Archive for March, 2011
Microsoft co-founder lays bare feud with Gates
Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen, the company’s billionaire co-founder. Allen portrays the Microsoft mogul as a sarcastic bully who tried to force his founding partner out of the firm and to cut his [...]
Read moreGoogle’s +1 to rival Facebook’s Like button
Google is today introducing the most significant social feature to its search service yet, adding a one-click button to allow users to recommend sites and share those recommendations with their friends. Photo by .reid. on Flickr. Some rights reserved Plus One will initially only be accessible to 2% of Google’s English-language users in the US, [...]
Read moreMicrosoft takes on Google with antitrust complaint
Microsoft has upped the ante in its bitter rivalry with Google by filing its first formal complaint to regulators, claiming the search engine giant is restricting competition. The US technology firm on Thursday filed the complaint to the European commission, which announced a formal investigation into Google in November, adding significant weight to the chorus [...]
Read moreFoxconn reports $218 million full-year net loss, exceeding analysts’ expectation
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS Review of Results and Operations The year 2010 was an extremely difficult year for us. We saw major changes in the handset ecosystem triggered by entry of new players, introduction of new software and applications, as well as emergence of new business models. Market dynamics shifted drastically and created tough challenges [...]
Read moreGalaxy Player 5 stops by the FCC, only takes the easy tests
When you only have WiFi to worry about, testing in the foam rooms of doom at the FCC gets a little bit easier. Or so we’d imagine, anyhow. Samsung’s WiFi-only PMP, the Galaxy Player 5 (aka YP-G70, aka Galaxy Player 70), just got rubber-stamped by our favorite federal body, passing with flying colors. While we [...]
Read moreiPad 2: where can I buy one in the UK?
Apple‘s iPad 2 has been virtually out of stock in the UK since its launch on Friday. Streams of shiny geeks have been left dissapointed and empty-handed by gadget shops up and down the land. But we have good news. Dixons, PC World and Currys expect to get more iPad 2s in stock today. Most [...]
Read moreMicrosoft co-founder lays bare his battles with Bill Gates
Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen, the company’s billionaire co-founder. Allen portrays the Microsoft mogul as a sarcastic bully who tried to force his founding partner out of the firm and to cut his [...]
Read moreGoogle agrees to privacy reviews to settle Buzz complaint
Google will be subject to an independent review of the privacy controls on its most popular products – including Gmail and Street View – every two years for the next two decades following pressure from US regulators. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been investigating privacy flaws in Google Buzz, a social media service tied [...]
Read moreBBC and Siemens row over website failure
Hours after a “faulty switch” took the entire BBC website network offline for an hour on Tuesday night, a row has broken out between the corporation and its IT contractor, Siemens. The BBC News site reported the outage on Wednesday morning, quoting an internal security bulletin sent to corporation staff by Siemens explaining the cause [...]
Read moreMicrosoft keeps gunning after Apple’s ‘generic’ App Store trademark, brings in a linguistics expert
We’d say this was getting silly but that would imply that it wasn’t already. Microsoft and Apple are still at each other’s throat over the latter’s trademark application for the term “App Store,” with Microsoft now bringing in a Dr. Ronald Butters, Professor Emeritus at Duke University and a man with a taste for hardcore [...]
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