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Baidu led China search market in fourth quarter
2008-01-27 16:51:00
Slashdot It!Baidu .com led China 's search engine market in last year's fourth quarter with a 60.1 percent share, research firm Analysys International said on Friday. Google came second with a 25.9 percent share, followed by Yahoo China with 9.6 percent, it said in a statement. Baidu's fourth-quarter market share was roughly unchanged from the previous quarter. Google, meanwhile, gained 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter from the third, and has launched a mobile short-message search service.China's search engine market reached $131.3 million in the fourth quarter--almost double from a year earlier--and was dominated by Baidu, Google, and Yahoo China with a combined share of nearly 96 percent. China had 210 million Internet users at the end of 2007, second only to the United States. China's population is expected to become the world's largest at the beginning of this year, Xinhua news agency said this month.Get Daily Updates via EmailProtect your computer with Windows OnecareGet p...
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IDC: Single-digit handset market growth in '08
2008-01-27 14:07:00
Slashdot It!Market researcher IDC expects growth in the global market for mobile phones to slow to single digits from this year onwards after unit sales rose 11.6 percent last quarter, it said in a statement on Friday.Despite slowing growth, more than 300 million handsets were sold in the fourth quarter--which includes the Christmas holiday season, when sales are traditionally strong--a record for any single three-month period, IDC said."Over the last three years, growth in the industry during the holiday quarter has fluctuated from 18.0 percent to 30.0 percent, and this past quarter we saw it drop to 11.6 percent," IDS senior analyst Ryan Reith said in the statement."The expectation that the market would maintain the level of growth it saw over the last three years was unrealistic. We expect growth to be in the single digits throughout 2008, and most likely for years to follow."During 2007, 1.144 billion cell phones were sold worldwide, 12.4 percent more than a year earlier.Last ye...
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Digital Music Sales Grow, but at Slower Rate
2008-01-27 13:30:00
Slashdot It!As consumers lose interest in compact discs and balk at paying for the digital alternatives, the music industry is looking for new allies, including Internet service providers, lawmakers — even Chinese air guitarists.The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said Thursday that worldwide digital music sales rose to $2.9 billion last year, from $2.1 billion a year earlier. That was about 15 percent of overall sales, up from 11 percent a year earlier and less than 1 percent in 2003.But digital sales have yet to make up for the shortfall in sales of compact discs, and overall sales of recorded music fell about 10 percent last year, to $17.6 billion, the federation estimated. A recovery in the music industry remains at least a year away, the federation’s chief executive, John Kennedy, said.In the meantime, the recording industry is broadening its search for revenue. The trade group plans to step up a campaign to hold Internet providers responsible for stop...
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Report: Yahoo discussing online music deals
2008-01-27 07:08:00
Slashdot It!Web portal Yahoo is in early discussions with major record labels to offer an online music service, the Associated Press reported.The report, dated late Wednesday, quoted two unnamed record company executives and said details are still being negotiated and that Yahoo could offer the MP3 files either for sale or for free as part of an ad-supported service.A Yahoo representative was not immediately available for comment.Online retailer Amazon.com launched an MP3 service last year in a bid to compete with Apple's online iTunes music store.Amazon has signed deals with record labels EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Vivendi's Universal Music Group, and Warner Music GroupGet Daily Updates via EmailProtect your computer with Windows OnecareGet paid $7.50 for reviewing my post http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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AT&T profit rises on wireless growth
2008-01-27 07:06:00
Slashdot It!AT&T posted a higher quarterly profit after better-than-expected wireless growth, sending its shares up almost 3 percent in premarket trading.The company also affirmed its outlook for 2008.The biggest U.S. telephone company said its fourth-quarter profit was $3.1 billion, or 51 cents per share, compared with $1.9 billion, or 50 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Most of the year-ago quarter excludes earnings from BellSouth, which AT&T bought at the end of 2006.Before merger-related costs and other special items, AT&T's profit rose to 71 cents a share from 61 cents in the year-ago quarter.Revenue rose to $30.3 billion from $15.9 billion.The results were in line with the average analyst forecast of earnings per share of 71 cents before items, on revenue of $30.5 billion, according to Reuters Estimates."We had an excellent fourth quarter, which affirms our outlook for 2008," AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said in a statement.The company also approved a buybac...
