Verizon to Allow Ads on Its Mobile Phones
VERIZON WIRELESS, among the nation's most widely advertised brands, is poised to become the advertising medium itself. — Beginning early next year, Verizon Wireless will allow placement of banner ad...
Exclusive Details: Best Buy, Exceptional Innovation and ConnectedLife.Home
NOTE: This is a long story. If you're an integrator wondering why I spent so much time on it, skip to the bottom. Well, not the VERY bottom. -JJ — Best Buy is going to sell a packaged solution of...
'Safe' Web Seal Requires Rigorous Checks
Beginning next month, version 7 of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser will start flagging certain e-commerce and banking sites as green for "safe." The browser will look for an extended-vali...
Google to Write an 'Integrated Story'?
Internetnews.com editors provide an early roadmap for tech's direction in 2007. — Google (Quote) says its mission is to organize all the world's information and make it accessible and useful to ever...
Spam surge drives net crime spree
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — The tussle between computer security companies trying to protect your PC and the bad guys that try to compromise it is often characterised as an arms rac...
Why Yahoo's Panama Won't Be Enough
The Web's most visited site lags Google by billions in advertising revenue, and it's going to take more than its new ad-delivery technology to close the gap — Yahoo! had a rocky 2006. In fact, it h...
NAMING NAMES: The tech reporters who flack for Second Life
CLAY SHIRKY — "Here at KingsRUs.com, we call our website our Kingdom, and any time our webservers serve up a copy of the home page, we record that as a Loyal Subject. We're very pleased to announce t...
LEVEL 3 TO ACQUIRE SAVVIS CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK
Transaction Combines Industry Leading Network Scale and Video Capabilities with Pioneering Content Distribution Capabilities — Company Will Be Well Positioned to Target Growth of Rich Media Services...
Forget L.C.D.; Go for Plasma, Says Maker of Both
What kind of company takes out ads in daily newspapers attacking one of its own type of products? In the case of Panasonic, the answer is a company that has significant investments in a rival technol...
Nintendo Wii steals the Christmas show
The No3 player in the games world has beaten its rivals with its must-have console, says Paul Durman — THE Nintendo Wii is this year's must-have games console, and should delight the lucky few who r...
Zelda, Gears, and others for $39 this week at Target
Black Friday and holiday shopping deals don't end post Christmas; they're alive and well all this week starting tomorrow. And Target has some killer $39 buys on big games starting 7 AM Tuesday. Like...
Hewlett-Packard, Recasting Itself, Is Looking Beyond PCs and Printers
Hewlett-Packard is looking for a second act. Several of them, actually. — Its turnaround was confirmed this year when profits from PCs and corporate servers and storage devices nearly doubled from ...
Phones that can power themselves
It's only a matter of time before phones join the alternative-energy trend in earnest, and some companies are already trying to get out front with designs before the onslaught begins. ModeLabs, for o...
Ad Costs on the Web Are Rising, but Perhaps a Bit Irrationally
MEDIA executives and investors get a pleasant neck ache from watching the skyward path of online advertising revenues. But for those who have to pay for advertising, the trend is bringing some anxiet...
EBay's China lesson: Go local
STUNG BY FAILURES, U.S. FIRMS SEE VALUE IN FINDING PARTNERS — When eBay bought EachNet, China's then-leading online auctioneer, in July 2003, it seemed the world's most-promising e-commerce opportun...