A Google spokesman said the company could not confirm the number of workers laid off.
“It’s clear to us that we do not want to be in the search engine marketing business,” the company wrote in a blog posting
. “Maintaining objectivity in both search and advertising is paramount to Google’s mission and core [...]

Under the current system, companies have been allowed to perpetuate the falsehood that spectrum is scarce for economic gain, he said. “The tragedy is we’re not using anywhere near the capacity of the wireless spectrum to communicate.”
“As (mobile) gains in popularity…the question becomes what the dominant platform will be,” Wu said. “There will [...]

Samueli, who co-founded the company, also resigned as chairman of the board. The board appointed director John Major to serve as nonexecutive chairman.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two current and two former key executives of chipmaker Broadcom with backdating stock options.

Major said Broadcom would not comment on allegations, but pointed out that the [...]

If you ask me, it’ll be the Xbox 360.
According to the latest sales figures, Sony has sold roughly 13 million Playstation 3 units worldwide, while Nintendo has sold 25 million Wiis and Microsoft has sold 19 million Xbox 360s. And while Sony won’t cite those figures, it chooses instead to mention “velocity” — the rate [...]

AMD, Palm, and RIM were all down double digit percentages for part of the day, though all the stocks managed to pare those losses significantly before trading closed. Google shares closed at $369.14, down $17.77, or 4.6 percent. Microsoft shares closed at $24.91, down $1.41, or more than 5 percent.

Apple was among the rare companies [...]

Though the Classmate is already available on the retail markets of India, Mexico, and Indonesia, this will be the first time the device has been for sale to consumers in the developed world.

The Eee PC certainly is bringing cachet to the tiny, Linux-based laptop segment, but will that translate to the cheaper Classmate PC? The [...]

The legendary Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan just got a bit more…modernized.
It’s not clear whether the museum Wi-Fi will also let visitors access the Web as a whole, or just the internal museum site. Requests for clarification were not immediately answered.
MoMA announced Monday that it has installed a museum-wide Wi-Fi network so that [...]

Nothing will stall your workday faster than a dropped network connection or recalcitrant peripheral. There’s a good chance that just a few tweaked Windows settings will get you rolling again. With some luck, the tools built into the OS will be all the help you need. And if Windows’ diagnostic tools come up short, there [...]

Now, overlap can be both a good thing and a bad thing. On the positive side, choosing one company’s technology over another allows talent to be freed up to work on other projects.

In an interview, Microsoft division president Kevin Johnson talked about the common “passion for innovation” at the two companies. That’s probably true, but [...]

The standard support model goes something like this: customer calls support, gets a low-level support person who proceeds to read through a manual trying to answer the question. Unable to do so, he or she calls for reinforcements who work on the problem under a veil of secrecy in which the customer never knows what [...]