Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
6.9 Million iPhones Sold Mac Sales Reach All-Time High — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.9 bil...
Jerry Yang Email To All Yahooers: 10% Of You Are Fired
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent the email below to all Yahoo'ers at 2:20 pm PST, after earnings were announced. Besides being all lowercase, as usual, he lets everyone know that the company will be letting...
Wii Fit on Track to Outsell GTA IV This Year
The market for video games is changing profoundly, and a comparison of two prominent titles' recent sales figures shows just how much: Wii Fit, a game largely marketed to women, is outpacing the lates...
Android is now available as open source
Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of the work that we've poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Andr...
Apple Stops Mac Mini Shipments to Retailers, Says to Expect No More
The Mac mini may be pronounced dead as soon as today's Apple earnings conference call, as two major retailers in Europe have confirmed to me that they can't order any more of the little computers.
Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users
I am thrilled to announce that today we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities...
Mobile ad network AdMob hits profitability, raises $15.7 million
Mobile advertising network AdMob has become a darling of Silicon Valley this past year, having grown large alongside the recent explosion of mobile web traffic in the U.S. and around the world.
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug. — Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The...
Lala May Have Just Built The Next Revolution In Digital Music
Call me a skeptic. When Lala came to our offices last week trying to convince me that music was heading to the cloud, and that they were going to help lead the transition, I wasn't convinced at first...
Palm Treo Pro: A sweet Windows smartphone
San Francisco - The BlackBerry, iPhone, and T-Mobile G1 may be the kings of smartphone cool, but if you ask me, they all share one big shortcoming: They don't run Windows Mobile. — I know that state...
Make Your Own iPhone/Android Apps With New App Generator
Today AppLoop launched a mobile application generator which lets you turn any RSS feed into a mobile application for either iPhone (available today) or Android (coming soon). The company, who compete...
Beware the Digital Zombies
REDMOND, Wash. — In a windowless room on Microsoft's campus here, T. J. Campana, a cybercrime investigator, connects an unprotected computer running an early version of Windows XP to the Internet. In...
Microsoft Xbox: Not Ready For Primetime
There's a new member of the “Not Ready for Primetime Players”: The Xbox 360. — Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) has delayed the launch of “Xbox Live Primetime,” its programmed series of int...
Online Video Site Blip.tv Secures Second Round
Online video site Blip.tv, based in new York City, has secured its entire second round of funding from Bain Capital Ventures. The amount was not disclosed, but CEO Mike Hudack said that the round had...
Google Open-Sources Android on Eve of G1 Launch
Table of Contents: — Google releases the complete Android mobile operating system stack under the open-source Apache license, freeing up carriers, OEMs and ambitious application development experts ...
Akamai Introduces Advertising Decision Solutions; Announces Agreement to Acquire acerno
Contacts: — Media Relations — Akamai Technologies — 617-444-3913 — jyoung@akamai.com —or— Noelle Faris — Investor Relations — Akamai Technologies — 617-444-4676
Apple's next act: Changing PC buying habits
Nvidia inside: Apple's latest MacBook laptops have an Nvidia graphics processor next to their Intel chips, which puts the spotlight on graphics chips as an important part of today's basic computer sys...
Muslim Group Condemns LBP “Censorship”
Sony reacted a little OTT with the withdrawl ,( although I suspect the individual who stated that they found it offensive could just have easily been some fanboy making ‘smart*%$’ comments on a forum ...
Brightstorm Raises $6 Million For Online Video Tutorials
If high-school education is failing in the U.S., maybe Web video can help. Founded last April, Brightstorm is a Web video site that brings bright, talented teachers together with students who need so...
ASUS CEO Reveals Eee PC Sales Numbers, Plans for Touch Eee PCs and More Eee Family Products
Earlier this week the ASUS Eee PC celebrated its first birthday (with a full birthday party and cake at LAPTOP Magazine). It was one year ago that the Taiwanese company began selling its first sub-no...
Google Being More Careful Amid Slump, Schmidt Says
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular Internet search site, will make fewer acquisitions and slow hiring amid the global economic turmoil, Chief Executive Officer Eric S...
Dear Mr. President: Let's talk tech
Top IT luminaries demand action from the next administration — Computerworld) Science and technology may not have been the focus of the recent debates between presidential hopefuls John McCain and B...
Google Uses Public Service Ads to Link to Own Election Page
Google AdSense ads are embedded in websites all across the web. As a webmaster, you have the option to let Google display Public Service Ads when they cannot find a fitting other ad; these ads will n...
Hola Hulu!
our forums, twitter and inbox are filled with messages such as “now if I could only play Hulu on boxee..”, “give me Hulu!”, or my personal favorite “if you somehow figured out how to make Hulu work......
Motorola Heralds The Return of Artistry™ and Unveils Timeless, Classically Designed Device
Introducing AURA™ by Motorola featuring the world's first circular display in the mobile phone industry — Inspired by luxury watches and handcrafted design, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) …