AMD seen close to $5.5 billion chip deal
Source says Applied Micro Devices could announce deal with #2 Canadian chipmaker as early as Monday. — PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) — Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, is ...
ZUNE GETS IN THE RING
Microsoft Preps Music Player, Service To Rival Apple's Wares — Microsoft officials for the first time have confirmed that the Redmond, Wash.-based company is readying a portable music player and int...
Cheaper to "Give Away" Free Cellphone Services in Rural Areas
U.S. taxpayers are getting stuck with the tab for up to US$13,345 per telephone line per year for federally subsidized phone service under the US$7-billion "Universal Service Fund" tax on long-distanc...
Best blogs send audience away
Jeff Jarvis writes "The problem with portals is that they aren't portals at all. ... They want to lure you in and then not let you leave." … Some of the best blogs are what Buzz Bruggeman describes a...
TEO 3.0 - Goooood eatin..
Josh Einstein's latest release of Tablet Enhancements for Outlook should be the first software product every Tablet PC user and developer gets at Microsoft. It is the perfect showcase Tablet PC appli...
Scars From The Last Bubble
In general, I think entrepreneurs and VCs who lived through the last bubble and its burst are better off because of it. We've seen what can go wrong and what happens when it does go wrong. I think i...
Sony BMG releases first song that works with all music players
LOS ANGELES — Record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which got into trouble last year when it sold copy-protected CDs that inadvertently threatened PCs with a computer virus, has become the first ...
Apple to do eBooks?
We tend to field a lot of inside information here at Engadget HQ, but we've gotten not one, but two bits from separate, trustworthy insiders that Apple's not satisfied merely vending Audible's books-o...
Too many journalists
The accepted wisdom in the news biz is that you can never have too many journalists and that the ad and circ crunch hitting papers will hurt papers by reducing newsroom staff. I've been questioning t...
Skype applies for trademark that could mean worldwide free calling to any phone
This is going to sound strange and quite likely improbable, but I have information that may indicate that Skype could be considering dropping the equivalent of a nuclear bomb on the VoIP world.
They Wrap Fish, Don't They?:
Internet News Isn't What It's All Wrapped Up to Be — I have been writing for the World Wide Web since April 1997, which is about as long as anyone on continuous duty can claim. That's 480+ columns,...
No Bloatware, Please
Michelle Pearcy, WW Client Software Manager — Lots of chatter these days on why Dell pre-loads so much software on new systems. Several of you have asked about how this software affects performance...
Independent report on invalid clicks released
Seems like a good time to remind people of my disclaimer, because this post is purely my opinion. — Normally, reading court documents is nearly the last thing I would want to do on a Saturday. But ...
Profit Lags as Microsoft Spends to Meet Competitors
Microsoft reported yesterday that its sales grew strongly in the recent quarter, but its profits lagged. — The company is in the midst of product transition as sales of its new, as yet unprofitable,...