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Posted: Apr 27 2009 9:10AM EDT

First Bytes: SEC Eyes Tweets, Waiting on a Verizon iPhone

Socially active public companies should carefully watch whether their blogs and tweets violate the SEC's regulations on information dissemination. [Wall Street Journal] Tired of status updates from your marginal friends on Facebook? Now there's a site that lets you get ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 24 2009 5:22PM EDT

Last Bytes: A New MySpaceFace, Technological Necessities

Survey says a growing number of people consider iPods and broadband more necessary than "old tech" like washers and dryers. This may explain why most bloggers smell the way they do. (Wall Street Journal Digits blog) It's official. Former Facebook ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 24 2009 2:37PM EDT

What the One Billionth Downloader Won

Nine months after Apple began selling apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, 13-year-old Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Connecticut downloaded the billionth application from the iTunes store. Poetically, it was a free app. Mulcahey, barely old enough to have ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 24 2009 11:25AM EDT

The End of Innocence at Apple

It seems unthinkable today — but more than two decades ago, when personal computers were still new and everybody listened to music on a Walkman, Steve Jobs was cast out of Apple. The year was 1985. IBM and Microsoft ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 24 2009 10:23AM EDT

First Bytes: Social Videos, 1 Billion Apps, Mt. Everest Calls

Netflix posts big profits and decrees that the future of video is social. (GigaOm) Apple hit its 1-billion-apps-sold milestone today, but not with the help of a baby-shaking game pulled after much outrage. (Reuters, AP) The Harvard Business Review on ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 23 2009 5:40PM EDT

Last Bytes: Microsoft and Amazon, Two Tales of the Economy

For the first time in its history, Microsoft reported that revenue fell during the first quarter when compared to the first quarter of last year. Net income fell 32 percent and revenue fell 6 percent, but the software giant met ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 23 2009 3:12PM EDT

Dell's Plastic Surgery

Dell has been long been the Ugly Betty of the PC industry--functional, smart but severely lacking in the looks department. But over the last two years, the company's consumer-targeted PCs have gotten a design makeover that would make Tyra ... Continue

Posted: Apr 23 2009 11:20AM EDT

Why High Tech Needs the Wall Street Quants

Richard Bookstaber, one of the original MIT math geeks gone bad (a.k.a. "quants") and the guy who literally wrote the book on how to destroy Wall St. with computers, has been tracking what he calls the "arms race" in high-frequency ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 23 2009 9:05AM EDT

First Bytes: New Blood at MySpace, Steve Jobs Testimony

MySpace is getting a new CEO, possibly former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta. Jason Calcanis has written Van Natta's first "to-do" list with the first ten things he should do. [Calcanis.com] What happens when a total Star Trek virgin goes ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 22 2009 5:04PM EDT

Last Bytes: Apple Profit Soars; eBay Profit Falls

Led by booming iPod sales and shrugging off a dip in its Macintosh business, Apple's net income rose 15 percent in the second quarter to $1.21 billion. Revenue increased 8.7 percent, to $8.16 billion. [BizJournals] EBay's net dropped 22 percent ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 22 2009 1:52PM EDT

Earth Day Special: Gadgets to Green Your Lifestyle

The Great Recession has been a bad trip for everyone. But look on the green side: Our collective need to shrink bills is giving birth to some of the grooviest eco-friendly gadgets yet. Tech manufacturers big and small have ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 22 2009 9:55AM EDT

First Bytes: Cyberspies and Belgian Bots

Yahoo just keeps on its losing streak as it announces a 78 percent profit drop, and cuts more staff. [WSJ] Redfin expands its online real estate brokerage in the wake of government's settlement with the National Association of Realtors. [TechCrunch] ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 21 2009 5:52PM EDT

Last Bytes: Is Texting Passé? Not Yet.

Think texting is getting kinda lame? Well, the never-boring Mark Cuban, along with Smash Technologies, wants to spice it up a little with new tracking devices, sort of like cookies for your cell phone. [NYT] Sun Microsystem's chief executive, Jonathan ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 21 2009 4:11PM EDT

Happy 20th Birthday, Game Boy

April 21 marks the 20th anniversary of the original launch of Nintendo's Game Boy. Here are six reasons why the Game Boy became one of the most successful consoles of all time ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 21 2009 12:43PM EDT

Gaming Geeks (and Curt Schilling) Unite!

What do Dungeons and Dragons, Curt Schilling, Rock Band 2, and oodles of gaming geeks have in common? They'll all be at the inaugural MIT Sloan Business in Gaming (BiG) conference on May 8. Schilling, the Red Sox's pitcher who ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 21 2009 9:55AM EDT

First Bytes: Cyberspies, Cisco, and Sexting

Those cyberspies are at it again. They have repeatedly breached the Pentagon's costliest weapons program, the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project, though it's not connected to the internet. [Reuters] Cisco will include new security measures with its cloud computing ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 20 2009 6:18PM EDT

Last Bytes: IBM's Blues, What the Sun Deal Means

IBM's sales fell more than expected but the company was able to beat earnings expectations, thanks to fewer outstanding shares and cost-cutting. [WSJ] How the Oracle-Sun deal impacts the open source community. [Ars Technica] Yahoo reports on Tuesday but analysts ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 20 2009 4:47PM EDT

Monetizing Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent video is on track to become the most popular video in the history of YouTube, amassing nearly 100 million views in its first nine days and earning the producers of the program a serendipitous ... Continue
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Posted: Apr 20 2009 12:31PM EDT

U.K. Rules the World in Bad Copyright Law

Who has the worst "worst, by far" copyright laws in the world? According to a pair of consumer groups, the winner is—wait for it—the UK. Yes, the country that brought us copyright, modern parliamentary democracy, chocolate Hobnobs, and both Shakespeare ... Continue

Posted: Apr 20 2009 8:55AM EDT

First Bytes: The Sun Sets on Oracle

Oracle finds treasure in IBM's trash. The software giant agreed to buy Sun Microsystems just weeks after IBM's talks to buy the Java maker fell apart. The deal is valued at $7.4 billion, a 42 percent premium to Sun's Friday ... Continue
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