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Microsoft to implement sharp increases to the cost of Bing Search API

Steve Bennett — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 10:40:02 +0000

Following the news that Twitter will begin charging for access to its API, Microsoft has revealed that it will be increasing costs significantly for anyone looking to utilise its Bing Search API. Read more...

Smartphone shipments in China rose 17% in April

Usman Khan Lodhi — Tue, 12 May 2020 08:56:01 +0000

Smartphone manufacturers shipped 40.8 million devices in April, compared to 34.8 million in April 2019. This data signals return to normalcy in the country for the consumer hardware market. Read more...

Amazon will start paying U.S. employees a minimum of $15 an hour on November 1

Ruel Revales — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:28:02 +0000

Amazon announced today that it will raise the minimum wage for all U.S. employees to $15 per hour after the online retail giant faced criticism over low wage and poor working conditions for workers. Read more...

Gartner: PC shipments to bottom out, smartphone sales to increase by only 7% in 2016

Usama Jawad — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:08:01 +0000

Gartner has published a new report predicting that PC shipments will finally bottom out in 2016 but smartphone market will increase only by 7%, its first single-digit growth up till now. Read more...

Apple jacks up prices on iDevices in numerous countries

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:50:01 +0000

Apple has significantly increased prices on its products in countries like Canada, New Zealand and the EU. But while it may appear greedy, the price increases reflect changes in global currency rates. Read more...

BT increases home broadband and landline prices by up to 6.5%

Andy Weir — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:31:04 +0000

BT is increasing its broadband and home phone prices by up to 6.5% - almost four times the rate of inflation - from December, but its CEO says the company is "sensitive to the tough economic times". Read more...

Amazon mulls Prime price increase, could rise as high as $119

Andy Weir — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:03:08 +0000

Amazon's chief financial officer says the company is considering increasing the cost of its Prime subscriptions by up to 50%, with prices potentially rising from $79 per year to as much as $119. Read more...

Virgin Media upgrading broadband speeds again, but prices are going up too

Andy Weir — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:47:55 +0000

Virgin Media has announced free broadband speed upgrades of "at least 20Mbps" more for everyone, while its top tariff will now max out at 152Mbps - but prices for all of its services are going up too. Read more...

Netflix announces 20% rate increase for Blu-ray customers

Sean Bradford — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:28:03 +0000

Netflix, one of the largest online DVD rental companies in the United States with over 10 million subscribers, today announced a disappointing 20% rate increase for Blu-ray subscribers. In the announcement Jessie Becker, VP... Read more...

Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:55:55 +0000

Google Incorporated's Gmail Web-based e-mail service may have an incrementing storage space counter, but apparently it's not going fast enough – and so the search giant has announced plans to speed it up. "A few... Read more...

Microsoft to Increase Ad Business

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:10:50 +0000

Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, vowing that the company's $6 billion plunge into the ad business two months ago was not just an experiment, said today that advertising would become 25 percent of... Read more...

Google holds its line as mobile rumours increase

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:57:55 +0000

After Apple's iPhone, what about the Googlephone? The search engine company has been secretly developing prototype mobile phones and testing a host of new software and mobile services, with some estimates putting its investment in... Read more...

Intel to Increase SiS Chipset Orders

Mon, 28 May 2007 23:53:55 +0000

This third quarter, Intel Corporation plans to boost its orders to Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation, which will decrease Intel's chipset market share but will also maximize Intel's profit margins, as the company will not have... Read more...

PSP Sales in 60% Increase

Joe Cashman — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:12:42 +0000

The recent price drop in Europe for the PSP has seen a 60% increase in sales according to Sony, who declined to reveal actual sales of its handheld console. The price of the PSP dropped... Read more...

UK IT professionals see salaries increase

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:12:26 +0000

Permanent IT salaries in the UK have risen by 5.5 per cent in the past 12 months, according to research published by UK-based IT recruitment agency CV Screen. The study of 30,000 advertised positions in... Read more...

Bill Would Overturn Increase In Internet Radio Royalities

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:40:20 +0000

Illinois Republican Don Manzullo and Washington Democrat Jay Inslee have introduced a bill to overturn a Copyright Royalty Board decision to increase royalty rates for Webcast music, setting a retroactive rate of $0.0008 per song... Read more...

