Shares of Yahoo closed at $26.43 Monday, off 1.38 percent from its close of $26.80 on Friday. Investors were initially feeling a little more bullish at the start of the session, pushing the shares up as high as $27.09.
Shares of Yahoo and Microsoft gave up ground Monday, following the passing of Microsoft’s closely watched [...]
Officially known as the Smart Location Bar, it has earned a mixed reputation by suggesting 12 bookmarks and URLs of previously visited sites as the user types keywords into the URL field. If you’re one of those users clamoring for an option to silence the ‘helpful’ new feature in Firefox 3, released on Tuesday, look [...]
While thousands, or even millions, of people regularly switch between services like Facebook, imeem, MySpace, and others, it can be cumbersome to do all that switching.
That’s what Xumii, which presented at DemoFall Monday afternoon, has set out to obviate.
SAN DIEGO–Who needs a computer to access the many social networks people are members of these days?
Whether [...]
Relying on the global positioning system only gets you so far. For one thing, only a small (but growing) proportion of existing mobile devices are GPS-enabled. For another, GPS is not accurate enough to identify behavior. Whrrl, for example, uses raw data from GPS receivers (on the phones that have them), in addition to [...]
“When they run out of ‘legitimate merchandise,’ they begin to steal intermittently, many times for the first time in their life, so they can continue selling online,” he said in the testimony. “The thefts then begin to spiral out of control and, before they know it, they quit their jobs, are recruiting accomplices (some are [...]
To address that problem, the team has developed a cooling system consisting of micropipes of water as thin as a human hair (50 microns) that are interspersed between each chip layer.
“This process enabled us to completely seal off the joints. Then we can use water, which is superior to other coolants,” Brunschwiler said.
The water-cooled [...]
Google revenue continued its upward trajectory in the second quarter, but not to the satisfaction of Wall Street. (Click image to see larger version.)
Interest income
First, the company missed expectations: net income, excluding various items, was $4.63 per share, short of the $4.74 expected by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters, and that’s usually enough to send [...]
At this juncture, Yahoo teaming up with AOL seems the most likely alternative under consideration, but that’s a far more risky path, especially with Yahoo trying to rewire both its technical platform and its user experience from the inside out and with Google continuing to increase its lead in the vital search category.
Kara Swisher is [...]
Rumors have been circulating for several weeks that the upcoming Nintendo interactive fitness game, Wii Fit, which comes bundled with the
Wii Balance Board peripheral (pictured), would be priced at $89.99. Well, now that number has become official along with the not-so-secret May 19 launch date.
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Nintendo)
According to Nintendo’s press release, Wii Fit boasts, “A dynamic [...]
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Maximilien Brice for CERN)
As explained by CERN:
Click image for gallery on the Large Hadron Collider.
The transformer, weighing 30 tonnes and with a rating of 12 MVA, was exchanged over the weekend. During this process, the cryogenics system was put into a standby mode with the two sectors kept at around 4.5 K. Since the [...]
