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Gateway releases 16-inch MC series laptops

2008-10-22T00:17:00.000-07:00

Gateway on Monday released its first 16-inch laptops, the MC7801u and the MC7803u. With a 16:9 aspect ratio screen, 16-inch (and 18-inch) models are beginning to emerge.

Unlike traditional 16:10 laptop displays, a 16:9 screen matches the ratio of movies and HD content. Similar to the redesigned MacBook, the display on Gateway's MC series laptops features a glossy glass overlay that runs edge to edge. The 16-inch screen features a 1366x768 resolution; you'll need to bump up to an 18-inch model for 1080p playback.

The $950 MC7801u features a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo T5800 CPU, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, 64-bit Vista Home Premium, and a 320GB hard drive. So what don't you get on this sub-$1,000 laptop? You miss out Intel's latest Centrino 2 platform, and the laptop relies on integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics.

A second model in the 16-inch MC series, the $1,000 MC7803u, will feature a dedicated 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 graphics card. Providing the MC models with a distinctive look, a thin pleather strip runs down the middle of the lid. The lower-end MC7801u features a burgundy lid, and the higher-end MC7803u features a black lid.

Other features include HDMI and VGA ports, backlit keyboard and multimedia controls, Webcam, DVD burner, Draft N Wi-Fi and Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, and ExpressCard and media card slots.

The Gateway MC7801u is being sold through Best Buy and is included in our holiday retail laptop roundup. Look for our review next week.

UPDATE 1-Dell's China sales up 30 pct so far this year

2008-10-22T00:15:00.001-07:00

Computer maker Dell (DELL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has seen 30 percent sales growth in China and Hong Kong so far this year, in line with recent years, although it faces near-term uncertainties, a senior executive said on Wednesday. "Honestly, how things will turn out next year is hard to say," Alex Yung, Dell China vice president, told Reuters before a presentation to reporters.

"We don't know what kind of policy the Chinese government will come up with. If they continue to encourage domestic consumption, we wouldn't be too worried," he said.

"And also if the Chinese banks are not pulled too far (into global financial turmoil), we wouldn't be too worried."

The company's 30 percent sales growth in China so far this year compares with 30 to 40 percent growth over the last five to six years, he added.

Dell, the second largest computer maker after Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), said last month that slow demand had spread from the United States to Europe and Asia, and had not rebounded as expected after the summer lull. In August, it posted a steep drop in second-quarter profit, saying that companies were becoming more conservative in spending.

It has said it would realign its business to boost competitiveness, cut headcount, and invest in infrastructure and acquisitions.

Yung told reporters on Wednesday that the company was seeing a mixed performance in various sectors of the market in China, with a particularly major impact on demand from export-oriented small companies, which have been hurt by the global economic slowdown.
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Apple Unlikely To Sell Cheaper Computers

2008-10-22T00:12:00.000-07:00

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday said the company is unlikely to start selling low-priced computers, despite the global economic slowdown, and has no plans to enter the emerging mini-notebook market or to build a variety of iPhone models.

Jobs made an unusual appearance at the teleconference the company holds with financial analysts after releasing quarterly earnings. Apple on Tuesday reported that profits rose to $1.14 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 27, as sales increased 27%, driven primarily by iPhone and Mac computer sales. The company also said that it had surpassed during the quarter its goal of selling 10 million iPhones this year.
In answering analysts' questions, Jobs said the company is prepared for the economic slowdown with a loyal customer base that's likely to delay purchases rather than turn to competitors, a successful product portfolio that offers strong value for the money, and $25 billion in the bank.

While Apple could get "buffeted around by the [economic] waves a bit," Jobs said he was confident the company would do well in the slowdown. "I think this economic downturn will present some extraordinary opportunities for companies with cash," he said.

Asked whether he would consider returning some of the cash to investors, Jobs dodged the question, but indicated that the company would prefer to invest the money in its business during the downturn. "It's not burning a hole in our pockets," Jobs said of the money stash. He also declined to say whether Apple would use the money for acquisitions.

As to selling cheaper computers to attract consumers with thinner wallets in a slow economy, Jobs said that wasn't a strategy the company would pursue, preferring instead to beat the competition on features within the high-end market.

"What we want to do is deliver an increasing level of value for customers," he said. "We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk, and our DNA won't let us do that."

