AT&T income down but mobile business healthy
April 23, 2009AT&T's first quarter income was down 9% on flat revenue but its mobile business -- buoyed by its exclusive iPhone partnership with Apple -- continued to see healthy growth.
Materials costs for Kindle 2 are about half its retail price
April 23, 2009Amazon's second iteration of its popular Kindle e-book reader costs $185.49 to build, $173.51 less than its retail price, according to an iSuppli teardown report.
AMD widens loss during the quarter
April 22, 2009Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday reported a wider loss for the quarter compared to last year as it tries to recover from the recession.
Yahoo Q1 revenue and profit tumble
April 22, 2009Yahoo's profit and revenue fell sharply in the first quarter, ended March 31, 2009, as the beleaguered Internet company added a softening online ad market to its list of woes.
Apple to concede Mac sales shrinkage tomorrow, analyst predicts
April 21, 2009Apple will report that it's sold fewer Macs in the first quarter of 2009 than the same period the year before, the first time in nearly six years that the company will have acknowledged a sales slide, a Wall Street analyst said
Satyam's current execs to remain in charge after ownership change
April 20, 2009Tech Mahindra, an India-based outsourcer that is taking control of scandal-wracked Satyam Computer Services, said it will leave Satyam's current management team in place.
Study: US venture capital spending plummeted in Q1
April 18, 2009The recession has taken a staggering toll on U.S. venture capital investments, resulting in a nearly 50% drop overall during the past three months, according to a new industry report released Saturday.
Naughty workers, spam pollutes, Skype spin off
April 18, 2009A whole lot of employees keep "inappropriate" photos, videos and browser cache links on their work laptops, a survey found. (Honestly, how difficult is it to at least clean out the cache?) As if that's not enough, the spam that clogs our computers is spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to McAfee. And eBay plans to spin off Skype after figuring out what many observers said a while ago, which is that they just do not seem to have much in common.
Google suffers several negative firsts in quarter
April 17, 2009It took a worldwide recession to put the Google growth machine in reverse.
Used IT gear: Good stuff cheap -- just not always
April 17, 2009Used-tech gear can cost half of what new equipment sells for. But IT shops need to be careful about technology obsolescence, warranties, lack of documentation and the ability to get replacement parts.