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Joe Pine, cofounder of Ohio's Strategic Horizons and co-author of The Experience Economy, hopes rebates and incentives will go away altogether "A big part of the problem is that the auto manufacturers have taught their customers to buy on price, so they're basically commoditiz...

ICANN was represented in the litigation by Joe Sims and Jeffrey LeVee, partners at the law firm of Jones Day The Court dismissed VeriSign's original complaint on May 18, 2004, but had allowed VeriSign to file a first amended complaint to try to strengthen its legal arguments.

"The immediate impact is sending a signal to the other pharmaceutical manufacturers that this is the new standard with regard to disclosure of clinical studies," said Joe Baker, Spitzer's health care bureau chief. Additional investigations of other drug firms continues, he said...

To cope with the condition, rover planners have devised a roundabout strategy. They will drive the rover backward on five wheels, rotating the sixth wheel only sparingly to ensure its availability for demanding terrain. "Driving may take us a little bit longer because it is like dragging an anchor," said Joe Melko, a rover engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "However, this approach will allow us to continue doing science much longer than we ever thought possible."

Strengthens Internet programs by isolating potentially unsafe attachments and by making code-level changes to protect against malicious activity. "Consumers can expect a lot of changes," said Joe Wilcox, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research. "Microsoft is putting a lot of security enhancements under the hood." ...

"IBM is the leader in helping customers implement a comprehensive business-intelligence infrastructure," said Joe Guglielmi, CEO of Alphablox. "Alphablox technology integrates seamlessly with IBM's middleware offerings, enabling customers to gain real-time insight on their bu...

For starters, conference sponsor Sun Microsystems tried to reassertitself as a major player with the release of Java Studio Creator. Thevisually oriented tool aims to "make it as easy to develop for the Javaplatform as Visual Basic makes it for Windows," according to Joe Keller,the company's vice president of Java Web services developer toolsmarketing...

Meanwhile, Gartner vice president Joe Galvin explained to CRM Buyer that the revenue salesforce generates through its IPO is a good thing because it is a way for the company to reinvest money in research and development and in more business-oriented marketing And Keith Raffel...

I just returned from moderating a panel on the future of handheld computing. On the panel was Joe Fabris (director of wireless marketing at PalmOne), Michael Parks (CIO from Virgin Mobile) and Dennis Boyle (principal and senior designer from IDEO Designs). There was supposed ...

The proposed law, Assembly Bill 1143 filed by Assembly Member Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), would require ISPs to notify a subscriber when someone attempts to obtain personal information about that subscriber through a subpoena issued by a state court ...

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas) said that another spyware bill, sponsored by Rep. Mary Bono (R-Calif.), would win widespread approval from Republicans and Democrats in his committee in spite of the FTC's stance "There is no more pernicious int...

Not Your Average Joe It also seems to warn investors against expecting Google to act like other publicly traded companies, noting that it will seek to continue unusual employee perks, such as free meals, washing machines and access to doctors.

Jupiter Research's Microsoft specialist, Joe Wilcox, doesn't disagree -- but like other industry observers, he believes this is only half the story. "Keep in mind," he told TechNewsWorld, "that Microsoft is a U.S. company, and there can be concerns that a U.S. company might have some 'support' from the government -- some back doors into the software, that kind of thing. Those suspicions don't have to be true to be a problem for Microsoft. By allowing some access to the code, it can alleviate those fears and fears around security in general."

"I find it interesting that IBM wasn't part of the announcement," Evans Data analyst Joe McKendrick told TechNewsWorld. "IBM has been one of the leading -- if not the leading -- company in promoting grid computing technology." ...

However, Novell's Joe Eckert defended the significance of SuSE Linux 9.1, telling LinuxInsider that only the actual 2.6 kernel -- not a back port -- delivers the improved capabilities and performance "Certainly there's been plenty of back-porting of 2.6 into 2.4, but that's ne...

According to Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher at the secure operations center of Lurhq in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Phatbot is most threatening to people who have become infected because they have out-of-date software or because their systems have been compromised by a virus like MyDoom...

"The CAN-SPAM Act provides only the most minimal protections to the public," Hypertouch president and founder Joe Wagner said in a statement. "But BobVila.com and BlueStream Media failed to observe even those." ...

The plague of malware appears to be escalating worldwide. As a worm variant called Netsky.D bombards e-mail inboxes around the globe, an even newer version, Netsky.E, already is being analyzed, according to Joe Hartmann, director of North America antivirus research at Trend Micro...

Joe Wilcox, a Microsoft specialist at Jupiter Research, said he sees two intertwined trends in the Apache-IIS debate. "So much is about marketing and positioning," he told TechNewsWorld. Wilcox estimates at least 35 to 40 percent of Windows Server installations are still NT 4. "Microsoft is trying to get those customers on older versions onto something newer, hopefully Windows Server 2003," he says.

"One of the things that helped phishing along greatly was the Microsoft vulnerability," Joe Telafici, director of operations for the antivirus emergency response team for Network Associates in Santa Clara, California, told TechNewsWorld But Meyer expects the open wound in IE t...