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Sun reports increased quarterly profit
2008-01-26 13:33:00
Slashdot It! Sun Microsystems, the world's fourth-largest server maker, said Thursday that quarterly profit doubled amid strong growth in emerging markets.Net income rose to $260 million, or 31 cents per share, for Sun's fiscal 2008 second quarter ended December 30, from $133 million, or 15 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue increased 1.4 percent to $3.62 billion from $3.57 billion. The company said it had double-digit percentage growth in emerging markets including India, China, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East during the second quarter.Revenue decreased 8 percent in the United States and the region accounted for a smaller slice of total sales, but Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz repeated on a conference call with analysts that the company had not felt the effects of the U.S. economic slowdown."We saw strong demand in the second half of the quarter despite a slowing U.S. economy" Schwartz said.The company's gross profit margin increased 3.5 percentage po...
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Blu-Ray won the war?
2008-01-26 09:17:00
Slashdot It!According to the latest NPD group report, during the month of December Blu-ray players held 60 percent of the HD media player market -- despite the fact that HD DVD players were considerably cheaper. While that might've helped Warner in its decision to go Blu, the move has definitely had a dramatic effect on player sales since. According to the same study the week after the announcement, Blu-ray players were able to grab 93 percent of the market, which puts the year to date (short, we know) share for Blu-ray players at 70 percent. Granted, it's hard to put too much stock in just a week or two of data, but if this and the recent media sales numbers (85 percent) becomes a trend, maybe this won't be such a slow death for HD DVD after all.Get Daily Updates via EmailProtect your computer with Windows OnecareGet paid $7.50 for reviewing my post http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

Microsoft Delivers Strong Growth and Includes a Sunny Forecast
2008-01-26 07:22:00
Slashdot It!Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profit gains that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations and delivered an optimistic outlook, suggesting that a weakening economy would not slow it down.Microsoft’s strong performance was led by its three major businesses: personal computer operating systems, office productivity programs and software that runs computers in corporate data centers. The company, the world’s largest software maker, continues to struggle and lose money as it battles Google in its new markets for Internet services and online advertising.But for Microsoft, that is a financial challenge of the future, one overshadowed by the heft and continuing growth in its personal computer products, led by the Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007. Microsoft’s desktop software divisions accounted for 56 percent of the company’s revenue and more than 80 percent of the operating profit of its product groups.Microsoft’s game console and software business,...
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Video games a sales winner in '07
2008-01-26 07:05:00
Slashdot It!DVD sales might have slipped in 2007, but another key segment of the home entertainment market had a banner year: video games.Sales of video game hardware and software came in at an estimated $17.9 billion, according to data from market research firm NPD Group released Wednesday. That's up 43 percent from 2006, with credit largely going to high consumer demand for Nintendo's DS portable game device and Wii console. Hardware sales came in at $7 billion, up 54 percent from 2006, according to NPD data. Sales of consoles soared 73 percent to $5.1 billion, with Nintendo's Wii leading the charge with nearly 6.3 million units sold--a number that could have been much greater, analysts said, had production problems not led to widespread shortages of the console, particularly during the holidays.Consumers also bought 4.6 million Xbox 360s from Microsoft and 2.6 million PlayStation 3s and 4 million PlayStation 2s from Sony. The PS2 continues to be the most popular game system in...
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Nokia profits jump, market share at 40 percent
2008-01-26 07:04:00
Slashdot It!Nokia , the world's top cell phone maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share from October to December, with booming demand in emerging markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.Nokia's fourth-quarter earnings per share, minus one-off items, rose to 0.47 euros (about 68 cents), helped by buoyant demand for cheap phones in emerging Asian markets, and beating the average forecast of 0.44 euros in a Reuters poll of 34 analysts.Share s in Nokia soared on the news and were up 14.3 percent at 23.71 euros ($34.61) in early trading on Thursday.Nokia sold 133.5 million phones in the quarter, more than its three closest rivals combined, and beating analysts' average forecast of 130.7 million phones in the poll.The Finnish company has a strong lead in emerging markets including China and India, which it has been fiercely defending.Nokia and other large vendors increased their market share in the quarter at the expense of struggling Motorola, which said on...
