Adobe Systems Incorporated’s popular portable document format, or PDF as it’s more well known has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard as of this morning.
Adobe has been the key developer and patent holder of the technology, and today has passed over the entire specification …
Satellite TV provider Dish Network said Tuesday that AT&T will end its agreement to bundle its TV service with AT&T’s broadband and phone service at the end of the year.
AT&T and Dish have had a joint marketing deal since July 2003, which allows AT&T …
Yahoo shares shot up nearly 6 percent in earning-morning trading Wednesday, on word that Microsoft may seek partners to make another bid for the company’s search business.
The stock price jumped 5.8 percent to $21.38 a share early Wednesday, just a day after Yahoo’s shares fell below $20 …
Movie-rental chain Blockbuster announced Tuesday that it has withdrawn its $1 billion bid for consumer electronics chain Circuit City.
Chief Executive James Keyes blamed “market conditions” for the demise of the proposed deal, valued at one time at more than $1.3 billion.
“Based on market conditions and the completion
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Updated at 7:40 a.m. PDT Wednesday with comments from a former Department of Justice antitrust attorney, and a Department of Justice spokeswoman.
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to gather information from third parties in a probe of the advertising deal struck last month between Google and
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We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken.
Three people face charges in federal court in New York for allegedly breaking into Citibank’s ATM network inside 7-Eleven stores and stealing PIN codes, according to …
R.J. Pittman, Google’s director of product management for Consumer Search Properties, shared some details of future versions of image search. In the interview with Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser, Pittman said that Google is developing visual crawling software that can be used for facial recognition and scene analysis. …
Flash has not been easily searchable until now, but Adobe Systems
is working with leading search engines Google and Yahoo to solve the
problem. CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and reporter Elinor Mills
discuss the impact of making Flash pages more visible to search engines. One question …
If you thought gas prices were rising too quickly, check out what’s been happening to text messaging.
Since 2005, rates to send and receive text messages on all four major carrier networks have doubled from 10 cents to 20 cents per message. This percentage of increase is on par …
Adobe released on Tuesday the first Reader application to bake movies and animation into the Portable Document Format.
With Adobe Reader 9, users can play Flash movies, Shockwave animation, and other rich media content without needing to open a third-party player.
With Reader 9, one click would play a Flash …