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Archive for January, 1970
January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
If hours of prerecorded TV content aren’t enough for TiVo subscribers, Amazon will offer a solution. The digital video recorder pioneer and the super-sized online retailer announced their new “Amazon Unbox on TiVo” service Wednesday. For Amazon, the joint venture provides a captive audience more than one million strong. For TiVo, the service adds another compelling feature for the device. However, will it attract new users? Will it be enough for a company that has all but been shut out of the market it created?
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
The vow Tuesday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs — that he would willingly remove copyright protection from songs sold at his company’s iTunes store — was cheered by those who’ve been arguing that digital rights management systems are a failure. Advocates for music-sharing freedom said they expect music labels will eventually abandon the practice, but they doubted the movie industry would follow suit by removing DRM from DVDs, HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Yahoo will report earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter on Tuesday. The company forecasts revenue of $1.15 billion to $1.27 billion for the period. Over the past year, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Web portal business started rolling out parts of long-awaited upgrades to its search platform. The new technology is expected to raise the quality and profitability of Yahoo’s search advertising program to compete with market leader Google. Yahoo also is counting on an organizational overhaul to help focus efforts on increasing advertising revenue.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
State prosecutors offered to drop felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and the four other defendants in the company’s boardroom spying scandal if they agree to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, a defense lawyer said Thursday. Stephen Naratil, lawyer for private investigator Bryan Wagner, said the attorney general’s office offered a plea deal that would eliminate all four felony charges against his client in exchange for a misdemeanor guilty plea.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
“Storm Worm” is the name that seems to have stuck for a massive malware attack that spread Thursday and Friday by teasing e-mail recipients to open infected messages supposedly about European wind storms. The attackers use of the subject line “230 dead as storm batters Europe” was an effective way to lure careless computer users into opening mail infected with the Small.DAM Trojan. Fierce winds were battering Europe simultaneously with the release of the messages.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
The road ahead for wireless networking promises immense progress — larger, more extensive networks and access to a diverse set of users via technologies such as WiFi, WiMax and wireless mesh networking. It also promises, however, a path full of obstacles if enterprises choose to ignore how they will manage their networks. Two years ago, security was their number one wireless network concern. Currently, many enterprises affirm that they are equally or more concerned about manageability.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
IBM posted sharply higher profits for its fourth quarter as software and services paced the technology giant, but some weakness in hardware sales led investors to sell off Big Blue shares. IBM said Friday that its net income during the period was $3.54 billion, or $2.31 per share, up 11 percent from the same time frame in 2005. Revenue was up 7.5 percent to $26.3 billion, beating most analyst estimates. “IBM had a terrific quarter and a good year,” said CEO Samuel J. Palmisano.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
AT&T is offering customers that subscribe to both its wireless and fixed-wire services free calling between the two. Called “AT&T Unity,” the service appears to be the first bundled product that combines both landline and wireless services. For that reason alone, it is a noteworthy move in what has turned out to be a battle for survival between phone and cable companies, as they both position themselves to offer all communication services to all customers. This offering impacts more than 100 million customers.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Google plans to build a new, $600 million datacenter in North Carolina designed to help support its online operations, the company announced Friday. The site, to be located in the city of Lenoir, is expected to create about 210 jobs over time. North Carolina awarded Google a 12-year job development investment grant with incentives of about $4.8 million. The North Carolina Department of Commerce estimates the project will bring the state a cumulative gross value of about $1 billion and a cumulative net revenue increase of $37 million.
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January 1, 1970 at 8:00 am · Filed under External News
Motorola said Friday it would cut 3,500 jobs worldwide in coming months after turning in a disappointing profit for the fourth quarter, despite a strong surge in sales of its mobile devices. Sales for the quarter that ended in December were $11.8 billion, an increase of 17 percent over the $10 billion posted last year and a record quarter for the company. It also shipped a record number of handsets, up 47 percent to 65.7 million.
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