One new market Apple would stay out of for the time being is for so-called "netbooks," defined as sub-$500 notebooks with displays 10 inches or smaller and running a full PC operating system. Most of the major PC makers are offering such machines as second or third computers for people looking to check e-mail or browse the Web on the road.

"That's a nascent category that, the best that we can tell, not a lot is being sold," Jobs said. "We'll wait to see how that nascent category evolves, and we've got some pretty interesting ideas if it does evolve."

In the meantime, Apple has the iPhone, which can browse the Web from anywhere on a cellular network and fit in your pocket, Jobs said. Asked whether he would consider making a variety of models, like other mobile phone makers do with their products, Jobs said Apple plans to stay with one iPhone and make it a strong platform for software that would differentiate the product from rivals'.
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Computer security systems vulnerable to new attacks

2008-10-20T07:25:00.000-07:00

New York: A new category of computer attacks may compromise memory systems touted as foolproof, particularly in laptops, a recent study has found.

The study, by researchers at Princeton, found these attacks overcome "disc encryption," a broad set of security measures meant to protect information stored in a computer's permanent memory.

The researchers cracked widely-used technologies like Microsoft's BitLocker, Apple's FileVault and Linux's dm-crypt.

They described the attacks in a paper and video published on Thursday on the web.

The team said these attacks are likely to break through other disc encryption systems because these technologies have similar structural features.

The attack is particularly effective against computers that are turned on but are locked, such as laptops in "sleep" or hibernation mode.

One effective countermeasure is to turn a computer off entirely, though in some cases even this does not guarantee protection.

"We've broken disc encryption products exactly when they seem to be most important these days: laptops that contain sensitive corporate data or personal information about business customers," said Alex Halderman of Princeton's computer science department.

Halderman's Princeton collaborators included graduate students Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, Joseph Calandrino, Ariel Feldman and Professor Edward Felten of the Centre for Information Technology Policy.

The findings demonstrate risks associated with recent high-profile thefts, including a Veterans Administration computer containing information on 26 million veterans and a University of California, Berkeley laptop that contained information on more than 98,000 graduate students and others, said Felten.

The team wrote programmes that gained access to essential encryption information automatically after cutting power to machines and rebooting them.

"This method is extremely resistant to countermeasures that defensive programmes on the original computer might try to take," Halderman said.

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Needy schools a priority in computer rollout

2008-10-12T07:44:00.000-07:00

ALL secondary schools will be able to apply for commonwealth grants from March next year to boost their computer resources, but the most needy schools will be given priority.

Federal cabinet yesterday signed off on Labor's ambitious $1billion computer initiative, the first election pledge to be approved by the Rudd cabinet.

Deputy Prime Minister and federal Education Minister Julia Gillard said that under the program every secondary student in Years 9 to 12 would have access to computers and other information technology resources.

Ms Gillard said a million Australian students would benefit from the technology fund, the first step in the Rudd Government's education revolution.

"World-class ICT in schools will make a real and sustainable change in the way teaching and learning are delivered in classrooms across Australia," she said in a statement.

The fund will allow each school to apply for up to $1 million, depending on enrolments and existing technology. Funding can be used to buy computers, digital projectors, interactive whiteboards and other equipment.

"The Rudd Government will work with the school systems in every state and territory to identify schools that have the highest priority in terms of need, and assist them in making applications to the fund. Over four years, all secondary schools will have access to the fund," she said.

Ms Gillard said visits to secondary schools by Labor MPs since the election had revealed a desperate need for an increase in computer and internet access.

"Unfortunately, they found too many Australian schools don't have adequate internet access, some don't have internet access at all," Ms Gillard said after the cabinet meeting in Brisbane yesterday.

"Too many schools don't have enough computers for senior secondary students."

Ms Gillard said she was concerned that technology aids such as interactive whiteboards and digital projectors were missing from many schools.

"Today, cabinet has agreed that we will implement our $1billion fund to bring computers to Years 9 to 12 students in each Australian secondary school," she said.

An audit will be launched to establish existing resources in schools, and the Government will begin discussions with state and territory governments and independent and Catholic schools to ensure the rollout of funding.

"In the course of this financial year, there will be expenditure of $100 million in grants to schools to assist them with getting computers, internet access and other information technology aids," Ms Gillard said.

