Public Relations
327 Stories
Asia's tech shows still beneficial for vendors
News Despite economic climate, IT tradeshows and conferences remain viable as platform for vendors to reach out to audiences, say industry players.
Tags: Marketing, Branding, Asia, Conference, Singapore, Sales, Lenovo Group Ltd., e-mail, industry, brand
Hotels suit up on tech to attract guests
News As travelers demand more technology extras from hotels, innkeepers see need to constantly improve such services for their guests.
Tags: IT Management, Mobile/Wireless, Hotel, Internet Access, IT Manager, Wireless, Internet Service, e-mail, Wi-Fi, wireless Internet
PlayStation Go digital, but not all to follow
News Digital downloads can help "lock out" content pirates, but games companies say they will not shift business model solely to online platform.
Tags: Game players, Games, Gamer, software, Microsoft Xbox Live, Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation Portable, Singapore, Microsoft Xbox, entertainment
Microsoft wants refund from some laid off workers
News Software giant sends a letter to some of the 1,400 employees it laid off last month letting them know they were overcompensated and that it would like the money back.
Tags: Layoffs, Public relations, Microsoft Corp., Letter, software company, Worker, TechCrunch, CNET Networks Inc., accounting, spokesman
Google's PR campaign
News The search giant hopes to counter charges of monopoly abuse with a charm offensive.
Tags: Public relations, Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., FTC, Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc.
Sony needs a common-sense czar
News Three years after Sony was caught loading rookits onto CDs, the company has reportedly recently spied on children.
Tags: Customer support, Privacy, Rootkit, FTC, Computer, Britney Spears, Associated Press, software, marketing, public relations
Sources: YouTube, not Warner Music, pulled videos
News Warner made "11th-hour" demand during contract negotiations and received its answer from YouTube when the company began yanking the label's videos, say sources.
Tags: Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp., Video, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Advertisement, YouTube Inc., record company, revenue, blog
How many Facebook users will go public?
News Facebook now asks users if they want their comments open to the public. So far, few do but marketers are salivating at the potential.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Internet advertising, Twitter, Tool, Facebook, CEO, network, brand, public relations
Brocade to acquire Foundry Networks
News Brocade makes bid to be a leading enterprise storage and networking provider.
Tags: Storage, Mergers, Acquisitions, Security, Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Stock, network, shareholder, data center
Citrix hikes prices worldwide
News Virtualization and remote access specialist Citrix has told customers it will hike prices by 10 percent in all countries except the United States, due to the changing value of the U.S. dollar.
Tags: Virtualization, Remote management, Business applications, Citrix Systems Inc., Australia, Europe, Japan, remote access, U.S., vice president
Philippine auction site to offer iPhone
News Auction.ph unveils special program selling Apple iPhone 3G at prices lower than market rates. But, plans are hazy on whether device will remain regular sales item.
Tags: Mac OS, Development/design, Mobile, Apple iPhone 3G, Auction Site, Philippines, phone, 3G, partnership, Apple iPhone
HyperTransport gets faster
News A new specification for the communications bus, used in AMD's multicore chips, should give it a speed boost.
Tags: Processors, HyperTransport, Broadcom Corp., Quad-core, Sun Microsystems Inc., consortium, performance, processor, general manager, desktop
And now...public relations in the blogosphere
Blogs The new media is growing mightier by the day, and bloggers are the new pressure group in the virtual world. That's also ...
New Palm brand design chief hails from Apple
News Jeff Zwerner becomes Palm's fourth executive with experience at its rival smartphone maker.
Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Apple iPhone, brand, public relations, Smart phones, director
Companies urged not to ban Facebook
News Companies should not ban staff from using social applications such as Facebook and MySpace because of concerns about how they might be used.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Internet, Open Source, Gartner Inc., social networking, Silicon.com, Facebook, network, marketing
