[2005-05-31] Too Little Too Late: Arthur Andersen Conviction Overturned
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) overturned the 2002 obstruction-of-justice charge against the one-time accounting juggernaut Arthur Andersen. The once proud firm got caught up in the Enron scandal as their accounting firm and after the 2002 ruling, fell apart at the seams.
[2005-05-30] T-Mobile Says No Buy Outs Planned
Deutsche Telekom U.S. mobile division, T-Mobile USA, discussed the future for the company in the coming months and years and said there are no mergers planned in their future. They plan on growing the business and concentrating on what the future has to offer.
[2005-05-30] Oh Cecilia: You’re Breakin’ Yahoo’s Heart
One Ms. Cecilia Barnes, 48, levied a lawsuit against Internet giant Yahoo. She charges they let nude photos of her taken by an ex boyfriend linger too long in their files. The gentlemen in question perpetrated fraud by creating a false account using her information and posting photos of her in the buff that he took when they were together.
[2005-05-26] Mapping In the Virtual World: Waypoints Worth Mentioning
Microsoft just announced the launch of their Virtual Earth service through MSN. The new mapping service gives users some unique perspectives by adding high quality Pictometry photography to the standard mapping fare. This will allow users to see storefronts whether they go looking for a McDonalds or a Hard Rock Café.
[2005-05-25] Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox360, Nintendo Revolution Available Release Dates
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all let a lot of information fly at the E3 with regard to their new gaming consoles. The specs of these systems are awesome. They've got WiFi and wireless and downloadable systems, massive multiplayer options inside the home or over the network. The visual capabilities will be stunning with the HD graphics capability hooked up to a new Samsung HDTV designed for the gaming experience.
[2005-05-25] Oil Prices Skyrocket over $51 A Barrel
Light sweet crude kicked it up a notch when the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) reported a drop in crude inventories for only the second time in last 3 months. Futures traded as high as $51.65 in New York on midday ticks. North Sea Brent crude was also trading up over a dollar at 50.15.
[2005-05-25] Caspian Sea Oil Flows Free
An 1100-mile pipeline opened up today and will pump a million barrels of oil a day when it reaches capacity. A consortium led by BP and funded heavily by the U.S. hopes this new pipeline will help reduce western dependence on middle-eastern oil.
[2005-05-25] Buffet and Energy: Done Deal
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company closed the deal with Scottish Power PLC to buy PacifiCorp for a cool $9.4 billion. The deal will tweak the power of 3 million electric and natural gas customers in 10 contiguous states and 6.6 million customers worldwide.
[2005-05-23] Apple Gets Peeled on Batteries
Apple announced a recall of 128,000 batteries in their G4 Ibook and PowerBook computers released in the last 8 months. The problem stem from a possible fire hazard. This makes the second recall of Apple batteries in the last 12 months.
[2005-05-23] A Business Model For Podcasting
Software veteran Dan Bricklin (remember VisiCalc?) started podcasting last week...
[2005-05-20] Ballmer to RSS Enthusiasts: Chill
Steve Ballmer spoke at a conference recently about RSS. He threw some water on the RSS party.
[2005-05-18] Blog Coaching - A Holistic Approach
JSLogan has a rant about Blog Coaching - The Next Big Rip Off In The Business Blogosphere...
[2005-05-18] June Crude Plummets After Energy Report
Light sweet crude began plummet after the weekly report from the U.S. Dept. of Energy on Wednesday morning. After going to $49.35 earlier in the day, the price dropped to $47.65 quickly after the report was issued. Gasoline futures also saw a penny drop to $1.42 a gallon.
[2005-05-18] PalmOne’s Loaded LifeDrive
PalmOne introduced their newest entry into the PDA market called the LifeDrive. The LifeDrive has a 4Gb hard drive, Bluetooth and WiFi technology built into the little device.