Four-fold increase in child abuse found on Web

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:04:46 +0000

In its annual report, British-based Internet monitoring group Internet Watch Foundation found that in the last three years there has been a four-fold increase in the number of child pornography images involving severe abuse such... Read more...

Intel to increase shipments of 965 chipsets by 50% in 1Q

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:26:41 +0000

Before Intel will start gearing up to push its new Bearlake-series chipsets in the second quarter of 2007, the US chipmaking giant plans to increase shipments of 965-series chipsets by 50% in the first quarter... Read more...

MySpace to Increase Security for Young Users

Christopher Vendemio — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:06:37 +0000

In light of recent security concerns and a lawsuit, the popular social networking site, MySpace, announced it would be increasing it's efforts to protect younger users. While MySpace already prevents children under the age of... Read more...

EMI records 150% increase in legal music downloads

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:59:28 +0000

One of the world's most commercial record labels has today given the digital downloads market a friendly jolt by announcing that the surge in demand will account for a 12% rise in its annual profit... Read more...

AMD Chip Availability to Increase in March

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:40:49 +0000

While AMD experienced healthy market share gains in the last quarter of 2005, many dealers are becoming aggravated over the recent chip shortages the world's second largest microprocessor maker has experienced. According to Ingram... Read more...

DDR2 Demand Expected to Increase

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:06:42 +0000

Demand for DDR2 memory is expected to dramatically increase in the first quarter of 2006 thanks in part to AMD's forthcoming M2 socket processors and Intel's mainstream 945 chipset. AMD's M2 socket processors... Read more...

Nintendo's Puppies 'Perfect' As DS Sales Increase Fivefold

Mon, 02 May 2005 15:49:55 +0000

Animal lovers and Nintendo fans in Japan are proving that it's almost impossible to say no to a puppy. Nintendogs(TM), the new puppy simulator for Nintendo DS(TM), hit Japanese stores April 21. In its first... Read more...

Hotmail Storage Increase Is Weeks Late

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:25:51 +0000

The folks who run MSN's Hotmail promised to deliver 250 megabytes of free storage to all users. That promise was made on the 4th of July, in a note that also said, "We will send... Read more...

Browser based attacks increase

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:49:49 +0000

A COMPUTER TRADE organisation has warned that browser based attacks are on the increase. According to the Computing Technology Industry Association's annual survey on IT security, the number of attacks conducted by attackers by enticing... Read more...

Dell CEO: IT spending to increase in 2004

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:26:54 +0000

The world's largest personal computer maker, Dell, expects large companies to resume spending on information technology in 2004, Chief Executive Michael Dell was quoted as saying on Monday. In a joint interview in... Read more...

Junk email on the increase

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:30:33 +0000

There's bad news for anyone who is sick and tired of the increasing amount of commercial email flooding their inboxes - there's going to be more. A survey by email publishing outfit... Read more...

Database security breaches on the increase

Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:07:00 +0000

Direct security breaches against databases appear to be on the rise, according to the recently released Summer 2002 Database Developers survey from research firm Evans Data Corp. The report revealed that one... Read more...

Microsoft reports profit increase, plans to increase workforce

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:52:25 +0000

Microsoft Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit easily surpassed its bare-bones profit from a year ago, but fell far short of analysts' expectations because of telecom-related investment losses. Microsoft announced Thursday that for the quarter... Read more...

Tech Spending Should Increase Gradually In 2002

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:03:33 +0000

Corporate spending on IT (information technology) in 2002 will not come close to matching the free-spending levels of the late 1990s, but according to a new study it will be a vast improvement over last... Read more...

Email mailboxes to increase to 1.2 billion worldwide by 2005

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:11:43 +0000

(IDG) -- Email usage is on the rise. According to IDC, the number of worldwide email mailboxes is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 138 percent, from 505 million in... Read more...

Increase tech R&D despite downturn: Bill Gates

Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:08:58 +0000

Microsoft spent US$3.8b last year on R&D. It plans to spend even more this year COMPANIES worldwide should continue to increase their spending in technology research despite the tough economic environment, says... Read more...