Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy
Trolltech's Qt based technology assets facilitate application development for multiple platforms and devices — Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they hav...
Introducing Prologue
We're fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more, like a way for each of us to s...
Yahoo (YHOO) Going Forward With “Drastic” Layoffs—Source
Source — A source close to Yahoo reports that Jerry Yang has decided to go forward with aggressive layoffs. The source believes the layoffs will be announced on the company's conference call this we...
Windows 7 isn't headed for 2009, says Microsoft. More like 2011.
Hey, it's not Microsoft's fault that 2011 sounds like the realm of jet pack VR massage cars, but it's certainly a long ways away any way you slice it. Contrary to previous rumors of Microsoft plannin...
LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 Years of Building Frenzy and Curiosities
The LEGO brick turns 50 at exactly 1:58 p.m. today, January 28, 2008. This timeline shows these 50 years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the LEGOLAND theme...
4Q 2007 HIGHLIGHTS
37 cents in EPS and 62 cents in adjusted EPS (non-GAAP), compared with 4Q 2006 EPS of 48 cents and 52 cents, respectively, from continuing operations. — $23.8 billion in revenues, up 5.5 percent; up...
How Much Money Are Facebook Apps Making? Not Much Apparently
VideoEgg has announced that its ad network for Facebook applications - eggnetwork - has pulled in around $1.5 million in ad revenue over the past five months. — While the company is touting the news...
Steve Jobs to Apple investors: ‘hang in there’
In a private communication last week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs acknowledged the beating his company's shares have taken during this time of economic uncertainty, but remained confident that in...
Hey HD DVD: It's Not Just a Flesh Wound
You've got to hand to Toshiba. Even now, when faced with overwhelming evidence that Sony's Blu-ray has won the high def format war, the mortally wounded HD DVD backer just keeps on prolonging the ine...
Google Docs Offline Access
In a post Philipp made last week about writing a book in Google Docs, he said: — Working with Google Docs requires an internet connection. In my case, I need this internet connection anyway [...] y...
Apple's $300 million gray market dilemma
Having stirred up a hornet's nest with his first take in the so-called missing iPhones, Bernstein Research's Apple (AAPL) specialist Toni Sacconaghi has taken a second look at the discrepancy between ...
Google Lego Logo: Google Offers Lego 50th Birthday Wishes
Google has a special logo up on the Google home page today. The Google logo is made up of legos, to celebrate Lego's fifty-year birthday. — Google's culture has always had a special place for lego.
Mole: 80GB PS3 dead, 120-160GB with Dual Shock 3 incoming
Our inside source of all things video gaming has been right almost every time it comes out of the shadows to give us information, so I'm going to dispense with the back story. Wherever his or her inf...
Introducing new search views
Introducing experimental views for search results — There have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant — 10 or so web pages...
Target Tells a Blogger to Go Away
Target to the blogosphere: you're irrelevant. — That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYouth.org, a blog about the impact of marketing on...
Livescribe reveals it has a Pulse
It may not be quite as rapid as the company had hoped, but Livescribe is ready to show the world its Pulse. — The digital pen company showed off a prototype of its technology at last year's D: All T...
PayPal buys Fraud Sciences for $169M
EBay's online payments division, PayPal, will pay $169 million for an Israeli security company specializing in detecting online fraud, the companies said Monday. The deal should close within 30 days....
SmugMug's Private Pics Are Public
There's a massive privacy hole over at photo hosting site SmugMug.com. The site claims to have over 270 million photos, and as I've failed to convince the site makers this vulnerability is worth fixi...
How to get Windows XP after June 30
San Francisco - Two weeks ago, InfoWorld launched a petition campaign to save Windows XP. So far we???ve gotten more than 70,000 signatures, thanks to a passionate response from a wide range of XP us...
Liberty Media Takes Action To Force Diller Out of IAC
Liberty Media Corp. took steps Monday to seize control of IAC/InterActiveCorp from IAC Chairman Barry Diller. — Liberty, which owns a majority voting stake in IAC that has long been voted by Mr. Dil...
First Proof Apple Making Near Zero on AppleTV (And Big Bucks on iTunes)
That sweet $70 price chop Steve announced for the Apple TV had to come from somewhere (a question smartly raised by CW) and we know the only thing Apple guards more than closely than its secrets is it...
Ribbit Readies An Amphibian Attack On Voice Apps
Ribbit, the startup that is building a platform for Voice 2.0 apps, is creating a Web-based phone service for consumers codenamed “Amphibian." The point of Amphibian is both to demonstrate the capabi...
US v Microsoft: who really won?
Before he became Mother Teresa, Bill Gates was Darth Vader. As captain of the Evil Empire, he and his minions dominated PC operating systems, vanquishing all rivals. In May of 1998, the US Departmen...
LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 Years of Building Frenzy and Curiosities
The LEGO brick turns 50 at exactly 1:58 p.m. today, January 28, 2008. This timeline shows these 50 years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the LEGOLAND theme...
Target Tells a Blogger to Go Away
Target to the blogosphere: you're irrelevant. — That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYouth.org, a blog about the impact of marketing on...
From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally
After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. — With CD sales in free fall ...
DEMO: Iterasi Lets You Save The Internet One Page at a Time
Iterasi is one of the presenting companies at DEMO this year. The name Iterasi comes from the Portugese from iteration. The idea of the service is simple: save pages in their exact state for later u...
NBCU Unit Acquires Video Start-Up LX.TV; Will Expand Local Programming
Multi-platform entertainment programmer LX.TV has been acquired by NBC's Local Media Division. LX.TV began producing hi-def programming for NBC Universal's (NYSE: GE) WNBC last January.
Break.com Launches Ad Network For Dudes
At times lewd, geeky, disgusting, and most of the time funny, Break.com has managed to pull in an audience of 18 million unique visitors that stay and average of 7.5 minutes each session. They've als...