IT News and Press Releases

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Recent Press Releases

Integrated Campaign Kicks off Monster.com's Promotion of New Tools, Search Engine

Marketing Vox News
Monster.com has launched an integrated print, television and online campaign to promote a new job matching search engine and set of online job seeking tools ...

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Verizon Posts Loss, Citing Charge Related to Layoffs

New York Times
Verizon Wireless has struggled to keep up with the momentum of the rival carrier, AT&T, which has been adding subscribers at a rapid clip, in large part ...

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First And Goal: Rookie Marketers Seek Super Bowl Success

MediaPost Publications
Two of the 17 are still in the Super Bowl ad mix: Monster.com and E*Trade, the latter of which paid humorous homage to its fallen dot.comrades in a Super ...

Monster Super Bowl Commercial Stars A Beaver

I4U
According to a report on the New York Times, Monster.com will star a beaver in their Super Bowl commercial. A beaver? That reminds me on the hyper ...

Monster.com promotes search engine relaunch

DM News
Monster.com launched a multichannel advertising campaign on January 24 to promote updates to its job search engine. The effort is aimed at both job seekers ...

1-800 Contacts names a new marketing chief

InternetRetailer.com
Before joining 1800Contacts, Blackwood was chief marketing officer for Monster.com, an online job listing service. Prior to Monster.com, Blackwood directed ...

CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog) College Scholarship Money Up For Grabs

CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog)
Another FastWeb scholarship offered $5000 for members of Monster.com. There's even one called “A GPA Isn't Everything” scholarship that promises to award up ...

Apple iSlate, iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless?

infoSync World
By Sindre Lia, Monday 25 January 2010 Rumors are heating up about the Apple iSlate and a new iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless. ...

Monster.com Launches New Integrated Marketing Campaign to Help Job Seekers and ...

Trading Markets (press release)
In need of inspiration, the Boogeyman goes to Monster.com and is matched with a perfect new office job as a CPA. "Monster understands that looking for a job ...

New York Times Rivalries as Keen as on the Field

New York Times
An ad for Monster.com that will appear during the Super Bowl features a beaver with musical talent. A rival, CareerBuilder, will show an ad of its own. ...

Hopefuls Gird for Gridiron

Wall Street Journal
By SUZANNE VRANICA Buying Super Bowl ads has helped catapult companies like online brokerage E*Trade Financial, Internet job board Monster.com and video ...

From the archive: Macintosh launched by Apple

The Guardian
Apple Computer, the firm that gave Silicon Valley its style, was converted to Madison Avenue values at a stroke yesterday for the simultaneous launch on ...

CNET China denies involvement in Google cyberattacks

CNET
Google disclosed the attacks targeting it and other US companies on January 12 and said the attacks originated in China. The company said it discovered the ...

Reuters HP to launch music service in Europe

Reuters
The MusicStation service will be preloaded on 16 of HP's personal computer models in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ...

Microsoft's Week: IE Vulnerabilities, Bing Upgrades, and Rumored Apple Talks

eWeek
Microsoft's week involved patching a number of security flaws in Internet Explorer, which were apparently exploited in a wide-ranging attack against Google ...

CBS News McCain: Miranda Kept Us From Osama Intel

CBS News
By Michelle Levi Former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) speaks with Bob Schieffer about a series of issues, from the Obama administration ...

Global Online Freedom Act Would Create Dilemma for Beijing

The Epoch Times
Companies such as Yahoo and Cisco would not be able to assist Beijing in censorship activities. For example, Cisco would not be allowed to sell high-tech ...

Microsoft Cites Psystar Case in Xbox Antitrust Defence

OS News
Ha, it's Microsoft. In October 2009, Microsoft released an update for the Xbox 360 which intentionally blocked 3rd-party (non-Microsoft) memory cards from ...

Twitter Widget Flaw Provides Access to User Accounts

Associated Content
A widget based on Adobe's Flash Player was disabled by Twitter after a security analyst notified the company of a weakness permitting access into targeted ...

China, Google and the Cloud Wars

Wall Street Journal
Always in the cards, since the birth of the Web, was the possibility that some great Internet business—a Yahoo or Google or Amazon or Facebook—would be ...

Wolverton: What I hope to see in Apple's new tablet computer

San Jose Mercury News
By Troy Wolverton With Apple expected to finally unveil its tablet computer Wednesday, I'm among the many who are eager to see what the gadget will look ...

World of Warcraft hacked through Adobe Flash flaw

Destructoid
This is because the most recent edition of Adobe Flash has some flaw in it and it has been exploited. From the WoW forums: A recent vulnerability has been ...

Apple and other makers hope tablet computers finally catch on

San Jose Mercury News
By John Boudreau Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show where he showcased the new touch-enabled slate from HP. ...

IBM and FujiFilm develop 35TB Data Tape

Slippery Brick
IBM and FujiFilm have spent the better part of three years in order to achieve a new record in areal data density on linear magnetic tape. ...

Intel shares may gain 25 pct in a few yrs-Barron's

Reuters
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Shares of semiconductor company Intel Corp (INTC.O) could rise 25 percent or more over the next few years as the business ...

Yahoo! – Sentiment Remains Negative Ahead of Earnings

piqqem.com (blog)
Yahoo! (YHOO) is scheduled to release Q1 earnings this Tuesday January 26th, after the market close. Average analyst estimates for the internet services ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) Microsoft and Intuit Strike Cloud Computing Pact

SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Microsoft and Intuit are going to join their clouds, Azure and the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP), so developers can deliver and market web ...

Tech Jackal Apple Press Conference Days Away, Tablet to be Revealed?

Tech Jackal
Rumors have been flying for months about why Apple is holding this major event and what is expected to be announced. The Apple tablet computer will ...

Cisco's McCool sees growing data-center role

Tehran Times
While Cisco Systems branches out into consumer electronics, video, mobile data and other areas, one of its biggest areas of focus is enterprise data centers ...

Call off the search?

Business Line
As many as 34 companies – including Yahoo!, Adobe and Symantec – have also spoken of their systems being vandalised. Incidentally, the former National ...

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CBS News McCain: Miranda Kept Us From Osama Intel

CBS News
(CBS) Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday he was determined to find out who was to blame for allowing would-be Christmas Day ...

Understanding Microsoft's Virtualization Technologies

Windows & Net Magazine
Virtualization has always been a complex technology, but somehow Microsoft has found a way to further complicate it by releasing its various virtualization ...

Yahoo in fight to keep up with sleeker rivals

Financial Times
By Joseph Menn in San Francisco In'99, the personalised “My Yahoo” homepage won a technical achievement prize at the Webby Awards in San Francisco. ...

Google looks to free handsets from wireless contracts

The News Journal
Typically, wireless phone customers in the US buy a device tethered to a two-year contract through "gatekeeper" carriers such as Verizon Wireless, AT&T, ...

Intel's rival AMD finally makes a profit

India.com
Rival Intel had designed chips with 45nm fabrication process and they sold like hot cakes in the market when they launched. Intel also went ahead and ...

The IE Fix is in

ITworld.com
First, the good news, Microsoft's fixed the IE bug used to attack Google. The bad news: the bug had been known for months. I still think that the safest ...

Intel, Carnegie Mellon work on solder nanocomposites

Eetasia.com (subscription)
Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Corp. are working on a new class of materials called solder magnetic nanocomposites that could help streamline the ...