Dell Will Sell Computers at Best Buy

2008-10-07T07:44:00.000-07:00

DALLAS (AP) — Dell Inc. is venturing farther from its direct-to-consumer sales model and will start selling computers at Best Buy stores in January.

Analysts say Dell must expand its presence in stores because consumers increasingly see computers as an extension of their personality, and want to touch them before buying.

Dell built its business around selling personal computers directly to customers over the phone or Internet, but it has been cutting deals with retailers as growth of PC sales slowed and Dell's U.S. consumer revenue declined. It fell 26 percent for the six months ended Aug. 3, compared to the same period a year earlier.

The company lost its spot as the world's No. 1 computer maker to Hewlett-Packard Co. late last year, and HP has stretched its lead since then.

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said Thursday that Best Buy Co. will sell Dell's XPS and Inspiron notebook and desktop computers at more than 900 stores.

Best Buy complements Dell's U.S. retail lineup. The company already sells modestly priced PCs in about 3,000 Wal-Mart stores and targets small-business owners with sales at 1,400 Staples Inc. stores.

Michael Tatelman, a vice president for Dell's consumer business, said Best Buy gives his company access to a big audience of shoppers looking for machines for gaming, music and photography.

The computer maker, however, will miss the pre-Christmas sales traffic at Best Buy.

That suggests negotiations with Best Buy were difficult, said J.P. Gownder, a technology marketing analyst for Forrester Research Inc.

"Gosh, it would have been nice to have this available about a month ago so they could have taken advantage of Black Friday," he said, referring to the traditionally heavy retail traffic the day after Thanksgiving.

Tatelman responded that Dell wrapped up the Best Buy deal sooner than expected, and "We've got Wal-Mart and Staples available for the holiday season."

With the Best Buy agreement, Dell machines will be sold in nearly 10,000 stores around the world. Dell has deals with Bic Camera Inc. in Japan, Gome stores in China and Carrefour Group and Carphone Warehouse PLC in Europe.

For many years, Dell resisted selling computers in stores out of fear it would dilute the company's image of building affordably priced machines to the customer's specifications. The direct-sales approach was a success with business customers and seemed to work well with consumers, too.

But consumers now are more interested in style and computers that match their personality, a development that has helped HP and other brands that are readily available in stores, Gownder said.

"This is very overdue," he said. "Even if this cannibalizes some of (Dell's) direct sales, they'll be able to compete head-to-head for market share, because right now they're getting their lunch eaten by HP. Dell had to make this move. They're hemorrhaging in the consumer market."

Richard Shim, an analyst with IDC, said selling through retailers is risky because Dell must rely on store salespeople instead of its own. But he said there's a good chance Dell's offerings will stand out in shelves already crowded with machines from HP, Toshiba Corp., Apple Inc., Sony Corp. and others.

"They have the brand name, they're viewed as being a good value, and they can pass on the advantages of being as big as they are," he said.

Shim added that Dell must continue to produce innovative, attractive machines and change its marketing to appeal to consumers.

Dell has added colors and slimmer profiles to its Inspiron and XPS notebooks in a nod to consumer tastes. It has also beefed up high-performing machines to entice gamers.

Dell has also started to tweak its advertising, getting away from a longtime fixation on price.

New print ads feature Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova. A television spot shows old machines exploding in slow motion, leaving only a new XPS One, and ends with the tagline, "Dell. Now available in beautiful."

From Best Buy's perspective, the deal with Dell adds another name to the chain's lineup of PCs.

Dave Morrish, a Best Buy senior vice president, said adding Dell would give its customers unprecedented choice in buying a computer.

Shares of Dell rose 64 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $24.95, and Best Buy shares gained 89 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $52.71.

Officer Charged With Illegal Computer Use

2007-10-10T12:04:00.000-07:00

MADISON - Town police on Tuesday arrested one of their own, charging him with illegally using police computers to track down information on various women, including his ex-wife and current and former girlfriends.

Officer Bernard Durgin Jr., a seven-year veteran of the Madison Police Department, was also suspended without pay on Tuesday by Chief Paul Jakubson for neglect of duty, conduct unbecoming an officer and other violations of department policy related to a separate incident.
Durgin already had been suspended with pay since early August, after a confrontation between New Haven police and a member of the Poor Boyz motorcycle club outside a bar. Durgin, according to police, was wearing the East Haven motorcycle club's colors and represented himself as an on-duty Madison police officer. Jakubson said Durgin had called in sick that day.

