Google April 14 reported earnings, excluding traffic acquisition costs, of $6.54 billion on non-GAAP earnings per share of $8.08 for the first quarter, which saw Google CEO Eric Schmidt turn the CEO role over to co-founder Larry Page. Analyst consensus called for Google to announce earnings of $6.31 billion and earnings per share of $8.14, [...]
Windows Phone 7 users can expect a wide variety of applications, including Angry Birds and Internet Explorer 9, to arrive on their devices over the next few months. The software’s next update, code-named “Mango,” will also introduce augmented reality features to the smartphones’ cameras. While Mango’s ultimate release date remains unclear, Angry Birds will apparently [...]
April 11, 2011, was a memorable legal day for Facebook and its co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. One lengthy bit of litigation is petering out, while one is just starting up. The first lawsuit—so long-term in nature (eight years) that a feature film about it has come and gone—ground to a halt when a federal [...]
Bringing PHP developers closer to the Flash Platform, Adobe Systems and Zend Technologies, the PHP company, announced Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP software, a new integrated product helping PHP developers create rich Internet applicationsfor mobile, Web and desktop. Adobe officials said that for the first time developers now have the benefit of an integrated development environment (IDE) that combines the [...]
Facebook April 7 launched its Open Compute Project, an unprecedented play to open source the specifications it employs for its hardware and data center to efficiently power a social network comprising 600 million-plus people. For the Open Compute Project, Facebook is publishing specs and mechanical designs used to construct its motherboards, power supply, server chassis, and [...]
Apple’s iPad 2 is selling at a healthy clip, according to an April 6 report in DigiTimes. “Sales of iPad 2 are running at a rate faster than its predecessor, and Apple took delivery of 2.4 to 2.6 million units in March,”the publication stated, citing unnamed sources. “Based on a conservative estimate, Apple is likely [...]
Google’s Android operating system is pacingthe U.S. smartphone market with 33 percent share, so clearly consumers are buying millions of phones that Motorola, Samsung, HTC and others are pumping out. However, gross fragmentation in the Android platform and overall ecosystem has some developers nervous, according to a survey of 250 developers conducted by Baird analyst William [...]
When it comes to operating systems, there’s no more important company than Microsoft. For years now, the software giant has been dominating the OS landscape around the world. And with nearly every release of its operating system, it has been able to improve upon its preceding launches. If nothing else, Microsoft understands the operating system [...]
The sophisticated attack that breached RSA’s defenses and allowed attackers to steal SecurID data appears to have begun as a phishing attack, according to several security analysts briefed by the company. RSA has faced some criticism from about its internal security practices. During a private call with security analysts, the executive chairman of RSA Security, [...]
By: Brian T. Horowitz Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Okla., has become the latest health care provider to report a major data breach, this one resulting from the theft of a PC containing personal information for 84,000 patients. The theft occurred in a building that formerly housed the Saint Francis Broken Arrow outpatient facility, which [...]
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