America Online joined several other investors in pumping some US$16 million total into Internet television startup Brightcove, with AOL also securing the right to use the firm's technology to help content owners distribute video across its family of Web sites. AOL joined Interactive Corp./IAC, Hears...
From birthday parties to gifts, we no longer are willing to settle for a simple cake and backyard party; we now have to provide an experience for children's birthday parties. Web sites have moved in the same direction towards more interactive experiences in order to enhance the customer experience a...
Adobe Systems moved closer to acquiring Macromedia after the Department of Justice said the US$3.4 billion deal passed anti-trust muster. The approval came nearly six months after the deal was first announced on April 18. Over the summer, the Justice Department sought more information on the deal, r...
Low-cost general use PCs are becoming a reality with recent announcements from both the MIT Media Lab and AMD. Chipmaker AMD began peddling a US$299 PC designed for emerging markets at U.S. Radio Shack stores over the weekend. AMD launched the the Personal Internet Communicator (PICs) in India about...
Kodak claims it is the first to release its WiFi digital camera, dubbed Easyshare-One, a 4 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom digital camera capable of connecting to the Internet or PC for photo sharing via 802.11, or WiFi-enabled hotspots. The US$599 camera, as well as similar, WiFi-enabled digital cameras...
Windows Vista is the biggest release for Microsoft since Windows 95. With that release, Apple was tested -- and they failed miserably. I was at Dataquest at the time and not only did I warn Apple to take 95 more seriously, I also accurately forecast the massive decline that would happen to them if...
Microsoft may be facing the same kind of dominance it owns on the desktop as it looks to further draw developers to its latest software for graphic design and animation, where Adobe and Macromedia own the bulk of the market. However, industry observers are quick to point out the benefits of Microsof...
Matt Drudge may be the world's most famous blogger, having outed former President Clinton and his pudgy paramour Monica Lewinsky online. His successors on the Internet made blogging a political force during last year's presidential election, and may have helped George W. Bush retain the White House ...
Oracle announced it's working to allow developers to use the open source PHP scripting language to work with its 10g database. The company and Zend, which was founded by the writers of PHP, will release Zend Core for Oracle some time in the third quarter. The scripting engine is designed to ease the...
Just weeks after Adobe acquired Macromedia in a long-term move to compete with Microsoft, the Windows maker is striking back with a new product designed to overtake the graphics company's popular Portable Document Format. Microsoft's Longhorn, the software giant's next version of Windows, will inclu...
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