Officer Bernard Durgin Jr.

As a result of the investigation into the New Haven incident, Jakubson placed him on unpaid leave. Both the internal and criminal investigations into that incident are ongoing.

Durgin, a resident of East Haven, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

In the computer-use case, Durgin was released Tuesday on $75,000 bail for an appearance in Superior Court in New Haven Oct. 16, police said.

That charge involves Durgin's alleged efforts to obtain private and personal information about women he met while working part-time as a security guard at Yale-New Haven Hospital. According to the arrest affidavit, Durgin made 34 separate inquiries about 17 people between Feb. 17, 2006, and July 14, 2007, using the computer in his cruiser to access the networks police use to obtain information about suspects.

In most cases the people were women with whom he had no more than a passing acquaintance. He also used the system to find out about his current and past girlfriends, his ex-wife and her family, a former fiancée and her partners and family, police said.

Police spoke to the human resources department and the head of protective services at Yale-New Haven and interviewed several of the women.

Durgin's arrest on a felony charge of computer crime, which covers a wide range of possible activities, came about as the result of the investigation into the August incident. Durgin had called a fellow officer, investigators said, and asked if he would look up information on someone using his cruiser's computer.

The officer pretended his computer was not working. A week earlier, he said, "Durgin had told me that his fiancée left him for another guy and that [Durgin] was going to try and find out who that guy was," according to the arrest affidavit. Police began looking into other inquiries Durgin had made.

Police use various information systems, including the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Communications Teleprocessing system, the National Crime Information Center and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. It is a clear violation of policy - and illegal - for police to use those systems for personal reasons.

On Aug. 5 about 12:30 a.m., on a night when he had called in sick for the midnight to 8 a.m. shift, Durgin showed up outside a Temple Street bar in New Haven after an altercation between a suspect and New Haven police, according to Jakubson, who referred to the incident in a suspension letter given to Durgin Tuesday. Durgin reportedly showed his badge and told officers at the scene he was on the job with Madison police. Instead of assisting the other officers, Durgin interceded "on behalf of a convicted felon who had been violently resisting arrest," the chief wrote.

Durgin's actions "caused the investigating officer in the incident to relate deep concern about the display of motorcycle gang `colors'" by Madison police, Jakubson wrote.

At Microsoft, seeking the next billion computer usersBill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers.

2007-10-10T12:02:00.000-07:00

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. It's Will Poole's job to get the next billion.

Poole, who co-leads Microsoft's emerging-markets push, is chartered with enabling the company's goal of allowing 1 billion more people to access computing technology by 2015.

The company has a number of efforts under way in the area, from the Starter Editions of Windows XP and Vista, to shared computers for classrooms, to research into turning a cell phone into a low-cost computer by connecting it with a large display. Poole said the last effort, which has garnered a fair bit of interest, is moving from the drawing board to reality.

"We've got it in development in China right now," he said during a recent meeting with CNET News.com reporters and editors. "We've got a manufacturing partner signed on with us and our group in Beijing is working quite hard on it. It'll be in trials I think within a year, and we'll see how people respond to it."

In the meeting, Poole talked about Microsoft's approach, as well as some of the challenges, which stretch well beyond the fact that many people can't afford the latest technology. In actuality, relevance and accessibility are bigger hurdles for the world's poor, Poole said.
When I started looking at this about five years ago, I thought that affordability was the biggest challenge. It turns out that affordability is actually the third on the list of issues. The first one turns out to be relevance.

Q: How can Microsoft reach people who historically have not been users of its technology?
Poole: Let me begin by clarifying the difference between emerging markets and emerging segments. An emerging market is what people typically think about--such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. The other includes very large developing economies. Of course there are many people in those countries who do not have very good access to technology. At the same time, we look more broadly at a concept called emerging segments...people who do not have access to technology in whatever market they're in.

So what do you do to reach those people? There are obviously people who can't afford technology here in the United States, as well as in our neighboring countries and in emerging markets.
Poole: There are three primary areas where we can help people realize social and economic opportunity through technology. Transforming education is one. The second one is looking at fostering local innovation, and the third one is enabling jobs and opportunities.

