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Nokia Picks Enpocket for Mobile Advertising

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:26:02 +0000

Market-leading phone maker Nokia moved to bolster its mobile advertising front today by agreeing to acquire Boston-based Enpocket for an undisclosed sum. Enpocket makes a mobile advertising campaign management and delivery system that uses analytics... Read more...

Microsoft Picks Partners to Fight Phishing

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:40:55 +0000

Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter,... Read more...

Apple picks chips for next gen mobile multimedia device

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:40:44 +0000

A British team of chip designers has won one of the most coveted of customers in the chip industry--Apple Computer. SiliconValleyWatcher has learned that Apple has contracted to use the powerful video, image, and music... Read more...

British Broadband Picks Up The Pace

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:17:33 +0000

BT Broadband is to double its speed for free from later this week. The ISP is to introduce a new, 2Mbps package from this Thursday, February 17, for home customers. Existing 1Mbps customers will also... Read more...

Washington Post picks up Slate from Microsoft

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:05:46 +0000

The Washington Post Co. announced Tuesday that it has agreed to purchase online magazine Slate from Microsoft. In a deal that had been rumored since at least mid-November, the Post will take... Read more...

EA Picks Up Batman Begins

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:03:52 +0000

Although its experiment with the Catwoman license didn't go so well, Electronic Arts is undeterred in its pursuit of a comic-to-movie-to-game hit. It should fare a bit better with Batman Begins -- the publishing giant... Read more...

DRAMeXchange: DRAM demand picks up after Christmas holidays

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:52:03 +0000

Low prices spurred demand for DDR chips in last week's spot market while prices for low-density SDRAM continued rallying amid chip shortages, said DRAMeXchange. Demand for DDR regains strength after Christmas holidays. DDR chip sales... Read more...

Nintendo Picks up Bandai

Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:14:26 +0000

Reuters is reporting that Nintendo has bought 2.6 percent of Japan's largest toymaker. The transaction of 1.28 million shares comes after a Bandai shareholder approached Nintendo and asked if they would like to acquire the... Read more...

Europe picks Penguin to link government IT

Tom Warren — Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:07:17 +0000

A European Commission working paper on linking national government IT systems across Europe is recommending open source software. The paper, Linking up Europe: the Importance of Interoperability for E-government Services, stressed that the planned... Read more...

Dell picks Microsoft for Secure PC's

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:36:23 +0000

Saw this over at ActiveWin and thought it might make a nice discussion. Dell Computer Corp. is preparing to sell PCs with Microsoft Corp.'s operating system in a mode that will provide more... Read more...

TDK picks up Star Trek: Shattered Universe

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:45:01 +0000

One of the industry's more off-again, on-again projects has officially reclaimed its on-again status... again. Star Trek: Shattered Universe for PlayStation 2 has been picked up for publication by TDK Mediactive. As you may know,... Read more...

Microsoft picks up new .Net partner

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:49:07 +0000

Microsoft has lined up another partner for its .Net technology, with CMGI's uBid auction network agreeing to use the software giant's Passport authentication service and other Internet services. uBid will become the "premier... Read more...