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Archive for January, 1970
January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
DirecTV Group said Wednesday fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled as the satellite television operator’s subscriber base grew and it changed its accounting for set-top boxes. The El Segundo, Calif.-based company said net income surged to $356 million, or 29 cents per share, in the three months ended Dec. 31 from $121 million, or 9 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial were looking for profit of 30 cents per share.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
A $900 million online advertising deal between Google and News Corp.’s MySpace is being held up because the popular social networking site is also talking about a separate deal with eBay, according to reports published Wednesday. The Google deal, reached six months ago, gives MySpace rights to use Google search technology and carry advertising brokered by the search engine. Google would in turn pay News Corp. at least $900 million in shared ad revenue over three years.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chip maker, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit charging the company and others with price-fixing, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. The suit, filed in July, claimed Korean-based Samsung and numerous other companies made secret arrangements to raise the prices of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips. The memory chips are the most commonly used product for storing and retrieving information in computers and electronic devices.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry’s most formidable challenge, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday. Speaking to an annual gathering of 15,000 computer security experts in San Francisco, Gates invoked the metaphor of a medieval castle to explain the problem: Programmers build bigger moats and thicker fortress walls — but they don’t bother to protect the corporate crown jewels when members of their fiefdom exit the castle and leave the drawbridge open.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Walk, jog or bicycle across a New York street with an iPod plugged in your ears and you could get slapped with a $100 ticket under a new law proposed by a legislator from Brooklyn. State Sen. Carl Kruger’s bill would also outlaw the use of cell phones, BlackBerries, video games or other electronic devices when crossing the street. He cited the death of a 21-year-old man who was listening to music when he stepped off a curb and was hit by a bus in Brooklyn in September, and the death of a 23-year-old iPod listener last month.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
While Microsoft’s agreement with Novell to resell Suse Linux seemed secure as recently as last week, the Free Software Foundation may have finally found a way to put a bug into the program. The Free Software Foundation, an organization that controls the intellectual property to key parts of the open source Linux operating system, is reviewing Novell’s legal rights to sell any new versions of the Linux OS. Just last November, Microsoft inked a deal with Novell to increase the interoperability between the companies’ competing software products.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Hackers on Tuesday launched a denial-of-service attack against at least three of the 13 root servers that maintain the Internet’s domain name system. The attacks, which lasted for 12 hours, reportedly targeted the server that maintains the dot-org suffix, and the servers at the Department of Defense and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The attacks were largely unsuccessful — and reportedly less serious than a similar attack in 2002 — as most Internet users hardly noticed any impact.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Click fraud is a growing problem for online advertisers who rely on paid search services. Marketing experts are urging e-commerce vendors have to take proactive steps to combat it. Online advertisers pay the search engine company hosting their ad a set amount of money each time a computer user clicks on the ad. Click fraud occurs when an individual or group of people, either manually or through a computer program, repeatedly clicks on an ad to inflate the payment owed the publishers.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Vodafone has signed an exclusive partnership deal with social networking Web site MySpace, allowing its customers to access and update their MySpace pages from their mobile phones, according to the telecom giant. The deal is expected to help Vodafone, Europe’s biggest mobile operator, boost mobile usage and data revenues, while at the same time launching MySpace into the European mobile market for the first time. Vodafone said it plans will roll out the service in the UK during the first half of 2007.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Networking gear giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday posted strong quarterly earnings and issued an upbeat forecast, which drove the company’s shares higher and may raise expectations for the technology sector as a whole during 2007. Cisco said it earned $1.92 billion, or 31 cents per share, in the quarter ending in December. New routers and related gear helped Cisco siphon business from rivals in the Internet space, and its acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta was paying off with sharply higher sales of set-top cable boxes, the company said.
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