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SCO Shares Plummet to 40 Cents on Courtroom Loss to Novell

"In the spring of 2003, Novell set out to ensure that SCO's groundless claims would not interfere with the development of Linux," Joe LaSala, Novell senior vice president and general counsel, wrote on the company's blog. "Today's court ruling vindicates the position Novell has taken since the inception of the dispute with SCO, and it settles the issue of who owns the copyrights of Unix in Novell's favor...

Road Texting: An Accident Waiting to Happen

"I thought the numbers would be high, but I didn't think they'd be that high," Pinger Cofounder Joe Sipher told TechNewsWorld. "Over 50 percent was kind of a shocker." High Text Bracket...

White House Won’t Reverse Qualcomm Chip Ban

"We're disappointed," Joe Farren, a spokesperson for the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, told the E-Commerce Times. "We felt the ITC's order inappropriately affected nonliable third parties like consumers and public safety groups. We think it could have negative effects on the economy and the rollout of broadband...

Online Video Ads: Ready for Prime Time?

One reason more people are watching video online and advertisers have begun to see the Web as a viable channel for video is the greater reach of high-speed Internet connections, maintained the report's author, Senior Analyst Joe Laszlo "It's the growth of the broadband audienc...

Investors Pummel Netflix on Price Cut News

As the two companies duke it out, something they can ill afford -- competition from other businesses -- continues to mount. Movie Gallery CEO Joe Malugen has announced an online DVD rental plan and reports have suggested Apple is also eying the idea as a means to supplement its iTunes Store movie download service...

Facebook Snaps Up Firefox Founders’ Startup Parakey

The hard-to-describe startup, created by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, is now owned by Facebook. The deal is the first acquisition for the social networking utility based in Palo Alto, Calif Ross and Hewitt, the two men who've become famous for creating...

Xbox Captain to Take Up New Digs at EA

Both EA and Microsoft are in relatively good positions in the video game industry at the moment, Joe Laszlo, a JupiterResearch analyst, told TechNewsWorld "Despite some technical issues with its console, Microsoft has been executing extremely well with the Xbox 360, and really...

OPINION

Too Much Hype Surrounding SOA?

Our analyst panel for this edition of the podcasts consists of noted IT industry analysts and practitioners Steve Garone, Joe McKendrick, Jim Kobielus, Tony Baer and Todd Biske. I am your host and moderator ...

Open Legislation, Part 2: It’s the People’s Choice

The next likely step would be opening up the process further so that citizens could view and comment upon legislation in the works, or even -- along the lines of California state Senator Joe Simitian's concept in his "There Oughta Be a Law" contest -- submit their own ideas, Leyden added...

Open Legislation, Part 1: What If Everybody Got to Write Laws?

Empowering 'Joe Citizen' "In the world of open source, your contribution, vetted and approved by your peers, gets committed into the mainline in a completely transparent and accountable process," Amanda McPherson, director of marketing for the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsid...

60Frames to Pull Hollywood Heavies Into Web Video Scene

The new company, 60Frames Entertainment, has secured US$3.5 million in funding from institutional and individual investors including Tudor Investment Corporation and the Pilot Group. 60Frames will act as a studio of sorts for content created by experts filmmakers such as Joel and Ethan Coen, said the company...

OPINION

Bloggers’ Greatest Hits, Volume 2

While this is not a case where the blogosphere broke the story, bloggers kept alive long enough for the mainstream press to pick it up, Joe Laszlo, an analyst at JupiterResearch told TechNewsWorld It was lots of "seething outrage" in the blogosphere that kept the story going a...

EXPERT ADVICE

Shopping 3.0: Embracing Change in the New E-Commerce Era

Online shopping is the fastest growing multibillion-dollar business in the world. Yet, the customer experience of online shopping is much the same as it was upon creation, more than a decade ago -- essentially an online catalog ...

EA Head Bashes ‘Boring’ Game Industry

Looking at sales statistics, it would be difficult to conclude that the gaming industry is hurting. For the month of May, U.S. video games sales were up 31 percent to $274 million, according to the sales tracking firm NPD Group. Overall, the industry saw a 49 percent increase in sales to $815 million for the month. However, that can largely be attributed to the cyclical nature of the gaming industry following the release of a new hardware including the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, according to Joe Laszlo, an analyst at JupiterResearch...

WEEKEND FEATURE

Beware of Data Dumpster Divers

"All of the assets that we receive that have resale value, will go through a data wipe," Joe Strathmann, worldwide asset recovery services senior manager for Dell in Round Rock, Texas, told the E-Commerce Times "Systems that don't have any remarketing value will have a hole pu...

OPINION

More Than Interaction

Ten years ago Joe Pine defined customer experience in "The Experience Economy" and as is typical for big ideas, it took several years for it to ferment and bubble up to the mainstream. During that time, it's been amazing to see how we've turned customer experience into something different from what I think Pine intended...

SCIENCE

Bush Stem Cell Veto Sparks Passionate Response

"We're delighted," Joe Scheidler, national director for the Pro-Life Action League, told TechNewsWorld. "To pretend this is something we could do with impunity would be to deny our belief in the value of these individuals." 'Very Disappointing'...

Hedge Funds Ratchet Up Ameritrade Merger Pressure

Ameritrade will not close the door to possible mergers, but will take a careful approach to any such deals, said Ameritrade CEO Joe Moglia this week. Charles Schwab has said it is not interested. E*Trade had declined comment, but has been known to have held talks about a merger with Ameritrade in the past...

OPINION

The Long Street View

"People's expectations will change," said Joe DiPasquale, founder and CEO of CollegeWikis, a company that makes a broadcasting widget that students use inside social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. The more transparency there is for everyone, the more accepting people will become of others' flaws, DiPasquale believes. "Things will become less shocking," he said, "this is the acceleration of the acceptance of humanity."

Wii Hurts, Says Doc

Meanwhile, baseball player Joel Zumaya of the Detroit Tigers exemplified the dangers of other game play last year when he was sidelined in the American League Championship Series because of injuries he sustained playing the "Guitar Hero" game Too Much of a Good Thing...

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