When I travel around the world I see the power of the PC to bring people new opportunities--either to have skills that they can apply to get better jobs to earn more money, or to take a disadvantaged person who simply could not get a job at all because of a handicap.

What are some of the technologies that you guys are working on that can really help beyond the economic issues that are in play?
Poole: You bring up a very good point. When I started looking at this about five years ago, I thought that affordability was the biggest challenge. It turns out that affordability is actually the third on the list of issues. The first one turns out to be relevance. That means bringing a product to market that really meets the needs of somebody in an emerging segment--be it in rural India or in urban China or down the street, here in San Francisco. Are we building a technology that is relevant to the specific needs and problems that they have?
The second thing is to look at whether the technology is accessible to them. Can they find a place to buy it? Can they get support? Can they get broadband connectivity to bring them into the world of the Web? And then the third thing is affordability.

So, for example, in Asia we focus a lot on education because that's a very high priority there. In Latin America, we focus a little bit more on the jobs and opportunities and helping people get better jobs through the use of software technology. So there's a variety of different technologies we'll bring to the market, depending on the specific needs of local people.

I've seen a lot of interesting demos from across the company of some different approaches. One of those is called MultiPoint, where it's basically an entire classroom using one computer. Can you talk a little about how that works?
Poole: MultiPoint came from Microsoft Research India. They had sent people out to see what kids were doing with PCs in schools. What they found was that kids tended to be gathered around a PC and (watching) one person do their thing and then they took turns every five minutes or so. It was really not very engaging. So they developed this technology called Microsoft MultiPoint, which enables an application to be built that lets multiple mice be used with a different cursor for each kid. So one kid can be solving a math problem in one part of the screen while another one is solving a math problem on another part of the screen.

They basically can be time-sharing the screen and working collaboratively. What we found is that not only do they get to be more engaged with what they do on the PC...but they help each other. That's turned out to be something that's very beneficial from an education perspective. The kids are engaged and collaborating to solve a problem.

A lot of people think that for much of the world the first computing device that people use won't be a PC. It'll be some sort of mobile device. Obviously, that's an area that Microsoft has spent some time on, but it's a little bit further from its comfort area. What are you doing in the mobile space as far as non-PC devices?
Poole: Well, we certainly agree that the first computing device which will be used by many people around the world will be a phone. You see this happening in emerging segments all around the planet today. Mobile phones are really just taking off as the prices come down and the access is going up. We think that there are some interesting things to do to help make the mobile phone become a better device.
How close is that to being a product? You take the phone that people are already getting, hook it up to the TV they already have and you've got a computer. The phones that we use today in the U.S. certainly are capable of that from a technology perspective. How close is that?
Poole: Well, it's still got a ways to go. We've got it in development in China right now. We've got a manufacturing partner signed on with us, and our group in Beijing is working quite hard on it. It'll be in trials I think within a year and we'll see how people respond to it. It's a new concept in the sense of trying to bring together PC and phone technology in a lower-cost device. It's not something that you're going to see a businessperson in a developed market using while walking down the street. We're trying to really target the needs of a broader population and so we're very excited about the opportunity there, but time will tell.

Obviously, Microsoft is not the only company looking at how to get computing devices into the hands of more people across the globe. The project that's gotten the most attention is the One Laptop Per Child project. What do you make of a program the group is launching in which people in the U.S. can buy one of the laptops for their own use, and then a second computer would go overseas?
Poole: It's an interesting way to get people involved in this challenge that we all see, which is how do you effectively apply technology to education. I'll be very interested to see how it comes out as well.

How important is it that that first device people use be running a Microsoft operating system versus Linux or another operating system?
Poole: Interestingly enough, we don't see that as much of a battle. The battle is around nonconsumption or around buying a new two-wheeled motor vehicle as opposed to buying a PC for the home...Clearly, we have an interest in having our software used and we think that the value that we offer is very deeply desired--particularly as people get into more of the business world...But our primary goal is around just getting technology to be adopted.

With a little bit of care, you can maximize the battery life

2007-08-25T02:32:00.000-07:00

Your New Notebook

Be sure to fully charge your portable when you plug it in for the first time, and then run Software Update to ensure you have the latest software. Apple periodically releases updates that may improve battery performance.

