the AP report that China plans to demand source code from hardware manufacturers, and ban the sale of products from companies …
see also: Hardware · servers · intelligent · software · service · products · computer

Replacing Fiber With 10 Gigabit/Second Wireless

Oct 3rd, 2008 · Engineers at Battelle have come up with a way to send data through the air at 10 Gigabits per second using point-to-point millimeter-wave technology. They used standard optical networking equipment and essentially combined two lower bandwidth signals …
see also: bandwidth · network · engineering · technology · Companies · optical · interference

"Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker

Oct 1st, 2008 · AcidAUS sends us the story of an online poker cheating ring that netted an estimated $10M for its perpetrators over almost 4 years. The article spotlights the role of an Australian player who first performed the statistical analyses that demonstrated …
see also: Online · history · player · company · Companies · licensing · 10M

"Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker

Sep 30th, 2008 · AcidAUS sends us the story of an online poker cheating ring that netted an estimated $10M for its perpetrators over almost 4 years. The article spotlights the role of an Australian player who first performed the statistical analyses that demonstrated …
see also: Online · history · player · company · Companies · licensing · 10M

Feds Unwrap $15M For Corporate Energy Reduction

Sep 29th, 2008 · As hard as it is to imagine, coondoggie writes with news that the federal government just unveiled a new energy bill that will offer $15 million in assistance to retailers who help to build and adopt energy-efficient technologies. "The US Department of …
see also: corporate · prototype · technologies · energy · Companies · financial · money

Game Distribution and the 'Idiocy' of DRM

Sep 28th, 2008 · In light of the increased focus on the DRM controversy in recent days, Ars Technica did an interview with execs from CD Projekt's Good Old Games about where the problems are with current DRM implementation. "For me, the idiocy of those protection solutions …
see also: DRM · protection · exec · solution · Internet · interview · customers

Windows Mobile 7 Phone Release Delayed Again

Sep 27th, 2008 · Microsoft is delaying Windows Mobile 7, and it is thought new phones with the operating system are unlikely to reach the market before 2010. Microsoft partners who had expected to have a final release in their hands by early 2009 have been told that it …
see also: Partners · Microsoft · Windows · mobile · speech · Companies · OS

Microsoft Documentation Declared Unfit For US Consumption

Sep 26th, 2008 · Washington DC judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly announced during the ongoing Microsoft antitrust hearings that their documentation is unfit for US Consumption. This is relevant in an antitrust hearing as poor documentation on how to inter-operate with Microsoft's …
see also: Microsoft · antitrust · products · barrier · Companies · poor · consumption

AT&T, Verizon To Require Opt-In For User Tracking

Sep 26th, 2008 · The Washington Post reports that AT&T and Verizon have pledged not to track customers' internet behavior unless given explicit, opt-in permission. The two companies made this commitment in a Congressional hearing. A Verizon vice president is quoted: …
see also: Online · consumer · Internet · company · customers · Usage · President

AT&T, Verizon To Require Opt-In For User Tracking

Sep 26th, 2008 · The Washington Post reports that AT&T and Verizon have pledged not to track customers' internet behavior unless given explicit, opt-in permission. The two companies made this commitment in a Congressional hearing. A Verizon vice president is quoted: …
see also: Online · consumer · Internet · company · customers · Usage · President

Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption

Sep 24th, 2008 · A Google executive speaking at the Emerging Technology conference has described a problem that mobile phone carriers and manufacturers have been struggling with over the last few years: Users aren't taking advantage of many phones' hardware-based features. …
see also: Hardware · software · Google · mobile · carriers · platform · Usage







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