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comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for September 2010

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010TechnologyComscore, education sites, health sites, media metrix, online gambling sites, online poker tournaments, web activity, web properties

Online Poker Tournaments Drive Traffic to Gambling Sites

Education Sites Spike as School Year Kicks Off

RESTON, VA, October 21, 2010 – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. web activity at the top online properties for September 2010 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. Online Gambling sites were popular in September as the competition heated up at several online poker tournaments. Classes resumed for schools and universities nationwide prompting teachers and students alike to visit Education sites. (more…)

Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales up 39% to $7.56 Billion

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010Technology2010, Amazon, blackberry playbook tablet, customers care, ec2, elastic compute cloud, elastic load balancer, electronic-ink screen, financial results, founder, ipad, jeff bezos, kindle, kindle 3g, kindle dx, net sales, operating cash flow, oracle, rds, relational database service, third quarter, Wi-Fi

SEATTLE, Oct 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2010.

Operating cash flow increased 16% to $2.62 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $2.25billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2009. Free cash flow decreased 5% to $1.83 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.92 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2009. (more…)

Scenes from Windows Phone 7 Launch in Europe Australia, and New Zealand

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010Technologyandrew willett, asia-pacific, australia, belgium, berlin, Europe, france, Germany, hong kong, ireland, italy, jourdan templeton, london, new zealand, orange shop oxford street, singapore, spain, uk, windows phone 7, windows phone blog post

*Consumers line up to be among the first to own new handsets.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Oct. 21, 2010 – The much-awaited launch of Windows Phone 7 has begun, with the first handsets going on sale yesterday in New Zealand, followed shortly in countries throughout Europe and Asia Pacific, including Australia, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Spain and the U.K. (more…)

IBM Completes Acquisition of OpenPages

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010Technologyacquisition of openpages, ibm acquisition, magic quadrant, openpages, openpages software

IBM Corporate Headquarters, Armonk NY. Image credit: IBM

ARMONK, N.Y., – 21 Oct 2010:

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of OpenPages, a leading provider of software that helps companies more easily identify and manage risk and compliance activities across the enterprise through a single management system.

IBM’s approach to risk management will help organizations drive better business outcomes, lower the cost of risk management and compliance activities, better allocate resources and reduce risk of loss. When coupled with IBM’s services capabilities, systems management, security, information governance and other IT governance capabilities, clients will have an accurate and actionable view of the risks that might otherwise undermine enterprise performance. (more…)

The Rise of Google’s iCar

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010Science, Technologyautomation, cars, collision avoidance system, darpa challenge, e550, georgia tech, golden gate bridge, Google, icar, lake tahoe, lombard street, mercedes benz, navigation, olivia coleman, pacific coast highway, pedestrian warning system, robotics, sebastian thrun, self-driving vehicles, software engineer, Technology, traffic fatalities, vision 2020, volvo s60, world health organization, zero-fatality

With the recent advancements in robotics, automation, navigation, and self-driving vehicles, all spurred on by the DARPA Challenge and the research at Georgia Tech among other programs, it’s no surprise to hear that Google has been working very hard on these same kinds of technology.

Sebastian Thrun, Distinguished Software Engineer at Google, recently announced on their blog that so far Google’s efforts to create a self-driving car have been largely successful, though he made it a point to say that the program was still very much in the experimental stages. (more…)

comScore Announces New Initiative For No Cost Tagging of Website Server Data with Media Metrix 360 in Hong Kong and Taiwan

By Guest PostOctober 21, 20101 commentTechnologyadvertising, asia-pacific, Comscore, digital economy, digital measurement solution, discuss, Google, hong kong, kevin huang, media metrix 360, Microsoft, networld technology limited, online channel, online measurement, oscar leung, taiwan, uwants, victor cheng, web usage, Yahoo

*comScore’s Unified Digital Measurement Approach Continues to Gain Industry Support*

*Yahoo! Sites Ranks as Top Internet Property in Hong Kong*

Hong Kong, October 21, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced that it will offer free participation in Media Metrix 360 to online publishers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Under this new initiative any publisher can now participate in Media Metrix 360 measurement with no implementation fee for tagging their website server data, providing publishers of all sizes the ability to participate in this enhanced, unified approach to digital measurement. comScore also announced growing industry support of the comScore Media Metrix 360 measurement solution, with Discuss.com.hk and Uwants.com recently becoming the first Hong Kong-based publishers to participate in this approach. (more…)

Powered Lift: Novel GTRI Design Would Let Commercial Jets Use Smaller Airports While Reducing Noise

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010Science, Technologyairplane, boeing 737, california polytechnic state university, cestol aircraft, circulation-control technology, conventional wing, cruise-efficient, design, estol program, fixed-wing jet aircraft, graham blaylock, hybrid wing body low noise, lift coefficient, NASA, nicholas moore, performance, reducing engine noise, rick gaeta, robert englar, robert j englar, short take-off and landing aircraft, short takeoff and landing performance, stol

Research underway at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) could enable fixed-wing jet aircraft to take off and land at steep angles on short runways, while also reducing engine noise heard on the ground.

About the image: This computer-generated graphic shows a model of the cruise-efficient, short take-off and landing (CESTOL) aircraft design that GTRI researchers are investigating. Image credit: California Polytechnic State University (more…)

comScore Ranks Among Fastest Growing Companies in North America on Deloitte’s 2010 Technology Fast 500™

By Guest PostOctober 20, 20101 commentTechnologyclean technology, companies, Comscore, deloitte, deloitte & touche llp, deloitte ranking of 500, deloitte technology fast 500, economic environment, life sciences, magid abraham, mark jensen, Media, North America, phil asmundson, Technology, technology fast 500, telecommunications

*Attributes its 154 Percent Revenue Growth Since 2005 to Strong Track Record of Innovation*

RESTON, VA, October 20, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced that it ranked on the Technology Fast 500™, Deloitte’s ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the period from 2005–2009. comScore grew 154 percent during this period. comScore’s President, CEO and co-founder, Dr. Magid Abraham, credits a strong track record of innovation and the exceptional efforts of comScore employees with the company’s 154 percent revenue growth. (more…)

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