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Archive for July, 2008

AT&T: ‘We’re all about wireless’

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Wonder why the smoking-hot 3G Apple iPhone only costs $199, less than half the price of the original? Here's a two-word hint: ...

Kodak’s Results Miss Expectations

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Eastman Kodak posted lower-than-expected quarterly results as higher raw material and development costs trimmed margins.

AT&T’s goal is to stay ahead of tech curve

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

AT&T's new technology chief says his goal can be summed up in five words: "More bandwidth in more places."

AT&T’s goal is to stay ahead of tech curve

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

AT&T's new technology chief says his goal can be summed up in five words: "More bandwidth in more places."

Lander collects Mars water for tests

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The Phoenix lander got its robotic arm onto a sample of water ice from Mars' surface and popped the ice into tiny, onboard "ovens" that will help determine if the water could support life, NASA researchers said Thursday.

Affordable gaming fun to be found in Apple’s App Store

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The Apple App Store is now open for business, offering hundreds of applications for the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. ...

OSS voices must be heard in national security debate

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

At the OSCON open source software event in Portland, Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute encouraged the open source software community to resist government surveillance and build technologies that can guarantee security without necessitating a sacrifice of freedom or privacy.Read More...

Activision profit up on “Kung Fu,” “Guitar Hero”

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc said quarterly profit at its Activision unit more than doubled on sales of "Kung Fu Panda" and "Guitar Hero: On Tour," and it raised its 2009 forecast for the newly merged company.

Fireworks not likely at Yahoo meeting

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Yahoo's shareholders meeting which once looked as if it would be a proxy showdown is shaping up as a non-event.

‘We’re all about wireless’

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Wonder why the smoking-hot 3G Apple iPhone only costs $199, less than half the price of the original? Here's a two-word hint: ...

Canada seeks industry, not consumer input on secret treaty

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been shrouded in more secrecy than seems healthy. As a major negotiating meeting wraps up today in Washington, news also emerged that Canada planned to give industry groups exclusive access to the text of the agreement and the negotiators, but it didn't bother to ...

Cablevision Beats Competition and Outperforms Expectations

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Cablevision Systems posted stronger-than-expected earnings for the second quarter, handily beating back competition for customers, especially telephone company competition.

Intel lands Facebook hardware contract

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Friday 1 August 2008 at 01:17:00 Chipmaker will remake company's infrastructure Intel has signed an agreement with Facebook to overhaul the social networking site's infrastructure. Under the deal, Intel will oversee the implementation and management of thousands of Xeon-based servers....

MySpace shareholders suit to go to trial

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit against the executives who sold MySpace parent Intermix to News Corp in 2005 will go to trial after a U.S. federal judge ruled against a motion to dismiss it.

Forrester buys Jupiter Research

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Friday 1 August 2008 at 00:49:00 Analyst firm goes for $23 million Analyst firm Forrester research has purchased rival firm Jupiter Research for $23 million. The purchase unites two of the major names in technology research and analysis....