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Wired News Report
9:26 a.m. Nov. 30, 2005 PDT
Looking to boost the number of computers whirring away in living rooms, Intel unveiled its first list of companies whose products are expected to work with the c......more...Nokia Pierces Blackberry Brambles
... long-running antitrust suit that America Online, a unit of Time Warner (TWX), filed against Microsoft (MSFT).
Time Warner has been under pressure to boost its stock price, which has fallen 70 percent over the past five years. Corporate raider Carl Icahn this week said he planned to seek one or more......more... Microsoft Empire Strikes Back
...l phones may become the new way for the iPod masses to download and listen to music in the coming years, but wireless companies may not see much of a boost to their profits from selling such services.
Despite all the excitement about wireless song purchases, such mobile music is likely to deliver mu......more... New Intel a Media Mastermind
...ffering ideas on how to produce a higher-quality panel at a lower cost. But the basic panel technology would continue to come from Samsung.
Aiming to boost its TV sales, Sony also said it would introduce a new brand for its LCD TV sets called Bravia from this autumn. That would replace the Wega bran......more... Want a Coke With That Railgun?
... Mitchell Davis, CEO of Massive, a company that connects game companies with advertisers, told an audience Thursday that his studies show in-game ads boost brand recognition by 23 percent to 35 percent. By comparison, he explained, a good television campaign might net a 6 percent to 8 percent brand ......more... Wal-Mart Says, Make CDs Yourself
... will surpass Canon's offerings.
Nokia expects its new luxury Nseries handsets, which feature built-in hard drives and high-quality camera lenses, to boost sales by differentiating the company from its competitors and increasing its industry-leading margins.
Nokia (NOK) also unveiled its N91 multime......more... FDA Creates High Council
...s are going after would-be iPod buyers by building high-quality players into their handsets.
Mobile-phone makers and networks are looking for ways to boost their revenue given difficulties finding new customers in saturated industrialized markets and even in some developing countries.
Sony Ericsson ......more... Don't Call, I'm on the TV
...18 months of staunch resistance to Oracle's unrelenting advances and accepted its bitter rival's all-cash offer. Oracle believes the combination will boost its profits and help the company gain ground on the business applications software market's leader, Germany-based SAP.
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...ll get up to 250 MB of free storage, up from 100 MB previously offered by Yahoo (YHOO). The change follows the recent decision by Microsoft (MSFT) to boost the free storage on its Hotmail service to 250 MB per account.
Both Yahoo and Hotmail have dramatically increased their storage limits since Goo......more... |