Palm Reports Q1 FY 2010 Results
Print page E-mail page Download PDF — Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today reported that total revenues in the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended Aug. 28, 2009, were $68.0 million. Gross p...
Verizon Boss Hangs Up on Landline Phone Business
Roll over in your grave, Alexander Graham Bell. — That was in effect what Ivan Seidenberg, the chief executive of Verizon Communications — one of the largest descendents of the old Bell System — dec...
So I Got A Call From An App Store Reviewer
The latest update to Flickup was rejected last week because of an admittedly semi-sketchy keyword (I had mentioned a competitor in my keywords). I fixed the keyword issue, and because of some confusi...
Log In with Your Facebook Username
A couple of months ago, we made it easier for people to find and connect with each other by using Facebook usernames. Beginning today, you also will be able to log in to your Facebook account with yo...
Imitation Isn't Always Flattery: Microsoft Previews Google Apps Killer To Beta Testers
Imitation isn't always the sincerest form of flattery, and this is certainly the case for Microsoft in the development and launch of its web-based browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNo...
State AGs on Google Books settlement: We object
Five state attorneys general have joined the opposition to Google's settlement with book authors and publishers, objecting to the way the settlement distributes unclaimed funds. — The attorneys gene...
Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share
Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are making preparations to one day collect performance fees from Apple and other e-tailers for not just traditional music downloads but for downloads of fi...
Snow Leopard Leaps Out of the Gate: Sales for Latest Apple OS Far Exceed Prior Launches, According to NPD
Sales during the first two weeks of Apple's Snow Leopard OS X release far exceed those of the last two Apple operating systems. According to leading market research company …
Facebook Pages in Seesmic Desktop 0.6
Facebook Pages — We're excited to share with you a new feature that will allow Seesmic Desktop to access and manage your Facebook Pages. In version 0.6, you now can view and manage any Facebook Pag...
On Demand Books Turns Google's eBook Archive Back Into Paperbacks
When you think about Google Books, chances are that you are thinking about eBooks and searching books on your desktop. Starting today, however, On Demand Books, the makers of the Espresso Book Machin...
Dell's New Laptop
Dell thinks recession-weary companies are finally ready to upgrade their technology. It has a pricey laptop to entice them. — In Texas they do everything big, even obsolescence. Take the abandoned...
Google CEO questions Murdoch's online pay plan
CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) - Publishers of general news would find it hard to charge for their content online because too much free content is available, the chief executive of Google Inc said on Th...
Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours!
Posterous is proud to announce the ability to change the look and feel of your Posterous blog! It's been a long time coming, and are we ever excited about releasing this feature to you guys today.
“Mommy Blogger” Heather Armstrong Monetizes The Hate [Crap E-mail From World]
Regular readers of Dooce know that blogger Heather B. Armstrong gets a whole lot of hate mail. Yesterday, she launched a site featuring entertaining examples of it, surrounded by advertisements galor...
IE program manager endorses HTML 5 multimedia tags
On Wednesday, Google's Mark Pilgrim published episode 35 of This Week in HTML 5, a series of articles that he is writing at the WHATWG blog to document the progress of the Web standards effort. In th...
Silicon Valley ‘seeing revival’
Silicon Valley is stirring back to life, following a bruising economic downturn, according to industry insiders and start-up entrepreneurs. — The view seems to underscore Federal Reserve chairman Be...
Memo to Start-ups: You're Supposed to Be Changing the World, Remember?
I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough tr...
How The Joltid Suit Is a Ploy to Buy Back Skype
Table of Contents: — Bernstein Research's Jeffrey Lindsay says new litigation filed by Joltid against eBay, Skype and its pending investors stems from the Joltid owners' failure to buy back Skype fr...
HP Names Marc Andreessen to Board of Directors
HP today announced that Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz and co-founder and chairman of Ning, has been elected to serve on the HP board of directors. — Andreess...
Facebook lets users decide who has the Golan Heights
As Facebook ramps up its growth abroad, it will have to contend with more highly-charged political conflicts. One of them is how to manage disputed territories like the Golan Heights, a mountainous r...
