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Intel has finally launched its Centrino 2 processor targeting the notebook market with some significant appeal, but nothing is shipping until August, which means goodbye for this year to the back-to-school rush.
Microsoft claims a significant shift in its Xbox 360 strategy, but the explanation rings hollow and raises the question of why the company continues to keep a division that looses billions annually.
Auction site eBay and e-tailer Buy.com have a new partnership, according to the New York Times -- and a lot of angry users: Consumers appear to be tiring of online auctions, and rivals like Amazon.com are attracting more shoppers with fixed-price listings, while eBay has been struggling for growth. ...
Last week the Department of Justice ended a two year criminal probe into stock backdating at Apple. But that's not the end of legal troubles. Civil actions are proceeding, however. The S.E.C. brought charges against [former chief counsel Nancy] Heinen and [former CFO Fred] Andersen in a civil suit i...
After four years, a Federal District Court ruled that eBay is not legally responsible to keep users from selling counterfeit Tiffany products. It's good news for the online auction company after recent legal losses over trademark and counterfeit issues: The ruling marks a dramatic turn in eBay's r...
The Dow has hit bear territory, causing angst among many on Wall Street. Technology stocks, once considered havens, have had their own battering. Since the beginning of the year, shares in many companies have dropped: Google's down 22 percent, Intel 24 percent, and both Microsoft and Amazon.com clos...
M.I.T. researchers have successfully etched a 25 nanometer grid onto a piece of silicon, as NewScientist.com reports, presumably opening a way to pack transistors far more densely than ever before â€" but that's only one hurdle out of the way.
The more headlines I read about the spat with Yahoo on one side and Microsoft and Carl Icahn on the other, the more the parent in me wants to call a time out and send everyone to their respective corners. At the beginning of the month, I titled a post, Yahoo to Microsoft: Oh Yeah? Well, So Can We!. ...
For years, high tech has largely been the home of the mass market mindset. Given the marginal cost of new product units, it's little wonder. An additional software license is the cost of a piece of paper and burning a DVD, and for hardware, when you've moved into selling millions of a product, what'...
High tech companies are used to outsourcing and selling overseas. But are they used to dealing with the intricacies of global politics? I doubt that too many board rooms in Silicon Valley are spending much time thinking about the current political crisis in India, nor on how the vote of confidence o...
When the first iPhone came out, there were problems galore with people getting their systems activated. So you'd think that after looking clumsy, Apple would make sure it got things right this time. But they didn't. There are various reports of problems already hitting the blogosphere, like Bijan Sa...
There's an old business joke about losing money on every unit but trying to make it up on volume. That came to mind when I read of Microsoft's planned price cut on a popular Xbox 360 model to better compete with Sony: As early as Sunday, Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., will drop the price on its $349 ...
International sales have been an important part of high tech sales for a long time. In its 2007 annual report, Microsoft noted that roughly 38.7 percent of its revenue came from overseas. HP's non-US net revenue is about twice that of the US. Just under 48 percent of Google's revenue last year was f...
There's certainly news value to Apple opening an iPhone application store for third party software. But it's easy to misinterpret the potential lesson. As the Times puts it: [CEO Steve] Jobs failed to make his personal computers dominant, in part because software developers did not write as many pro...
As the smoke clears at VMware, many are trying to figure out exactly what went on as CEO and co-founder Diane Greene was shown the door: Analysts agree that VMware's collapsing stock price and lower revenue warning probably prompted its board to oust Greene. "It is a bit of a shocker-- but there we...
