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TRM Gets $11 Million Lifeline; Buys Rival "Access to Money"
2008-04-24 02:25:00 TRM’s $11 million “lifeline” from LC Capital Master Fund Ltd. helps the troubled ATM owner pay off its debts and gave TRM the seed money to acquire its rival, ATM deployer “Access to Money .” When TRM acquired eFunds ATM Portfolio of 17,200 ATMs in 2004 for $150 million, TRM had over 22,000 ATMs and owned ... More About: Finance , Million
Apple Buys P.A. Semi for iPhone, iPod Advances
2008-04-24 02:25:00 Apple has agreed to buy P.A. Semi , a boutique microprocessor design company, according to Forbes magazine. The deal is reportedly worth $278 million in cash. Led by chip-industry veteran Dan Dobberpuhl, P.A. Semi is perhaps best known for its PWRficient processors for the multibillion-dollar high-performance embedded-computing markets. PWRficient 64-bit multicore processors aim to redefine power, cost ... More About: Technology , Apple , Iphone , Ipod
FCC Chief Says Comcast P2P Blocking Was Widespread
2008-04-24 02:25:00 Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin lashed out at Comcast Tuesday in testimony before Congress, asserting that the cable company blocked peer-to-peer traffic widely, and that he doesn’t know when or even if the company will stop blocking P2P applications. Comcast used equipment from Sandvine Inc., or similar equipment, which provides a “relatively inexpensive, blunt ... More About: Technology , Chief
Sony Ericsson Sees Softening Demand for Some Phones
2008-04-24 02:25:00 Sony Ericsson said it shipped 22.3 million mobile handset units in the first quarter of 2008 — a two percent increase from the year-ago period, but a sharp fall from the 30.8 million units the company moved in the prior quarter. The world’s No. 4 handset maker also estimates that it held an eight percent ... More About: Technology , Sony Ericsson , Phones , Sony
Live Mesh Will Help You Connect all Your Devices
2008-04-24 02:25:00 Too many devices in your life? Microsoft wants to help you simplify, and on Wednesday it launched a limited technology preview of Live Mesh . Microsoft said Live Mesh is its new “software-plus-services platform and service that uses the Web as a hub to centrally connect people to the information, applications, people and devices they care about ... More About: Technology , Devices , Connect
AMD Launches Phenom X3 Triple-Core Processors
2008-04-24 02:25:00 Advanced Micro Devices has released three new Phenom X3 triple-core processors, saying they provide “a full HD experience and visually stunning gaming and digital performance.” AMD added that its Phenom X3 line offers the “world’s only triple-core x86 processor,” with balanced platforms of “great value.” Three Versions Leslie Sobon, AMD director of product and brand management, went ... More About: Technology , Processors , Core , Triple
Google Says ?No? to Ecocho
2008-04-24 00:25:00 Last week, we reported the launch of Ecocho, a custom search engine that promises to plant up to 2 trees for every 1,000 searches. Users could choose to search either Yahoo or Google in their quest to help the planet. But just one day after Earth Day, word has come that Google isn?t so cool with ... More About: Search Engines
Twitter Expands to Japan, Includes Ads
2008-04-24 00:25:00 Popular social media network, Twitter , has announced its expansion to Japan . But this time, ads will be rolled out with the launch of the service. The Twitter blog said that users will see ?media from two clients.? So far, it seems as though the Japanese ads are display ads placed on the Twitter site, while ... More About: Search Engines
New Yahoo Feature Reports Number of Discarded Clicks
2008-04-24 00:25:00 Yahoo has been throwing out bad clicks on search ad campaigns, but now a new feature will give further insight into those clicks. The new ?Click Filter Report? will show how many bad clicks Yahoo is discarding. Users can customize the report to display the data across various metrics including time, impressions, invalid clicks and average ... More About: Yahoo , Search Engines , Feature , Yahoo! , Clicks
212 Interactive Advertising Club Tonight: Kevin M. Ryan on Search
2008-04-24 00:25:00 If you’re in Manhattan tonight (or even in Weehawken, NJ for the SEMPO Board meeting) stop by Ogilvy Worldwide HQ at 6pm and meet up with the 212 Interactive Ad Club . SEW Expert Kevin M. Ryan, VP & Global Content Director for Search Engine Strategies, is the featured speaker on search marketing. 212 is NYC’s ... More About: Search Engines , Advertising
What I Learned From Scot Herrick About Communicating ?Bad News?