Standard Maintenance

For proper maintenance of a lithium-based laptop battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her MacBook Pro on the train, then plugs it in at the office to charge. This keeps the battery juices flowing. If on the other hand, you use a desktop computer at work, and save a notebook for infrequent travel, Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month. Need a reminder? Add an event to your desktop’s iCal.

Long Term Storage

If you don’t plan on using your notebook for more than six months, Apple recommends that you remove and store the notebook battery with a 50% charge. If you store a battery when it’s fully discharged, it could fall into a deep discharge state, which renders it incapable of holding any charge. Conversely, if you store it fully charged for an extended period of time, the battery may experience some loss of battery capacity, meaning it will have a shorter life. Be sure to store the ejected battery at the proper temperature. (See “Notebook Temperate Zone.”)

Optimal Setting

You can choose to use your Apple notebook in a way that maximizes its battery life.
Energy: The Energy Saver control panel offers several settings that determine power levels for your PowerBook. Your portable knows when it’s plugged in, and runs accordingly. When on battery power, it will dim the screen and use other components sparingly. If you change this setting to maximize performance, your battery will drain more quickly.
Brightness: Dim the screen to the lowest comfortable level to achieve maximum laptop battery life. For instance, when watching a DVD on an airplane, you may not need full brightness if all the lights are off.
AirPort Wireless: AirPort consumes power, even if you are not using its features to connect to a network. You can turn it off in its control panel to save power.
Bluetooth Wireless: Likewise, you can turn off Bluetooth to maximize your battery life, as it also consumes power when not in use.
Applications and peripherals: Disconnect peripherals and quit applications not in use. Eject CDs and DVDs if not currently accessing them.

IBM 73P4485 72W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter

2007-06-17T02:28:00.000-07:00

IBM 73P4485 72W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter

This is a Brand New IBM/Lenovo Boxed Original Product
Lighten your load when you travel with our new thinner 72W AC/DC Combo Adapter. Get more access to power for your ThinkPad notebook with this AC/DC adapter. Enjoy the convenience of having one power adapter for the office, home or travel. Maintain your power while traveling in your car, or on the plane (where supported) with the DC connector so your system keeps working as long as you do. And, when you arrive, plug into the AC wall outlet at your destination.

Features and Benefits:
• New slim design is 40 percent thinner than our previous model to take up less room when you travel
• AC/DC power means one adapter for office or travel
• 72W output to work with most ThinkPad systems
This option is not compatible with G and Z Series ThinkPad

IBM 73P4485 72W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter

Yahoo buys RightMedia

2007-05-03T07:59:00.000-07:00

As answer to Googles assumption of Doubleclick strengthens now also on-line portal Yahoo in things marketing technology.

On-line portal Yahoo took over the indicator market place RightMedia. So far the enterprise held already 20 per cent of the portions. The “New York Time” numbers the purchase sum on 680 million dollar. With the Deal Yahoo wants to offer competitor Google slogan, to which recently Doubleclick for 3.1 billion dollar in cash bought.

RightMedia operates the indicator market place RMX Direct. Publisher and indicator customers know there indicator places according to an auction principle en and ersteigern. Doubleclick had recently announced to want to develop a similar system.

MySpace increases internationality

2007-05-03T07:57:00.000-07:00

On-line contact stock exchange aims with a new Spanish test version at potenzielle new user in Latin America off.

On-line contact stock exchange MySpace expands its offer internationally. The “Financial Time Germany” reports. A recently started test version in Spanish language is to address those approximately 150 million Internet user in Latin America. In Brazil MySpace wants besides a local version of the Website to start, said Peter Levinsohn, Chef of the digital business with the MySpace nut/mother news corporation, the FTD. Also in China MySpace started recently a test version, which is operated under license by a Chinese enterprise.

Universal goods baskets for Shopping market places are considered as future of the E-Commerce

2007-05-03T07:54:00.000-07:00

Shop.com had itself patented its solution now.

The E-Commerce-market place Shop.com had itself patented its goods basket solution OneCart. The technology makes it for the customers possible to buy with different dealers with a only one virtual Warenkorb. In this way consumers must complete only once the order process, all the same like many dealers them products orders.

Universal goods baskets for on-line market places apply with many Branchenenxperten as future of the E-Commerce. Also large portals already recognized that: Yahoo and Amazon have themselves already portions of the so far still privately led enterprise secured.

eBay customer connection wants to strengthen

2007-05-03T07:53:00.000-07:00

On-line auction house wants to worry about its best customers strengthened and to double the expenditures for customer connection in the next years.