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Maxdirectory
2008-01-25 16:39:00
Dear all website publishers and website owners, here is an way to make your website stand out from others. It is a way to gain some attraction in the online world.It is something called website directory submission. It is a service provided by some websites for you to submit your website in their website directory so that people in the world can find your website using their directory. This is the website I recommend you to submit your website to. web directoryThis is the website that I had submitted website to before. But the website is not very up yet, it only has a few websites in a few cag. with some cags with no websites in them totally. The main problem I foresee and I hope they improve on is the fees that are associated with having to submit your website to their directory. It is an hefty $5 for standard listing and a hefty $10 for Express Listings. Ok, lets talk about the benefits of the express listing.The difference between Express Listing and Standard Listing The main dif...
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IBM and SAP to develop joint software
2008-01-25 09:51:00
Slashdot It!Services and software companies IBM and SAP, longtime technology partners, will bring out their first joint software product in the fourth quarter of this year, the two companies said on Monday.The product, code-named Atlantic, will allow users to access SAP's Business Suite applications for work flows, reporting and analytics through IBM's Lotus Notes desktop software. U.S.-based IBM and Germany's SAP, which was founded by five former IBM employees, have collaborated for 35 years.IBM is the world's largest integrator of SAP's business-management software, SAP software is certified for IBM servers, and SAP's favored development database is an IBM one.The two companies, which have been the target of repeated merger speculation, said their thousands of mutual customers had asked for the functions that Atlantic software will supply.Lotus Notes, which is designed for accessing business e-mail, calendars, and collaborative tools such as instant messaging from a Lotus Do...
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Publicis, Google reveal digital ad collaboration
2008-01-25 09:51:00
Slashdot It!France's Publicis and Web search engine giant Google revealed they were combining their expertise to expand in the fast-growing digital advertising market.However, the pair did not wish to give details just yet. They would only say that Google would exchange its technological know-how for Publicis's analytical and media planning expertise.Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, and Maurice Levy, chairman of Publicis, told journalists the two companies had been cooperating for more than a year.Levy said the collaboration would allow Publicis to "grow the business of our clients through better use of the Internet, sending the right message at the right time."The news comes one year after Publicis, the world's fourth-largest advertising group, scooped up Internet ad agency Digitas for $1.3 billion."We are telling the market we are being very serious about digital advertising," Levy said.It also follows a buying spree last year that saw Internet and technology powerhous...
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WOW reaches 10 million
2008-01-25 09:37:00
Slashdot It! Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that subscribership for World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has continued to climb, recently passing 10 million worldwide. Interest in the game has remained high in all regions, with thousands of new and returning players signing up through the holiday season. World of Warcraft now hosts more than 2 million subscribers in Europe, more than 2.5 million in North America, and approximately 5.5 million in Asia."It's very gratifying to see gamers around the world continuing to show such enthusiasm and support for World of Warcraft," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're always pleased to welcome new players to the game, and we're looking forward to sharing the next major content update with the entire community in the months ahead."Since debuting in North America on November 23, 2004, World of Warcraft has become the most popular MMORP...
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Mozilla turns 10
2008-01-25 09:33:00
Slashdot It! Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source product. The action came at a time when Netscape was still the dominant web browser: 65 million users and 90% market share in the educational segment according to Netscape’s own accounts. But Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was grabbing share at a furious pace thanks to it being free (at a time Netscape was about$30) and specially the fact that it came bundled with Windows 95 and upcoming Windows 98 (released on June 1998).With a sliding market share, Netscape decided to focus on its enterprise oriented products and gave away the browser but most importantly allow volunteers to work on the product. Mozilla was nothing but Netscape’s user agent (the name a browser uses to contact the web server), a reminder of the first Netscape code name. Over time, Mozilla would become the name of the open source project, AOL would bu...

