(Credit: Crave UK)Samsung will cease operation of its laptop division if it doesn’t improve
its market share by 2011, according to one of the company’s senior managers.
The news was broken to Crave UK while on a visit to Samsung’s headquarters in Suwon, South Korea. Sukyong …
When you’re talking about billions and billions of search queries, each potentially with some keyword-based ads alongside, every few hundredths of a percent of market share is important in the search market.
And that’s what Google carved away from its main competition yet again, according to statistic for …
Qtrax, a company that stumbled badly out of the gate, appears to be on the road to recovery.
The legal P2P music service has signed a licensing deal with Warner/Chappell music publishing, according to a spokeswoman with Warner Music Group. The move comes a week after Qtrax inked a deal with Universal Music Group,
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Voom's channels are no longer available on Dish Network.
(Credit: Voom.com)
Just two days after it launched 22 relatively high-interest HD channels, Dish Network has stopped broadcasting the 15 specialty Voom HD channels. The channels, which Dish has long been interested in dropping to make way for more popular channels, include names like GamePlay HD, Treasure HD, Kung Fu HD and Monsters HD and programming most viewers have never heard of.
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Seven NATO allies signed an agreement Wednesday to open a cyberdefense center in Estonia, according to the Associated Press.
The center, which is scheduled to become operational in August, is designed to offer training and research on cyberterrorism and simulate cyberwar games, the report states. The NATO allies will kick …
Mobile Internet aggregator iPass it teaming up with in-flight broadband provider Aircell to give its customers access to broadband on planes.
On Tuesday, iPass announced that it would offer Wi-Fi roaming with Aircell Gogo, an in-flight broadband service expected to launch soon in the United States. Aircell’s service is …
Google announced Wednesday on its official blog that Google search is now available over an IPv6 connection. What?
Right now, much of the world relies on the fourth iteration of the Internet Protocol, also known as IPv4, for its Web connections. The problem is, IPv4 facilitates only about 4 billion …
Dell issued a statement on Tuesday night, saying the XPS brand will live on but that more resources will go into Alienware.
Part of Dell’s statement takes issue with a Wall Street Journal report.
“Dell XPS and Alienware are both great brands…and both will live on,” spokeswoman Anne …
Social-networking site MySpace.com has won a $234 million antispam judgment, according to the Associated Press.
On the losing side of the award–believed to be the largest ever under the 2003 Can-Spam Act–were defendants Walter Rines and Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king. MySpace won the case against Wallace after …
PALO ALTO, Calif.–Just yesterday I received a review copy of the book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.
In fairness, I’ve just started reading the book and am looking forward to it. But what I’ve gleaned so far from …