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Combating the TiVo Effect: Does the Web Have the Answers?

As personal technology goes, Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) are more than just a replacement for tape-based VCRs: They're a boon to TV watchers and the enemy of the traditional 30-second television advertising spot, for decades the single most powerful and lucrative form of brand advertising ...

Yahoo Shares Hammered After Earnings Report, Ad Platform Delay

Shares of Yahoo traded lower by nearly 20 percent Wednesday morning as investors and analysts digested an on-target earnings announcement overshadowed by word that the launch of its long-awaited self-service advertising platform would be delayed ...

Microsoft, Nortel Partner on Unified Communications Push

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a partnership with Nortel, its latest effort to put its applications in the center of a unified communications approach that combines Microsoft software with Nortel communications gear ...

Gambling Site CEO, Founder Indicted in Web Betting Crackdown

With debate over the regulation of online gambling continuing in Congress, law enforcement sent a clear message that existing laws would be aggressively enforced Monday by seeking the arrest of both the CEO and the founder of a leading online sports betting site ...

Movielink to Offer DVD-Burning Capability

In a move that could help unlock the potential for selling feature-length movies over the Internet, Movielink Monday said it had reached an agreement to license technology allowing downloaded movies to be burned onto DVDs by users ...

Movielink Adds DVD-Burning Capability

In a move that could help unlock the potential for selling feature-length movies over the Internet, Movielink Monday said it had reached an agreement to license technology allowing downloaded movies to be burned onto DVDs by users ...

With Google on Scene, Yahoo Gives Finance Site a Facelift

Looking to retain its lead in one area where it has a significant advantage on its portal rivals, Yahoo said Monday it would add new features and products as part of a redesign of its Finance site ...

Dell Revamps Pricing to Reduce ‘Confusing’ Rebate Offers

Dell said Thursday it would change the way it prices its personal computers, drastically reducing the number of rebate offers ...

SAP Misses Targets, Opens Door for Oracle

Shares of German software giant SAP were battered Thursday after the company warned that earnings and revenue would fall short of forecasts. The announcement fed speculation that rival Oracle's aggressive growth-by-acquisition strategy has started to erode SAP's market share ...

EU Says Sony-Bertelsmann Merger Approved in Error

The European Union's second-highest court has struck down the regulatory approval of the merger of Sony Music and the music business of Bertelsmann nearly two years after the deal was completed ...

EU Not Bluffing, Fines Microsoft $357 Million

Antitrust regulators from the European Union (EU) levied a US$357 million fine against Microsoft for failing to comply with an earlier order to reduce the impact of its Windows monopoly ...

House Passes Bill That Could Ban Internet Gambling

As expected, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would clear the way for a crackdown on Internet gambling ...

Lucent to Miss Forecast, Cut 9,000 Jobs

Lucent Technologies warned Monday that lower sales in North America would cause its revenue and profit to drop from a year ago for the quarter that ended in June ...

Court Says Editing DVDs for Content Is Illegal

Though well-intentioned, services that scrub potentially offensive material from DVDs and then resell them as family-friendly versions are violating copyright laws, a court has ruled ...

Microsoft Faces More Fines From EU

The European Commission is poised to raise the limit on daily fines that Microsoft may face if it does not bring itself into compliance with remedies aimed at addressing its past antitrust behavior on the continent ...

eBay Blocks Google Checkout as Payment Option

eBay has determined the Google Checkout system, which launched last week after months of speculation, is not an acceptable form of payment for eBay auctions or fixed-price sales ...

With Toys ‘R’ Us Gone, Amazon Opens Its Own Kid-Focused Stores

With the fallout from its messy divorce with Toys "R" Us still reverberating around the Internet, Amazon.com on Thursday launched replacements for what was one of the most popular departments in its virtual mega-store ...

Intel Places Bet on WiMax Market

Just two weeks after selling a major portion of its mobile communications chip business, Intel said Wednesday it would invest US$600 million into a WiMax services provider that previously had designs on an IPO ...

Google Threatens Antitrust Action if Two-Tiered Internet Emerges

With legislative attempts to mandate so-called "network neutrality" sputtering,Google said it would use existingantitrust laws to require that cable companies and telcos carry its services to consumers if necessary ...

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BlinkxTV Founder Suranga Chandratillake on the Future of Online Video Search

In the competitive world of the Internet circa 2006, text is getting plenty of company. In addition to other forms of content that are crowding the printed word, the Internet is rapidly becoming populated with video -- from viral-style clips and home movies to classic TV reruns ...

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