ONLINE: InformationWeek spoke to an employee of Psystar, the company responsible for the previously reported $399 Mac Clone. The employee known as “Robert” claims that they will challenge Apple’s Mac OS X End User License Agreement (EULA) which specifically prohibits the installation of Mac OS X on non Apple-branded machines.
ONLINE: According to a new report from telecom research firm Berg Insight, more than 100 million mobile subscribers in Europe will use location-based services by 2012. Mapping, navigation and search are believed to become the top applications, followed by social networking and tracking. “All the pieces needed for successful LBS are more or less in […]
Online: U.S. variety retailer Dollar General is hoping that just one screen per store will provide a focus for promotions across a range of media including print and online, designed to increase sales of consumables such as colas.
ISLAMABAD: In a series of expeditions, Namira Salim, the first Pakistani astronaut has just concluded a visit to Kiruna, Sweden, with Virgin Galactic.
ONLINE: Yahoo, after years of battling Internet rival Google for online advertising, said it would launch a limited test of Google’s AdSense for Search service.
ONLINE: A UK digital-advertising company that specialises in placing high-impact installations in vacant shop windows is set to open an office in Dubai – and branch out into a number of other territories.
ONLINE: Destination Television in the U.S. is to sell local and regional advertising on the PharmaSee TV network, broadening Destination’s offer to general and lifestyle advertisers while leaving the national pharmaceuticals business to PharmaSee.
ONLINE: Digital-signage networks using Adobe’s new Media Player to show content could be in breach of the software company’s licence agreement – as hundreds of networks already using Adobe’s Flash are also believed to be.
KARACHI: KalSoft Pvt Ltd has successfully concluded Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan’s (DIBPL) migration of Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007, along with Disaster Recovery and Unified Messaging. According to a press release issued here Tuesday, the aim of this implementation was to enhance DIBPL’s electronic communications by empowering them with the latest technology upgrades […]
(Reuters) - Internet services company VeriSign Inc said registry fees for .com and .net domain names would increase as per its agreements with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), effective October 1.