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As the holidays draw nearer, we’ll probably start to see a lot more Blu-ray players dip below the $200 mark (where they should have been a year ago). Is this price low enough for you to pull the trigger?
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If you’re keeping score, analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial expect, on average, earnings of 9 cents per share on revenue of $1.324 billion.
Yahoo releases financial results sometime after 1 p.m. PDT, but the conference call with financial analysts–where the juicier quotations usually surface–starts at 2 p.m. PDT.
Attention Microhoo watchers: We’ll be live-blogging Yahoo’s conference call [...]
Apple appears to be working on the concept of a Mac tablet again, based on a recent patent application.
A number of Mac sites on Thursday are pointing to a U.S. patent application granted for what would appear to be the mythical
Mac tablet. AppleInsider has a description of the device discussed in the application, which appears [...]
Akamai, which operates a global server network that helps distribute and accelerate rich media across the Internet, released its first quarterly “State of the Internet” report on Thursday.
The most common attacks were associated with Microsoft Windows. About one-third of the attacks were on port 135, which is used for remote procedure calls using the Windows [...]
Both Plazes and Praized are based on leveraging their own proprietary databases. Plazes is collecting the data of Wi-Fi access point locations (based on coordinating MAC addresses with user reports of location) as well as matching location coordinates with the places that users hang out at (for example, the Starbucks at SFO). Praized’s database [...]
At that point, Apple will need to make a decision. Will it want to go to court and fight each company that crops up or will it want to kill each of them off as quickly as possible? The decision won’t be an easy one. If it chooses the former, it risks losing and spending [...]
News of Nintendo’s move into broadcasting is likely to fill executives of many traditional television companies with dread. One senior executive at Fuji Television, Japan’s biggest commercial broadcaster, told The Times that if plans by Satoru Iwata, the Nintendo president, to make the Wii “the centerpiece of the living room” took off in a meaningful [...]
Researchers have projected widely varying figures for the event’s attendance, based on satellites circling above the clouds, aerostat balloons tethered blocks away, television coverage of the crowd, and good old-fashioned mathematics calculations.
(See more satellite images from GeoEye here.)
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GeoEye collected a high-resolution image of Washington, D.C., at 11:19 a.m. EST from 423 [...]
But many of the economic and social barriers that existed in Colombia have also manifested themselves in Miami. Despite the wealth on display on Miami’s beaches and a wave of investment that has modernized the downtown skyline, the city of Miami remains one of the nation’s poorest.
“It shortens the distance,” she said.
“When we’ve looked in [...]
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In this way, I see Mashery opening up the Web to development in similar ways to how open source works “offline.” Mashery is helping to break down barriers between Web sites, enabling savvy customers to extend their reach far beyond their .com site to envelop and enrich others’ Web services, and take a share of [...]
