Friday - November 21, 2008
Computer and server maker Dell surprised Wall Street with better-than-expected profits Thursday. The company reported $727 million in earnings in the third quarter, down 5 percent from the $766 million it reported during the same period in 2007. Third-quarter revenue came in at $15.16 billion, a 3 percent decrease from the same period last year.
Despite the decrease in year-over-year revenue, Dell was able to increase profits through a series of cost-cutting measures instituted more than a year ago.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama may not find it that hard to give up his BlackBerry after all. Verizon Wireless has announced that some of its employees accessed his personal cell phone account records. The wireless provider apologized to the president-elect and said it would discipline the employees involved.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
In four years, driving a car in the San Francisco Bay area may involve a variation of the "plug and play" concept. Think "plug and drive," if the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and start-up Better Place have their way. The company, founded by former SAP executive and Wired magazine cover subject Shai Agassi, announced a private-public partnership Thursday with the three mayors and regional entities.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
TV shows like "The Hills" focus on the petty squabbles that go on in the world of spoiled, vapid socialites. I can't think of a program that gets into the catfights that go on in the IT world, and I don't know whether there'd really be a huge audience for something like that, but they do happen, and court documents in an ongoing lawsuit have revealed some juicy tidbits.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
The rest of the economy may be tanking, but online advertising in the U.S. posted big year-over-year gains, according to the New York City-based Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Internet advertising revenue reached nearly $5.9 billion in the third quarter, an 11 percent increase compared to the same period the year before.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
Now that both the country and the world are in dire economic straits, attention has recently been drawn to the -- in some cases -- outsized amount of CEO compensation, especially in the cases of companies that have benefited from a U.S. government bailout. The current economic morass notwithstanding, stockholders and special interest groups have roundly criticized executive compensation during the last 10 years or so.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
Microsoft sought to bring a quick end Thursday to the lawsuit that has produced a steady flow of sometimes embarrassing internal e-mails about Windows Vista, a product whose reputation in the marketplace was already tarnished before it launched nearly two years ago. The company asked a federal judge in Seattle to dismiss the remaining claims in the class-action suit brought by PC buyers.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
The history of James Bond films is the history of our fascination with technology: booby-trapped briefcases, jetpacks, cars with machine guns and ejector seats, super-magnet watches, cars driven by remote control, acid-filled fountain pens, cars that become invisible, sharks with frickin' lasers...
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Friday - November 21, 2008
Two engineers from China who pleaded guilty to the rare charge of economic espionage against the U.S. are facing sentencing Friday in a case that highlights national security threats surrounding sensitive technologies. Fei Ye, a U.S. citizen, and Ming Zhong, a permanent resident of the U.S., admitted in 2006 that they stole computer chip designs from their Silicon Valley employers.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
Data-tracking firm iSuppli cut its growth forecast for the personal computer industry by nearly two-thirds as rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global market weaken demand and many major economies fall into recession. iSuppli now expects global PC shipments to grow by only 4.3 percent in 2009, versus a previous forecast for 11.9 percent growth, the company said.
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Thursday - November 20, 2008
Yahoo and T-Mobile jointly announced that Yahoo oneSearch will be the default mobile engine to power Internet search made through T-Mobile's new Web2go service. The new Web2go service is basically a customizable home page on a mobile phone that makes it easier to view and navigate the Internet on the handheld device.
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