And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd... Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year.... More...
Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion -- equivalent to half the global population -- on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said. Since the first Nordic Mobile... More...
The Abu Dhabi government's investment arm paid $622 million for an 8.1% stake in Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated. A unit of Mubadala Development Company received 49 million newly-issued AMD shares at a closing price of... More...
In its quarterly report, Research firm IDC has concluded that camera makers shipped 8.4 million units (a 22% rise over the last quarter) to the United States, fuelled by customers replacing older models at discounted... More...
Still feeling the effects of a major reorganization, officials from search-engine Yahoo announced yesterday that third-quarter net income fell 5 percent, to $151.3 million, from $158.5 million in the same period a year earlier, despite... More...
Just two weeks after revealing that some employees had falsified corporate revenue to meet earnings targets, Dell reported a profit of $733 million for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, up 46 percent from its mark... More...
If recent reports hold true, Sony PlayStation 3 users may be spending more than their friends for a "next generation console" to save on the hassle of returning damaged goods. Sure all new consoles come... More...
Deutsche Telekom AG said Thursday that its second-quarter net profit fell by 40 percent as more than half a million customers abandoned its traditional land-line offerings for cheaper rivals or switched completely to mobile phones.... More...
By several metrics, the Xbox 360 is the most successful console so far of this generation. Despite the startling pace of the Wii, the Xbox 360 still has the most consoles sold worldwide and the... More...
The PlayStation 3 has not had the smoothest of rides to its November 2006 (March 2007 in Europe) launch date. Concerns over the availability of Blu-ray chips and rumors about Cell processor yields have been... More...
Advanced Micro Devices is still making strides in the server market at Intel's expense as the larger company waits to see if a new processor can reverse its slide. AMD on Monday said it increased... More...
The most popular antivirus applications on the market are rendered useless by around 80 percent of new malware, according to AusCERT. At a security breakfast hosted by e-mail security firm Messagelabs in Sydney on Wednesday,... More...
Apple Computer's third-quarter revenue fell a little short ofexpectations, but profitability was far higher than expected and Macsales increased at a healthy clip. Revenue was $4.37 billion, up 24 percent from last year's quarterly revenue... More...
In a bold move to regain some lost market share from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel Corp. is planning to cut its Pentium processor prices by as much as 60 percent. The price cuts are... More...
Mozilla Firefox has achieved an market share of over 20 percent inEurope, according to the latest figures released by French Web metricsfirm XiTi. XiTi, which based its... More...
The NPD Group today released sales figures for the first six months of 2005. According to the numbers, sales topped $4.1 billion between January 1 and June 30, as compared to $3.4 billion in the... More...
Electronic Arts stock took a major hit yesterday when quarterly earnings reports were released by the company. Revenues for the quarter were off 16% from last year's figures, leading EA to a net loss... More...
After clothes, money and a car, an iPod is what U.S. teenagers want most this holiday season. A survey of 600 high school students by Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster found Apple Computer... More...
Microsoft revenue has climbed 15 percent for the final quarter of this 2004 fiscal year. Still some analysts aren't pleased with this increase in revenue. As they expected the tech giant to bring... More...
Based on the restored demand for enterprise servers that began late last year, researchers at IDC are predicting strong growth for server systems through 2008, especially for Linux- and Windows-based boxes. "There... More...
No. 2 personal computer maker Dell Inc. on Monday cut the price on its digital music player 20 percent to $199 from $249 as it tries to compete with the industry leading iPod from Apple... More...
Konami profits jump 149 percent Japanese publisher Konami has reported a large rise in its profits for the first half of the 2003 fiscal year, with the boost attributed largely to the... More...
U.S. media titan AOL Time Warner is selling a 64 percent stake in its China TV unit to a firm backed by Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing for US$37 million, Li's tom.com said on Wednesday.... More...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sales of video game hardware, software and accessories rose 10 percent in 2002 to $10.3 billion, according to data released on Monday, even as revenue from game consoles actually declined. Market... More...
The technology downturn continues to hammer California's Silicon Valley, where the unemployment rate in October was 7.9 percent, the highest level since 1983 and well above last month's statewide average of 6.4 percent. ... More...
Handheld maker Handspring cut 20 percent of its workforce, or about 80 employees, this week, CNET News.com has learned. Company spokesman Allen Bush said the cuts, which hit the marketing department hardest,... More...
Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Tuesday its earnings and sales continued to erode in its latest quarter as companies around the world remained reluctant to invest in technology. The Redwood Shores-based... More...
Online music trading service Napster said Friday it will sack 10 percent of its staff as it awaits a deal with the world's leading record companies. Napster has been all but shutdown since... More...
Internal polls show a majority of Hewlett-Packard Co.HWP.N employees support plans to buy Compaq Computer Corp.CPQ.N, the company said on Friday, although a leading critic of the merger said an independent survey was needed. ... More...
Thanks Geronimo for this one. Inboxes are being flooded with junk emails at an increasing rate during the holiday season, leading to network overload and fast-spreading viruses The festive spirit... More...
Intel Corp. on Tuesday reported third-quarter profits that tumbled 77 percent as it struggled with slowing economies and weak personal computer sales, prompting it to forecast sluggish sales in the fourth quarter, typically the industry's... More...