Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Comcast 1Q earnings climb 9 pct to beat Street (AP)

Comcast 1Q earnings climb 9 pct to beat Street (AP)

Comcast 1Q earnings climb 9 pct to beat Street (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT

In this Feb. 15, 2011 photo, a Comcast logo is displayed on an installation truck in Pittsburgh. Comcast Corp. reports quarterly financial earnings Tuesday, May 3, 2011, after the market close. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable TV company, on Tuesday said earnings exceeded estimates for the first quarter, helped by healthy results both in its cable operations and the newly acquired NBC Universal business.

Is Amazon readying its own tablet for the second half of 2011? (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 03 May 2011 07:08 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Amazon may be preparing to launch its own tablet, according to a source known for leaking tidbits of news about upcoming gadgets in the works overseas. The source, Taiwan's tech newspaper DigiTimes, claims that Amazon has placed orders for the device …

Xbox 360 gamers targeted in phishing attack (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - While everybody is focusing on the extensive outage that hit 77 million PlayStation Network customers all over the globe, it looks like the Xbox Live network hasn't escaped security controversy, either. Late last week, reports started popping up that a …

Sony Admits Another Hacker Attack, 24.6 Million User Accounts Compromised (Mashable)

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:08 PM PDT

Mashable - After a recent hacker attack, which took down the Sony PlayStation Network for an extended period of time, Sony has admitted that hackers have broken into its servers on April 16th and 17th, 2011 and may have stolen personal user data. This time, hackers targeted the accounts of Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) users; according to Sony, they may have stolen personal data from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts, as well as some of the data from an outdated database from 2007. This database includes approximately "12,700 non-U.S. credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes), and about 10,700 direct debit records of certain customers in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain."

Comcast profit up on Internet, NBCU ad sales (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Comcast Corp posted stronger quarterly earnings on Tuesday as its benefited from healthy ad sales at its newly consolidated NBC Universal joint venture and added more Internet and phone subscribers.

BlackBerry drops Google as preferred search service, Android apps from new OS (Appolicious)

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:49 PM PDT

Appolicious - Microsoft (MSFT) and Research In Motion (RIMM) have reached an agreement to use Microsoft's Bing search engine on RIM's BlackBerry devices, ditching Google's (GOOG) search in the process.

Apple Has Already Won Against Android (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:04 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - The war between Apple and Android has supposedly been going on since the first Android handset, the T-Mobile G1, was rushed to market in 2008. But in fact, the two were never even fighting -- at least not directly. Because both Apple and Android are gaining market share, at the expense of things like RIM's BlackBerry.

How Would We Know If Android Beat Apple? (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:03 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - This year, Android phones in the aggregate beat Apple's iPhone, to take the top spot for smartphone market share. Does that mean Android has finally won the fight against Apple?

Americans React to Bin Laden's Death on Facebook (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:06 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - The power of social media was extremely apparent in the aftermath of the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death. For some people, Facebook was the first clue that something was afoot. Numerous people started speculating as to what the big news would be when President Barack Obama took the podium. Immediately following the national address, news feeds were flooded with a wide range of responses.

Sony Online Entertainment Goes Dark (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:04 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - First the Playstation Network, now all of Sony Online Entertainment has been taken offline in the wake of a fresh invasion by hackers. Citing an "issue that warrants concern," SOE made an announcement on Monday that it would be taking their servers offline for an unspecified length of time while they addressed the problem.

Time Inc. and Apple magazine deal could open the door for other publishers (Appolicious)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Appolicious - On Monday, Time Inc. and Apple (AAPL) settled a more than year-long standoff, reaching a deal to make all of the publisher's iPad editions free to print magazine subscribers. Time has been meeting with the company since February of last year, protesting the extra fee its subscribers were required to pay to access content via the iPad.

MetroPCS rings up customers (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:30 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - The low-cost wireless carrier's Q1 EPS jumped 150% to 15 cents, missing views by 4 cents, but the profit shortfall was overshadowed by a bigger-than-expected increase in customers. Revenue grew 23% to $1.19 bil, easily topping forecasts. MetroPCS said net customers surged 72% to 725,945, trouncing expectations of 422,500. Average revenue per user topped $40 for the first time since Q4 2009. MetroPCS sees finishing most of its next-generation LTE rollout by the end of 2011. Shares surged 10% to 18.15.

Experiment in Opening Courts to Twitter, Live Video Feeds a Good Step (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:03 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Live-streaming video began Monday in the Quincy District Court in Massachusetts.

New iMac Debuts Today (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:04 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - Apple kept the gadgets coming this week with the launch of the new and reportedly improved iMac. Retailing at $1,199 for the base model, the new iMac is supposed to be faster and an overall better performer than the last generation of the model.

Novell wins appeal in Microsoft antitrust lawsuit (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Software maker Novell Inc can proceed with a long-running antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp after an appeals court reversed a lower court's summary judgment in favor of Microsoft.

Study Sees 243 Percent ROI on Microsoft Dynamics CRM (NewsFactor)

Posted: 03 May 2011 10:33 AM PDT

NewsFactor - A new study released Tuesday says Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 provides a three-year, risk-adjusted ROI of 243 percent over a payback period of 4.1 months. The study was commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Forrester Consulting.
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