Erin Joyce

Verizon Wireless is rolling out an advanced new feature for subscribers: the popular city-guide application Vindigo. And it comes with a billing system that could help advance the wireless industry. The Vindigo program, which provides restaurant, museum and entertainment information for 27 major cities around the U.S., can be downloaded on Verizon’s latest Z-800 line […]

Real-time customer service ASP LivePerson has acquired all the customer contracts of NewChannel, a rival firm that provided real-time customer acquisition campaigns. The Alley-based LivePerson said it paid less than $1 million for the assets, which it expects to help boost its own revenues by about 12 percent each month. Robert LoCascio, the chief executive […]

NEW YORK — U.S. Congressman Rick Boucher, moving to strengthen “fair use” provisions under federal copyright law, said he is introducing a bill that would essentially restrict the record industry from selling copy-protected CDs. He also said he would introduce a bill within the week that would update the U.S. Copyright Office’s Copyright Arbitration Royalty […]

Online/offline hacker publication 2600 Magazine has decided not to seek U.S. Supreme Court review of the so-called DeCSS case, which it hoped to use in challenging the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The decision puts to bed a two-and-a-half year legal battle over the DMCA that 2600 and online civil liberties outfit Electronic Frontier Foundation […]

After struggling through two years of losses amid a collapsed technology advertising market, Web lifestyle/culture publication Yahoo! Internet Life is ending its seven-year run, its owner said. In a memo circulated today, Robert F. Callahan, CEO of New York-based tech publisher Ziff Davis Media, said the company would suspend publication of Yahoo! Internet Life after […]

NEW YORK – The head of a technology venture firm funded by the Central Intelligence Agency appealed to Information Technology “warriors” across corporate America to help the CIA’s IT warriors access the best technology. “We need these technologies to address our critical IT needs,” said Gilman Louie, president and CEO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s non-profit […]

Compression technology company On2 Technologies , fighting for more acceptance of its VP3 open source codec, has joined forces with open source foundation Xiph.Org Foundation to build a royalty-free streaming media platform. The decision to combine its source code with Xiph’s Ogg Vorbis, which offers a royalty-free audio compression platform similar to MP3, is yet […]

When it kicks off its 20th year as one of the biggest information technology trade shows on the east coast, organizers of New York’s TechXNY and PCExpo will have adjusted their themes and marketing to reflect the economic realities facing the technology industry. For starters, that means catering to attendees shopping for IT “needs” rather […]

INT Media Group, Inc. , the parent company of this publication, has purchased the remaining research and events businesses from Internet research firm Jupiter Media Metrix for $250,000, the companies said Friday. The deal marks a final chapter in the history of the New York-based Jupiter Media Metrix, which has sold off roughly $27 million […]

Retailers of goods and services were the strongest online advertisers during the month of May, continuing their historical strength as a top category, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. “Books and CDs are still the most dominant products promoted on the Web, as evidenced by this month’s top advertiser, Bertelsmann, who led with large campaigns for DoubleDirect and […]

A majority of New York-area information technology executives believe the region’s economy is still in recession but think security and disaster recovery products will help drive the IT industry’s recovery, according to a new survey by The New York Times Job Market. In a recent poll of more than 160 IT chief executives and senior […]

Sports cable channel ESPN is readying a new slew of interactive and on-demand features for cable customers of Insight Communications with the help of interactive television middleware maker Liberate Technologies . The new offerings include a package called “ESPN Today Plus VOD,” which features interactive sports information and advertisements. Viewers will be able to click […]