Wall Street took heart from a report showing better-than-expected earnings from Oracle (ORCL), the Silicon Valley software giant. Technology stocks have been on a roll this spring, and investors eyed Oracle’s fourth-quarter report on June 23 for signs the rally might continue.
Sales, profits, and new software bookings for Oracle’s fiscal fourth quarter ended on May [...]
Google Inc. is working on a new operating system for inexpensive computers in a daring attempt to diminish Microsoft Corp.’s longstanding control over people’s computer experience.
The new operating system, announced Tuesday night on Google’s Web site, will be based on the company’s 9-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community [...]
At its user conference in San Francisco last week, Cisco Systems boasted about the 30 new businesses it’s developing. One is scheduled to launch by the end of this year—in a very literal way.
The company that pioneered the Internet router is about to enter a new frontier, sending one into geostationary orbit on a satellite. [...]
Twitter has been used to fight tyranny, deliver tragic news, follow politics, and now some California residents have found another innovative purpose for the micro-blogging service: marketing weed. A medical marijuana dispensary in California has begun gravitating to online mediums, including Twitter, to get the word out, according to Fox News. Under California law, nonprofit [...]
Some big and far-reaching issues clutter America’s legislative docket today—a cap-and-trade approach to carbon emissions, a wholesale revamp of health care. But a key subset of advertising and media executives are focusing elsewhere. They’re worried about the threat an online privacy bill, or any similar federal regulation, could pose to their businesses. One proviso they [...]
As more baby boomers take to the world’s most popular social network, the average age of Facebook users has risen steadily. But the site’s bread and butter, kids in college and high school, haven’t gone anywhere. Have they?
On Monday, iStrategyLabs posted numbers Facebook supplies to advertisers which show a decline in members identified as high [...]
Google announced plans late Tuesday night to develop operating software for personal computers, initially the downsized PCs called Netbooks. An outgrowth of the Internet search giant’s Chrome Web browser, Chrome OS is also Google’s most direct challenge yet to Microsoft, whose Windows operating system dominates the PC world. Chrome OS is expected to be available [...]
After suing tens of thousands of customers to no avail, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has decided to change tactics. Instead of dragging music downloaders and file-sharers into court, it has somehow convinced ISPs to take on the role of digital policeman (and jury and judge). The WSJ reports:
The decision represents an abrupt [...]
It’s official. We’re in a recession. Recessions naturally inject fear and panic, which is only heightened by every discussion of market losses, layoffs, bailouts, and somber predictions. We’re only human after all; of course everything affects us personally and emotionally.
Fear is not a catalyst for productivity however.
With valuable advice pouring in from concerned and sympathetic [...]
You know those engineer elves at Google like to do things their own way. That build-it-better ethic also applies to Christmas toys. If you click on the Christmas Doodle on Google’s main search page, you will see the five images below, which shows what I can only assume is one of Google’s older engineers in [...]
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