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Monthly Archives: March 2009

03.25.09 / EBay Goes Back to Its Roots—Kind Of

EBay will abandon its attempt to compete in the retail ecommerce world for new goods with giants like Amazon.com, and revert to its flea market roots, reports the Wall Street Journal.  The site, however, will sell in the “secondary market”—used … Read more »

03.25.09 / Develop It Once, Run It Anywhere, Key Theme at SWANH Mobile Application Platform Symposium

Decreasing the total cost of development and deployment . . . lowering the complexity . . . leveraging standard technologies and tools.  With hundreds of mobile phone service providers, thousands of devices, and scores of operating systems to choose from, … Read more »

03.25.09 / OnLive to Leverage Cloud and Broadband to Provide Real-Time Gaming

Traditional video game console makers like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, beware. WebTV founder Steve Perlman has you in his sights. OnLive, formed by Perlman and Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is looking to go live after seven years in development.  The … Read more »

03.24.09 / Skype to Enter Corporate Market

The Wall Street Journal reports that Skype is set to announce Skype for SIP, a version of its popular internet telephone call software for corporations.  The new software is expected to allow employees to make domestic and international calls via … Read more »

03.24.09 / Google to Use Behavioral Advertising to Place Display and Text Ads

Long a sideline sitter on the behavioral advertising playing field, web giant Google will now start selling display and text ads using behavioral advertising, reports the Wall Street Journal.  The practice, which places advertising on the web pages a user … Read more »

03.24.09 / Will an Apple App Help Save Sirius XM?

A few weeks ago, Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin blamed the company’s fourth quarter 2008 subscriber numbers in part on the “gloom and doom” surrounding Sirius XM’s financial position.  While Liberty Media’s acquisition of a 40% stake in the company … Read more »

03.23.09 / Developing Mobile Applications: SWANH Helps Separate the Wheat from the Chaff

The Apple iPhone may not have been the first smart phone released into the marketplace, but just like the Apple iPod did for portable digital music players, the iPhone seized hold of the concept and established its dominance in the … Read more »

03.23.09 / SmartReply Acquires mSnap

The mobile advertising industry is becoming more consolidated, reports the Wall Street Journal, as SmartReply, a designer of telephone and email marketing programs for retailers, announced that is acquiring mSnap, a mobile advertising firm.  Under the terms of the deal, … Read more »

03.23.09 / Government Using Web to Promote Transparency . . . Slowly . . .

Often, government is at the tip of the technology spear—think weaponry, for instance.  So why is it that government is so slow in grasping the idea that the internet—primarily via the web and through the social networking paradigm—would be, for … Read more »

03.20.09 / Cisco Flips for $590 Million

Cisco, the world’s largest maker of the switches and routers that make up the nerve system of the internet, has taken another step towards becoming a major player in the consumer electronics department by buying Pure Digital Technologies, the maker … Read more »