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If you are looking to raise substantial capital for your privately held business, you need a competently prepared business plan. You must convince the lender that your business is capable of repaying the debt, through principal pay-downs and/or the issuance of publicly traded stock to the lender Here's what Robert Krummer Jr., chairman of First Bus...

There's a growing ground-swell of interest in many companies today around the valuation of their homegrown ERP, CRM, order capture and service applications. This issue has come to the forefront for several reasons, the two most dominant ones being many companies are looking seriously at the marketability of these applications in the open market, and second, the need to value intellectual property in their companies as manufacturing is moved offshore...

British biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey spoke at Stanford University this week about the prospects for curing aging. His reasoned presentation proved a stark contrast to authors like James Hughes, Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association, who seek to prolong the life of worn-out political ideas In Citizen Cyborg, Hughes argues that...

A bid to use converged technologies to greatly expand the options for connecting via mobile devices and help carriers keep customers happy has gotten a boost Alcatel used the Superdome 2005 telecom conference to announce that it will offer a version of what's known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) that works with both WiFi technology and the propr...

Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology yesterday said it would release a 2.5-inch disc drive with 160 GB capacity in the first quarter of 2006 The drive is built on perpendicular recording technology, a technology that stands data bits on end on the disc platter rather than flat to the surface as with existing longitudinal recording to achieve new lev...

Microsoft yesterday made tab browsing available to the masses -- but not via its upcoming Internet Explorer 7 release. The software giant is offering the feature through its MSN Search Toolbar instead The MSN Search Toolbar allows users of IE 5.01 and above to do what Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari users have already been enjoying, includi...

HP said its researchers have created a new way to make electronic circuits using so-called "coding theory," which is already applied today in certain math, cryptography and telecommunications applications, including digital cell phones and deep-space probes HP said the new design method, based on nanotechnology, could produce future electronic circ...

In a forecast that will be music to the ears of technology firms and investors alike, a leading trade group has predicted continued sales growth for semiconductors for the next three years, with the industry on track this year to break previous sales records The Semiconductor Industry Association said the emergence of a broad range of consumer devi...

When it comes to Web hosting and small business' needs, the old adage, "You get what you pay for," just may apply. This according to Affinity Internet President Jim Collins, who believes there are Web hosting services worth paying for -- and for good reason. Small businesses, he said, need more than just a presence. They need a comprehensive Web services strategy...

The ranks of those cutting off their traditional, land line telephone service in favor of only wireless telecommunication services are growing, with some reports putting the figure at over 10 percent of wireless users While most analysts doubt much more than 8 percent of wireless users -- mostly college-age students or younger -- are ditching their...

Bidding to offer a low-cost alternative to the dominant mobile e-mail platform, Yahoo has teamed with mobile carrier Sprint Communications to offer mobile messaging for around US$3 per month The two companies said the service would be available immediately in all markets where Sprint offers coverage. Yahoo's Web-based e-mail will be pushed to subsc...

IBM plans to reveal details of its long-awaited "Cell" microprocessors today at the company's Power.org Community Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Big Blue, Sony and Toshiba announced a US$400 million partnership four months ago to collaborate on an architecture for what is termed a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design that will be used to develop everything from handheld devices to mainframe computers...

Seattle-based open-source software developer SourceLabs today announced that Bruce Perens has joined the company as its vice president of developer relations and policy Perens, a high-profile figure in the open-source software community, is the original author of the "Open Source Definition," now widely recognized as the authoritative description o...

AT&T and Microsoft announced a five-year alliance yesterday to deploy and deliver Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications services The companies said they would focus on messaging, collaboration, media and business applications and expect the collaboration to drive development of new service bundles....

There soon will be a central place for Web surfers to dwell in a forbidden cyber land of adult fantasies, sex, dark rituals and total taboos. Finally, ICANN has given in to the pressure and has tossed a big rock across the turbulent e-commerce ocean. It has approved a new suffix, .xxx, for adult-only porn sites, creating ripples and debates in ever so confusing global cyber branding times when cyber global domain name challenges are being fought in the complex earthly trademark realities...

At the time of its passage in 2002, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the sweeping piece of legislation meant to make publicly traded companies more accountable, rolled through Congress. The reaction to the WorldCom and Enron accounting scandals became law so quickly, in fact, that it took time for both the companies impacted and the technology industry to start to piece together their responses...

With two major deals in the past week, the online shopping-search market remains primed for additional consolidation as major players continue to jockey for the lead position in the e-commerce race On the heels of eBay's US$620 million buy of Shopping.com last week, media conglomerate E.W. Scripps said it would shell out $525 million in cash to buy...

XM Satellite Radio today announced an exclusive strategic relationship with Audible through which it will introduce portable, handheld satellite radio devices capable of providing content from both companies in 2006 XM offers more than 150 digital radio channels of commercial-free music and talk radio content for the vehicle, home, and portable use...

Revving up its marketing engines as it prepares to compete more directly than ever with Yahoo, MSN and Google as a portal open to all, America Online has formally launched its free Web-based e-mail service, known as AIM Mail AIM Mail offers free unlimited storage to AOL members but also offers 2 GB of storage free to any Internet user of AOL Instan...

XM Satellite Radio today announced that next year it will offer programming that can play both satellite radio and digitally delivered spoken-word audio provided by Audible, a seller of downloadable audio versions of books, newspapers and other printed matter Terms of the agreement were not disclosed....