2008-04-20 17:25:00 Why is it difficult to communicate ‘bad news’? And when I say ‘bad news’ I mean in the context of ‘things not going to plan’. We have all been in the position at work where the project is not going to meet the deadline date or be within budget. Or maybe you have just ... More About: News , Management , Bad News , Learned
Pose and Smile ? You Are On The Apprentice
2008-04-20 17:25:00 Be warned – this posting reveals who has been ‘fired’ from the forth episode and the rest of the post is only my observation and opinion based upon 60 minutes of edited TV, nothing more. This week Sir Alan Sugar came up with a great task. To succeed the team will need to show creativity, teamwork, organisation, budgeting, relationship building ... More About: Management , The Apprentice , Smile , Pose , Apprentice
No Wonder Yahoo Ads Don?t Perform Well
2008-04-19 05:20:00 Sports-related ads on Yahoo ’s sports pages? Sounds reasonable, but evidently there is a diabetes connection to baseball I am unaware of. Something tells me Google would serve up more relevant ads… More About: Investing , Yahoo! , Perform
MySQL Users Upset by Sun?s Dual-Track Development
2008-04-19 02:25:00 MySQL users are upset about plans Sun Microsystems disclosed this week to keep some strategic planned features — and the source code — closed. Only paying customers will get access to the new database features. Sun acquired MySQL in February and confirmed the new online backup capabilities that are under development will only be available to ... More About: Technology , Development , Mysql , Track , Users
Video Games Booming as Xbox 360 Returns to No. 2
2008-04-19 02:25:00 The sluggish economy doesn’t seem to be hurting the video-game market. U.S. sales of game hardware and software skyrocketed 57 percent in March compared to the year-ago period, according to the NPD Group. The total for gaming hardware, software and accessories was $1.7 billion in March. Nintendo led the pack with its Wii console, according to ... More About: Video , Technology , Video Games , Games , Xbox
FCC Likely To Act on P2P Internet Throttling
2008-04-19 02:25:00 The Federal Communications Commission’s hearing at Stanford Thursday was a chance for the public to vent frustrations at Comcast’s and other Internet service providers’ network-management practices, but — unlike at a similar hearing in February — the ISPs were not around to listen. FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin explained that the commission several weeks ago invited ... More About: Technology
PayPal Plans To Block Older, Unsafe Browsers
2008-04-19 00:25:00 The name PayPal is almost synonymous with phishing scams. According to anti-phishing service PhishTank statistics from last year, PayPal was the number-one target of scams — more than twice as often as PayPal’s parent, eBay, the second most popular target. On Friday, PayPal announced it was taking an unusual step to combat phishing abuse: blocking old ... More About: Browsers , Paypal , Enterprise Security , Plans , Block
Case Sensitive Google Search Results Being Found
2008-04-19 00:25:00 Chris Silver Smith over at NetConcepts found case sensitive results in Google SERPs. Let’s hope this is just some error and not a change that will see many people scrambling to make wholesale changes to their SEO efforts. Talk about ways to further pollute the results…. rewritten copy saying the same thing but geared towards upper ... More About: Search Engines , Results , Search , Google Search
We May Not Need Standards But FTC, FCC Want To Gives Us Regulations
2008-04-19 00:25:00 While the standards debate rages on, our industry is fast coming under the influence of government regulations. This week has seen discussions about behavioral marketing at the FTC and the FCC weighing in on ISPs filtering sites. The behavioral regulations being looked at by the FTC had Google, Yahoo and Microsoft commenting from different angles. Google wanting ... More About: Standards , Search Engines , Regulations
Avinash Kaushik, iPerceptions Offering 4Q: Exit Popup To Survey Visitors
2008-04-19 00:25:00 Avinash Kaushik is one of the most knowledgeable people in the analytics space, but his newest venture 4Q with iProspects maybe missing one of the pet peeves of web users - popups suck. The idea of a survey to find out what people thought of your site is a good one, especially in a world where ... More About: Search Engines , Survey , Visitors , Popup
Google?s 42 Percent Revenue Surge Jolts Wall Street
