Category Archives: Technology

Boeing says 747-8 freighter to make first flight

By doris | Published: February 7, 2010

Full Story at news.yahoo.com SEATTLE – Boeing Co.’s giant 747-8 freighter should make its first flight Monday after performing well on taxi tests and reaching a top speed of about 103.5 mph, the company said. At 250 feet long, the plane is the largest Boeing has ever built and about 18 feet longer than the [...]

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AT&T, Verizon face off in TV ads

By doris | Published: November 28, 2009

Full Story at  msnbc.com NEW YORK – What would the holidays be without bickering between siblings? AT&T and Verizon are swamping TV with ads attacking facets of each other’s wireless networks. While the ads stick fairly close to the truth, there’s a lot they don’t say. AT&T Inc. has been running ads with actor Luke [...]

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Does AT&T turn into a pumpkin in June?

By doris | Published: November 23, 2009

Full Story atBrainstorm Tech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com Broadpoint AmTech’s Brian Marshall, who has replaced Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster as the most bullish of the mainstream Apple analysts, made several assertions of fact in an Bloomberg TV interview Friday that — if true — struck me as newsworthy. Chief among them: * The contract that gives AT&T (T) exclusive [...]

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Concessions From Google on Digital Books

By doris | Published: November 15, 2009

Full Story at  CBS News.com (AP) Internet search leader Google will ease its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its digital library if a court approves a revised lawsuit settlement that addresses objections of antitrust regulators. The offer comes two months after the U.S. Justice Department balked at Google’s original agreement with authors [...]

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Google to buy mobile ad provider

By doris | Published: November 10, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google said Monday that it plans to pay $750 million in stock for AdMob, a company that provides display advertising technology for mobile Internet sites. The search giant said the acquisition will help the company’s advertising partners improve how they target mobile Web users, as well as [...]

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Windows 7 student upgrade hell

By doris | Published: October 25, 2009

Full Story at brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com College students who took advantage of a “deal too sweet to pass up” have run into a bit of trouble. The $29 electronic version of Windows 7 Home Edition sold for Microsoft (MSFT) through Digital River (DRIV) doesn’t seem to install properly on some 32-bit Vista machines. Apparently the download files [...]

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Microsoft wows the Street

By doris | Published: October 24, 2009

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft Corp.’s stock soared early Friday after the software giant reported quarterly sales and profit that fell from year-ago results but easily beat Wall Street’s forecasts. Shares of Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) rose more than 10% in early trading. It surged as high as $29.35 at the open, [...]

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Dell to lay off 905 in plant closure

By doris | Published: October 8, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Computer maker Dell announced on Wednesday that it will close a plant in Winston-Salem, N.C., and will cut 905 jobs as a result. Dell said that 600 plant workers will be laid off in November, and the remaining 305 employees will be cut by January 2010, when [...]

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America’s high-tech sweatshops

By doris | Published: October 5, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Vimal Patel was studying for a master’s in business administration in London when he saw an advertisement for work in the U.S. The ad offered a job in the tech industry, as well as sponsorship for the kind of work visa that allows foreign nationals to take professional-level jobs in the [...]

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US regulators propose ban on ‘flash’ trading

By doris | Published: September 18, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators proposed Thursday a ban on flash orders that stock exchanges send to a select group of traders, fractions of a second before revealing them publicly. The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking to end the practice criticized for giving an unfair advantage to some market [...]

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Google the Underdog?

By doris | Published: August 29, 2009

Full Story atstanleybing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com The massive machinery of the tech business is mobilizing against a common adversary. That’s right, in spite of all it’s done to transform our world and define free, open digital space, nobody in the business seems to like the Goog (GOOG). In fact, the operators of the Death Star in Redmond (MSFT) [...]

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Antitrust chief hits resistance in crackdown

By doris | Published: July 27, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – President Obama’s top antitrust official and some senior Democratic lawmakers are preparing to rein in a host of major industries, including airline and railroad giants, moving so aggressively that they are finding some resistance from officials within the administration. The official, Christine A. Varney, the antitrust chief at the [...]

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Bing vs. Google: Consumers Can’t Tell a Difference

By doris | Published: July 12, 2009

Full Story at Bing vs. Google: Consumers Can’t Tell a Difference (alleyinsider.com) — We consumers seem to becoming pawns in the power struggle between internet behemoths Google and Microsoft. To Google, we are “products” to be sold to highest bidding advertiser and to Microsoft we have been reduced largely to a software license. The battle [...]

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GM’s eBay play

By doris | Published: July 11, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Fresh out of bankruptcy, the new General Motors hopes to soon start selling its whole line of cars on eBay through a pilot program. While the marketing effort would initially be limited to California, it could go national if it proves to be successful, said GM Chief [...]

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