Tag archive: Brown

It’s no secret that Motorola has financial problems. Standard & Poor’s has given it a junk credit rating, and it was having financial troubles prior to the credit crunch biting hard. But it’s taking steps to ride out the recession. Co-chieif executives Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha have both agreed to forgo their 2008 cash bonuses and will take a 25% salary cut, according to CNET. Beginning in 2009, the… Read More

PDA pioneer Palm has been on the ropes for a few years, seemingly unable to gather momentum behind its efforts to repossess and renovate the Palm OS and then introducing (but never shipping) the Foleo companion device…which, somewhat ironically, went over like a lead balloon just before so-called "nettops" became all the rage. Now, Palm is bootstrapping itself into the current mobile rage, opening the Palm Software… Read More

Google is taking the first steps towards turning its popular online video sharing site YouTube into an ecommerce destination, beginning with embedding links pointing to music and video games alongside videos available on the service. Google says the “click-to-buy” links displayed with individual videos will related directly to the content; the first tie ins point to music available via iTunes and Amazon.com's MP3 store,… Read More

It might sound a little bizarre, but it’s true. A Kentucky court has said that the state is within its rights to grab the domain names of 141 different gambling sites in order to protect its citizens, since the state forbids gambling. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said: “Unlicensed, unregulated, illegal Internet gambling poses a tremendous threat to the citizens of the Commonwealth because of its ease, availability… Read More

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is finally embracing the digital age that’s already part of the life of most voters in the UK. He’s put a clip on the Downing Street YouTube site promising to respond to any questions submitted there by the public. It’s claimed that the question and answer Ask the PM forum, which is to all intents and purposes an attempt to make Brown seem as if he’s connecting with younger voters,… Read More

The California law firm of Kabateck, Brown, and Kellner has filed a class action suit against Network Solutions and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), alleging the company has unfairly profited by temporarily registering domains as soon as someone conducts a search for their availability via the company's Web site. The Network Solutions practice—which the company rolled out with any explanation,… Read More

It wasn't so long ago that Motorola's mobile phone business—anchored by the company's popular RAZR handset—was the envy of the industry. Now, however, the electronics giant finds its mobile phones operations have tkane a third place behind Nokia and Samsung, falling to a 13 percent share of the worldwide market in thhe third quarter of 2007, down from 21 percent in the same quarter of 2006. In fact, things have… Read More

Although Motorola rode a two-year high-profile success with its sleek RAZR phone, the company has dropped to third place among mobile phone makers, and turned in doleful financials for the first half of 2007—and although the third quarter wasn't to bad, it still represented a 94 percent drop in profits. Today, however, Motorola's stock buoyed up a bit: CEO Ed Zander announced he would be stepping down January 1, to be… Read More

The second annual Brandz survey (PDF) from UK research firm Millward Brown attempts to measure the “brand equity” of almost 40,000 consumer-facing brands by interviewing nearly 1 million consumers around the world, and taking into account brand momentum, a brand's contribution to business earnings, and the brand's overall value based on financial data. This year's result? Google has unseated Microsoft as the… Read More

A shareholder revolt at video game publisher Take-Two Interactive has resulted in the ouster of CEO Paul Eibelier and appointment of a new slate of directors to the company's board. The new board has appointed former Sony BMG executive Strauss Zelnick, of ZelnickMedia as the new non-executive chairman of Take-Two; ZelnickMedia partner Ben Feder will serve a acting CEO . The company's board is now made up by Grover Brown, Michael… Read More

MusicGremlin today announced the availability of its Gremlin MG-1000 music player though Amazon.com and the company's own Web site. What does the world need with another portable digital music player? Well, for one thing, this one has built-in WiFi. For another, it enables users to both purchase music or subscribe to music from a library of over 2 million tracks and share music with other users

Targus, a maker of notebook cases and accessories, yesterday unveiled a new line of notebook totes which have stylish accents. The new Radiance Tote is priced at $39.99 and should be available by the end of the month. The Targus Radiance Tote, the company said, comes in three vibrant colors

Get ready for Ivy League sports over the satellite radio waves. Sirius today said they'd inked a deal with the big eight – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale - to broadcast a game of the week plus a select number of other events. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Sirius said, the game of the week to be broadcast will draw from the sports of football and men's basketball.… Read More

SIRIUS the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL, announced that Monday Night Football analyst and legendary NFL head coach John Madden has signed on with SIRIUS NFL Radio, the first 24/7year-round radio channel devoted entirely to the NFL. Madden will serve as commentator on SIRIUS NFL Radio's Sunday pre-game program, The Stadium Tailgate Show. "John Madden is one of the most respected authorities on football," said Scott… Read More

Verizon Wireless today announced it was granted a permanent, legal injunction against Rhode Island resident Jacob Brown, a known 'spammer' who knowingly executed a systematic spam attack on wirelessphones owned by Verizon Wireless customers. United States District Judge in Trenton, New Jersey Mary L. Cooper permanently enjoined Jacob Brown from sending further spam to Verizon Wirelesscustomers. Brown and his cohorts… Read More