EA Mobile is making a big bet on the
iPhone and
iPod Touch, announcing plans this week to port more than a dozen of its most popular games to Apple’s gadgets.
(Credit:
EA Mobile)
EA Mobile has ported several games to various Apple iPods, and is making a big push now onto the iPhone and iPod Touch.
EA Mobile’s [...]
Twhirl, a desktop client for Twitter and Friendfeed that I dearly love, updates only one site at a time, so I can use it to send Twitter posts to either my main Twitter account or other specialized accounts I occasionally write to. Friendfeed reads in only what I write in my main Twitter account, though. [...]
But display advertising on AOL is down 14 percent, with noticeable pullbacks in industries like automotive, financial services, telecom, and travel–similar niches to the ones that have pushed the company’s Time Inc. print ads down 9 percent.
Bewkes’ predecessor, Richard Parsons, stepped down amid lukewarm stock performance at the beginning of the year. Thus far, Bewkes [...]
And while Microsoft in its statement said it would be interested in discussing either a partial asset acquisition of Yahoo or an entire buyout of the company, Wall Street places high expectations on a buyout of all of Yahoo.
Analysts, overall, still have a “hold” recommendation on the stock, according to Thomson Financial’s survey of 34 [...]
According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter by way of Reuters, Microsoft is talking to talent agencies and production studios in Hollywood in hopes of licensing some exclusive video content for the
Zune. This isn’t a first for Microsoft: the company has exclusive Internet-only shows on MSN Video through its MSN Originals program, and just [...]
Yahoo has agreed to start marketing Netlog and showing ads on the German social-networking site, the companies said Tuesday.
Netlog is used by 1.3 million different people each month, and through the deal, advertisers can use Yahoo or Netlog to reach more than a third of German Internet users, the companies said.
In particular, Netlog is good [...]
Hewlett Packard on Monday said it is making its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System available under the open-source General Public License, version 2.
The AdvFS file system, which was originally developed for Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha Unix machines, can be adopted to Linux, the company said.
HP chose version 2 of the General Public License so [...]
Microsoft said it offered to guarantee Yahoo that its search monetization would be better than that of Yahoo’s Panama for the first three years.
The letter urges shareholders to vote for its director slate and against that put forth by Carl Icahn. In the letter, Yang and Bostock argue that Microsoft’s proposal would have tied Yahoo’s [...]
Another potential change capped broadband could inspire: Companies that send lots of data into the system and that want to make sure users continue to use it, rate cap or no, could volunteer to foot the extra bill for carriage, exempting their services from users’ bandwidth allotments. For example, suppose Netflix wants to be [...]
The consumer electronics giant on Tuesday reported that for the three months ended June 30, its net income was 35 billion yen ($330 million), or just more than half of the 66.5 billion recorded in the same period a year earlier.
Revenue for this year’s second calendar quarter (the first quarter of Sony’s April-to-March fiscal year) [...]
