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AT&T said Friday that it has closed its Wayport acquisition, which allows it to build out its Wi-Fi network. In addition, the telecom giant said that it "is nearing completion" of its project to convert Starbucks locations to AT&T's Wi-Fi service. With Wayport, AT&T will have ro...
Alcatel-Lucent on Friday unveiled its latest restructuring plan complete with layoffs and a rip off of Cisco's spiel about Web 2.0 technologies. The news out of Alcatel-Lucent was boilerplate stuff these daysâ€"it will be news when a company actually hires someone. Alcatel-Lucent sees the marke...
House democrats take aim at FCC and chairman Kevin Martin; Sony Ericcson, Vodafone, and ARM back Google's Android; report says that U.S. approach to nanotech is inadequate; Nintendo partners with HarperCollins for e-book classics on DS portable; and Intel on track for 32nm chips.
More details are coming out about spending on Cyber Monday. Although the event took place over a week ago, the numbers are interesting if for no other reason than they suggest how consumers are shopping and buying. Know how people make decisions, and you are closer to understanding what they might want from you. But it turns out that the sources of information aren't necessarily something you could statistically project to the buying public as a whole, and many executives may be making marketing, advertising, and promotional decisions based on unwarranted assumptions.
Updated: Ivory Investment Management, a hedge fund that owns about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, is pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft, but the sticking point is valuation. Analysts say that Ivory's assumptions sound optimistic. In a letter reported earlier by CNBC, Ivory urges Yaho...
SAP is reportedly retreating a bit on its forced maintenance price hikes and it may be a sign to come as customers gain leverage over vendors. Dennis Howlett reports that SAP is backtracking on its maintenance price hikes, which went over like a lead balloon, in Germany. It appears there won't ...
Intel needs Atom success for mobile; Mayfield Fund to open India-focused fund; China still wants security code; Wal-Mart to have iPhone, maybe, at $99, even maybe-er; rumors of new Apple device category to come out next year; AMD gets smaller stake in spin-off; and Broadcom packs 11n, Bluetooth, and FM on one chip.
If you cast a large enough net, you'll eventually snag a fish or two. In some ways, it feels like that's what Google is doing with its AdWords program. The company said today that it's extending AdWords reach, optimizing it to include ads that are specific to iPhone and G1 users - which offer ...
One of Yahoo's most valuable properties is its web mail service, which has more members and gets more traffic than mail services provided by Google, MSN and AOL. Yahoo Mail was once part of the portal, another offering along side things like photo services, stock portfolios, alerts and other servi...
Apple has a reputation for being focused on its customers. But given recent history, you might wonder whether the reputation should be for lying to customers. As Apple goes after a bigger market, it is going to face an enormous challenge of appealing over the long haul to people who are not inculcated in the partisan culture surrounding the company. If it doesn't change its ways, a few years down the line, people will start walking away.
Apple may be offering a $99 iPhone at Wal-Mart. More than 300 million applications have been downloaded from Apple's App Store. And the iPod touch is out of stock in at key retailers. Add it up and signs abound that Apple's has created a virtuous cycle for its touch platform and the payoff may b...
Court upholds ruling that Qualcomm withheld patent info from standards body, but says comapny can still enforce its patents; Yahoo countersues American Airlines over charge that allowing others to buy search placement based on the comapny's name is trademark infringement; Hawaiian Telecom files for bankruptcy; ITC rules against Tessera in its patent infringement action against six large chip companies; Mutliven sues Cisco for alleged antitrade activities; AMD says that Intel is trying to stall an EU antitrust investigation; lawyers look for a DMCA exemption for customers left high and dry when a digital rights management system is shut down; Apple says that "no reasonable person" would believe statements in its ads; and Google was hours away from antitrust suit by DoJ.
Apple's forecast on iPod movement is off, leading to product shortages and fewer sales; consumers focus on bargains; Google tightens its belt, including cutting research; when Google called off the Yahoo deal, a DoJ anti-trust lawsuit was only a few hours away; IBM, Microsoft, and Google, among others, still plan on acquisitions going forward; and Activision to monetize its free Battle.Net gaming site.
Real Networks said today that it informed 130 employees, or 7.5 percent of its worldwide workforce, that their positions would be eliminated at the end of year. In a post on the company's official blog, the company said the layoffs were part of a larger cost cutting plan that "is intended to b...
The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.(Techmeme) Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share...
