Yahoo said intends to “rewire” its Internet portal, integrating social networking aspects of popular online hangouts such as Facebook and MySpace.
The remake will include using “widgets” to personalize Yahoo’s site and track friends’ online activities. The changes were announced Thursday by Yahoo technology chief Ari Balogh at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Calif.
Balogh […]
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GPS units, one of the hottest sellers for Christmas 2007, may be headed the way of the calculator as costs come crashing down, along with the profits of manufacturers. Wednesday, European GPS provider TomTom reported a 83 percent drop in first-quarter profits.
In 2007, 33.9 million standalone GPS devices were sold, almost triple the number sold […]
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Posted in Business, News, Places, Tech News, General on Apr 28th, 2008
India has become the second largest wireless network in the world after China with the addition of more than 10 million wireless subscribers in March.
The total number of wireless subscribers stood at 261 million at the end of March, the Indian telecommunications authority said Friday.
Quoting data compiled by the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications […]
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Posted in Video, News, Music, Business, Places, People, Tech News, Family, Fun, General on Apr 26th, 2008
Online video viewing jumped 66 percent in February with Google’s YouTube claiming a third of the audience, a market research firm said Wednesday. The figures highlighted how Internet sites, not traditional television, is dominating online videos.
YouTube videos garned around 10 billion viewers in February, doubling its numbers from the same period in 2007, according to […]
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Internet giant Google Thursday quieted critics and surprised analysts, reporting first-quarter income rose 31 percent to $1.3 billion compared to $1 billion the previous year.
Revenue for the search company hit $5.19 billion, up from $3.6 billion. Google reported net revenue of $3.7 billion, beating analyst expectations of $3.6 billion.
The healthy first-quarter returns sent Google shares […]
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Posted in Business, News, People, Tech News, General on Apr 24th, 2008
Motorola said it was reorganizing its mobile phone unit in hopes of improving chances of enticing a CEO to an independent company. Chief among the changes is streamlining leadership for product areas within the organization.
Rob Shaddock, now a senior vice president of mobile devices, will lead the consumer cell phone area. John Cipolla will head […]
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AT&T told federal regulators Friday it plans to cut more than 4,000 workers, or 1.5 percent of its employees. The firings are the result of a $100 billion acquisition spree resulting in a surplus of managers.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, AT&T said the job cuts would cost $374 million in the […]
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The ever-growing list of technology terms deserves a language of its own, an electronics retailer claims. Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office is being asked to officially name “Nerdic” a European language.
Pixmania, a U.K. photo electronics retailer, says Nerdic language grows by 100 words annually, faster than the English language.
The company expects “WiMax” to be the […]
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Home buyers with iPhones can now check northern California property listings–including photos, neighborhood information, recent sales and driving directions–on the Apple device.
Intero Real Estate Services is offering the service based on an application designed by Terabitz for brokers and home buyers.
The search can be filtered by city, zip code, multiple listing service number, price, home […]
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Software giant Microsoft unveiled a new online service that predicts traffic congestion, allowing drivers to avoid possible holdups on the road.
With information provided by Google, Yahoo and AOL’s Mapquest, Microsoft’s new Clearflow service will send users updated traffic feeds, giving them the option of planning a detour to avoid any road congestion and save time.
The […]
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Posted in Business, News, Tech News, General on Apr 18th, 2008
Movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc. announced Thursday that it will expand its Blu-ray sales to make the newest DVD format available to all U.S. and Canadian stores.
After making Blu-ray available to only 1,700 branches, the company will be installing kiosks for the format in all of its stores. For its online customers, the company will […]
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Yahoo’s board of directors are set to meet Friday to discuss possible alternatives to Microsoft’s acquisition bid, reports said. On the table is a potential tie-up between AOL and the Internet company, as well as a partnership with News Corp.
The AOL deal, which involves the Time Warner online unit becoming part of Yahoo in exchange […]
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Posted in Places, News, Business, Politics, People, Friends, Links, Tech News, Family, General on Apr 16th, 2008
Isreal’s military is warning soldiers about uploading photos to the popular online hangout Facebook. The Defense Ministry said the images, shared with millions of other Internet users, could pose a security risk.
As a result, Israel is telling military personnel it is okay to use Facebook as long as persons do not identify themselves or upload […]
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Radio One Inc. (ROI), the largest U.S. radio broadcasting company targeting African-American and urban listeners, has added social networking sites operator Community Connect Inc. (CCI) to its list of new acquisitions.
ROI announced in a statement that the $38 million merger deal with CCI Thursday is a move that virtually makes the radio company “the clear […]
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Phil Hester, Advanced Micro Devices‘ chief technology officer, resigned Friday. The chipmaker said they will not fill the post.
Hester, 52, came to AMD in 2005 after a 23-year stint at IBM.
AMD emphasized Hester’s departure is not related to AMD’s announcement it will cut 10 percent of its jobs in the wake of a bug in […]
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