eBay warns of weaker 2008 results
2008-01-25 09:31:00
Slashdot It!eBay warned that results for the current quarter and year would fall below Wall Street expectations, spoiling strong 2007 year-end results and the planned departure of long-serving Chief Executive Meg Whitman.Shares of the world's top auction and e-commerce company fell 7.5 percent following the report, reversing a jump of as much as 10 percent on anticipation that a new CEO could reinvigorate flagging growth in its auctions business.For the current quarter ending in March, eBay said it expected revenue of $2.00 billion to $2.05 billion--well below Wall Street's average predication of $2.14 billion, according to Reuters Estimates. First-quarter analyst forecasts had varied between $2.10 billion and $2.21 billion.The San Jose, Calif.-based company said it expected 2008 revenue of $8.50 billion to $8.75 billion, which at its midpoint represents growth of 12 percent--far below the $9.02 billion or 18 percent growth analysts had expected on average.The dour outlook came as...
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SONY COMPUTER TO POSTPONE THE RELEASE OF MICROPHONE PRODUCTS FOR PSP
2008-01-24 10:38:00
Slashdot It!Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ), a division of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) responsible for business operations in Japan, today announced that it would postpone the release of two microphone products for PSP® (PlayStation®Portable), SINGLE PACK (with one microphone, PSPJ-15010) and TWIN PACK (with two microphones, PSPJ-15011), scheduled to be released in Japan on Thursday, January 24th, 2008.SCEJ planned to release the microphone along with the introduction of Skype™ features for the new slim and light PSP (PSP-2000). However, it was found that the microphone did not meet the Skype specifications in part to obtain certification and SCEJ has determined to postpone the release of the microphone. New release date will be announced as soon as decided.With this, SCEJ has also reached a decision to postpone the introduction of the Skype features and services in Japan, scheduled in late January as part of the system software update for PSP. Solutions to ...
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Apple 1Q 2008 Results: Record $1.58 Billion Profit
2008-01-24 09:54:00
Slashdot It!Apple posted revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share during the 1Q 2008 (ending December 29th). These results compare to revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 34.7 percent, up from 31.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 45 percent of the quarter’s revenue.Other notes:- 2,319,000 Macs shipped (44% unit growth and 47% revenue growth)- 22,121,000 iPods shipped (5% unit growth and 17% revenue growth)- 2,315,000 iPhone sales"We're thrilled to report our best quarter ever, with the highest revenue and earnings in Apple's history," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We have an incredibly strong new product pipeline for 2008, starting with MacBook Air, Mac Pro and iTunes Movie Rentals in the first two weeks.""Apple's revenue grew 35 percent year-over-year to $9.6 billion, an increase of almost $2....
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Microsoft expected to post sharp profit rise
2008-01-24 09:52:00
Slashdot It!Microsoft is expected to report a sharp rise in quarterly profit this week, boosted by surging revenue as strong computer sales drive demand for its Windows operating system and Office software.Investors will also look at its full-year outlook to see if the world's largest software maker can maintain momentum from a strong first quarter in the face of growing concerns over the U.S. economy. Microsoft reports fiscal second-quarter results. Economic concerns and stock market declines have erased the share price gains that followed its first-quarter results, but analysts said personal computer sales figures last week suggest any economic softness did not weigh on year-end demand."We're looking for Microsoft to continue to have positive results. Last quarter was one of the best we've seen from it in a very long time and we think the company is certainly headed in the right direction," said Andy Miedler, technology analyst at Edward Jones.Analysts, on average, forecast th...
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Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo
2008-01-24 09:27:00
Slashdot It!Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an effort to increase its profitability, prop up its deflated stock price and narrow the focus of its sprawling Internet portal to a smaller number of crucial areas, people close to the company said.The final number of layoffs from Yahoo’s work force of about 14,000 is yet to be determined and is likely to be announced around the end of the month, perhaps during Yahoo’s conference call on Jan. 29 with analysts after it reports fourth-quarter results, these people said. Company executives are still trying to determine exactly which areas will be cut. One person close to the discussions said a final plan, or perhaps a few alternative plans, would be submitted to the board at a coming meeting. The plan’s final shape may be influenced by the company’s fourth-quarter performance, this person said.Yahoo declined to comment specifically on any plan for layoffs. In an e-mail statement, a company spokeswoman, Diana Won...
