The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with an AT&T subsidiary in an antitrust lawsuit that accused the phone company of anticompetitive practices over pricing for its broadband Internet services.
The Supreme Court reversed a decision by a U.S. appeals court in San Francisco. The ruling was the latest in a series of recent decisions by the [...]
TED blog: http://blog.ted.com
While both venues summon an elite group of thinkers and doers, TED is decidedly more optimistic. “The Great Unveiling” is this year’s theme, and so far, the program has lived up to its promise: Bill Gates unleashed mosquitoes, David Hanson made robot faces from “frubber,” Arthur Benjamin introduced circus flair with his “magic [...]
What's it gonna be: my cloud or yours?
“But, what we’ve heard from customers thus far, customers who are really committed to using the cloud, is that the best way to illustrate openness and customer flexibility is by what you actually provide and deliver for them.”
A document (PDF) making its way onto the Web–the “Open [...]
Handmark announced Thursday plans to acquire FreeRange Communications, in a move to expand its mobile applications to include a publishing platform.
With the acquisition, Handmark is also looking to add FreeRange’s RSS Web reading capabilities to its mobile offerings.
FreeRange, based in Portland, Ore., markets a mobile publishing platform that aims to allow media and content publishers [...]
What remains to be seen is whether customers-and prospective customers-see SAP’s new approach as a real rival to vendors like Salesforce.com.
According to a prebriefing with The Wall Street Journal, SAP will launch Business Suite 7, which will allow customers to pay for just the modules they use. I’ll be at SAP’s New York office Wednesday [...]
A brief follow-up to my last post on the
iPhone replacing the
iPod as Apple’s main vehicle for innovation. Look at the quarterly sales figures released Tuesday.
To try to get an idea what this means, I looked at last few quarterly earnings calls as reported on iLounge. Here are the iPhones sold each quarter since their [...]
House subcommittee debates cell phone radiation
Source: Universal Music Group plans ‘Hulu-like’ site
iPhone battery lawsuit dismissed
Listen now:
The world’s largest record label wants to develop its own version of Hulu, NBC Universal’s free online-video portal. It would be a place for professionally produced music videos, original programming, and a more polished platform for the label’s [...]
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch
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Dan Farber/CBS Interactive)
Our results for the quarter are a direct reflection of the grim economic climate. While we anticipated a weakening, the downturn is more severe and likely longer lasting than previously thought.
As a result, we have been taking actions to preserve a solid level of operational profitability and a [...]
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Stephen Shankland/CNET News)
“We realized you could have Facebook sitting in a tab all day long and you’ll never notice whether they IM you,” Samir Mehta, senior product messenger on Yahoo Messenger Team, said in an interview at Yahoo’s headquarters here.
The setup process requires you to authenticate yourself on Yahoo’s network. After that, it lets [...]
7. Los Angeles-based twitterer Bill Palmer noticed that literally everyone caught election fever: homeless guy on Hollywood Blvd with a sign that says “Obama aint the only one who wants change”–now that’s clever. McCain supporters, insert your own potshot about “spreading the wealth around” here.
9. In the interest of shameless self-promotion, this one comes from [...]
