Yahoo! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy co...
APPLE-A-DAY TALK
INVESTORS AWAIT EARNINGS & JOBS' HEALTH REPORT — Industry concerns about Steve Jobs' health have not gone away more than a month after the Apple CEO appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annua...
Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry
SAN FRANCISCO — The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business conside...
The Friendfeedization Of Facebook
As Facebook continues to roll out the full version of its new user profiles, it's becoming clear that their primary goal isn't, as they said in May, to simply create a cleaner user experience and allo...
To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3G Always Alerts When Taking Photos
An upskirt warning poster in a subway station outside Tokyo. Photo by Jeff Epp. — The iPhone 3G in Japan has a special feature unique to that country: The camera always makes a conspicuous “shutter...
Universal: “Fair use” is still infringing
Stephanie Lenz's YouTube video of her tot dancing to an old Prince song was pulled down at the request of Universal last year after the music label said that the clip infringed on its copyright. Not ...
Panasonic improves sensor for LX3 enthusiast compact camera
One of the main complaints with the Lumix DMC-LX2, Panasonic's enthusiast pocket camera, was the high noise level of its 10-megapixel sensor. So we're heartened that for its replacement, the LX3, Pan...
Apple sells out of iPhones in all but 3 locations
In less than 10 days since its problem-plagued launch, Apple has sold out of stock of iPhones in all of its stores except three, including every state except New York, California, and New Hampshire. ...
News Flash From the Cover of Esquire: Paper Magazines Can Be High Tech, Too
On the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan rests a tribute to Esquire's glory years — a collection of 92 covers from the 1960s and early 1970s that have become, in the museum'...
SAP to shut down TomorrowNow; Oracle gets its sacrifice
SAP's purchase of TomorrowNow in 2005 sounded like a great idea: Undercut Oracle on support and squeeze your biggest rival. And then came Oracle's lawsuit. — SAP said Monday that it will wind down ...