Don't Tweet On Me
Twitter shows that stupid stuff sells. — From the magazine issue dated Sep 28, 2009 — The comedian Dane Cook apparently believes he is building his brand by pumping out a steady stream of comments...
Facebook's Big Advertising Experiment Drives New Revenue
On Tuesday, Facebook said it had become “free cash flow positive” this past quarter — meaning the company is financing its own growth rather than using investor money. But why is revenue growing?
Facebook Eats Away at Email Usage on Today's Web
According to recent analysis by the Online Publishers Association (OPA), more people than ever are spending their time online visiting content sites which provide news, information, and entertainment....
The long-awaited DreamScreen tablet computer comes from HP, not Apple
Hewlett Packard has beaten Apple to the punch in coming up with a beautiful tablet-like computer. The company's just-announced DreamScreen products represent a new category of wireless connected scre...
Place a Phone Call...Via Twitter
Twitter users will soon be able to make short phone calls for free directly through the micro-blogging service. JaJah, an Internet telephony company that allows you to make VoIP calls using your land...
Google Delivers New Java-like Language: Noop
The tireless, developer-centric engineers at Google have come up with Noop, a new language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). — The tireless, developer-centric engineers at Google have com...
Intel's Not-So-Mighty Atom
Netbook computers are cheap and popular, thanks in part to Intel's Atom chip. But the Atom isn't up to the job. — How would you like your dear mom to have to drive herself around town in a cramped,...
A Zillion here, a Zillion there
It looks like the public will have to wait a bit longer for ZillionTV, but when it does arrive, it will be available in more places. CEO Mitchell Berman announced this morning that Zillion, a TV-on-t...
Google Eyeing 10% Market Share For Chrome. Mac Version Due By The End Of The Year.
As we noted yesterday, version 3 of Google's Chrome web browser is now available for PC users. But in an interview yesterday with Reuters, Google revealed a couple of interesting tidbits about the pr...
Yahoo May Eventually Let Home Page Users Select Alternate Search Engines
On Yahoo's new home page, users can check e-mail from other providers—and it's possible that flexibility could extend to search too. During an update on the status of the home page, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO...
Is a trade battle looming with China over World of Warcraft?
World of Warcraft, one of the most successful fantasy online role-playing games of all time, was recently shut down in China for weeks. On June 7, Activision Blizzard changed its Chinese online opera...
Socializr Lays Off Staff, On DeadPool Watch
Socializr, the online event organization tool that first went into private beta in 2006, isn't in good shape. — We've heard from a couple of sources that Socializr has laid off most or all of the st...
Taming Your Digital Distractions
Is there any human invention more duplicitous than the personal computer? These machines were manufactured and initially marketed as devices to help us at work. We were told they would perform amazi...
Pentax K-x brief hands-on
Pentax's K-x offers an awful lot of K-7 features in what is essentially the same body as the K2000 (K-m). In fact, its high specification and low price are most reminiscent of the much-loved K200D, w...
Apple's iTunes 9 Makes it Easier to Share, Organize
Apple's iTunes program is one of the most popular software products in the world. The company says hundreds of millions of copies of iTunes have been downloaded, far exceeding the 220 million iPod mu...
The Daily Start-Up: Where Is Venture Capital Headed?
This morning's roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web: … The Big Picture - Greetings from The Waldorf-Astoria in New York, where the largest conference dedicated to pri...
Start-Up Tries to Revive Online Group Buying
When most people think about buying in bulk, they think about buying 50 rolls of toilet paper, a case of air freshener or 40 boxes of cereal at Costco or BJ's Wholesale Club. But what about four hour...
Michael Robertson Wants To Crowdsource Proof Of EMI's Lies: You Lie EMI Bookmarklet Available
EMI has been involved in a lawsuit with MP3Tunes for a while now. The whole lawsuit seems weird, since MP3Tunes is about creating a storage locker for the songs you already have.