“We believe Yahoo has the experience to help us take full advantage of our advanced portal and unique all-3G subscriber base,” Neil Andrews, 3 UK’s head of on-portal advertising, said in a statement.

Yahoo already is the exclusive mobile-advertising partner for 3 UK competitor Vodafone.

Yahoo has signed up 3 UK, a mobile-phone network operator in the [...]

After all, Microsoft’s new partner initiatives rely heavily on concepts devised and delivered by these companies:
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Although partners will get a 12% cut of the first year’s subscription, and 6% thereafter, they will now be competing head-to-head against Microsoft for delivering value-added services. This marks a dramatic departure from the way Microsoft has worked with [...]

He may have picked a propitious time to put that proposition to the test. In 2001, the Pew Internet and American Life Project, said that half of the people it surveyed said they looked for free alternatives when a site they used asked them to pay for content. “Just 12 percent of them pay [...]

I’ll re-examine the first three tips here and will cover the rest in posts later this week.

Set Vista to download updates but let you decide whether to install them via Windows Update's Change Settings dialog.
Three years ago, I attempted to condense PC security into 10 steps you could finish in about an hour. After a [...]

New York’s iconic Empire State Building, which played a starring role in the movie “King Kong,” is set to undergo a retrofit that could cut the 102-story building’s energy consumption by up to 38 percent. The energy-saving measures will initially cost approximately $20 million and will take an estimated two years to implement, according to [...]

Among the people I caught up with were these Brazilian techies who I wrote about two years ago when they won Microsoft’s Imagine Cup. They’ve taken their invention to use technology to guide the visually impaired and are starting a company to bring it to market, with $500,000 in funding from the Brazilian Government.

But first, [...]

“Many tests have been done comparing 4200 rpm hard drives to SSDs,” said IDC analyst David Reinsel. “But 5400 rpm is now mainstream and even 7200 rpm disks are available.” The IDC report says the performance gap between computers with 7200 rpm 2.5-inch drives and those with SSDs was smaller than expected because the performance [...]