[2005-05-17] Vlogs - Video Blogs - The Next Big Thing On the Internet
Mainstream print and broadcast media (newspapers, news magazines, trade journals, radio, TV) are rapidly losing their role as the privileged gatekeepers of news and entertainment.
[2005-05-17] Oil Prices Steady While Saudis Cover Supply
Light sweet crude settled at $48.97 up 36 cents for the day on Tuesday after dropping to $47.60 on Monday. Prices steadied today after promises to cover demand from OPEC and Saudi Arabia and expectations of U.S. inventory growth in the U.S. Dept. of Energy Report on Wednesday.
[2005-05-16] Your Site Needs a Call To Action
The Web is task focused. The best websites get to the point. They ruthlessly eliminate waffle and happy talk. They focus on helping people complete key tasks as quickly as possible.
[2005-05-16] Are You Being Scammed By Your Web Design Company?
This is a growing concern amongst many business owners. Does your web design company own you? This may be possible if you've allowed them to host your web site for you and also register your domain name for your company.
[2005-05-16] Are You in for a Safe Landing? - PPC Landing Pages
You've paid for your ticket and your ads are up on Google AdWords and Yahoo's Overture, but have you set up a safe landing for your clients?
[2005-05-14] BlogLogic.net - Calling it Quits?
Sad news today - Paul from the Blog Logic looks like he's calling it quits with his emerging network due to some pretty full on financial problems.
[2005-05-13] Light Sweet Crude Makes Nice Sweet Drop
Light sweet crude dropped briefly below the $48 mark to 47.95 before heading back up $48.20 this morning. Brent North Sea crude is up 12 cents in London to $48.40 a barrel and gasoline futures down slightly at just over a penny a gallon.
[2005-05-12] Cornell Takes Next Robotic Leap
Robots can now build more robots, at least on a simplistic level. Hod Lipson and his team at Cornell University developed a group of robots that can replicate themselves. It's considered a major breakthrough in robotics and while it may seem simple now, the future certainly looks bright.
[2005-05-12] 2 Megapixels of Phone Fun From Samsung and Sprint
Sprint and Samsung announced a new breakthrough for the camera/phone market today so now when Little Richard shows up at your local bowling alley and complains about the attire, you can get the image in 2 megapixels of detail and hand 4"x6"s to your friends.
[2005-05-12] Oil Futures Tank Amid Rising Inventories and Lower Demand
Light sweet crude plummets this morning after reports from the IEA yesterday that demand worldwide was down substantially from last year. The price of light sweet crude in New York went down as low as $49.10, over a dollar less from the close yesterday.
[2005-05-12] The Holes Are Going To Go! Go Go Mozilla
Mozilla put out the updated version of Firefox version 1.0.4 and with it corrected two recently found flaws. Mozilla worked quickly to fix the problems and released the new version this week.
[2005-05-11] Wildcat Icahn Latches Onto Blockbuster Board
Corporate raider Carl Icahn and his two associates won seats on the Blockbuster board today after a heated battle with CEO John Antioco. The battle had been raging for weeks after Icahn bought up significant share in the video rental company to make him the lead stockholder.
[2005-05-11] OASIS Works on Reliable Messaging Specs
OASIS continues its work in developing universal standards with another breakthrough announcement. The massive consortium that is OASIS said their member groups have agreed to work toward a web services reliable messaging (WS-RM).
[2005-05-11] Web Advertsing: Its All About the Click Thrus!
Working in research and development for a large infomercial company, I had many opportunities to do large advertising campaigns with lots of different online advertising agencies and Internet marketing companies. I would literally go online for days researching companies and the types of advertising they offered to find just the right ones to meet the needs of our company.
[2005-05-10] GE Taps Into Ecomagination
Global corporate giant General Electric (GE) took the environmental initiative on Monday at George Washington University (GWU). GE president Jeff Immelt announced the ecomagination initiative. GE wants to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.
[2005-05-10] Publish The Website You Can Manage
Your job as a web manager must be about a relentless focus on quality. Always put quality first and you will create a website that delivers real and sustainable value.