Small gifts receive the friendship: In the future eBay Top customers can count and - Powerseller on still more gratitude on the part of on-line auction house. “eBay in the next years more than” eBay Marketingchef Harald Eisenächer opposite the technical periodical OnetoOne and quit special effort around Top customers by particularly aufwändige Mailings or Vorabinfos over new features will double, said its expenditures for the customer connection. A service Hotline particularly for the best customers was already furnished. Also the salesmen are to profit to Eisenächer according to of the action: Power Seller are recompenced in the future with smaller gifts instead of with a Einheitsmail.

A half million mobi Domains counted

2007-05-03T07:51:00.001-07:00

Years after their introduction the Internet address for mobile telephones its 500.000ste Domain books one and a half.

On-line contents for user of mobile terminals grow: In October 2006 the Domain Provider introduced dotMobi an Internet address, which was particularly for the announcement by contents aligned on mobile telephones - now the consortium announces the registration of the 500.000sten.mobi Domain. Travel offerers took up the Domain for mobile telephones as first, meanwhile also many enterprises from the ranges messages and maintenance mobile content provided and with the special address provided. To date the.mobi Domains is common in 104 countries.

Bertelsmann markets Google Earth competitor

2007-04-29T00:17:00.000-07:00

“3D globe” is to become the European answer to Googles geo's application and leave to the user more liberties.

Attack on Google Earth: On behalf of Bertelsmann the software producer bit management developed a European alternative to the prominent geo application. “3D globe” is according to data of Bertelsmann comparable map material to supply with like Google Earth and the user additionally to more liberty with the organization of the operator surface leave. So data bases and search functions can integrate user and be able pictures, clay/tone, video and other information to a region to be indicated. “3D globe” should be able to be used also in the Internet and with a One Click start to serve be particularly simple.

With the introduction on the market of the software Bertelsmann starts also the marketing; Customers for combinations are to be lured with lower prices than with Google Earth.

Google negotiates with DirecTV

2007-04-17T04:13:00.000-07:00

The Suchmaschinen Primus Google is to negotiate with DirecTV about the marketing of advertising places, means current rumors. Meanwhile competitor Yahoo already locked his negotiations with Viacom.

After its marketing co-operation with the satellite network operator Dish expands Google its television commitment: How in the Web log „venture Beat is to be read “, the Suchmaschinenprimus negotiates at present also with DirecTV, the largest satellite network operator of the USA. The discussions could drag on however longer than with Dish, since DirectTV must regulate its owner conditions at present, after Corp end past yearly announced news to want to sell its portions at Liberty. With Google and DirecTV employer speaker refused any statement.

Meanwhile Yahoo with the television station Viacom came into the business. The Internet portal, which in February in the USA its Internet Werbebuchungstool Panama launchte, markets immediately search word announcements on 33 web pages of the transmitter, among them MTV.com and VH1.com.

IBM wants to create 3-D-Internet-Standard

2007-04-17T04:11:00.000-07:00

After lab of parts of its developer code for the 3D-Welt Second Life put lime trees openly, the technology company IBM works on a general standard for virtual worlds.

In co-operation with the 3D-Welt “Second Life” wants to make the technology company IBM virtual worlds the mass medium. So that this succeeds, the reverse-feed industry needs in the opinion of IBM however a success model similarly the computer language HTML used at present in the Internet. “Virtual worlds do not have a chance to become a mass medium if there are, said no open standards” Herbert Kircher, development boss of IBM Germany, opposite the “Financial Time Germany”. The vision of the future of IBM is it that Web users surfen instead of linear in the Internet to, virtually business entered can, in order to buy books, refrigerators or entertainment electronics there.

2,5 million.eu Domains

2007-04-17T04:10:00.001-07:00

The.eu Domain is European-wide the third-most popular Domain, says the European commission.

Enterprises and private users let one year after the introduction register more than 2.5 million addresses with.eu ending. That communicated the European Union commission. Under the European land identifications are only the.de Domain (10.8 million registrations) and the.uk Domain. At the point stands further the ending .com particularly used in the USA, which counts nearly 65 million Internet addresses.

