Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Best March Quarter Revenue and Earnings in Apple History — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 second quarter ended March 28, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $8.16 bill...
Former Facebook Exec Van Natta Set to Take Over at MySpace, as Founder DeWolfe Prepares to Step Down
Finally, Owen Van Natta is about to win out over a founder. — The former Facebook COO (pictured here) is poised to become the CEO of MySpace, replacing co-founder and current CEO Chris DeWolfe.
What's The Deal with OAuth?
OAuth is an open protocol that Twitter is experimenting with along with other companies such as Yahoo, Netflix, and Google. The idea is that folks can use awesome Twitter related applications and ser...
eBay Inc. Reports First Quarter 2009 Results
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News) today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. The ecommerce company posted first quarter revenue of $2.0...
Apple removes ‘Baby Shaker’ from App Store
Apple has removed the Baby Shaker application from the App Store, just hours after it was discovered. — The application still shows up in the App Store search, but upon clicking on the title, an err...
New Jawbone Headset: More Comfortable, Better Sound, Flashy Colors
I feel like I should start anything I write about headsets with a disclaimer: I've still never met one I can love unreservedly. I have trouble getting them to stay in my ear; I find myself having to ...
Upsurge in anti-P2P actions under Obama
Movies:- Any hope that the appointment of five RIAA lawyers to the new US Department of Justice was something of an aberration can now be dashed. — And any doubt that the Obama administration will t...
One bot-infected PC = 600,000 spam messages a day
Rustock, Xarvester top the list as most efficient spam-spewing bots — Computerworld) Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, new research released today claimed...
AT&T Vs Pre: Internal Document Smackdown. Oh No You Didn't!
Want more evidence that the Pre release is imminent? How about AT&T sending a document around their internal network for employees to bone-up on some anti-Pre, pro-iPhone talking points ...and then h...
Slow start for Nokia's music plan
Nokia's all-inclusive Comes With Music mobile service has been much slower to attract UK consumers than expected, according to an industry consultancy. — Music Ally claimed yesterday that Comes With...
Time Warner, Embarq Fight to Outlaw 100 Mbps Community Broadband in Wilson, NC
The cable companies aren't happy that they've been one-upped in both price and quality of service — Time Warner Inc., after finally dropping its plans for metered internet services for the time bein...
Breaking: Facebook Asks Users If They'll Pay For Vanity URLs
As Facebook searches for ways to increase their revenue, some users are being asked if they are willing to pay for vanity URLs. For those unaware of what vanity URLs are, they are the short strings t...
Steve Jobs: Nobody Loves Me
Steve Jobs, adulated gadget hero, was feeling underappreciated not too long ago. — Steve Jobs, the man rolling out iPods, iPhones and cool computers to millions of adoring customers, once felt he wa...
Congress to probe P2P sites over ‘inadvertent sharing’
The main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has reopened a probe of Lime Wire and other peer-to-peer file-sharing companies over the issue of “inadvertent sharing.” The move...
AT&T's First-Quarter Results Highlighted by Wireless Gains, U-verse TV Growth, Double-Digit Increase in IP Data Revenues
EPS of $0.53 versus $0.57 for the year-earlier first quarter; incremental noncash pension/retiree benefit costs reduced first-quarter 2009 EPS by $0.05, consistent with full-year outlook
The True Cost of Amazon's New Kindle
The research firm iSuppli tears apart the Kindle 2 to determine how much its components really cost — It has taken the online retailer Amazon less than two years to make its Kindle device more or le...
Yahoo analysts play deal or no deal on Microsoft search pact
Yahoo's first quarter earnings conference call was a humdinger—and possibly designed that way. — Everyone knew Yahoo's quarter would be so-so at best (Techmeme). And everyone knew attention would b...
Pro Apps and MacBooks to see update at WWDC
We just got a call in from our favorite Apple source who says that Apple is going to have a minor update at WWDC for MacBooks and MacBook Pros. He said he wasn't sure what the minor upgrade was but t...
Congress wants new probe into P2P file-sharing snafus
Congress is growling at LimeWire again over the “inadvertent file sharing” problem. Two House members want to know what the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are doing to fix thi...
Nokia: We Don't Know Why Criminals Want Our Old Phones
The mystery why cybercriminals want a discontinued Nokia phone isn't getting any clearer. — Hackers have been offering up to €25,000 (US$32,413) in undergrounds forums for Nokia 1100 phones made in ...
I Should Have Heeded My Own Advice About Twitter
About a full year ago, I wrote of developers leaving the Twitter development platform due to Twitter consistently removing features, making changes without warning developers, and effectively putting ...
Core MySpace Executive Team “Definitely Out.” Expect Announcement Soon.
An update to my post earlier today that News Corp., under new CEO of Digital Media Jonathan Miller, is looking to replace MySpace CEO and cofounder Chris DeWolfe. We've confirmed that things are actu...
Specifications Of Acer Latest Smart Handheld
Today, ACER launches 5 smart handheld. You can read the press release here or the media launch coverage here. It is rare that a brand launches so many handsets at a time. Nevertheless, I understand...
Firefox 3.0.9 targets 12 security vulnerabilities
Mozilla released an update to Firefox 3 on Tuesday that patches 12 security vulnerabilities, four of which it rated as critical. — Firefox 3..9, the Web browser's third update this year, fixes two c...
Your health on the iPhone!
For my entire life, I've relied on habit. I wake up when my eyes open in the morning (sometimes prompted by the alarm clock), eat when my tummy says its time, exercise in the mornings, and fall aslee...
Face recognition comes to Flickr
Without any big fuss, a face-recognition feature has been added to Flickr. — The new feature was launched recently by Swedish start-up Polar Rose. It lets users import all their photos from a Flick...
PBS Brings Bugs, Presidents and Soufflés to the Web
Public television may be non-profit and government-sponsored, but it has many of the same problems as commercial broadcasters when it comes to the Web. More and more viewers want to watch “Nova,” “Fr...
Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict
In the aftermath of the Pirate Bay trial, many Swedish law experts say they consider Friday's high-profile guilty verdict severe but fair. Very few had predicted the verdict before it was handed out....
New Military Command to Focus on Cybersecurity
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to create a new military command to coordinate the defense of Pentagon computer networks and improve U.S. offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare, according ...
Spammers Solving Difficult AI Problems With An Underground X Prize
Slashdot points us to an interview with Luis von Ahn (who we're a big fan of), where he talks about how spammers who are frustrated by various types of CAPTCHA tests have set up their own sort of “inn...
Trackle brings personal updates to any website
Trackle, the surprisingly useful service that sends you personalized alerts from around the web, is now extending its technology to other web sites with new “Trackle It” buttons. — The concept sound...
Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Mobile App Analytics
To paraphrase Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli... There are lies, damned lies, statistics and mobile app analytics. There's no doubt in my mind that apps for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch lead in n...
Peanut butter manifesto scribe seeking to raise $150M venture fund
The last thing anyone in their right mind would do these days, you'd think, would be to try to create a new venture capital firm. — The list of the walking dead venture firms is growing, because the...
MCRC Blog - 2009
How a cybergang operates a network of 1.9 million infected computers — Today we announced our recent discovery of a network of 1.9 million infected computers controlled by cybercriminals. This is o...