It’s late evening in Carlsbad, Calif., site of the Wall Street Journal’s fifth annual D conference, an expensive and exclusive meeting of technology and media bigwigs. It has been a day full of acquisition announcements (News Corp. picked up Photobucket, CBS bought last.fm) and the extremely high level of self-regard you expect from technology and…
Microsoft is set to unveil its next generation of handsets and telephony devices that tie into the current beta trials of Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007. Notable partners in the venture (unveiled at WinHEC this year) include ASUSTek Computer Inc., GN, LG-Nortel Co. Ltd., NEC Corp., Plantronics Inc., Polycom Inc., SAMSUNG, Tatung…
US soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a department of defence policy that a high-ranking army official said would take effect today. The defence department will begin blocking access worldwide to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular websites on its computers and networks,…
The worldwide mobile marketing and advertising market is expected to be worth $3 billion in 2007, according to market research firm ABI Research. The market will balloon to $19 billion by 2011, the firm said in a study published Tuesday. The bulk of the revenue will be generated by advertising through mobile search and video….