Tag: technology
Tech Daily: Sales of under-$400 computers are expected to soar in the coming year – much to the delight of one tech giant and the dismay of just about everyone else.
SAN FRANCISCO — This Christmas, the titans of the personal-computer...
Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from pages to pixels?
For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of the...
SHANGHAI — The Sina Corporation, one of China’s biggest Internet portals, said Monday that it would acquire a large piece of Focus Media, one of the leading advertising and digital media companies in China, for about $1 billion in stock.
A...
A start-up company called Tapulous has turned a simple game for the iPhone into an Internet-age mobile stage for musicians.
Christmas With Weezer, a music and tapping game.
Tap Tap Revenge, a free game that challenges players to keep up with...
Internet and phone communications between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have been seriously disrupted after submarine cables were severed.
Subsea cables are often damaged by ships anchors and seismic activity
It is thought the FLAG FEA,...
SAN FRANCISCO — When the financial sector took a dive this fall, the entrepreneurs behind a new batch of personal finance sites worried that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
After all, if people no longer trusted their banks,...
Apple's chief executive Steven P. Jobs at a media event in September.
For the last ten years, attending Steven P. Jobs’s annual keynote address at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco has been a sacred pilgrimage for Apple enthusiasts....
Michael Buckley, YouTube host, at home in Connecticut.
Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living.
One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members...
The Japanese consumer electronics giant, the Sony Corporation, said Tuesday that it would eliminate 8,000 jobs and rein in planned investment as it reacts to the global economic slowdown.
Sony, which had already announced scattered cost-savings...
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft named Qi Lu, a former Yahoo executive, to run its struggling Internet unit on Thursday.
Mr. Lu will fill an important position that had been vacant since the departure in July of Kevin Johnson, who played a central...
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