Carphone Warehouse Splits and Best Buy Continues Expansion

April 23, 2009

www.bestbuy.com / www.carphonewarehouse.com Carphone Warehouse is planning to break up their telecommunications and retail units into two listed companies. They say that this move is going to increase market value. A split of the company will create two ...

Yahoo Sales Drop and Jobs Get Cut

April 23, 2009

www.yahoo.com Yahoo is planning to cut over 600 workers after having another rough start with a drop in sales. These results didn't come as a surprise yesterday when they were announced. Yahoo earned $118 million during ...

Adobe Flash Player to be Added to TV

April 22, 2009

www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer Adobe, who makes the Adobe Flash Player, says that they are working on a new platform that will be made available for set up on digital televisions and top boxes. The company has teamed up with ...

US Fighter Project Hacked by Cyberspies

April 22, 2009

Cyberspies have repeatedly hacked into the weapons program of the Pentagon in the United States, which is a Joint Strike Fighter project worth $300 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal yesterday. The ...

Microsoft to Launch Zune HD

April 21, 2009

www.microsoft.com Microsoft is going to be launching the Zune HD, which will be a new high definition version of their Zune personal media player. This is, what many believe, the company's last effort to revive Zune, and ...

Oracle Acquires Sun Microsystems

April 21, 2009

www.oraclecom / www.sun.com Oracle Corp has announced that they have agreed to purchase Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. This deal emerged just after talks for IBM to acquire the company failed. Oracle, who has been acquiring smaller software ...

Virgin Media Uses Google Email Platform

April 21, 2009

www.virgin.com / www.google.com Virgin Media is now using the Gmail platform from Google to provide enhanced services for their customers. The new partnership between the two companies will allow Virgin Media to offer more storage space and ...

Vodafone Accepting Google HTC Magic Pre-Orders

April 21, 2009

www.vodafone.co.uk / www.htc.com/www/product/magic/overview.html The latest mobile phone from Google, the HTC Magic, which is to be released for purchase at the beginning of next month, is now available by pre-order from Vodafone. This new phone is going ...

YouTube and Sony Make Film Deal

April 21, 2009

www.youtube.com / www.sony.co.uk YouTube and Sony have made an agreement, which will allow YouTube to start streaming Hollywood films on the website. This move is an effort to gain more revenue in advertising, as well as to ...

Nokia Net Profit Declines 90percent

April 17, 2009

www.nokia.co.uk Nokia, the largest cell phone maker in the world, has reported a fall in net profit by 90% while the global economic downturn has hit demand for mobile devices hard. During the first quarter of this ...