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On Monday, Intel submitted a formal, written response to the Statement of Objections that the European Commission sent to the company this past July. The contents of Intel’s response have yet to leak out, but the company has confirmed that it has also requested a hearing before the EC in order to orally refute the charges of anticompetitive behavior leveled against it by the EU.
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Microsoft has offered to buy the Norwegian search software firm Fast Search & Transfer in a deal that values it at about $1.2bn (£607m).
The price is 42% above Fast’s closing share price on 4 January and the shares have risen close to the offer level.
Fast’s board of directors have recommended that shareholders accept the offer and says that holders of 37% of its stock have already done so.
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According to the Wall Street Journal Asia, Jobs and Co are in Japan working out the details for a domestic iPhone launch. It’s no surprise then that Jobs was rumored to have just met with NTT DoCoMo’s president, Masao Nakamur, to discuss the deal with the largest carrier in the world’s second-largest economy. As usual, Apple seems to be playing the carriers off one another with rumors that The Steve is courting Softbank as well. However, “people familiar with the situation” say that DoCoMo is the first choice. While the revenue sharing is a sticking point as usual, WSJA says that Apple doesn’t expect to have any difficulty closing the deal. Funny, that’s what everyone was saying about Vodafone in Europe.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide.
Dating Web site Match.com, owned by media mogul Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp conglomerate, plans to launch two new features this week that bring greater social networking capabilities to its more than 15 million Match members and to the roughly 58 million active users of Facebook. Continue reading »
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Facebook is suing seventeen people and a Canadian Internet porn company for allegedly trying to mine the popular social networking site for its users’ personal details.
Facebook alleges that in June servers controlled by the defendants used automated scripts to make more than 200,000 requests for personal information stored on Facebook’s site. The allegations are contained in an amended lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.
The company first filed suit back in June, but amended the complaint this month after obtaining court orders to identify who controlled the servers trying to access its site. Continue reading »
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O2 is to trial an internet-based TV service next year after trialling a similar product in the Czech market, a test bed for the mobile phone company’s wider ambitions.
The Czech IPTV launch has proved a big success for O2 and its owner, Telefonica, since it launched in September 2006, attracting 70,000 customers so far. It offers more than 50 channels with content from leading producers including Sony, Disney, Warner Bros and HBO, the US TV producer behind The Sopranos.
O2 has been expected to launch IPTV services in the UK after it snapped up the small broadband player Be, which has the fastest network in the country. Although O2 has launched broadband services, the capacity of the Be network would allow for a robust IPTV service to be carried to customers. Continue reading »
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Nintendo is set to miss out on an estimated $1.3 billion (£650 million) in sales this Christmas by failing to meet demand for its Wii video games console.
James Lin, a senior analyst at MDB Capital Group, believes that Nintendo could be selling twice the 1.8 million Wiis it is manufacturing a month.
The $1.3 billion that Mr Lin estimates the group is leaving on the table in the run-up to Christmas by underestimating the market for Wii hardware does not include sales of games software for the console, traditionally the source of the lion’s share of profits in the industry. Continue reading »
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On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, two Bell Labs researchers, built the world’s first transistor.
Their device, called a point contract transistor, conducted electricity and amplified signals, a job then currently handled by bulky and delicate vacuum tubes and other components.
Their colleague William Shockley followed soon after with junction transistors. Although Bardeen and Brattain were first, Shockley’s device became the basis for a scientific and industrial juggernaut. Continue reading »
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.’s stock price barreled through $700 for the first time Wednesday, propelled by a belief that the Internet search leader will become even more profitable as it plants its products and services in new markets.
The Mountain View-based company’s shares traded as high as $704.79 before falling back to $700.04 in afternoon trading, up $5.27 for the session. It took less than a month for the stock to leap from $600 to $700, building upon a fervor that has lifted Google’s market value by more than 30 percent since mid-September. Continue reading »
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Apple faces yet more flack from the Mac faithful over the discovery that the operating system won’t run the latest version of Java. It’s one of several beefs relating to the OS X upgrade that is sparking vitriol among the normally docile crowd.
Leopard may have 300 new features, but it is unable to run Java 1.6, even though that same version is available for both Windows and Linux. That has taken some Mac users by surprise, including some on this user forum on Apple’s website. Several users there say 1.6 is so central to the development work they do on a daily basis that they will be forced to use an OS other than Leopard if it remains incompatible. Continue reading »
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