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EXPERT ADVICE

Is Your Web Site Barring the Door to the Press?

Obviously, you want to include links to your press releases and announcements. Make sure your lists are up to date. As soon as a release goes out, make sure it is also on your Web site. Don't require an editor to fill out a contact form to retrieve your press releases. Editor...

Toshiba Kisses the Blu-ray Ring

Underscoring its previous commitment to a dead-end format, Toshiba thought it appropriate to explicitly point out in its press release that the BDX2000 does not play HD-DVD discs The performance of interactive features depends on the disc's design or content, and may also requ...

Sprint Joins March of the Androids With HTC Hero

Sprint's press release plays up two trends that handset makers and wireless providers are banking on for boosted sales: social media and application store offerings. Access to Google Search, Maps, Gmail and YouTube, as expected, lead the highlighted features, along with Andro...

Driving Study: Texting Really Really Bad, Dialing Bad, Talking OK?

The study results are based on information gleaned over 6 million miles of driving by "sophisticated cameras and instrumentation" placed in study participants' vehicles, according to a press release issued by the institute. "Given recent catastrophic crash events and disturbi...

China Scrambles to Repair Crumbling Green Dam

Halderman and his team discovered evidence that Solid Oak Software code may have been lifted and placed in Green Dam. It wasn't just that "blacklisted" URL addresses appeared to be copied directly from Cybersitter; "a news item, almost like a press release that Cybersitter sent to customers was included in the shipping version of Green Dam software," Halderman said. "It appeared to be copied into Green Dam by mistake."

INSIGHTS

Sage’s Swenson: One Year Down

A lot happened at Insights, the Sage partner meeting held in Nashville earlier this month, though not necessarily at the press release level. I was there and got a sense of change happening. It was the first anniversary of new CEO Sue Swenson coming on board and our first opportunity to see the imprint she is making on the company. Last year, Swenson had been with the company for only a matter of weeks and as CEO could only talk about the future. With a year behind her some results are apparent, but the expectation is that there is a lot of work ahead. ...

OPINION

How Much Would You Pay for That Online News Story?

All three cofounders have shown they indeed knew what worked earlier in their careers. Crovitz can claim one of the few examples of paid online journalism that's been successful: As the former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and executive vice president of Dow Jones, he was at the helm when WSJ Online became the "largest paid news subscription site on the Web, with more than 1 million paying members," as it says in the Journalism Online press release. Steven Brill, another cofounder, built Court TV into must-see TV for courtroom drama junkies and an attractive target for Time Warner. Brill also published The American Lawyer and Brill's Content magazines. Leo Hindery Jr. made his name in cable television, broadband and Web services. He's a former president of TCI and founder of the regional sports Yes Network...

Palm Hands Out a Few More Pre Morsels

Palm declined to offer further details. "We have the press release and the Palm blog," Palm spokesperson Jennifer Donahue told TechNewsWorld. "We're not doing any interviews." Looking Back in Safety...

How to Build a Small-Business Web Site, Part 8: Content Management Simplified

Does it include additional components such as calendars, press release managers, polling, etc.? Does it include built-in real-time analytics and SEO (search engine optimization) tools? Does it include dynamic navigation to allow you to update navigation across multiple pages? ...

Super-Fast Rechargeable Battery Slurps Up Power

Well, yes. Except for a few minor details. For one, recharging electric cars more quickly will be limited by the amount of power available through the power grid, according to MIT's own press release. In other words, the fast recharge will suck up huge amounts of electricity. Think about a brown-out...

Sun Brews New Java Platform to Go

Sun announced its Java FX Mobile platform Thursday and also revealed an A-list of handset makers and related companies that are throwing their support toward the platform: Sony Ericsson, LG, Sprint, Orange, Cynergy Systems and MobiTV. The company says this ecosystem will result in more developers able to write new applications much easier for a broad range of mobile devices -- "from mass market feature phones to smartphones," in the words of a company press release...

MED TECH

Google, IBM Team on Do-It-Yourself Medical Monitoring Tech

The IBM/Google press release provides some examples of how the new software could be used by patients and doctors. "A busy mom can receive daily electronic updates on the health status of an aging parent who lives alone, is suffering from high blood pressure, and is on multiple medications. A traveling businessperson, who is diabetic and training for a marathon, can have a real-time discussion about her blood sugar levels and heart rate with her coach hundreds of miles away."

Scientists Find Too Many Cooks – er, Cores – Spoils the CPU

"If your state department of transportation issued a press release warning 'average freeway speed will decrease as traffic density increases,' would anybody pay attention?" he said, noting that this is essentially what Sandia has done. "It's easier to add cores to CPUs than ...

Is Firefox Fit for Enterprise Duty?

Enterprise application whitelisting company Bit9 launched an attention-getting press release last week, a document which merely bubbled for a few days until the recent Internet Explorer flaw took center stage and Mozilla pushed out a few Firefox updates. Eventually, the heat ...

Virtual Realty: The Online Real Estate Detente

In a Nov. 6 press release, Market Leader cited research from Lives of Real Estate (LORE) magazine that shows despite the slowdown, 32 percent of agents grew their business this year, largely due to investments in online marketing and technology that helped them make sales. That same press release saw the launch of three new company products: Growth Leader, Team Leader and Realty Generator, all content management systems that address various needs of Realtors; advertising and marketing, customer data, lead generation, plus access to listings for consumers...

YouTube Pays Homage to Its Stars at Live Event

YouTube representatives did not respond to a request seeking information on traffic numbers from Saturday's live webcast -- a first for YouTube -- but a press release Monday said YouTube Live videos generated 2.5 million views in the 24 hours after the event The Critical Resp...

Adobe Promises Flash-ier Smartphones by 2009

The company is staging its MAX 2008 conference in San Francisco this week, and Adobe is putting the spotlight on announcements focusing on its market-dominating Flash Web media platform. The news item getting the most early attention is a deal with mobile microprocessor technology company ARM to help bring Flash Media Player 10 and Adobe's AIR media development tool to the new generation of Internet-centric smartphones and mobile devices. The chips that will work with the Adobe applications are expected on the market in the second half of 2009, according to an ARM press release...

Happiness Is a Warm Controller

OK, we are now officially out of Beatles puns. Besides, it's hard to keep up with the actual press release: "Apple Corps Ltd., MTV and Harmonix Come Together for Unprecedented Deal: Exclusive Agreement Set to Bring The Beatles Music to Fans for the First Time in Interactive Form Here, There and Everywhere in 2009."

Lawmakers Whip Up War of Words Over White Spaces

The vote is set for Nov. 4, and the activism is approaching historic -- some say hysteric -- levels. Phone calls, e-mails and press releases are flying in attempts to sway opinions; there are charges and countercharges of questionable political tactics and quotes taken out of context, along with a little name-calling...

Google’s Page Makes Noise Over ‘Rigged’ White Space Test

His speech at the Dirksen Office Building came on the same day that the National Association of Broadcasters issued a press release, "Google Petition Ignores TV Interference Issues." Google and the Free the Airwaves Coalition funded an effort to collect 13,000 signatures on a petition drive backing the tech company's efforts, but the NAB is insisting that freeing up white space will block signals for TV stations and wireless microphones...

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