Apple is to introduce Abodienst

2007-04-17T04:08:00.000-07:00

If it goes to the will of the disk labels, then is soon conclusion with the 99-Cent-Offerten of the Apple Musikstores Itunes.

Large disk labels such as Sony BMG or universal the Music Goup pressurize the computer company Apple to introduce for its on-line music net curtain Itunes a Abodienst. How the “Financial Time Germany” reports, those of Studios make its demand the component of up-to-date lining up negotiations the prolongations of a contract. A goal of the Plattenbosse is it to set in motion by a Abomodel the conversion and increase their income security.

Still however the music companies stand according to “FTD” in a bad negotiating position, since Itunes control three quarters of the entire on-line music market. Experts assume the disk labels lock only contracts with short running times. “You look for desperately for a iPod killer, thereby it Steve job not obligated are”, quote the trade journal a representative of the music industry.

Paypal competitor Gbuy comes to Great Britain

2007-04-17T04:07:00.000-07:00

Although Google did not create it in the USA to push with its payment solution Gbuy competitor Paypal from the throne to now the international Rollout follows.

After the introduction on the market of Gbuy in the USA the search machine operator Google wants to introduce its payment solution also into Great Britain. Whether and when the service in remaining Europe is gelauncht, over it the enterprise is silent itself however at present still out.

Gbuy competitor Paypal might see it left, after Google did not succeed also in the USA to weaken the Ebay daughter lastingly. Since Paypal is up-to-date still the more powerful service, also the Kampfpreise of Gbuy might change in it for nothing there: Until dealer can offer free of charge end to 2007 the currency.

Jubii starts in Germany

2007-04-17T04:05:00.000-07:00

Today the communication platform Jubii goes to six weeks after the start in the USA to the start also into Europe.

In the USA it already gives several thousand Jubii users, says the boss to the new Lycos daughter. From today on the new Internet platform is to inspire also user in Europe. The platform is to offer communication from a hand: E-Mail, Internet Telefonie and the exchange of photos, files and videos are to be able to complete user completely over the portal.

Gradually all Lycos services with exception of the search machine at Jubii are to be transferred. First Jubii goes into Germany to the start, other European countries is to follow.

Microsoft makes Adobes Flashplayer competition

2007-04-17T04:03:00.000-07:00

With the “Silverlight” - Player wants to create Microsoft a new Plugin for video content.

Under the name “Silverlight Player” wants to bring the software company Microsoft an alternative to Adobes Flashplayer on the market. As the “Financial Time Germany” reports, the new Plugin is to be able to be loaded within 15 seconds on the computer. According to information of the sheet Microsoft wants to boom-end the fight for market shares in the market for video content non as for example in case of the Internet Browsers Explorer - across the dominance of Windows to lead. Instead developers are to be convinced by Web videos and other contents to set on the new technology.

With the propietären solution Microsoft wants to probably offer to Google Paroli. Its video portal YouTube avails itself the Flashtechnologie, in order to represent and play video contents.

Recruit in “Office on-line ones”

2007-04-17T04:01:00.000-07:00

The software giant Microsoft markets immediately in Germany advertising surfaces in “Office on-line one”.

On-line Microsoft digitally immediately its on-line offer “Office on-line one” markets Advertising Solutions in Germany. According to own statements the service under www.office.microsoft.com counts monthly more than 1.2 million German Unique user on. Target group are main Businesses Professionals, Entscheider, IT-specialists or developers, which look there for information, assistance, product Downloads, on-line training courses as well as document collecting mains for the different Office programs.

Recruit-rubbing have the possibility of switching advertising formats such as Sykscraper (160x600 pixel) and content Ads (300x250 pixel) on the sides from Office on-line one. Per Website maximally an advertising surface is platziert, thus can an accordingly prominent placement be ensured.

Yahoo cooperates with Autoscout24

2007-04-17T03:59:00.000-07:00

On-line automarket makes immediately parts available of its Fahrzeugbestands for Yahoo car.

The offer at using vehicles with YahooAutos gets reinforcement: On-line automarket Autoscout24 puts immediately parts of its Fahrzeugbestands to the Yahoo service at the disposal. Co-operation is Yahoo car more content and the dealers, who offer more range on Autoscout24 provide. Autoscout24 co-operates already in similar way among other things with the portals ADAC.de or N24.de.