Mobile Internet and E-mail Services Jump in Popularity Among U.S. Consumers

Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Forty-four percent pay for non-text mobile data services, reinforcing current business models for mobile carriers
Adoption of non-text mobile data services has exceeded 40% of the more than 70 million U.S. broadband households with a mobile phone service, according to Parks Associates’ new consumer study Mobile Convergence: Platforms, Applications, and Services.
Over one-fourth of mobile service users [...]

Tags: email services, mobile internet, parks associates

Wikipedia denies mass exodus of editors

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Wikipedia has disputed claims that it has lost a huge number of editors that help maintain the online encyclopaedia.
On 26 November it was reported that ten times more editors had left Wikipedia in early 2009 than during the same period in 2008. The group overseeing the reference work said the claims on losses were not [...]

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2009 Will be a Bumper Thanksgiving for Online Retailers, says report

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Retail Decisions (ReD) predicts that 2009 will be a lucrative Thanksgiving for retailers as online retail sales could hit $51 billion over the holiday season, up 23% on last year’s $41.4 billion. ReD, a world leader in card fraud prevention, payment processing and a card issuer, screens some sixteen billion card transactions annually for fraud, [...]

Tags: online shopping, retail decisions

Google backs away from racist search results

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Search outfit Google is sticking up adverts linked to words which could be used by racists saying that it has nothing to do with supporting that sort of thing.
People have been more than a little miffed that their nice searches on things like Judaism have been spoilt by the appearance of racist and anti-Semitic material [...]

Tags: google, offensive image of michelle obama, racist advertising

Germany does not like Google Analytics

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Not very happy with Google at the best of times, certain German authorities want the search engine’s analytics product banned.
Google Analytics is a free software service that allows website editors and publishers to get detailed statistics about the number, whereabouts and search behaviour of their visitors.
However according to Zeit Online German officials claim that Google [...]

Tags: google, google analytics

Zurich Financial Services Group and CSC Sign New IT Services Contract in Europe and North America

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

CSC has signed a ten-and-a-half year master service agreement with Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) for data center and information technology (IT) infrastructure managed services. The master service agreement provides the framework for country specific agreements to be subsequently entered into by the local entities of each party. The master service agreement will become effective [...]

Tags: csc, IT Services, zurich

Eutelsat Tooway Service Selected by SFR for its New Satellite Broadband Service for French Homes

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Eutelsat Communications announced the signature of a far-reaching contract concluded between its Skylogic broadband affiliate and SFR, one of the leading telecommunications operators in France. SFR has selected Tooway to meet demand for broadband from its customers beyond ADSL coverage. Called the ‘Satellite Internet Pack’ the new service supplied by SFR was launched today using [...]

Tags: eutelsat communications

Brown, IBM Unveil Multimillion-Dollar Supercomputer

Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Brown University and IBM announced the opening of a multimillion-dollar supercomputer at Brown’s Center for Computation and Visualization. The supercomputer is the most powerful computational system in Rhode Island and will be used by researchers statewide to tackle “grand challenges” affecting Ocean State residents in climate change, education, energy and health.
Brown and IBM will work [...]

Tags: brown university, ibm, supercomputer

2% of Internet Population Paying For 100% of Internet Content

Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Only two in 100 people who browse the Internet actually click on the advertisements that fund websites, according to a new report by online ad network Chitika. The study, based on the actions of 86 million Internet users over a two-week period, helps illustrate the value of an individual “clicker,” and the vast business potential [...]

Tags: advertising, Internet, online advertising

Platform Computing Announces General Availability of Platform ISF for Managing Private Clouds

Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced the general availability of Platform ISF, its dynamic IT solution for enterprises to build and run their private clouds. Responding to the cloud management requirements beyond what server virtualization can offer, Platform ISF creates a shared computing infrastructure from physical and virtual [...]

Tags: cloud, cluster, grid, platform computing

Free Network Backup for Ubuntu Now Available From Arkeia Software

Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use, and affordable network backup solutions, has announced the availability of Arkeia Network Backup version 8 in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS repository as a no-cost small-network package exclusively for Ubuntu users. With these offerings, Ubuntu users for the first time can enjoy powerful, enterprise network backup in a [...]

Tags: arkeia, ubuntu

Infosys Technologies Opens Second Latin America I.T. Development Center

Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Infosys Technologies Limited has opened the company’s second Latin American Development Center in Monterrey, Mexico, offering global, near-shore, and Latin American clients a full range of information technology (I.T.) services including Business and I.T. Consulting, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Packaged Solutions Implementation, and Infrastructure Management.
The development center, managed by Infosys’s subsidiary, Infosys Technologies S. De [...]

Tags: infosys, it, latin america

IBM Launches Business Analytics Center of Competency in India

Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

IBM announced the creation of a new Business Analytics Center of Competency, headquartered in Bangalore, focused on the rapidly growing business analytics marketplace.
The new Center – a pool of deep subject matter experts who will be deployed globally to support clients anywhere in the world – is expected to have a staff of over 200 [...]

Tags: ibm, india

Thanks for visiting technologynews.eu

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

On behalf of the hard-working staff at technologynews.eu, we would like to thank you for visiting technologynews.eu. As you have probably gathered, our website is brand new and is still developing. If you have any suggestions on improvements, please feel free to email us.
Plus, we thought we would tell you that we have recently added [...]

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SteelCloud Expands SteelWorks for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

SteelCloud, a leading developer of mobility computing appliance solutions, today announced an agreement with Global Marketing Partners to distribute its SteelWorks appliances to North American resellers through Ingram Micro, the world’s largest technology distributor.
“This is a major milestone in the expansion of our distribution network for SteelWorks,” said Brian Hajost, SteelCloud President and CEO. “We [...]

Tags: blackberry, ingram micro, steelcloud

Himfr.com Compares Audi Q5 with Benz GLK

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

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. [...]

Tags: audi, benz, ecommerce, himfr.com, search engine

Car Dealers Learn How to Leverage Google’s Secrets to Achieve Google-Like Success

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

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 [...]

Tags: car dealers, firstlook, google, Transportation

Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

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 [...]

Tags: facebook, spam

Trick or Tweet? ‘Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs’, says Kaspersky Labs

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

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 [...]

Tags: kaspersky, malware, twitter

Free Google sat-nav shakes market

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

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 [...]

Tags: google, sat-nav