With $35 million backing Twitter to help it go from geek to mainstream, the amount is expected to help it keep up with the growth it has recently received. Twitter has seen a 900%...
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Telecommunications company AT&T Inc. announced today that, starting next month, it will raise the price of its most common broadband Internet services in many of the states where it operates. The $5-per-month hike will apply...
CRN Test Center downloaded Firefox 3 Beta 1 from Mozilla for a peek to get an idea of what users can expect when Firefox 3 is officially launched. Since this is a beta, the browser...
Digital storage company Western Digital boosted its first-quarter outlook on Monday, citing higher selling prices and increased demand. For the quarter ending Sept. 28, the company now expects adjusted earnings per share between 61 cents...
In April Greenpeace listed Apple at the bottom of its rankings but now the environmental campaign group has bumped the company ahead of Sony, LG Electronics, Panasonic and HP to tenth place on the 14-company...
Analysts at iSuppli have increased predictions for PC sales in 2007: global PC shipments will rise to 264 million units in 2007, up 11.2% from 239 million in 2006. The previous forecast envisioned 10.7 %...
Internet-based TV service Joost said it has raised $45 million from five investors: CBS Corporation, Viacom Incoporated, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures (a European venture capital firm) and Li Ka-shing (chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited and...
Nintendo has raised it's full year sale estimates from 900 billion JPY to 966 billion JPY, following continued sales and profit success from their DS Handheld. Nintendo had already upped their estimates four times already...
With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding control over Internet searching in...
On the heels of Apple's announcement that it sold 14 million iPods and achieved revenues of $5.7B last quarter, UBS Investment Research on Wednesday raised estimates and increased its target price on the company's shares...
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, late Wednesday said its board raised its quarterly dividend 12.5 percent to 9 cents, citing confidence in its product lineup and growth prospects. The...
Nintendo's first half sales figure shows a 6.9% sales drop as the GameCube did not perform up to estimates, however weakened Yen and growing DS sales have almost doubled Nintendo's profits. The drop in sales...
There is growing disquiet about public sector IT contracts being awarded to Western vendors in China, a country long known for its fondness of open-source and homegrown companies. According to reports following...
Microsoft Corp. is peeling back the covers of its highly anticipated SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 database this week to reveal enhancements such as support for 64-bit x86 platforms, as well as improved security and...
File swappers concerned about getting in trouble with record labels over illegal downloads may soon have a major new worry: the U.S. Department of Justice. A proposal that the Senate may vote on as early...
This week should have seen a public relations triumph for Google. The company began offering a free e-mail service with 100 times as much storage as Yahoo's $59.99 service. Instead the criticism has taken Google...
Organised spammers may have launched a new assault on Web users, with an anti-spam company reporting a spike in the amount of junk mail being sent. An email security firm has warned that spammers may...
Telewest has increased the cost of connecting to its Blueyonder dialup Internet service from non-Telewest lines, while falsely claiming that users will not incur extra charges from the change. Instead of using local phone numbers...
oh dear oh dear oh dear :). TiVo Inc. in March will increase the price for a long term membership to its television recording service by $50 to $299, the company said on...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Tuesday expressed concerns regarding a service launched last Friday by VeriSign Inc. designed to handle internationalized domain names (IDNs). According to ICANN, "some...
While having my morning read of /. I came across this story... A new pricing structure from AT&T will result in modem owners paying an extra $7 for their high-speed Internet service whilst...
Found this over on NewOrder... Hotmail users can now get a better look at their personal account settings -- but some of the service's estimated 110 million active users may not like what they...
Video-compression provider On2 Technologies is taking a swing at MPEG-4, complaining that companies cooperating to create a digital media standard may run afoul of antitrust laws. New York-based On2 said Tuesday that it has...
NEC said on Monday it plans to increase the suggested retail price on its personal computers due to rising prices of parts such as DRAM chips and liquid crystal displays. "We are...
Demonstrating strong consumer demand and excitement for its newest GPU, NVIDIA announced today that it has raised $8000 from the sale of its GeForce4™ Ti 4600 GPU in a fund auction held on eBay, to...
This has been out for a few days, so I thought I'd post some info. Slashdot has a rather good discussion on this topic... Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked...
Thank you Darren Bolton for emailing us. Computer security expert Jonas Luster unearthed more than just his e-mail when he signed on to a wireless network for travelers at San Jose International Airport....
Two days after posting record earnings ($25m) and revenue (over $1.7billion in cash and investments), eBay said Thursday that it is raising fees, some by as much as 100 percent, starting 31st January 2002. ...
Found this article while I was browsing through PCWorld.com. The cost of keeping viruses at bay just went up for users of Symantec's popular Norton AntiVirus program. The company recently increased the price...
