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According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple-BFF and mobile-telecom-extroidinaire AT&T is in talks with Google about joining the . In an interview today, Ralph de la Vega — chief executive officer of the company’s wireless unit — said that the provider is, “Analyzing the situation,” concerning the use of Google’s operating system for some of its handsets. (Read content ‘AT&T in talks with Google over the Open Handset Alliance?’…)
It was an unlucky day for three squirrels and hundreds of Midwestern power customers.
Classes were back in session Tuesday at a community college in Godfrey, Ill., a day after a squirrel’s gnawing into an electric service line disrupted service.
Officials say the squirrel knocked out voicemail, electricity and computer services Monday morning at Lewis and Clark Community College, forcing the school’s main campus to close. (Read content ‘Electricity 3, Squirrels 0′…)
BOSTON - When technology companies talk up the potential of the developing world, they usually mean places that already are hotbeds like China or India. ADVERTISEMENT
IBM Corp. is placing bets on African countries where it has launched a mentoring program for college students. (Read content ‘IBM links researchers, African students (AP)’…)
NEW YORK - A new version of the Firefox browser, now available for testing mainly by developers, offers improvements on finding frequently visited Web sites and tools for running Web applications without a live Internet connection. ADVERTISEMENT
The Beta 1 version of Firefox 3 released this week still has problems, including the inability to run newer Web-mail programs from Yahoo Inc. (Read content ‘Bookmark improvements new to Firefox 3 (AP)’…)
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "What to Give, What to Get?" asked a sign in the Sony storefront window at the conglomerate's Madison Avenue headquarters. Some 150 Writers Guild of America picketers who braved the rain with their own signs outside the building Tuesday had a quick answer: a share of Internet revenues for their work. (Read content ‘New York writers brave rain at Sony protest (Reuters)’…)
San Francisco - Nokia Siemens announced an energy-efficient mobile network equipment package, the first announcement of more to come that show a commitment to improving the energy consumption of its network gear, the company said. The package includes software that can reduce the energy used by base stations by setting some components to enter a power-saving mode at night, a time when network traffic dramatically decreases. (Read content ‘Nokia Siemens adopts ‘green’ policy to cut costs (InfoWorld)’…)
San Francisco - Mozilla has released a beta version of , moving its next-generation browser one step closer to general release. ADVERTISEMENT
Close to 75,000 developers have been testing early "alpha" versions of Firefox 3.0 code for several months now, but this first beta release of the code, unveiled Tuesday, should open up the software to a much larger group of testers, said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of engineering. (Read content ‘Firefox 3.0 beta release adds security, search (InfoWorld)’…)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - MTV's "Rock Band" video game took the stage on Tuesday, a new entrant in the fast-growing genre of musical games that could boost the fortunes of the flagging music industry. ADVERTISEMENT
More a rock band simulator than a game, the title takes on the hit "Guitar Hero" series that has sold millions and become a cash cow for publisher Activision Inc (ATVI.O). (Read content ‘MTV’s new music game set to rock music industry (Reuters)’…)
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Porsche this month revealed it had made EU3.6bn from share options in the year to July, compared with about EU1bn from sales of its cars. The news provoked comments from some analysts that the German luxury marque was acting more like a hedge fund than a carmaker. (Read content ‘Balancing industrial enterprise with financial speculation (FT.com)’…)