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Blog As befits a mover and shaker of the media world, she lives in North London -- home, this Christmas, of mad axe-murdering bin bag operatives, a spot of ad-hoc ricin neurotoxin production, and the UK's longest armed siege.
[January 10, 2003, 16:22]
Forrester acquires tech researcher
News It had already sold its AdRelevance online ad measurement business to Nielsen/NetRatings. Research firms that study the tech industry have faced the same problems as the companies they're analysing -- a sagging economy and the resulting doldrums...
[January 21, 2003, 14:21]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback Anti-spyware applications (and I mean GOOD anti-spyware apps) such as Ad-Aware, Spybot, or Spy Sweeper are an additional cost. Figure on spending money on a good anti-spyware package. As I read the comments on this forum, I have noticed a lot of...
[December 10, 2005, 17:45]
Mobile Device convergence - is gaming on phone devices a step to far?
Blog Dave: PlayStation phone - I imagine it will be similar to the PSP or simply an ad-on for the PSP Dave: Nokia are spending a fortune on promoting their new N-Gage platform and compatible handsets I am being terribly lazy and rather than write an...
[June 26, 2008, 18:03]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Talkback I can make the configuration change in under 5 minutes with an AD domain, and Group Policy. Who wants to be spending days just going around to each computer just to enact a change like that? This article, like many others that have come before it...
[November 29, 2005, 15:00]
Newspapers hit back at online jobs sites
News This week's deals come amid a sharp decline in newspapers' overall classified-recruitment ad revenue, which dropped by half, from $8.7bn (£5.38bn) in 2000 to $4.3bn in 2002, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).
[August 8, 2003, 12:35]
What a waste of money
Talkback Rather than throw millions more at the Ad-men, why not spend it on the product before it's release and get it right. Maybe they could try spending the money towards a Green System, where they produce a system which doesn't require vast swathes of...
[February 5, 2008, 16:13]
Anti-Unix site drawing a blank
News One ad reads: "No wonder Unix makes you feel boxed in. Unisys is spending $25m (£17.5m) on the campaign. When it comes to Unix, Microsoft and Unisys are suddenly silent. The two companies launched a Web site earlier this week seeking to persuade...
[April 3, 2002, 9:05]
COAST slips into the night
News LavaSoft, which produces the popular Ad-Aware software, has also quit the group having been a member since the start. The company said it will be spending the money on improving its route-to-market. A global anti-spyware initiative consisting of a...
[February 9, 2005, 12:15]
Italian regulators open Google News inquiry
News Marissa Mayer, Google's vice-president of search products and user experience, appeared before the US Congress in May to defend the company against such charges, and said it directs an awful lot of traffic — which can be turned into ad revenue...
[August 28, 2009, 11:44]
Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
News Despite the hype generated by Microsoft's unavoidable 'Get the Facts' ad campaign, the reality is that government agencies often see the actual cost of open source software as less important than other factors — such as adopting open standards...
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Government digital TV plans under threat
News But advertising revenues to ONdigital's parents, ITV and Carlton, are falling due to larger economic factors, with ad revenue down one percent this year, and both companies' share prices are nearly half of what they were a year ago.
[April 10, 2001, 16:02]
MSN searches for leverage
News We run our own ad server and we serve billions of ads a day. MSN wants to roughly quadruple its share of the total media-spending business in the next five years. Can Microsoft's MSN Web portal become all things to all people?
[April 6, 2004, 12:20]
Yahoo to cut over 1,400 jobs as profits slump
News As we saw the online ad market decline in the third quarter, I decided Yahoo needed to accelerate the process of getting more competitive," chief executive Jerry Yang said in a conference call. The company is also under pressure from the prevailing...
[October 22, 2008, 8:46]
Lycos lays off fifth of staff
News Sources inside the company said many members of its US ad sales team were laid off on Monday, along with the engineering and Webmonkey staff in San Francisco; employees of financial-services site Quote.com and others in the Mountain View offices...
[February 12, 2004, 15:20]
PayPal, Picnik partner up with Yahoo Mail
News But the upshot is that by providing incentives to stick around on Yahoo, the company is making it more likely that you will stumble upon something else at Yahoo, such as an ad or another service that drives a search query: 98 percent of Yahoo's...
[June 8, 2009, 8:28]
Warchalking: London Wi-Fi guerrillas take tips from hobos
News But warchalking is remarkable because it is based on an ad hoc process of people discovering Wi-Fi nodes -- whether commercial or not -- and signalling their presence with chalk symbols. By using chalk, warchalkers should be able to avoid the fate...
[June 26, 2002, 14:48]
IT contractors face tough times Down Under
News He cites an ad he put on an IT job site in early December for a helpdesk role -- within 24 hours it had elicited more than 140 responses. That points back to the fact that most organisations aren't spending money on new IT projects, so there's not...
[February 1, 2002, 16:13]
Google's results are no cause for concern
News The company has proposed a $3.1bn cash acquisition of online ad company DoubleClick, which would give it a needed boost in the display advertising market. Looks like the Googlers got a little ahead of themselves with spending.
[July 20, 2007, 11:12]
AOL: belle of the ball?
News AOL is Google's biggest affiliate partner, and the search giant makes roughly 12 percent of its ad revenue from paid listings delivered to AOL Search in the United States and abroad. But Wall Street analysts say they'd be uncomfortable with the...
[October 14, 2005, 11:30]
