Thursday, January 27, 2011

Amazon.com posts surprise 4Q revenue miss (AP)

Amazon.com posts surprise 4Q revenue miss (AP)


Amazon.com posts surprise 4Q revenue miss (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 03:59 PM PST

AP - Amazon.com uncharacteristically missed Wall Street's revenue target in the fourth quarter, sending the stock tumbling nearly 9 percent and showing that not all Internet companies benefited equally from the holiday shopping season.

Nintendo chief says Sony portable is different (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:20 PM PST

Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata speaks during the company's financial results briefing in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Iwata said rival Sony was taking a different tack from his company and so he remains upbeat about his 3-D portable game machine going on sale next month. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata is unfazed by rival Sony's plans for an upgraded successor to the PlayStation Portable, confident that his company's 3-D handheld game machine going on sale next month has a competitive edge.


Microsoft 2Q earnings edge down on slow PC sales (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 08:54 PM PST

In this photo taken Jan. 26, 2011, customer Bill Wilson, 82, left, is tutored by technical advisor Jimmy Zhao during a personal training session in a Microsoft Store in Bellevue, Wash. Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, Jan. 27 said its net income for the latest quarter fell slightly from a year ago, and it beat Wall Street's expectations despite the weak personal computer market. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Microsoft Corp.'s net income for the latest quarter fell slightly from a year ago but the software giant still beat Wall Street's expectations despite the weak personal computer market.


10 questions (and answers) about Sony’s Next Generation Portable (Ben Patterson)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:50 PM PST

Ben Patterson - Got questions about Sony's just-announced PSP2Ć¢€"I mean, the Next Generation Portable, or NGP for short? Help is here. 1. When will the NGP go on sale, and how much will it cost? The NGP should arrive in time for the …

Report: Hulu mulling plan to become “virtual” cable carrier (Ben Patterson)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 08:40 AM PST

Ben Patterson - Is Hulu, our favorite source of free TV shows, about to undergo a radical change? Word has it that the three main stakeholders of Hulu are feuding over whether to keep the site (mostly) free or turn it into a …

Special report: Can Samsung change with the tech times? (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:04 AM PST

Reuters - Only a handful of reporters were at Samsung's booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month when Jay Y. Lee dropped by.

Special Report: Can Samsung change with the tech times? (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 10:40 PM PST

Reuters - Only a handful of reporters were at Samsung's booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month when Jay Y. Lee dropped by.

Amazon Kindle Book Sales Soar (PC World)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:30 PM PST

PC World - During its earnings announcement today, Amazon released some tantalizing tidbits that show just how its book business has evolved in the past year. The company still won't discuss hard and fast numbers for actual Kindle devices sold, or books sold for that matter, but that doesn't make the new information any less noteworthy.

The Real Reason No One Reads Privacy Policies [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:32 PM PST

Mashable - It was quite in vogue last year to be incensed over the privacy-related misdeeds of a certain monolithic social network, but let's be honest -- did anyone ever read the privacy policy to begin with? How about the Terms of Service?

Sony's new portable will play games against Android phones (Appolicious)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:51 AM PST

Appolicious - Android gaming is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

Apple, RIM, ZTE won in booming cellphone market (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:46 PM PST

Reuters - Global cellphone sales surged 18 percent from a year ago in October-December, boosted by strong growth of North American smartphone vendors Apple and RIM.

LinkedIn's IPO to test appetite for Facebook (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:21 PM PST

Reuters - LinkedIn Corp announced plans to go public this year in what could be a test of investor appetite for social networking websites ahead of a highly anticipated Facebook offering.

Apple releases iTunes 10.1.2 (Macworld)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:04 PM PST

Macworld - Apple on Thursday released iTunes 10.1.2, a stability and performance update for everyoneĆ¢€™s favorite media-playing / iOS-device-syncing / app-shopping tool.

Expo Notes: Cross-dressing (Macworld)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 06:30 PM PST

Macworld - CodeWeavers seems to be feeling ignored. Like its two chief competitors, VMWare and Parallels, the company makes software that lets you run Windows apps on a Mac. But all too often, when the discussion turns to Windows-on-a-Mac, those other two hog all the attention, and CodeWeavers is left out. That could be why the CodeWeavers booth at Expo is staffed with cross-dressers and celebrity impersonators.

Microsoft's Windows disappoints on lukewarm PC sales (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:46 PM PST

Microsoft's new Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 is seen on a shelf at the Best Buy store in 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida. Microsoft on Thursday reported its net profit slipped despite record-high revenue in the last quarter on sales of computers and Kinect controllers for Xbox 360 consoles.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)Reuters - Sales of Microsoft Corp's Windows software fell short of outsized expectations, rekindling fears that the spread of mobile gadgets will erode its main PC-focused business.


Microsoft Presses Intel for 16-core Atom Chip (PC World)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 03:50 PM PST

PC World - Microsoft has asked Intel to develop a 16-core version of its low-power Atom chip for use in servers, part of a wider effort to reduce power consumption in its massive data centers, a Microsoft executive said Thursday.

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