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Samsung chairman stepped down, but profit up
Just days after Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee stepped down following his indictment on tax evasion charges, the worlds top maker of memory chips on Friday posted a 37 percent rise in quarterly profit, its biggest gain in more than two years, according to news accounts and a company report.
The rise, which beat expectations, was attributed to strong sales and margins in flat screens and mobile phones, which helped counter weaknesses in chips, Reuters said.
The South Korean company on Friday posted a net profit of 2.19 trillion won, or $2.2 billion. For more details on the quarter, see Samsungs detailed slides (PDF).
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CNET announces partnership with Yahoo
CNET Networks, News.coms parent company, on Thursday announced a three-year strategic partnership with Yahoo under which CNET will be a third-party content provider of technology news and reviews.
The partnership also allows for Yahoo to sell display ads on CNET properties and for CNET to sell ads alongside the content it provides on Yahoo sites.
"Working together, we have the ability to build more robust content environments and more comprehensive programs for our marketing partners," CNET CEO Neil Ashe said in a press release.
The announcement was made as CNET reported its quarterly earnings, a net loss of $6.1 million, or 4 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $9.1 million, or 6 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Reuters said the per-share loss was in line with Wall...
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Update: Sun confirms its buying Montalvo
Sun Microsystems has confirmed it bought Montalvo Systems, but probably for a lot less than venture capitalists plunked into the company.
"Montalvos assets will be integrated into Suns Microelectronics business unit. We believe acquiring these assets will enhance the current and future products we are developing and expect them to contribute to future generations of Suns microprocessor technology which will in turn drive additional differentiation for Suns Systems products, a company representative wrote in an e-mail.
"We are not disclosing the terms of the deal as it is not material with respect to earnings per share," the representative continued.
Sun sealed the deal on April 21, but the company did not put out a press release then, according to its Web site. Earlier today, news sit...
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Googles CIO hire: Match made in nerd heaven?
Google found its new chief information officer, Ben Fried, on Wall Street--and at least on paper, it looks like a good fit.
Even though Google is a Silicon Valley company thousands of miles away from the buttoned-down brokers of lower Manhattan, the two domains have more in common technologically and culturally than one might think.
Wall Street companies and Google have different objectives, but both have a similar modus operandi. They use lots of cutting-edge computer equipment, often with plenty of in-house customization, to get ahead of the competition.
Most companies buy off-the-shelf software, but Wall Street firms like to write their own. Indeed, one of the areas under Frieds purview at Morgan Stanley was managing source code. Google takes this custom engineering philosophy a ...
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Low-cost laptop overload arranged in digestible list
In case youve been camped out under a nearby boulder for the past six months or so, youd realize that low-cost laptops have swarmed the market. Granted, only a handful are actually available for purchase today, but just in case youre trying to arrange your options in order to make the best purchasing decision in the future, Liliputing has assembled a stunningly comprehensive list of everything thats out there. From now shipping to darn-near-vaporware, all the details you need to know are lined up perfectly in the read link. Wipe that sweat from your brow, vaquero -- the hard works been done for ya....
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Want to see that ad in 3D?
Here comes a new way for advertisers to capture attention: software that turns 2D images into 3D simulations when consumers play with them in front of a Webcam.
Total Immersions DFusion system is composed of a kiosk, Web cameras, and software capable of recognizing, tracking, and rendering images.
It works like this. Customers view themselves on a screen through a Webcam and hold up a 2D picture. Suddenly the 2D picture pops up and consumers see themselves holding a 3D simulation of the product in the brochure on the kiosks video feed. Sometimes it doesnt work: the 3D image will disappear if you hold the picture at a wrong angle. Still, its an eye-grabber for a kiosk application.
Video: CNET News.coms Hanna Sistek demonstrates Total Immersions software. Click the image above to view...
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Windows XP SP3 final trudges into the torrent
You know the drill. Days before the official consumer release on the 29th, out pops the final version of Windows XP SP3 on torrents, usenet, and warez sites. We havent confirmed it for ourselves but weve received multiple reports that this final, unmodified version features a legit Volume Licensed Key which handles that pesky WGA check without breaking a sweat. Should you be brave enough to install it then by all means drop us a line in the comments about your experience. Then again, why rush? Youll likely have until 2012 to perform the update.
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NASA nanosats to form smart network in space
NASA Ames Research Center said Thursday that it has teamed with M2Mi to develop tiny satellites called nanosats that will go into building new low-Earth orbit telecommunications systems for use in the commercial sector.
"NASA wants to work with companies to develop a new economy in space," Ames Center Director Pete Worden said in a statement.
NASA signed its third official research and development agreement with M2Mi, a software and GPS sensor company that has an office at NASAs Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif. But the space agency has been working with M2Mi for at least the last two years to develop technology that helps machines or robots communicate with each other automatically, or so called machine-to-machine (M2M) intelligence. NASA has previously signed R&D agreements ...
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Open Documents and Last Chance for OOXML
Those who were on Spring Break last week may be forgiven if
they are still shaking the sand out of their ears, but we here at LinuxInsider
never take our noses off the grindstone even for a moment in our relentless
quest to keep our readers informed.
And a good thing, too, because last week was an important week. First,
Wednesday was none other than Document Freedom Day, the first global event dedicated to
document liberation and open standards. While some of you were lounging around
watching the clouds go by, roughly 200 teams from more than 60 countries
worldwide were hard at work organizing local activities to raise awareness of
the open document cause.
Take that, Redmond!
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$100 femtocells to be sold by AT&T?
Yep, were mandating that this one be filed in the rumor folder for now, but according to a report from ThinkPanmure, AT&T Mobility is planning to move up to 7 million femtocells acquired from UK-based ip.access. As the story goes, AT&T inked a contract with the aforesaid firm for up to half a billion dollars in femtocells over five years, and its supposedly aiming to sell each to end users for "as little as $100." As expected, spokespeople for AT&T and ip.access werent around / didnt care to comment on the matter, but a dame from the former did admit that it was "examining the potential benefits of femtocells through lab tests and planned to conduct a trial later this year." Of course, AT&T wouldnt be the first US carrier to offer the boxes, but its not like Sprints $...
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Mac Bloggers Muse on Microsoft, Cringe at Karl, Prep to Fall Out of Love
Even though this is has been one of the few weeks of 2008
when Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) hasn't
introduced a new product, Apple-focused blog activity has hardly slowed
down.
Instead, it's thriving on 3G iPhone order
rumors, more software developer kit
(SDK) talk, Karl Rove, Samsung's South Korea
Anycall Haptic launch, the arrival of Photoshop Elements for Mac 6, and the
notion that someday most everyone may actually hate Apple.
Running With a Rumor
The iPod Observer interviewed Gartner (NYSE: IT) analyst Ken
Dulaney, who mentioned there are some 3G iPhone rumors running around Asia.
Perhaps, according the rumors, Apple may have ordered a second batch of iPhones
-- to the tune of 10 million 3G-based models. The story was a brief four
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