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AT&T ranks as the lowest-scoring cellphone service provider in a new Consumer Reports survey that asked 58,000 customers to rate their carriers. AT&T was the only one to drop significantly in overall satisfaction from a year earlier. Consumer Reports gave a preview of the results in a blog post on Monday -- the full report will appear in the magaz...
AT&T ranks as the lowest-scoring cellphone service provider in a new Consumer Reports survey that asked 58,000 customers to rate their carriers. AT&T was the only one to drop significantly in overall satisfaction from a year earlier. Consumer Reports gave a preview of the results in a blog post on Monday -- the full report will appear in the magaz...
Google released Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, on Monday -- a new version of its open source mobile platform. Gingerbread made its debut on the Samsung Nexus S smartphone. ...
After months of speculation, Google's ebookstore opened for business on Monday, revealing answers to questions about what it will offer and the formats it will support. As well as providing books for sale, Google has made some of its vast collection of out-of-copyright books available for free, including books from Jane Austen, Mark Twain and Char...
When Larry Ellison introduced new servers and clusters at the old Sun Microsystems auditorium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, he poked fun at competitors IBM and HP, depicting Oracle as a cheetah, IBM as a stallion and HP as a turtle. He noted that HP products are slow and the company is vulnerable in the marketplace The SPARC Supercluste...
Google announced Wednesday it has changed its search algorithm to make sure bad merchants don't soar to the top of search results due to strings of complaints against them. The decision to alter its algorithm was a response to a story The New York Times ran last weekend about an eyeglass merchant, DecorMyEyes.com, that encouraged negative reviews in order to get higher rankings. At the time, the Times story appeared, the eyeglass company was showing up on the first page of Google's search results...
Google is about to go head-to-head with Amazon and Apple as it readies an e-book store that will debut before the end of the year. Named "Google Editions," the service will be an outgrowth of its Google Books project that allows users to browse and preview titles The news surfaced on the Google Books site this week in a post that notes Google ...
Level 3 Communications on Monday complained when Comcast demanded the content delivery network pay a recurring fee for transmitting online moves and games to Comcast customers. Level 3 said the move violates the principles of Net neutrality Comcast notified Level 3 on November 19 that it would begin charging for streaming and asked for a recurr...
Rumors are spinning across the e-commerce and investment banking world that Google will snap up Groupon. Though the talk started weeks ago, it has acquired new credibility with a VatorNews report claiming an unnamed insider confirmed the deal Groupon is a shopping website that offers a daily deal on local goods, services and events. Acquisitio...
Look for an overall bigger holiday spending pie with e-commerce grabbing a bigger slice. ComScore has forecast that Internet retailers will enjoy an 11-percent gain over last year's holiday billing. The firm expects e-commerce spending to total US$32.4 billion during the November-through-December period, much stronger than 2009's 4 percent increase...
Shares of HP moved up Tuesday -- while most tech stocks were down -- after the company posted strong results. The message boards were upbeat on CEO Leo Apotheker's first earnings call. The drama of Larry Ellison's attempt to subpoena Apotheker for the Oracle vs. SAP trial seems to have left little dust on HP The company reported net revenue of...
Netflix is favoring the trend toward streaming rental videos by introducing a streaming-only plan and raising its prices for discs delivered by mail. The company has launched a monthly subscription plan for streaming-only at US$7.99 The cost for a combo of streaming-video plus mail delivery will increase a dollar to $9.99 per month for the one...
Salesforce.com stock shares soared 17 percent Friday morning to an all-time high in response to its fiscal third-quarter earnings report released Thursday afternoon. In the report, Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said he believes the company will reach US$2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2012, making it the first cloud computing company to achieve that mark...
OnLive has created an adapter that brings its cloud-based, instant-play video games to the TV -- and it's hoping to attract the whole family, not just the hardcore male gamer, to partake in the action OnLive is taking orders now for its MicroConsole and an accompanying OnLive Wireless Controller. The US$99 bundle, which includes any free game ...
Mega-retailer Best Buy announced on Wednesday it will offer free shipping on a number of specific items through December 21. Products with free shipping include CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, as well as gaming software and accessories. iPods, iPads and iPhones are excluded, as Apple will not allow it products to be advertised as bargains in any mann...
Google will enable contactless shopping with a smartphone in its Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" operating system, which is due to be released in a few weeks, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Monday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. In a discussion about new features Google is working on, Schmidt mentioned the inclusion of a special chip that could re...
EMC announced Monday it has agreed to acquire Isilon Systems, a "big-data" company, for US$2.25 billion in cash. EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci noted that EMC decided to buy Isilon to take advantage of the waves of cloud computing and big data that are expected over the coming decade. Isilon is a major player in the fast growing scale-out net...
Rumors have been flying wildly since Facebook sent out a press invitation for an announcementNov. 15 in San Francisco. At 10 a.m. on Monday, Facebookrepresentatives -- perhaps CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself -- are expected to announce somethingbig in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Summit. Zuckerberg is scheduled to speak the next day at theconference, so he'll be handy...
Although Cisco Systems delivered a good first quarter earnings report on Wednesday afternoon, the guidance delivered by CEO John Chambers for the coming quarters sent the stock markets spinning downward on Thursday. In a conference call Wednesday, Chambers said Cisco expected revenue growth of 3 percent to 5 percent during the current quarter. Wal...
Google's Android operating system grabbed a strong 25.5 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, making it the No. 2 OS globally in the third quarter of 2010, according to a study released by Gartner on Wednesday. That's up from a mere 3.5 percent share of the market in the third quarter of 2009. The third quarter produced record sales of more ...
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