It's not unusual for retiring professors to give a last lecture. When Carnegie Mellon University's Randy Pausch gave his, he wasn't retiring. He was dying of pancreatic cancer.His now
A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry Monday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads of movies and TV shows posed a huge threat to profits from DVD sales that the companies rely on. The
Shares of VMware plunged 25 percent Tuesday after the software maker replaced cofounder and CEO Diane Greene and warned that revenue would fall short of prior estimates. VMware, which is controlled by data-management provider EMC, has fallen mightily since a
A body was removed from a remote area of the Oakland, Calif., hills after a prominent computer programmer about to be sentenced for killing his missing wife led investigators to the site, authorities said Tuesday. Hans Reiser's attorney said the
DreamWorks Animation is teaming up with Intel to build a new kind of 3-D moviemaking technology. The two companies have formed a strategic alliance in which Intel will provide both hardware and software for the Hollywood giant. The move marks
Enterprises have long sought ways to add real-time communications to business applications to improve customer interactions, streamline workflows, more quickly respond to critical events and more efficiently execute time-sensitive transactions. Integrating interactive communications with software applications and business processes, however,
LeadPoint, the world's first lead exchange marketplace, today announced that it has launched a new user interface which will enable lead buyers to maximise their return on investment from buying leads. "LeadPoint is committed to making lead buying as easy
Zeus offers channel widest choice of form factor in application delivery solutions --Santa Clara, CA, 08 July, 2008 - Zeus Technology, a leading provider of application delivery controller software announced it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN
Reading, UK - 8 July 2008: DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Crafty Arts to deliver managed hosting services. As part of the contract DediPower will host the Crafty Arts eCommerce website.
On June 30, data security standards set by the Payment Card Industry became mandatory for organizations that handle online credit card payments. This is a significant milestone in the ongoing push to strengthen online security as these important standards have
We live in interesting times. According to Gartner Research VP Robert Anderson, if all the people on the MySpace virtual community banded together, they'd form the eighth largest country in the world. Never before in history could people create such
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BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(AllPayNews)--Comdata® Corporation, a leader in payment innovation, has named Tracey Power senior vice president of human resources.read more
RIVERWOODS, Ill., Jul 01, 2008 (AllPayNews) -- Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Diners Club International from Citi (NYSE: C).read more
Sending customers a welcome email message after they have registered on your site, or chosen to receive newsletters, is generally accepted as good practice. But a recent survey found that 60% of firms weren't doing so, while many others were
Chris Anderson's 2006 book, "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More ," didn't take long to go from the "tail" to the "head."The popularity of Anderson's book is due to the fact that its
eBay has posted a letter to its 14m UK users detailing its fight against counterfeits and claiming it is a defender of e-commerce against the threat of uncompetitive commercial practices. The letter, signed by 'Doug' (European SVP Doug McCallum), follows
Any product or service, to be profitable, needs proper marketing. Proper marketing entails not only introducing the product or service to the market but doing it in such a way that promotes it. Effective marketing shows people that a product
