A couple of weeks ago Palm revealed that while it had its strongest single quarter of phone sales ever it still ended up with a net loss in Q3 of $31.5 million.
Not bad enough? Palm revealed today that they had made a mistake before and not included a $25 million write-down for auction-rate securities which [...]
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How do you keep a new format from dying? By growing its market share, which is exactly what Sony plans to do this year with its Blu-ray format.
Currently the high-definition disc format has roughly 20% market share which isn’t terrible, but its competition (DVD) has roughly 80% market share.
Is downloadable HD content a competitor? Yes [...]
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If you’re been to get yourself a Sony Playstation 3 DualShock 3 controller, act fast–looks like some retailers have them already and if they do expect the $54.99 controllers to sell out quickly.
The release date was supposed to be the 14th, but check your local retailer–they might already have it available.
What’s a DualShock 3 controller?
In [...]
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Stanford University has announced a new program to invest in student ventures called SSE Ventures.
SSE (Stanford Student Enterprises) is a Stanford student association with several hundred employees and $13 million in assets. While still in its early stages, the new SSE Ventures plans to invest $50k or $100k into startups accepted into the new program [...]
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This morning Yahoo issued a response to Steve Ballmer’s letter issuing a three week ultimatum for the acquisition deal.
What do they want? More money.
From their response:
“We will not allow you or anyone else to acquire the company for anything less than its full value…we consider your threat to commence an unsolicited offer and proxy contest [...]
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Sprint has announced that it has licenced Klausner’s Visual Voicemail to be used with its upcoming Samsung Instinct phone due to be released this june.
Yes, the same sort of voicemail that AT&T and Apple use with the iPhone which was the subject of a patent infringement suit brought against Apple, AT&T, eBay and Comcast by [...]
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As expected, the Asus Eee PC is now available at Best Buy and comes with Windows XP.
The device is available for $399.99 but keep in mind that it’s the one with the 7-inch display and not the one with the 9-inch display which should be launching soon.
[Via Engadget]
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Sprint’s upcoming XOHM WiMAX service, currently in operation in the Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. areas, will be delayed for the rest of the country by a couple of extra months.
According to Sprint Nextel spokesperson Jeff Chaltas, the delay is so that they can improve the backhaul side of the network, giving the network more [...]
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