Archive for April, 2011
Microsoft falls behind Apple
Microsoft‘s quarterly profits and revenues were eclipsed for the first time in 20 years by Apple as a slowdown in the PC business and continuing huge losses in its search division held it back. Though the company reported net income up 30% to $5.2bn (£3.1bn) from $4bn, and revenues up 13% to $16.4bn from $14.5bn, [...]
Read moreLego Pirates Of The Caribbean preview
The Lego video games series must be the envy of many developers in the industry. While other companies fall over themselves to produce the next mega-selling casual/hardcore crossover hit, Traveller’s Tales has quietly churned out the gaming equivalent of a chain of Pixar movies. Buy it from DS PS3 PSP Wii XBox 360 Lego Pirates [...]
Read moreToyota and WiTricity team up for OTA car charging
Some day you’ll charge everything wirelessly — phones, cars, graphing calculators, all using the same basic technology. That’s the sort of utopian vision Toyota had in mind when it formed the Wireless Battery-charging Alliance with WiTricity. The young Massachusetts-based company is pushing “resonance” technology, which charges electronics without contact and is supposedly more efficient than [...]
Read morePlayStation Network users fear identity theft after major data leak
Up to 3 million Britons are believed to be among the 77 million users of Sony‘s PlayStation Network, which has been hacked into by criminals who have stolen users’ personal information, possibly including credit card details. Reeling from one of the worst such security breaches in history, Sony warned all users of the PSN network [...]
Read moreBloggers! Your Guardian wants you…
Two futures have emerged in the digital newspaper business. You know where Rupert Murdoch is: with the closed paywall model, in which readers pay and the readership is restricted. That replicates the traditional newspaper model, where editorial control comes from the top down, where the content is produced by a narrow group of professionals and [...]
Read moreYouTube founders buy Delicious
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the founders of YouTube, have acquired the Delicious bookmarking service from Yahoo for an undisclosed price and added it to their new internet company Avos. The announcement follows rumours in March that the service might be sold for around $1m – a huge drop in value from the $30m Yahoo [...]
Read moreNokia to axe 4,000 jobs
Nokia, once indisputably the world’s largest mobile phone company, will lay off 4,000 people worldwide by the end of next year as it attempts to cut costs after falling behind rivals in the smartphone market. Most of the job cuts will be in Denmark, Finland and Britain, with 700 roles being axed in the UK. [...]
Read moreXbox Live security alert follows PSN hack
In the midst of Sony‘s PlayStation Network security breach, Microsoft has had to issue its own security alert today. On the company’s Xbox Live Status page, the following warning has been issued: “Users may receive potential phishing attempts via title specific messaging while playing Modern Warfare 2. “We are aware of the problem and are [...]
Read moreApple denies iPhone tracking claims
Apple has admitted that a bug in its software has allowed iPhones and iPads to collect data related to their location even when users turn off permission to collect it – but says it will soon remedy this oversight. The admission follows a storm of controversy after the Guardian’s exclusive revelation last week that the [...]
Read moreAmazon profits fall as company expands
Amazon’s revenues soared in the first quarter of the year but the online retail giant’s profits tumbled as the firm poured more money into new services and expansion. The company reported earnings of $201m, or 44 cents a share, down from $299m, or 66 cents a share, for the same period a year ago. Analysts [...]
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