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It’s no big secret that AOL isn’t doing as well as it once did.  Once it was the Internet to many people, now some people still keep their AOL email, but the company is struggling.  A new CEO, former Google sales executive Tim Armstrong was brought in to help turn… Continue Reading »

Apple quietly acquired Placebase, a mapping company that allows users to overlay maps with personal data.  With the recent fallout between Apple and Google, we’ve got to wonder if Apple is looking to depend less on Google for its mapping, one of the stock apps on the iPhone and iPod… Continue Reading »

New software that is being released through the company Cataphora can analyze whether an employee is a productive worker or not.  The way that the software will work is that it analyzes electronic footprints left behind by each employee.  This includes monitoring emails sent, calls made, and documents worked on. … Continue Reading »

HP is calling its newest business machine the “world’s thinnest full-performance notebook.”  Why do they use that tag line?  It’s the thinnest standard-voltage notebook measured at its thickest point.  The ProBook 5310m has an Intel Core 2 Duo SP9300 (2.26 GHz) processor.  If you choose, you can get an Intel… Continue Reading »

*UPDATED BELOW When word broke that eBay was considering selling Skype, Google was the first company to come to mind for many.  Google Voice would be a great fit with the VoIP enabled Skype and hopes became high for a nifty solution and good home for the unit, but Google… Continue Reading »

T-Mobile, arguably either the third or fourth place US carrier, looks to be in a bit of trouble at the moment.  While AT&T adds more subscribers with each new iPhone, Sprint with the Palm Pre, and Verizon for its network, T-Mobile doesn’t look to be doing quite as well as… Continue Reading »

In a completely unexpected move, today (August 3, 2009), Google CEO Eric Schmidt has decided to leave the Apple Board of Directors he’s been a part of since April 2009.  While Google and Apple have seemed to look at the technology world from almost to completely different viewpoints, it seemed… Continue Reading »

For the first time in Microsoft’s history, the software company has reported a year-over-year decline in its sales for fiscal year 2009 (FY2009).  Sales fell by 3.2% from 2008, which translates to a $1.98 billion difference.  Net profits for FY2009 dropped 17% or $3.11 billion.  Microsoft is pointing to the… Continue Reading »

In the coming months, you will be able to find T-Mobile phones in Radio Shack.  Radio Shack has already stocked Alltell, AT&T, Nextel, and Sprint phones.  That only leaves Verizon out as the last major player not to be at Radio Shack.  Both T-Mobile and Radio Shack are promoting this… Continue Reading »

Microsoft and Yahoo are reportedly in the final stages of ironing out a deal that will involve the two companies partnering up to provide online searches and web advertisements.  The details of the potential deal are sketchy, but it seems as though Microsoft would pay Yahoo billions of dollars to… Continue Reading »