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Report: Pay-on-demand Will Provide Revenue For Net Content
News Currently most content sites have adopted the subscription model with pay-on-demand limited to adult and news sites. Datamonitor predicts consumers will drive the uptake of pay-on-demand models, mainly because of the freedom it offers.
[June 1, 1999, 14:44]
Training 'gamble' On Linux Begins To Pay Off
News QA Training has said that is starting to see some demand from larger organisations in the nascent market for Linux training services. Alina Swietochowska, a principal technologist at QA, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the decision to start Linux...
[October 14, 2004, 14:45]
Salesforce Offers Hosted Accounting Software
News Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software without having to pay for a full-scale application. They can then bring out applications and tools...
[May 6, 2008, 17:25]
IBM Expands 'on-demand' Computing
News IBM plans to add muscle to its "on-demand" computing push on Thursday with the debut of several efforts designed to help it defend its position of power in the technology world. The new efforts span Big Blue's storage, software and server lines and...
[May 1, 2003, 7:47]
IBM And Akamai Expand On-demand Deal
News IBM and Akamai Technologies have expanded an existing deal to let companies run business applications on Akamai's hosted Web network, as part of IBM's vision for utility -- or on-demand -- computing. The deal between IBM and Akamai was motivated in...
[December 11, 2003, 11:35]
Compaq Copies HP Pricing Plan
News The initiative, called "computing on demand," is part of Compaq's "major shift" to offset sluggish PC sales and a slowing economy by moving away from hardware and focusing its efforts on software and services--being paid to handle the headaches of...
[July 18, 2001, 13:48]
ADSL For £20 A Month
News Normally £150, Homechoice customers pay £80 or £40 if they take the video-on-demand service. It has a bandwidth of 115kbps up and downstream but users will also get access to video-on-demand services.
[September 29, 2000, 12:14]
KPNQwest Network Nears Closure As Legal Battle Looms
News The banking consortium will demand a court inquiry into discrepancies in KPNQwest's accounts, according to a report in Monday's Financial Times. This call joins that of KPNQwest bondholders who have made the same demand of KPN and Qwest, following...
[June 24, 2002, 12:36]
Unisys Adds Server Expansion Option
News The idea, called capacity on demand, generally means a server ships with more processors than a customer pays for. The capacity for on-demand technology has been available in Unix servers from IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems as well as...
[June 8, 2005, 16:40]
Counting The Cost Of Counterfeiting
Talkback Now if it was the case that the true market demand was that, yes, we want our consumer rights restricted, yes, we want fewer civilian rights, yes, we like to pay whatever extra tax we can on hardware purchased, yes, we want second rate support...
[May 23, 2006, 21:27]
Exclusive: BT Announces ADSL Prices
News Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is seen by experts as a crucial driver for e-commerce, giving British businesses and consumers high speed and always-on Net access as well as a plethora of multimedia services such as video-on-demand.
[December 2, 1999, 11:53]
Tech Companies Try Cutting Costs - Without Layoffs
News WeÂ’re limiting overtime pay in manufacturing because demand has dropped," Aylesworth said during a speech at the Banc of America Securities' Technology Conference in San Francisco. One action the company won't take is cutting the prices on its...
[February 9, 2001, 10:31]
Salesforce.com Cashes In On Application Market
News Salesforce.com on Tuesday is expected to unveil its long-awaited plan for generating revenue from its on-demand applications marketplace AppExchange. Salesforce, a pioneer in on-demand applications, plans to introduce its AppStore, which is...
[December 12, 2006, 8:15]
Friaco Not To Blame For Broadband Fiasco, Says AOL
News BT's defence has been that it has offered broadband but there has been little demand, perhaps because many users find flat-rate access adequate and do not want to pay a premium on top. The study demolishes the ideas that there is little demand for...
[December 5, 2001, 9:43]
BT Applies For Broadcasting Licence
News HomeChoice uses high-speed Internet connections to provide television -- including video-on-demand -- to its customers, who pay between £6 and £18 per month, depending on the package they choose. Danish company StreamBuster is working with three...
[November 2, 2001, 11:02]
IBM Announces Hosted Application Plan
News We're providing new resources focused on helping ISVs respond to customer demand for hosted software, and also, as a combination with more traditional models, [focused on helping] partners move in the direction that suits them best.
[May 26, 2005, 16:20]
Studios Sue Defunct $1 Movie Site
News Calling the site a "piratical, virtual 'video-on-demand' business", the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and its member studios sued the company and an individual allegedly associated with it in a California federal court.
[July 11, 2002, 7:38]
Salary Outlook Remains Grim
News On the bright side, wage increases are expected in high-demand specialties such as information security and systems audit, the IT staffing company said in the report. There is strong demand for IT professionals who can manage everything from...
[November 7, 2003, 8:10]
Microsoft Proposes Open Source Alliance
News According to Microsoft, the invitation was made to the head of the OSDL, Stuart Cohen, by Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, Martin Taylor, and comes in response to demand from Microsoft customers for third-party research on how the...
[August 25, 2005, 8:35]
SAP And The Future Of Software
News Nonetheless, all this talk of on-demand seems to be bringing a sea change to the way customers want to pay for their software. You can do this on-demand for certain areas and certain functions, but not for everything.
[April 18, 2006, 14:55]
