AdaptiveMobile, , the leading security provider of mobile subscriber protection for enterprises and individuals, today recommends mobile operators step-up security for their subscribers, as it witnesses a ...
Poor coverage and unworkable business models have plagued many municipal Wi-Fi projects, but the city of Lompoc, California, says managing subscribers was one of the things it needed to improve before getting ...
Kurt Kroner is the man behind the defining example of the greatest advertising campaign of the century, says Bob Garfield.
He wasn’t the copywriter. That was Julian Koenig. Nor was he the art director. That was Helmut Krone. Nor was he elsewhere employed by Doyle Dane Bernbach, the agency that stormed the confining Bastille of advertising orthodoxy to ignite the “creative revolution.”Actually, our hero wasn’t in advertising at all.
Kurt Kroner was the one, among 3,389 Wolfsburg, Germany, assembly plant workers, to flag a blemished chrome strip on the glove compartment of a 1961 Volkswagen Beetle and reject the vehicle for delivery. Yes, if we are to believe Koenig’s copy, Herr Kroner gave us the famously failed and fabulously forlorn. . . “Lemon.”
It was Bob Garfield, pundit for Ad Age and NPR’s On The Media, that smashed media complacency three years ago with his brilliant essay, The Chaos Scenario (MP-3)
He accurately predicted the impending demise of traditional media and the substantial migration of advertising online where it’s both harder to reach consumers and easier to target them.
The revolution may be televised — by widgets. Today National Public Radio announced the “first Open API introduced by a major national media organization.” They’ll roll it out at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon, next week.
BROADBAND WORLD FORUM ASIA 2008 -- Motorola, Inc. today announced that two of its innovative broadband solutions have been awarded the InfoVision Award, presented by the International Engineering Consortium at ...
Nearly 4 billion years ago, much of the surface of Mars was like a soppy carpet. The planet was covered by a thick atmosphere, and it was warm but not exactly picturesque. Those conditions, an international team of three dozen scientists has concluded, could have supported primitive forms of life.
However, over time — some 800 million years — Mars dried up and took on the rocky, desert-like appearance that exists today.
The scientists’ findings, which appear in Thursday’s edition of the British journal Nature, are based on mineralogy data collected by the Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has circled the Red Planet since March 2006.
Meanwhile, on the planet’s surface, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully drilled into the rock-hard ice layer below the Martian surface and collected the frozen shavings in its robotic arm scoop, NASA said on Wednesday.
Searching for water on other worlds is thought to be a key step toward finding life, and understanding how the water cycle takes place on Mars will help scientists make more accurate predictions.
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What’s the mobile killer app? That was the question at Silicon South-West’s recent conference ‘Wireless 2.0‘ in Bristol, England.
To which Dr. Tony Milbourn, CEO of Camitri, replied: “What is the iconic application that makes things happen?” Do people want the Swiss Army Knife or discrete functionality?”
David Wood, founder and executive vice president of Symbian, in 77 million smartphones last year, wanted “a killer app to drive buyer take-up.”
And he had a few ideas:
“DoCoMo takes a very modest share of the revenue from applications - say 10 per cent”, said Wood, “Western operators like a much larger share and that drives developers out.”
Eamonn O’Neill, Director of the University of Bath’s mobile projects, reckoned the killer app is in supporting groups of people, rather than in the one-person-to-one-person interaction of today’s mobile Internet. Bath University has developed a sharing application called Cityware.
Half the population of Earth now has a mobile phone while one billion have access to the Internet. The next billion or two will be enabled by small, cheap devices and broadband wireless.
Apple’s WebApp Store offers a clear vision of the future. Open source communities are now forming around Android, LiMO, Open Moko and Symbian.
Open the box.
Panasonic Computer Solutions Co. upgraded its semi-rugged desktop replacement Toughbook CF-52 and mobile workhorse Toughbook CF-74 to incorporate the new Intel Centrino 2 processor technology and also expand ...
An agreement would be at best weeks away, CNBC said, citing people familiar with the talks.
Sprint shares closed up 9 percent at $9.04.
U.S.-listed shares of SK Telecom, Korea's largest mobile-phone service operator by subscriber numbers, fell 2 percent to $20.67.
Sprint spokesman James Fisher had no comment on the report. No SK Telecom representatives were available in the early morning hours, Korean time.
CNBC reported that private-equity firms would provide financing for the deal, since SK Telecom's market value is about half of Sprint's $22.6 billion.
Sprint has been losing subscribers for some time, but it's still the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., with 52.8 million subscribers at the end of the first quarter. Its stock has lost half its value in the last year, and there have been reports that the company has been talking to other possible acquirers, like T-Mobile USA.
Bank of America analyst David Barden said that CNBC's report reflected that Sprint's board "is prudently and consistently evaluating all its options." He believes the company is more likely to try to press ahead with a turnaround plan.
Walter Piecyk, an analyst with Pali Research, said on his firm's blog that it was more likely that SK Telecom was seeking to make an investment in Sprint. It is believed to have offered $5 billion last November but was ultimately rebuffed.
"The lack of liquidity in the capital markets would make an outright purchase difficult for a company the size of SK Telecom no matter how many private-equity companies would be involved," Piecyk wrote.
SK Telecom has been trying to get a beachhead in the U.S. for some time. In 2006, it launched Helio, a joint venture with EarthLink Inc. that aimed...
Investors viewed the chipmaker's favorable results as a sign that global PC demand is healthy despite a sputtering U.S. economy that has depressed some domestic spending. Intel CEO Paul Otellini said demand for Intel's chips remains strong "in all segments and all parts of the globe." Three-quarters of Intel's business is outside the U.S.
Intel shares rose 23 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $20.94 in after-hours trading. They had risen 24 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $20.71 in the regular session before the Santa Clara-based company reported its results.
Intel said its net income was $1.6 billion, or 28 cents per share, in the three-month period ending June 28.
That was 3 cents per share higher than what analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were expecting. It was a 25 percent jump from the $1.28 billion, or 22 cents per share, that Intel earned a year ago.
Intel is profiting from surging global demand for laptops and the processors that power them, though lower prices for some of the fastest-growing models drove down Intel's closely watched average selling price in the latest quarter.
However, Intel can absorb the trend easier than smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. because Intel has made a faster switch to a new manufacturing process that lowers the cost of making each chip.
Intel is the world's No. 1 supplier of microprocessors, the electronic brains of personal computers. Intel commands about 80 percent of the market, with AMD owning roughly the other 20 percent.
Intel has been taking market share from AMD in recent quarters with a more robust product lineup. Meanwhile, AMD has been hurt by lengthy product delays and the substantial debt it took on to finance its $5.6 billion acquisition...
The world's No. 1 mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. on Thursday said profits fell 61 percent in the second quarter from the same period a year ago, when the company booked a large gain from a joint venture with ...
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