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New plastic optical fiber could solve the "last mile" conundrum
2007-11-29 16:34:00
Slashdot It!Solving the "last mile" problem is a goal both the telecommunication and cable industries have pursued for years without discovering a single, easily implementable solution. Now, researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology think they have developed a new type of plastic optical fiber that could potentially be used to provide low-cost fiber connectivity from the consumer to the provider.Plastic optical fiber isn't as fast as traditional glass, but its 2.5GB/s transfer speed still represents a meteoric leap beyond copper. Currently, the majority of optical fiber is prone to breakage (being made from glass), cannot bend, and can be difficult to connect. The Korea Times reports that the new plastic fiber can be easily bent and connected to additional lines, making it useful in hard-to-reach homes or apartments.The Korea Institute's new technology isn't the first flexible fiber we've seen on the market—various Japanese companies are also working on thei...
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Nintendo Sells Over 650,000 Wii's in Two Weeks
2007-11-29 15:58:00
Slashdot It!Earlier today, Nintendo revealed that they have sold more Wii's in the last two weeks than in any week since the systems initial launch last November.Nintendo has reportedly sold over 350,000 Wii's last week, during the Thanksgiving holiday, whereas they moved over 300,000 the week prior. The last time sales were this high in a two week time frame was when the system launched and sold over 600,000 units in its first eight days of release.Nintendo Sells Over 650,000 Wii's in Two Weeks "I couldn't find a single Wii system on the shelves - literally as I was walking into a Wal-Mart at 11 a.m., someone was walking out with the last one," stated Fils-Aime. "Consumers are buying every game we can put into the system."Earlier this year, Nintendo predicted that they would sell 17.5 million Wii's before the end of the fiscal year, which ends on March 31. Currently, Nintendo is manufacturing 1.8 million Wii's a month to reach demand worldwide.Protect your computer with Window...

Exploit Released for Unpatched QuickTime Flaw
2007-11-29 15:13:00
Slashdot It!Instructions for exploiting a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's QuickTime media player software are now available online, and security firms are warning that it may not be long before we start seeing criminal groups taking advantage of the flaw to break into vulnerable computers.According to an advisory from the US-CERT, the vulnerability stems from a weakness in the way QuickTime handles a type of media-streaming communications called the "real time streaming protocol" (RTSP). Attackers could exploit the flaw merely by convincing users to click on a poisoned link, open a malicious e-mail attachment, or visit a specially crafted Web page. US-CERT says the vulnerability is present in QuickTime versions 4.0 through 7.3 (the latest version) on both Windows and Mac systems.Interestingly, researchers at Symantec say they tested the publicly available exploit code for this flaw and found that it failed to work properly against Internet Explorer 6/7 as well as S...
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Microsoft to hire 1,000 engineers in China
2007-11-29 04:31:00
Slashdot It!Microsoft said it would hire 1,000 engineers in the current fiscal year, joining the current 5,000 staff in China . "We will add 1,000 engineers," Zhang Yaqin, the company's chairman in the mainland, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference. "There will be researchers, but most will be involved with product," he said, without elaborating.The comments come after Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said earlier this month that the Chinese market is important to Microsoft but that Beijing needs to do more to protect intellectual-property rights. Microsoft has said more than a fifth of its software running globally is pirated.Protect your computer with Windows OnecareGet Paid $7.50 for reviewing my post http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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Google not being evil
2007-11-29 04:27:00
Slashdot It!By now, everyone is familiar with Google 's corporate motto, "Don't be evil." In an effort to spread that message of not-being-evil, the search engine behemoth has announced a plan to develop sources of renewable energy that will be cheaper than coal. The new initiative, REREThe company itself is also trying hard to reduce its drain on the environment. Google is working to reduce the energy expenditure of its data centers across the world, all of which need power and cooling for the servers, and plans to be carbon neutral by the end of the current year. It has also been developing an array of solar cells to power its California headquarters, the Googleplex, and is involved in an initiative to arrive at more energy-efficient computers.With all signs pointing to an increased scarcity of resources in an world growing ever more crowded, philanthropic efforts such as this one by Google are very much needed. Although energy produced by burning fossil fuels has a high social c...
