Thursday, November 4, 2010

Cable subscribers flee, but is Internet to blame? (AP)

Cable subscribers flee, but is Internet to blame? (AP)

Cable subscribers flee, but is Internet to blame? (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2009 file photo, a Time Warner Cable truck is parked in New York. Time Warner Cable Inc., the country's second-largest cable company said Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, it lost more video subscribers in the latest quarter than it ever has before, (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Cable companies have been losing TV subscribers at an ever faster rate in the last few months, and satellite TV isn't picking up the slack.

Review: Kinect motion-sensing system impresses (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 02:14 PM PDT

Microsoft's Kinect controller, seen in foreground, allows the user to control the Xbox 360 during game play, seen, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, in Atlanta. Microsoft's Kinect controller for Xbox 360 offers controller-free control of living room entertainment and aptly delivers a groundbreaking piece of technology.(AP Photo/Mike Stewart)AP - There are a lot of futuristic things we're still waiting on: jet packs for the entire family, self-driving cars and time-travel, to name a few. But one new, pretty darn amazing bit of technology has finally come to fruition, thanks to the folks at Microsoft.

Activision 3Q earnings more than triple (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 02:07 PM PDT

AP - Continued strong demand for the latest "Call of Duty," "StarCraft" and "World of Warcraft" video games helped more than triple Activision Blizzard Inc.'s third-quarter net income and pushed overall results well above Wall Street's expectations.

Using Kinect to watch movies, play tunes on the Xbox 360 (Ben Patterson)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Ben Patterson - Plenty of digital ink has already been spilled about how Microsoft's impressive new motion-sensing camera performs as a game controller â€" or as a controller without the controller, as it were â€" but what about when it comes to using …

Time Warner to debut $30-$50 ‘premium’ VOD movies in summer (Ben Patterson)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 10:16 AM PDT

Ben Patterson - Would you consider ponying up $30 or even $50 to watch, say, the next "Hangover" movie? Sounds a little nuts, given that you can rent a movie on cable or iTunes for just $4 to $5 a night. But what …

MacBook Air Bugs Are a Reminder of iPhone Woes (PC World)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:30 PM PDT

PC World - Some users of the new MacBook Air have been reporting frustrations on the screen, such as random flashing, the appearance of horizontal or vertical lines, and in some cases, different colors filling the screen just before the computer crashes.

Remains of the Day: Nyet, comrade (Macworld)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:16 PM PDT

Macworld - You’re headed out of town for a long weekend. What do you do? If you’re Dan Moren, you don’t write the remainders columnâ€"you make a sucker do it instead. Hi, folks. I’m the sucker, and this is the Remains of the Day for Thursday, November 4, 2010.

MetroPCS boosts coverage area (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 03:44 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - The low-cost wireless carrier's Q3 EPS edged up 5% to 22 cents, a penny above views, as the number of new subscribers more than tripled. Revenue grew 14% to $1.02 bil, just shy of views. Its churn rate fell to 3.8% from 5.8%. MetroPCS is expanding to cover 90% of the country, and boosted 4G service to 5 cities from 3. It rose 5% to 11.37.

First Look: Facebook Single Sign-on (PC World)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 02:56 PM PDT

PC World - Facebook is getting serious about on-the-go social networking with a suite of new features announced during the Facebook Mobile event on Wednesday. We've already taken a look at how the release of a new Facebook Places API to mobile developers will change the way we shop, but how will the simplified Single Sign-on process change our favorite apps?

Atty: MN woman can't pay for sharing songs (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 08:22 PM PDT

AP - A Minnesota woman ordered to pay a recording industry trade group $1.5 million for illegally sharing music online doesn't plan to pay those damages as her attorneys continue to argue the amount is unconstitutional, she said Thursday.

Mashable Readers Want the Verizon iPhone [POLL] (Mashable)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:13 PM PDT

Mashable - If Mashable readers are any indication, the fabled Verizon iPhone is already poised to become one of the most popular smartphones around.

Milo local shopping and other top Android apps of the week (Appolicious)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:09 PM PDT

Appolicious - With the holiday season approaching, there's little spare room in your schedule and your budget. That sentiment is felt across the board, as top-performing apps and newly minted ones are in the shopping and utility categories. Good thing for you, as apps like Milo and Mint keep you on the straight and narrow.

Oracle may aim to claim billions more from SAP (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:52 PM PDT

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison speaks during his keynote address at Oracle Open World in San Francisco, California in this September 22, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - Oracle Corp has laid the groundwork to claim billions of dollars more from SAP AG than previously indicated, raising the stakes in their closely watched legal battle over software theft.

AP Enterprise: World's oil thirst leads to risks (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 11:58 AM PDT

AP - The world's thirst for crude is leading oil exploration companies into ever deeper waters and ventures fraught with environmental and political peril.

Researcher to Release Web-based Android Attack (PC World)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:50 PM PDT

PC World - A computer security researcher says he plans to release code Thursday that could be used to attack some versions of Google's Android phones over the Internet.

Is Your Business Compliant with Open Source Licenses? (PC World)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:30 PM PDT

PC World - There are many ways that vendors of proprietary products try to scare business customers away from open source software, and one of the more commonly heard examples involves vague fears about compliance with open source licenses. There's nothing like the specter of a good lawsuit to scare a company back into a paid vendor's welcoming arms.

Japan checking if China collision online video real (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 07:53 PM PDT

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) attends the 5th East Asia Summit in Hanoi October 30, 2010. REUTERS/Christophe Archambault/PoolReuters - Japan on Friday was looking into whether online video clips that appeared to show a Chinese fishing boat colliding with Japanese patrol vessels were authentic, a development that could snarl efforts to mend ties.
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