The new platform, called APT, will allow both publishers and advertisers to manage display advertising across the Web sites of several hundred newspapers across the country, along with Yahoo sites and large sites like eBay and WebMD.
At an event at Advertising Week in New York, executives said that the 800 or so members of Yahoo’s newspaper consortium would be using the system, formerly known as AMP, by the end of the year.
BORED subway riders and air travelers in major American cities might have noticed — right around the time they were itching to get back on an Internet connection — a series of ads encouraging them to “power down, log off, unplug ... make face time.”
The brand with the temerity to tell us to disconnect from our totally wired lives? Dentyne chewing gum.
The campaign, called “Make face time,” was created by McCann Erickson for Dentyne, a brand owned by Cadbury, the No. 2 gum maker in the United States after Wrigley. The ads feature happy people embracing and kissing — their breath presumably freshened by Dentyne — as an alternative to pounding their BlackBerrys or sending electronic messages to their Facebook friends.
Just ask Glenda Hoffman, whose fury has not abated since 16 solar panels vanished from her roof in this sun-baked town in three separate burglaries in May, sometimes as she slept. She is ready if the criminals turn up again.
“I have a shotgun right next to the bed and a .22 under my pillow,” Ms. Hoffman said.
Dell, in a government filing this week, strongly suggested that it planned to shrink its network of factories as part of the computer company's drive to reduce costs. A computer being assembled at a Dell factory in Austin, Tex., that the company plans to close by the end of this year. At the end of last month, Dell disappointed investors by reporting a surprising 17 percent drop in quarterly profit, even though its sales increased 11 percent. Dell blamed the profit drop mainly on being too aggressive in price cutting to gain market share in some regions of the world. |
With its new Chrome Web browser, Google is not being quite as magnanimous to competitors as it lets on. The company has insisted that it is not putting the thumb on the scale to favor its own services over those of rivals. And indeed Chrome exhibits better manners than Microsoft's Internet Explorer often has. When you install it, it lets you pick any search engine you want as the default. And in the unlikely event you have set some other search engine as your favorite in another browser, such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, it will offer to keep that choice in Chrome. |
The European Union's telecommunications minister will propose price controls that would substantially reduce the roaming fees that individuals are charged to send text messages and limits that could reduce the cost of using the Internet. Details of the proposal, obtained Wednesday by The International Herald Tribune, show that the minister, Viviane Reding, will seek to cap retail roaming fees for short text messages, or S.M.S., within the European Union at 11 euro cents, or 16 American cents, a message. |
In another black eye for Siemens, the German industrial conglomerate found itself accused on Wednesday of posting a rival's business secrets on an internal computer network. The rival, Dassault Systèmes, a French software maker, said confidential business data related to 3,216 customers from Germany, Switzerland and Austria had been posted on the intranet of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software. |
Apple is expected to show off its new iPod music players, and possibly announce price cuts, on Tuesday but may not release a long-awaited update to its MacBook laptop computers until a later date.
Apple, which also makes iPhone devices, e-mailed reporters an invitation to a Sept. 9 event titled “Let’s Rock,” which has an image of a man jumping while listening to an iPod, with the words “playing soon.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system.
Plans by leading internet providers to use Phorm, a company which tracks web activity to create personalised adverts, have sparked controversy.
Sir Tim said he did not want his ISP to track which websites he visited.
"I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books," he said.
Sir Tim said his data and web history belonged to him.
The monkey tally, announced today, represents the largest known populations of these species in the world.
Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs and 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia's Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, which is about the size of Yosemite National Park.
Arg. If you believe the Boy Genius Report, it looks like the BlackBerry Bold will be delayed again in the United States until Oct. 2. If true, this is truly disappointing news.
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Train passengers going to and from Beijing during the Olympics had access to wireless connectivity, thanks to systems that were installed to ensure connections even with the huge increase in usage.
Andrew Wireless Solutions, a division of CommScope Inc., supplied wireless networking systems to improve coverage and add network capacity for Beijing Metro's subway lines during the Games.
Andrew deployed its RADIAX radiating cables and ION-M repeaters in the subway system to support private, public and security wireless communications. Passengers with GSM (Global System for Mobile), CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access), or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)-enabled mobile devices had access to the enhanced signal capabilities, and emergency personnel and railway employees had access to dedicated networks.
BBC News reports it has unearthed a plan in which fraudsters with stolen credit-card information would clone the information onto the magnetic strips of other cards, then use them in UK supermarkets to strip money from unsuspecting Americans.
One gang said it accessed the accounts of more than 2,300 Americans in one month and planned to make fake cards to be used overseas. It claimed to have acquired the information from gangs in the United States that say they have tapped the phone lines between banks and cash machines.
Central to the plan was to use the cards at supermarket self-service checkout stands, bypassing the risk that a store employee might spot the forged cards
The Bank of New York Mellon now says information on about 12 million people might have been on computer tapes that were lost, according to the Hartford Courant.
The bank announced in May that the tapes disappeared while being transferred to storage by a third-party courier, but put the number at that time at 4.5 million. The data included names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, though the bank says there is no indication any of the information has been accessed.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to look into Microsoft's patent complaints against rival mouse manufacturer Primax, reports The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Microsoft wants to prevent Primax from selling its products in the United States. More often the target of patent lawsuits than the plaintiff, Microsoft reportedly filed the complaint after being unable to reach a licensing agreement for two years.
Starting Oct. 1, Comcast will impose a 250-gigabyte cap on the amount of data subscribers can upload or download each month, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Washington Post.
The company will contact those who go over that amount and ask them to curb their use. Though in May, when the company floated the idea, it talked about a possible $15 fee for every 10 gigabytes they go over, but there was no mention of the fee in its announcement of the cap.
It's the most basic fear for users of cloud services: Losing your data.
An engineer for UK-based XCalibre, in "tidying up" before upgrading to address capacity issues, deleted one of the main storage volumes used by the FlexiScale cloud, reports The Register. It was down for at least two days before restoring "read only" access to it from backup files. But there wasn't enough capacity to create a complete duplicate, so the company is in the process of creating a new disk structure.