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The best" fraud email
2007-11-28 11:57:00
This is the best "fraud email" that I ever received. The "fruad" email does not look conceiving and worse of all, the link that they provide displays a 404 error. Shouldn't the hackers try and see if their website is online bfore they send the fraud emails? Are they getting that dumb? Now the account had been suspended. Some picturesProtect your computer with Windows OnecareGet Paid $7.50 for reviewing my post http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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IBM Files Patent for DVD Commercials
2007-11-28 05:59:00
Slashdot It!Filing way back in February of 2006, IBM sought to patent a model for a dynamically updated, commercial-laden DVD. Essentially, the DVD would be coded to stick commercials in at certain points on the disc, which, depending upon one's reading of the documents, would probably not be skippable. (The commercial content itself could either be accessed from the DVD or downloaded from an online source.) And the whole concept is scary as all hell to us, even though IBM points out its potential use as offering a cheaper alternative to DVD. Here's the abstract: A method wherein contents of DVDs may be restricted based upon purchased certificates is provided. The certificates allow for secured information on playback. Specifically, whenever a DVD is to be played, a certificate is consulted to determine whether the content of the DVD should be played with or without commercial interruptions. If the certificates provide for commercial interruptions, then commercials can be obtai...
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Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday
2007-11-28 05:37:00
Slashdot It!A surge of e-commerce traffic on Thanksgiving night and all day Friday apparently caught several retail giants by surprise, with Lowe's, Macy's and Victoria's Secret especially hard hit.But they were far from the exception, as almost a third of leading retailers suffered significant slowdowns on Black Friday, according to statistics released this weekend by Keynote Competitive Research, a firm that tracks Web site performance.Many retailers count on Black Friday to turn their red ink black, but the fact that most slowdowns occurred during the transaction phase of the interactions may have reduced that salvaging effect considerably.Shawn White, Keynote's director of external operations, said the slowdowns "impacted the product search and check-out processes—and presumably will impact online sales."The Keynote study added that "the worst performing sites on Black Friday were showing as much as a 400 percent slowdown," which White said "will lead to consumers abandoni...
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Windows XP SP3 boasts speed boost, testers claim
2007-11-28 05:26:00
Slashdot It! Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the update scheduled to be released next year, runs Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite 10% faster than XP SP2, a performance testing software developer reported Friday.Devil Mountain Software Inc., which earlier in the week claimed that Windows Vista SP1 was no faster than the original, repeated some of the same tests on the release candidate of Windows XP SP3, the service pack recently issued to about 15,000 testers."We were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP SP3 delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS," said Craig Barth, Devil Mountain's chief technology officer, in a post to a company blog on Friday. Devil Mountain ran its OfficeBench suite of performance benchmarks on a laptop equipped with Office 2007, Microsoft's latest application suite. The notebook -- the same unit used in the Vista/Vista SP1 tests earlier -- featured a 2.0-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 1GB of memory. The results report...
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Websites get deadline to follow privacy rules
2007-11-28 03:25:00
Slashdot It!Local Thai website operators will be given a one-month deadline to ensure the privacy of people under the age of 18 on the internet or face legal action. Deputy Prime Minister Paiboon Wattanasiritham said they must make sure that their websites displayed no personal information about under-18s in a way that would allow others to search the data to gain access to them.Prohibited information includes age, sex, phone number, email address, logon name for chat lines, photos and names of their schools.The measures, approved by the Child Protection Committee, fall under Article 27 of the Child Protection Act, which prohibits advertising or revealing information about young people in a way that could damage their mental well-being or reputation, or take advantage of them. Mr Paiboon said the restriction was aimed at sparing young people from abuse in the cyber world.Dr Krisada Rueng-areerat, a member of the Committee for Safe and Creative Media, said local websites which fail t...
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