Microsoft’s Office Accounting software, used to challenge Sage and Intuit, has become the latest victim of corporate cuts.
The package will no longer be distributed after November 16, Microsoft said Friday. Versions of the product affected are the Express, Standard, Professional, Professional Plus, three-user and Small Business Accounting in North America and the UK.
The company said [...]
Aldar Properties, Abu Dhabi’s leading property development, management and investment company, today announced the completion of the external structure of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi.
Located on Yas Island, Aldar’s brand new Retail, Leisure and Entertainment destination and host venue for the inaugural Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is set [...]
Himfr.com, one of China’s leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, compares Audi Q5 with Benz GLK.
For foreign automobile manufacturers, the Chinese market is a piece of cake, but dividing the market share depends entirely on consumers. Catering to consumers’ tastes is the key to capturing the market. [...]
Optimizing relevance for consumers has been the key to success for Google and now executives at FirstLook, the pioneer in automotive retail performance solutions, are illustrating how this model can be the key to success for automotive dealers in their online vehicle advertising. As a featured speaker during the Digital Dealer Conference and Expo in [...]
Ford Motor Company and Azure Dynamics Corporation have combined efforts in a collaborative effort to deliver a pure battery electric Ford Transit Connect van for the United States and Canadian markets in 2010. Azure will integrate its Force Drive battery electric drive train in the Transit Connect van for commercial fleet and retail use.
The collaboration [...]
By Joe McDonald
Apple’s iPhone is making its long-awaited formal debut in the world’s most populous mobile phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black market models.
Apple’s local service provider, China Unicom Ltd., hopes the iPhone will give it an edge against giant rival China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest [...]
Boom for Event as Gamers Cast 1.2m Votes and Name Fallout 3 Their Ultimate Game.
The video games industry was recognised as the fastest-growing entertainment medium and the UK was acknowledged as a centre of creative excellence today as the winners of the world’s most popular video game awards show, the 27th annual Golden Joystick Awards [...]
By Steven Musil
Facebook was awarded $711 million in a judgment Thursday against self-described “spam king” Sanford Wallace.
Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California granted Facebook’s application for a default judgment against Wallace for violating the Can-Spam Act, which bans “false and misleading” marketing e-mails. Fogel also found that [...]
Audiovox Corporation, and FLO TV Incorporated, provider of the award-winning FLO TV live mobile TV service and a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, today announced that Audiovox will begin supplying Chrysler Dealers through Mopar with the first OE hardware interface that will deliver FLO TV Auto Entertainment to select Chrysler 2010 vehicles and future [...]
Nintendo has admitted that Wii sales have “stalled” after reporting a 43 per cent drop in global sales of the console during the first six months of the firm’s current financial year.
The company sold 5.7m Wiis during the six months to 30 September, compared to 10.1m during the year-ago half.
Global Wii videogame sales also dropped [...]
As many as one in every 500 web addresses posted on Twitter lead to sites hosting malware, according to researchers at Kaspersky Labs who have deployed a tool that examines URLs circulating in tweets.
The spread of malware is aided by the popular use of shortened URLs on Twitter, which generally hide the real website address [...]
IPC Systems, the leading provider of indispensable trading communications solutions to the world’s leading financial services firms, announced its ranking on the FinTech 100. Each year, the FinTech 100 lists the world’s top vertical technology vendors that derive more than one-third of their revenue from the financial industry, as named by American Banker, Bank Technology [...]
Shares in sat-nav device companies have fallen substantially after Google unveiled its free live sat-nav for mobiles on Wednesday.
US firm Garmin fell 18% after details of Google Maps Navigation were revealed. Dutch firm TomTom fell 9.5% when markets closed on Thursday.
The Google application promises free real-time, turn-by-turn directions for people to follow on their phones.
The [...]
Hosting.com, the leading provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and an Adobe Solution Partner, today announced the general availability of ColdFusion 9 in its Cloud and Dedicated environments. Hosting.com is the first provider to launch ColdFusion 9’s availability in a cloud hosting environment. Hosting.com is the world’s most trusted ColdFusion hosting provider [...]
By Charles Arthur
The internet regulator Icann has approved plans to let web addresses be written in non-Latin characters – such as Mandarin, Arabic, Hindu or Russian Cyrillic script – that it says represents the “biggest change” to how it works since its invention 40 years ago.
The proposal would mean that domain names – such as [...]
In his provocative new book, “The Tangled Web Of Patent #174465″ (published by AuthorHouse), noted author and researcher Russell A. Pizer sets out to prove that an Italian-American named Antonio Meucci was the inventor of the telephone, as opposed to Alexander Graham Bell, who has long been credited for creating the ubiquitous device.
Meticulously researched, “The [...]
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced today the worldwide release of the God of War III Ultimate Edition available exclusively for the PlayStation 3 system. Built by the fans and for the fans of the award-winning God of War franchise, the God of War III Ultimate Edition will feature an assortment of exclusive collectible and digital [...]
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), the voice of the world’s commercial software industry, has identified Texas as a hotspot in terms of reports of illegal software use and is urging individuals across the state and in the Houston area specifically to report the use of pirated software by businesses to NoPiracy.com.
In conjunction with the online [...]
Atari, one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, and Cryptic Studios, creators of the acclaimed City of Heroes and City of Villains announced that more than one million characters have been created in their “ultimate superhero universe”, Champions Online. Additionally, the title has garnered numerous high accolades and acclaim, the company said.
Available on PC [...]
By Simon Jeffrey
Today is the internet’s 40th birthday. Well, not exactly the internet but Arpanet – the Pentagon-funded research project that is the predecessor to the internet. Forty years ago, a simple message “Lo” (it was supposed to be “Login”, but the system crashed) was sent between two computers at two Californian research labs and [...]