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An even bigger problem, however, is the fact that Microsoft Silverlight is still far behind Adobe Flash in terms of market share. Microsoft, for its part, claims Silverlight is “not dead yet,” but Adobe is probably right to stifle a yawn at its efforts to date. Flash has long worked with Linux because Adobe hasn’t had the same anti-Linux fetish that has long plagued Microsoft’s Jekyll-and-Hyde attempts to be both a platform company and an application company, with the form

“Everyone should act as though there will not be another round of funding,” Buyer said. “You should operate with what you have, because it may be all you get.”

With the harsh economic climate washing out a number of companies that had hoped to launch an initial public offering, the survivors will likely lead to a bumper crop of stronger and more profitable IPOs, said Lise Buyer, founder of IPO advisory firm Class V Group, who also served as a speaker on the

Over the past few weeks, the retailer’s financial health has become more dire and, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, was considering restructuring moves as a means to avoid a Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy filing.

Other woes for Circuit City include a potential delisting of its stock from the New York Stock Exchange. Last week, the NYSE warned the company its stock price had fallen below $1 for 30 consecutive trading days, a trigger point for a potential del

Denny Strigl, chief operating officer for Verizon, noted on the company’s conference call Tuesday that 37 percent of new devices sold during the quarter were smartphones. Verizon added 1.4 million new subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2008. Adding customers from the Alltel merger, Verizon now has more than 80 million wireless customers.

Sprint Nextel, the nation’s third largest wireless operator, reports earnings next month.

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TrueMotion remote is set to ship in December.

And although it’s not announcing anything yet, Sixense says it is in talks with all three console makers–Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo–about licensing its technology. TrueMotion for console games won’t be available until 2010 at the earliest.

Nintendo’s Wiimote, by contrast, uses three axes and measures the acceleration of the handset, not the absolute position of the remote. Usin

Going forward, I think we’re going to see more of the same: open-source companies using the Web to efficiently seed the market and distribute software, but with largely traditional 1.0 value on the other end of the phone. SaaS providers doing the same, but providing even greater 1.0 lock-in via centralized distribution over the Web. Web services companies using the Internet to aggregate and orchestrate content but ultimately paying or otherwise centralizing the best authors (Wikiped

So it is that Google closed at $318.78 Monday, slightly above its previous 52-week low of $309.44.

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Rereading that paragraph, I’m tempted to slam my head repeatedly against the wall until everything goes black. But let’s wait because there’s more. The hands-down winner in the Can You Top This? sweepstakes is none other than “Infectious Greed’s” own Paul Kedrosky, who came up with a $1,000 price tar

“An EV recharged from the current Canadian grid, on average, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 85 percent compared to an equivalent gasoline-powered vehicle. In hydro-dominant British Columbia, Quebec, and Manitoba, the reduction would be an impressive 98 percent,” said the Tesla statement.

Tesla Motors has begun offering its Roadster electric vehicle for the Canadian highway, the company announced Wednesday.

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On Thursday, Panda Security released its report for the third quarter stating that adware is responsible for one third of all new malicious software. In particular, the security company cited increased use of fake antivirus scanners.

In addition to seeing increasing amounts of adware, Panda Security reported that Trojan horses account for almost 60 percent of all malware samples analyzed between July and September. Worms and spyware, once the bane of every computer user, were

Numerous attempts were made to collect the money from Qtrax, but the company never made good, Oracle claims. “Qtrax’s failure to pay the outstanding invoices constitutes a material breach of the software license,” Oracle’s attorney wrote. Meanwhile, Oracle asserted in the court documents that Qtrax continued to use Oracle’s software.

Oracle said in the complaint, filed with U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the problem began when Qtrax’s payment for dat