Archive for January, 2008
Google profits disappoint market
Despite strong profit growth, shares in Google are down sharply as investors reacted badly to its latest results.
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-->A Pirate’s Life for Nintendo DS Owners
A staggering 90 percent of American Nintendo DS users play pirated games by means of special "R4" chips, according to the ELSPA's Intellectual Property Crime Unit manager John Hiller. Hiller told The Sunday Post, "In America its thought 90 per...
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-->Motorola considers ditching cell phone biz
Will Motorola's Razr 2 be one of the company's last cell phones?
(Credit: Motorola )Motorola, the third largest cell phone maker in the world, may spin off its handset business as it tries to turn around its business, the company said Thursday.
In a statement issued ...
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-->Minimum bid hit in FCC auction, triggering open access
The reserve price on a valuable sliver of spectrum was reached in the Federal Communications Commission's 700MHz auction on Thursday, triggering rules that would make the spectrum accessible to any device or software application.
After the 17th round in the auction, a bidder for eight licenses in the "C" ...
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-->Dell to cut almost 900 jobs
Updated at 1:50 p.m. PST with comments from Dell.
More changes are afoot at Dell. The Texas PC maker plans to shut down a Canadian call center and lay off almost 900 workers.
The Edmonton, Alberta, center in Canada will close during the second quarter to consolidate customer ...
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-->Google earnings miss Wall Street estimates
This post was update at 3 p.m. PST with comments from a conference call.
Google on Thursday said its fourth-quarter revenue rose more than 50 percent and profit rose 17 percent, but the figures were just short of Wall Street expectations. Shares were down more than 8 percent in
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-->Vista and pro audio
Last fall, Steve Ball, Microsoft's program manager for sound in Vista, posted a blog entry explaining some of the reasons why Windows audio can be glitchy. (That was supposed to be "Part 1" of a series; we're still waiting for Part 2.)
(Credit: Microsoft)Today, Guardian writer Tim ...
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-->Grand Theft Auto IV: Have You Seen These People?
So it begins, with three posters I've nicknamed "Pushy," "Sulky," and "Sassy" (in that order) in the long and no doubt viral-hijinks-filled countdown to April 29, 2008. According to blog That Girl's Site, the author's cousin found three "wanted" posters...
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-->AT&T wireless data outage reported
Some AT&T wireless customers in the Midwest and Southeast are having trouble accessing 3G and EDGE data services on certain handsets, the company confirmed Thursday.
Problems were reported as early as 6:30 a.m. EST, according to Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman. Siegel was not ...
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-->Appeals court agrees Dish DVR infringed on TiVo patent
A federal court upheld Thursday an earlier ruling that EchoStar Communications infringed on a digital video recording software patent owned by TiVo.
The Washington, D.C., court of appeals also agreed with the lower court's award of $89.6 million in damages to be paid to TiVo by EchoStar, ...
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