Report details AT&T wait to break even on iPhones

From CNET News.com: With its large subsidies to Apple, AT&T doesn't break even on iPhone accounts with high data-usage until the 17th month of a 24-month contract, according to a new report from Yankee Group.

The report, titled "The Golden Subsidy Egg's Goose is Cooked: Welcome to...

Google Books is About Readers, Sergey Brin Says

From PC World: Google cofounder Sergey Brin has some choice words for Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, and anyone else who opposes the into e-books: Back off, we're trying to help the readers.

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Brin challenges some of the arguments critics have raised...

Nvidia in the throes of remaking itself

From CNET News.com: As graphics kingpin Nvidia tries to reshape itself into a broad-based computing company, it is taking big gambles with potentially big payoffs, while it fends off challenges from rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

The world's largest supplier of standalone...

MSI's Big Bang Mobo Offers THX Yummyness

From Tom's Hardware: Earlier today, MSI officially announced its collaboration with Creative and THX to bring their audio technologies to the upcoming Big Bang motherboard. According to the company, the new mobo line is slated to be the first to implement THX TruStudio PC along with...

Microsoft to put stripped-down Office on new PCs

From InfoWorld: Microsoft announced today that it will abandon its decades-old Works entry-level suite, and will instead offer a stripped-down, advertising-supported version of Microsoft Office 2010 on new PCs next year.

Dubbed Office Starter 2010, the new edition will include only...

Yahoo to Promote Home Page Apps During Open Hack Day

From PC World: Yahoo has opened the application floodgates to its home page, with hopes that external developers will soon build tens of thousands of programs that Yahoo.com's more than 330 million visitors will find useful.

Although Yahoo announced its intention to do this last...

Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1.2

From CNET News.com: Apple on Thursday released an update for the iPhone operating system, bringing the current version of the OS to 3.1.2.

According to notes accompanying the update, Apple fixed three bugs, which may not seem like a lot, but they are important. Among the changes is...

Yahoo ponders the meaning of search

From CNET News.com: Yahoo is in the midst of a grand transition as a company, with a pending deal to sell its search assets to Microsoft in exchange for a healthy portion of the revenue generated by searches on Yahoo's pages. Yet some in the company seem a bit perturbed by talk that...

UK Manager Says Major Labels Steal More Music Than Filesharers

From DailyTech: Illogical suits and copyright enforcement are nothing new in the music industry. Rock musician John Fogerty was once forced to show a court that his song "The Old Man Down The Road" did not share the same chorus as "Run Through The Jungle" -- a song that he also...

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