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Channeling Aretha Franklin, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz told investors and financial analysts on Wednesday that the company is working hard to regain the respect it has lost in the market.
Bartz, known for her no-nonsense demeanor and spicy vocabulary, ...
The Florida company entangled with Apple in two federal courts said today it would license its technology to other clone makers so they could offer Mac knock-offs to their customers.
In a statement Monday, Psystar, the small computer maker that...
Joseph Hirko, the former co-CEO of Enron Broadband Services, was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison on a wire fraud charge related to false claims made by the failed telecommunications company, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Enron Broad...
In a scary presentation at the Defcon hacker conference, a security researcher showed how easy it is to compromise the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control...
Stronger PC demand from consumers in China and Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, gave Intel's Asian business a boost during the second quarter, the company said Wednesday.
"It reflects the strength in Asia relative to the rest of th...
Acer today launched three new handsets, all of which use Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 6.5 OS.The all India launch happened in Bangalore and the press conference was addressed by Acer's India Head of Smart Handhelds, Richard Tan. During the press...
When financial software maker Intuit acquired Mint.com, there was quite a bit of uncertainty as to what would happen to the popular online financial service. More often than not, when a startup is acquired by a large, established company, the startup...
With this week's release of Verizon Wireless' Droid phone comes the first real test of the potential for fragmentation with Android.
The Droid will be the first phone to run Android 2.0. After it goes on sale Friday, there will be Android phones on...
Smartphone shipments were up 4.2% globally in the third quarter and reached a record total for a quarter despite the poor economy, market research firm IDC said today.
Smartphone vendors shipped 43.3 million smartphones, such as the iPhone, in the...
Steve Jobs has been down this year—the leave of absence, the liver transplant—and he’s been up—his triumphant return, Apple’s continued success. Fortune clearly thinks that over the past ten years, his ups outweigh his downs; the publication...