[2005-05-10] Yahoo And ISS: Just What Do Those Corporations Do Anyway?
Yahoo comes with even more good information on its personal finance web site. They new offer access to the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and it should be a boon for small investors.
[2005-05-09] PalmOne Lifedrive: Bigger and Badder PDA
PalmOne let information about their new Lifedrive Mobile Manager slip out. This new PDA will have a lot of groovy features although not a huge amount is known about it yet.
[2005-05-09] Reuters Thailand Rides the Cisco Express
Cisco announced the today the worldwide news agency called Reuters deployed Thailand's Internet Protocol (IP) telephony site in Thailand with 700 Cisco IP Phone 7960Gs, Cisco IP Phone 7940Gs and Cisco Wireless IP Phone 7920s.
[2005-05-07] Microsoft Switches Gay-Rights Position Again
After being criticized by employees and gay-rights activists, Microsoft changed its position on a Washington state gay-rights bill.
[2005-05-06] PDAs: Climbing Back Out
PDA sales grew by a substantial 25% in the last quarter according to a new report from the Gartner research firm. Blackberry led the way growing exponentially in Western European sales, beating out traditional PDA frontrunner PalmOne and HP.
[2005-05-06] OpenOffice Is Open Season on MSOffice
Sun Microsystems and some volunteer programmers have done something wonderful. They come up with a FREE office suite program. It's got a word processing program called Writer that reads documents from Word and WordPerfect. It's got a spreadsheet program called Calc that will open will open Excel files.
[2005-05-06] Federal Court Ditches Flag Order
The Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. stomped the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today in a ruling saying the overstepped its authority in ordering electronics manufacturers from putting a "broadcast flag" device in television sets and other video recording devices.
[2005-05-05] I WANT MY YAHOO TV!
Yahoo took another search engine leap today by offering a video option when looking through Yahoo's search engine. With video clips from top names like CBS, Buena Vista Pictures(Disney), VH1, MTV and a whole host of others, Yahoo continues to add to their offerings.
[2005-05-04] Apple: Panther Sharpens Claws With New Update
Apple put out their latest security update (2005-005) on Tuesday. It has a number of fixes for OS X v10.3.9 and the Server v10.3.9. This patch provides a number of fixes for several systems including the following:
[2005-05-04] Sony Burns Up The DVD Burner Market
Sony added two new DVD burners to its offering in the 800 series. The internal DRU-800A and the external DRX-800UL burners support 4X DVD R Dual Layering technology and can burn roughly 8.5 gigs of video, audio or data onto a single DVD-R-UL. This will get you 4 hours of video.
[2005-05-03] ASA 5500 From Cisco Systems At Interop Helps Security
Networking juggernaut Cisco Systems Inc. will unveil their newest offering in the world of networking technology during Cisco CEO John Chambers' keynote address at Interop this morning. The ASA 5500 combines many new features in a sleek new device for organizations that like to one stop shop.
[2005-05-03] OASIS Takes Another Step on SOA
OASIS, the consortium of electronic business mega corporations, takes another step in its goal of international standards for the internet world. They announced the development of a committee to create a reference model for service-oriented-architectures (SOA-RM).
[2005-05-02] Go Go Mozilla: FireFox 50 Million Mark
Internet browser Firefox has hit the 50 million-download mark and continues to grow in the monopolistic environment created by software leviathan Microsoft. All these downloads happened in the short span of 171 days.
[2005-05-02] Rockets End an Era: SkyLarks and Titans
Britain ended an era with the launch of the 441st and final Skylark rocket. The rocket launched from Sweden and contains several experiments for the European Space Agency. This marks the end of nearly 50 years of British contributions to the exploration of space.
[2005-05-02] Mighty Morphin’ Namco Bandai
Bandai and Namco announced they would be merging in a $1.7 billion deal, making them stronger in the epic battles of Japanese toy companies. The merger would put them in the #3 spot of largest toy makers in Japan.