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The Nielsen Company's new TV/Internet
Convergence Panel, which electronically measures both television and
Internet usage in the same homes, has found that television viewing and
online video streaming are complementary activities.
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Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television (TV) application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel will allow consumers to enjoy rich Internet applications designed for the TV while watching their favorite TV programs.
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Facebook and Intel Corporation will work together to optimize Facebook's hardware and software as the company builds out its datacenter infrastructure. With growing global popularity, Facebook plans to deploy thousands of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers over the next year to help scale rapid global expansion and meet processing needs of the company's increasingly rich media applications that span videos, music, photos and more.
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Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, today announced the availability of the public betas of Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009, designed to set a new industry standard for speed and performance. The betas of the award-winning product line are available for download from http://www.symantec.com/norton-beta/.
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Some 1.2 million additional consumers in 12 Eastern states and the District of Columbia can now order the new ultra-fast Verizon High Speed Internet service, which provides an appealing alternative to cable Internet.
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Is your first craving in the morning for your computer mouse? Do you obsessively check email in the middle of the night?
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DIRECTV, Inc. (NYSE: DTV) and CURRENT Group announced today a wholesale distribution agreement that will enable DIRECTV to offer its customers CURRENT's innovative BPL (Broadband Over Powerline) high-speed Internet service and VoIP services at the end of 2007/beginning of 2008. DIRECTV customers will be able to access the Internet by plugging a BPL modem into virtually any outlet in their home.
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Computer scientists from UC San Diego have found striking differences between the infrastructure used to distribute spam and the infrastructure used to host the online scams advertised in these unwanted email messages. This discovery should aid in the fight to reduce spam volume and shut down illegal online businesses and malware sites.
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Wikia, Inc. the leading provider of community resources for building and organizing free content on every topic, today announced that Intellisophic, Inc., the leading publisher of subject-specific taxonomy, thesaurus and vocabulary products for the search, categorization and text-mining industry, has agreed to make its high-performance categorization software available via open source in conjunction with the Search Wikia project.
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IBM today announced that it completed the acquisition of Watchfire Corporation, a privately held security and compliance testing software company based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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EarthLink today announced that Nokia N800 Internet Tablets customers can now access EarthLink's Wi-Fi service, at no additional charge, on its municipal wireless networks in select cities throughout the United States.
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PGP Corporation, a global
leader in enterprise data protection, today announced it has closed $27.3
million in Series C funding.
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Joost™, the world's first broadcast-quality Internet television service, has signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the world's leading talent and literary agency. CAA will assist Joost in its efforts to secure the most compelling and entertaining content for distribution on the online entertainment platform.
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Many of the world's leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth.
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Neomedia's patented qode technology provides consumer-oeiented companies and enterprise organizations the ability to link their products and services direct to specific web pages on the mobile internet.
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Citizendium, a project aimed at creating a new free encyclopedia online, announced today that a beta version is now available to the general public.
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Yahoo! oneSearch has reinvented the mobile search experience for consumers, and today Yahoo! opened it up to publishers through Yahoo! Mobile Publishers Services.
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In the coming weeks, AOL will be starting a new beta test for the Web Suite that will include expanded integration of AIM.
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Wii owners have been able to download a improved version of the Opera Internet browser.
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Yahoo! Inc. released Yahoo! Widgets 4 which marks the release of the new Flickr Widget.
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