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Archive for April 23rd, 2008

T-Mobile Android Phone Release Seen Bringing ‘Avalanche’ (CNN)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

CNN:
T-Mobile Android Phone Release Seen Bringing ‘Avalanche’  —  SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- With Deutsche Telekom AG’s (DT) T-Mobile USA Inc. preparing to ship out its first cellphones built on Google Inc.’s (GOOG) open Android platform later this year, wireless carriers are expecting an avalanche …

T-Mobile Android Phone Release Seen Bringing ‘Avalanche’ (CNN)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

CNN:
T-Mobile Android Phone Release Seen Bringing ‘Avalanche’  —  SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- With Deutsche Telekom AG’s (DT) T-Mobile USA Inc. preparing to ship out its first cellphones built on Google Inc.’s (GOOG) open Android platform later this year, wireless carriers are expecting an avalanche …

So You’re Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs - What’s the Next Frontier? (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
So You’re Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs - What’s the Next Frontier?  —  We’re here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and are getting inundated with press releases about new APIs and developer platforms, many from companies we’ve never even heard of in the first place.

So You’re Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs - What’s the Next Frontier? (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
So You’re Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs - What’s the Next Frontier?  —  We’re here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and are getting inundated with press releases about new APIs and developer platforms, many from companies we’ve never even heard of in the first place.

Apple acquires PA Semi; Press proves lack of understanding. (Arun/Beyond3D)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Arun / Beyond3D:
Apple acquires PA Semi; Press proves lack of understanding.  —  It’s official: the iPhone’s future CPU will have a TDP of 25W!  Or so mindlessly speculate Forbes and a variety of other websites following Apple’s stunning acquisition of P.A. Semi, a manufacturer of power-efficient PowerPC-based CPUs.

Comcast Is Serious About Wireless (Stacey Higginbotham/GigaOM)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Comcast Is Serious About Wireless  —  Hot on the heels of a report that Comcast will no longer offer Sprint’s wireless service through Pivot, GigaOM has learned that the cable company is creating its own wireless division and has hired the former CTO of Telefonica O2 Europe, Dave Williams […]

Google’s Ginormous Free Food Budget: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million A Year* (Vasanth Sridharan/Silicon Alley Insider)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google’s Ginormous Free Food Budget: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million A Year*  —  Sick of hearing about the great, free, food at Google?  Skip this post.  Want to know how much it costs Google to pay for all that grub?  Read on.  —  Here’s the math: Googlers in the […]

Google’s Ginormous Free Food Budget: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million A Year (Vasanth Sridharan/Silicon Alley Insider)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google’s Ginormous Free Food Budget: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million A Year  —  Sick of hearing about the great, free, food at Google?  Skip this post.  Want to know how much it costs Google to pay for all that grub?  Read on.  —  Here’s the math: Googlers in the […]

Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design? (Larry Dignan/Between the Lines)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design?  —  Apple in its fiscal second quarter shipped 2.29 million Macs to top even the most optimistic Wall Street projections.  —  Apple had been expected to ship 2.1 million Macs, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster […]

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 37% to $4.1 Billion … (Business Wire)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Business Wire:
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 37% to $4.1 Billion; Electronics and Other General Merchandise Grows 56%; Media Grows 28%  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2008.  —  Operating cash flow was $1.04 billion …