2008-04-19 00:25:00 Google posted revenues of $5.19 billion for the year’s first quarter — an increase of 42 percent compared to one year earlier and a seven percent rise from the prior quarter. By contrast, the company’s traffic-acquisition costs amounted to only $1.49 billion, or 29 percent of advertising revenues, company executives said. The search giant’s ongoing innovation ... More About: Google , Technology , Wall Street , Street , Wall
Albany Will Handle Microsoft Office, Security Updates
2008-04-19 00:25:00 You can add Albany to your list of upcoming Microsoft products and services. On Friday, the software giant announced the launch of the new service as a private beta. The announcement confirmed months of rumors. In an extension of its growing “software plus service” strategy, Microsoft said it is harnessing the Internet to keep productivity and ... More About: Security , Office , Microsoft Office , Enterprise Security
Zoho?s Enterprise CRM Challenges Salesforce.com
2008-04-16 22:25:00 Stories of broken relationships often end with bitterness and reprisals. Zoho , which offers a wide range of software-as-a-service applications, said it had been wooed by Salesforce .com, but rejected its advances. With that relationship dead, Zoho is now taking on the CRM giant mano a mano. Over the past few months, Zoho has aggressively been rolling ... More About: Enterprise
NBC Expects $1B from Digital Properties in ?08
2008-04-16 21:25:00 George Kliavkoff, chief digital officer for NBC Universal, said the company’s digital properties are on track to generate $1 billion in revenue this year, up 40 percent from 2007. Speaking this morning at ad:tech SF, Kliavkoff said “a lot” comes from ad sales, though a portion represents theme park and other ticket sales. Operating profit ... More About: Internet Marketing , Digital , Properties
Get Creative When Workplace Problems Arise
2008-04-16 20:25:00 OK, pop quiz time. You move your business across town and some of your employees start to complain of a long commute. Do you? a. Start looking for new employees. b. Listen to their complaints and work with them on flexible schedules and telecommuting options. c. Listen to their concerns and then buy them all cars! If I were a ... More About: Creative , Workplace , Problems
Organizing Your Company Workplace
2008-04-16 16:25:00 Every company wants to cut down their productivity costs and to improve the production. The most basic factor which limits them from achieving this goal is their lack of organization in work place. Things, employees and data are randomly positioned and no of them are accessible/perform when needed. Here are some tips to better organizing ... More About: Management , Workplace , Company , Tips
Review: Adobe?s Photo Editor Aims for First-Time Users
2008-04-16 15:25:00 With Adobe ’s release of its new Photo shop Express comes an obvious question: Does the world really need another free photo editor? There are many excellent programs out there already. For slick and easy, try Google’s Picasa. For speed, Irfanview. Broad functionality? The open source GIMP. Such programs, which you download to your PC, cost you nothing ... More About: Technology , Time , Review
Intel Expects Processor Business to Keep Growing
2008-04-16 15:25:00 Intel surprised Wall Street by posting a record $9.7 billion in revenue for the company’s first business quarter — a 9 percent rise from the year-earlier period. The world’s leading microprocessor maker also reported net income of $1.4 billion, together with earnings of 25 cents per share. Company executives said Intel’s microprocessor business strength and strong ... More About: Business , Technology , Intel , Computer , Processor
Diet Reduces Heart Attacks, Strokes
2008-04-16 14:25:00 A large study offers the strongest evidence yet that a diet the government recommends for lowering blood pressure can save people from heart attack and stroke. Researchers followed more than 88,000 healthy women for almost 25 years. They examined their food choices and looked at how many had heart attacks and strokes. Those who fared best ... More About: Technology , Diet , Heart , Attacks
Hawaii To Track Produce with Microchips
More articles from this author:2008-04-16 14:25:00 A technology used to track everything from cattle and bottles of Viagra to U.S. military weapons will soon be tested on an unlikely candidate for surveillance: tomatoes. The Hawaii Department of Agriculture will rollout a three-year pilot project this month to track and trace tomatoes and other produce using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The system ... More About: Technology , Track , Produce 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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