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On the same day Intel chopped $1 billion off its fourth quarter sales target, its nearest rival, Advanced Micro Devices, said its business was just fine. And as it turns out, the financial health of AMD, the world's second largest semiconductor maker, owes a lot to its caution in buying chips for its own use.
Since the world's economic crisis began in September, SAP AG has adopted a "we do not hire, we do not replace" employment policy. The early results are in. And when you exclude acquisitions (see Business Objects, January 2008), there is one area of the world where the overall headcount has...
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are...
Sirius XM subscribers complain about programming changes as stock drops to 20 cents; Motorola tries brib...oh, sorry, providing incentives for smartphone developers; Apptera gets $10.5 million for phone advertising market; LG adds its U.S. smartphone entry; and Obama FCC transition team co-chair is a World of Warcraft player.
Microsoft to give away security software; judge says no to Mac clone-maker Psystar's counterclaims against Apple; Microsoft and Novell says their two-year-old deal is good, but not all agree; Amazon enters digital content delivery business; and Nvidia has desktop super computer for under $10,000.
How far does Google's reach extend? Far enough that telecom companies might consider giving up the battle right now and preemptively forming partnerships with the search giant, a recent Gartner Research report suggests. As Gartner sees it, Google poses a threat to telecom providers -- not becaus...
Jerry Yang finally gave in and said that he'd step down as Yahoo's CEO as soon as the board could find a replacement, returning to his job as "chief Yahoo." Shares jumped in response, but anyone who thinks that the change in CEO paves the way for a change in the company's fortunes are going to be disappointed. That is because Yang was more symptom than cause of the malaise that has engulfed the company.
Virgin Mobile cutting ten percent of its staff in the U.S.; China Mobile will open its own online app store; Meraki tries to jumpstart municipal Wi-Fi networks; Google is supporting Adobe's Flash on Android; Alvarion plans a WiMAX "kit" for Africa; and the feds can find mobile users without help from carriers.
Yang to step down as CEO of Yahoo; SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider trading; Proxim Wireless announces scheme to use dual 802.11n radios for 300 Mbps transmission speeds; OpenOffice five times more popular than Google Docs, but Microsoft Office far more popular than either; gadgets break down - a lot; and Cisco security software on switches and routers can significantly slow the devices down.
When HomeAway announced that it had raised $250 million in private financing led by Technology Crossover Ventures, the eyebrows raised. First, the company has been around for about ten years and is already profitable. Second, many in the tech industry had been assuming that venture funding would be tight. Third -- $250 million? So we chatted with General Partner Woody Marshall about this investment and his view on where VCs are going in the financial crisis.
The fastest way to raise the hackles of most U.S. IT professionals is to mention offshore outsourcing. Among them, there is a common perception that U.S. corporations are cutting IT budgets by laying off lots of IT professionals and shipping their IT jobs overseas, and generally wrecking a lot of IT...
AMD is targeting what Intel calls the netbook market, but not completely. Here's a tale of semantic fun on Friday night. When I read Brooke Crothers report on how AMD wasn't entering the netbook market I was shocked. After all, I was one of those people that interpreted AMD's musings Thursd...
Fired employee allegedly kills three at fomer employer SiPort; consumers face slashed credit card limits; Microsoft tries to position Xbox 360 as social network gateway; people start tiring of standalone instant messaging apps; and Canonical plans on ARM version of Ubuntu.
Google creates voice recognition search front end for iPhone users; open networks may pull consumers away from control of telephone carriers; experts say that telcos have bad consumer interfaces to the Internet; and Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent look at the profit that carrying video might offer.
Microsoft sells software at its own web store and probably gives heart failure to resellers; game companies continue raking in the bucks; HomeAway got big funding, partly to buy stock back from employees and early investors; students turn from finance to engineering; AMD bets on Shanghai; and Mark Papermaster countersues IBM, which must put up $3 million bond to keep an injunction that prevents the exec from starting work at Apple.
