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Microsoft Beats Street, Tempers Outlook

Microsoft reported better-than-expected financial results Thursday but also warned that the economic downturn will cut into top-line revenue and profits for its current fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2009 ...

Microsoft Yells ‘Fire!’ – Then Bars the Doors

Microsoft rushed out an emergency security patch for its Windows operating system Thursday in the hope of heading off a potentially crippling hack attack to nearly a billion Windows-powered PCs ...

Comcast Revs Broadband Engine

Comcast announced late Wednesday that it will launch faster broadband Internet service speeds over the next few weeks to more than 10 million homes and businesses ...

SanDisk Shares Dive After Samsung Pulls Offer

Shares of memory chip maker SanDisk plummeted nearly 31 percent to US$9.91 per share after the bell on the news that Samsung has dropped its offer to acquire the troubled Milpitas, Calif.-based semiconductor company ...

Yahoo Heaves 1,500 Overboard in Effort to Turn Ship Around

Just one day after saying it would slash its 15,000-employee workforce by 10 percent, struggling Internet giant Yahoo announced Wednesday that its profit dropped by a whopping 64 percent during the third quarter ...

Google Bares Android’s Soul

As promised, search engine giant Google has released the source code for its Android platform -- the open source technology that Google hopes will be adopted by mobile application developers, phone makers and carriers alike ...

eBay Slams Door on Ivory Traders

Online auctioneer and retailer eBay has banned the sale of ivory products on its Web site to help protect African and Asian elephants ...

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Flurry Sees Analytics Opportunity in Blizzard of Mobile Apps

Anyone who owns an Apple iPhone knows a mobile phone isn't just a phone anymore. It's a music and video player, a Web-surfing device, and a video game system all in one ...

Vonage Defies Gravity to Win Funding Prize

Internet phone company Vonage has secured US$220.3 million in credit in a deal that Wall Street sees as crucial to the struggling company's survival ...

SanDisk, Toshiba Deal Addresses Memory Chip Glut

Memory chip maker SanDisk announced Monday it will sell almost one-third of its manufacturing capacity to Toshiba for about $1 billion. The deal comes at a time when the market for memory chips faces severe oversupply ...

Internet Congestion: ISPs Don Traffic Cop Uniforms

Anyone who's used popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications such as BitTorrent, Gnutella or Limewire has probably been plagued by network slowdowns that make sharing heavy media files a time-consuming endeavor ...

Ballmer Raises Ghost of Microhoo

Does Microsoft still have Yahoo in its gun sights? ...

Nokia Q3 Earnings Slide, Market Share Dips

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia reported a 30 percent decrease in third-quarter earnings and a 5 percent drop in sales on Thursday ...

Bleak Forecast Pours Cold Water on eBay’s Q3 Profit News

Online auction house and retailer eBay announced a profitable third quarter on Thursday but warned an already-volatile Wall Street that continued weakness in consumer spending would hurt sales throughout the rest of the year ...

Virtualization, Cloud Computing Top Gartner’s Tech Trends List

Technology research giant Gartner released a list on Wednesday of the top 10 technologies that will dominate the landscape for the next three years ...

Despite Strong Q3, Market Tumult Drags Intel Down

Semiconductor chip giant Intel reported better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter late Tuesday, but it wasn't enough to buoy the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company's stock or inject any new life into the broader chip market ...

Google and Yahoo Powwow With Feds Over Antitrust Issues

Search engine giants Google and Yahoo are in talks with the U.S. Department of Justice in the hopes of alleviating regulators' antitrust concerns regarding their pending online ad sharing deal ...

Gartner: IT Spending Set to Sputter

Technology market research giant Gartner has slashed its outlook for growth in spending on information technology in 2009 from 5.8 percent to 2.3 percent. Forecasts could decline further if the economy continues to weaken, the firm warned. ...

MySpace Gets Up Front and Personal With Targeted Ads

MySpace has launched a new online display advertising tool for small businesses and individuals called "MyAds." ...

Sputtering Memory Market Prompts Micron to Slash Workforce

Memory chipmaker Micron Technology will cut its global workforce by 15 percent over the next two years due to a massive slowdown in demand for memory chip technology, the Boise, Idaho-based company said Thursday ...

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