SOURCE: CNBC With low prices, Wal-Mart overwhelms competitors advertisement But some retailers survive by specializing. The best examples are Target and Whole Foods. By Mary Thompson 8:26 AM EST August 27, 2004 For the last few years, practically every time a retailer went out of business, Wal-Mart Stores (WMT, news, msgs) got the blame. So when Toys R Us (TOY, news, msgs) recently said it was considering selling its toy business, some retail experts pointed the finger at the ...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Start-up targets eBay deadbeats Published: August 26, 2004, 8:41 AM PDT By Matt Hines Staff Writer, CNET News.com In the world of online auctioneers, deadbeat bidders are the bane of business. Anyone who has marketed more than a handful of items on eBay or other auction sites has likely run into the type. This is the person who bids twice what you expected to garner for your used CD collection, only to admit after winning that he or she never had enough...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com TiVo loss widens, subscribers grow Published: August 26, 2004, 1:55 PM PDT By Reuters Digital video recorder maker TiVo on Thursday reported a wider quarterly net loss as it increased spending to accelerate subscriber growth. TiVo, whose TV recording technology allows users to pause live television and personalize choices to suit their viewing habits, said it added 288,000 net new subscriptions in the period, bringing total subscribers to ...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Microsoft preps XP push, mulls Longhorn 'priorities' Published: August 26, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT By Ina Fried , Paul Festa and John G. Spooner Staff Writer, CNET News.com With a long-awaited security update to Windows XP now complete, Microsoft is preparing a holiday season push for the 3-year-old operating system--and is set to revisit ambitious plans for the next major revision, News.com has learned. That revision, code-named Longhorn, o...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Citing threats, entrepreneur to quit caller ID venture Published: September 4, 2004, 7:57 AM PDT By Ken Belson The New York Times It may be known as caller ID spoofing, but it is evidently no laughing matter. Three days after the start-up company Star38 began offering a service that fools caller ID systems, the founder, Jason Jepson, has decided to sell the business. Jepson said he had received harassing e-mail and phone messages and even a death threat...
SOURCE: FOOL.com The Next Home Run Stock Many of the decade's greatest investments rose to prominence from relative obscurity. Tom Gardner has made it his mission to uncover the greatest stocks for the next 10 years. To this end, he's mining the market's great, unloved small-cap companies. By Tom Gardner September 15, 2004 This article was first published on Sept. 24, 2003. It has been updated. I assume that you, like everyone and his Aunt Avis, would love to find the next...
SOURCE: FOOL.com Is This Taser for You? By W.D. Crotty September 15, 2004 Taser International (Nasdaq: TASR) is soaring today after the announcement of its new X26C Citizen Defense System for "private citizens seeking responsible, nonlethal self-defense protection." For a mere $999, the company will sell you six cartridges, a 40-minute training video, and a certificate for "one free in-home professional training session." This weapon is sold exclusively by Taser, which elimin...
SOURCE: NETSCAPE Money and Business Multiplayer Games Coming to Cell Phones By MATT SLAGLE AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - As millions buy increasingly powerful cell phones, many companies are racing to develop video games to take advantage of the newfound portability. The newest twist is multiplayer: You can face real people in space battles or fishing tournaments. Until recently, multiplayer on cell phones game meant at most posting high scores on a leader board. It's difficult to co...
SOURCE: CNET IT Physical Security in Mission-Critical Facilities Source: American Power Conversion Physical security — controlling personnel access to facilities — is critical to achieving data center availability goals. As new technologies such as biometric identification and remote management of security data become more widely available, traditional card-and-guard security is being supplanted by security systems that can provide positive identification and tracking of human ac...
SOURCE: BNET SOX insights from an IT auditor By Jeff Davis In this column, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Nick Edmunds. In his role as senior IT auditor for a Fortune 300 company in the food services industry, Mr. Edmunds has spent the majority of his time in the past year on ensuring his company's compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. I managed to hijack a bit of Mr. Edmunds' precious free time to talk about his experiences and recommendations to fellow internal auditors. He...
SOURCE: PRWEB Many Falling Short On The Sarbanes-Oxley Act The Sarbanes-Oxley Forum (http://www.sarbanes-oxley-forum.com) reports that almost 50% of organizations still haven't developed plans to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (PRWEB) September 21, 2004 -- The Sarbanes-Oxley Forum (http://www.sarbanes-oxley-forum.com) reports that almost 50% of organizations still haven't developed plans to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Their onsite survey, of over 2000 different o...
SOURCE: CorpLawBlog A Light Touch, After All With distance comes perspective. For instance, before my vacation from Corp Law Blog I was leaning towards the view that the Sarbanes-Oxley/Spitzer response to a few aberrant cases of financial fraud was getting a little heavy-handed and hysterical. Then, when I read that Jamie Olis had been sentenced to 292 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole, I was sure that things had gotten out of hand. But with my newf...
SOURCE: BNET e-Medicine Is Bigger Than Google While all the attention about the e-World has been focused on the selling of Google stock, what will impact you far more are the significant advances in e-Medicine. First, a tip of the hat to Google. I use it, almost exclusively, for web searching. This has been the case for some time, although I fondly recall the days of Alta Vista, Excite, Northern Light, and all the rest. And from time to time I'll enjoy an offbeat search engine li...
SOURCE: USA TODAY Can money buy the Beatles' Apple love? By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY Search any fee-based digital music service for the best-loved musical artists of the 20th century and most of the expected names show up. Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Sinatra are all accounted for, with their complete catalogs available per song, at 99 cents apiece. There are holdouts, but none bigger than the best-selling recording group of all time: the Beatles. That c...
SOURCE: NEW YORK POST Online GOOGLE PICKS GATES' BRAINS By STEPHEN LYNCH September 19, 2004 -- Google, $1.67 billion richer from its August initial public offering, is spending its money poaching the brightest minds from arch-rival Microsoft and other tech giants. Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft. Google has wooed Joshua Bloch, one of the main devel...