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Apple:
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — Posts Second Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings in Company's History — CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2006—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 third quarter ended July 1, 2006. The Company posted revenue …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Mac sales up 12 percent as Apple profits soar — Apple Computer's third-quarter revenue fell a little short of expectations, but profitability was far higher than expected and Mac sales increased at a healthy clip. — Revenue was $4.37 billion, up 24 percent from last year's quarterly revenue of $3.52 billion.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Macs see growth spurt — With a wider range of systems available, consumers have been snapping Macs up, giving them a growth boost that outpaced the rest of the market. — Macintosh shipments were up 12 percent compared with last year, Apple Computer said Wednesday during its third-quarter earnings call.
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microsoft.com:
Windows Principles — Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition — Microsoft Corp. recognizes the important role its Windows® desktop operating system products play in the information economy and the responsibilities that come with that role. To promote competitive opportunities …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Microsoft vows to play fair — WASHINGTON—Microsoft pledged on Wednesday that all of its future operating systems, including Windows Vista, will abide by self-imposed rules aimed at bolstering choice and competition. — The voluntary principles will come into play after major parts …
David E. Williams / CNN:
Google's unknown artist has huge following — (CNN) — Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world — his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times. — The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million — An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows …
Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many people see Web journals or "blogs" as alternatives to the mainstream media, but most Americans who run them do so as a hobby rather than a vocation, according to a report released on Wednesday.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Jobster takes more money to spread social job search — Do job seekers and employers outside of Silicon Valley want user generated content, tagging and feeds in their employment services? The premise that they do will likely be put to the test on a global scale now that the fast growing …
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Stewart Butterfield / FlickrBlog:
Temporary Storage Glitch — We've had a temporary storage failure affecting a sizable chunk of old Flickr photos and are moving about 20 terabytes of photos across a few thousand miles (between two of our data centers) to ensure consistency and smoothness. ALL PHOTOS AND DATA ARE SAFE AND NOTHING HAS BEEN LOST.
Valleywag:
Escaping Siberia: How Netscape's boss exploits controversy and paid users — After just a few months, the new head of Netscape wants out. That's why he's fomenting controversy over his newest job offer — paying his competitors' top users to seed Netscape.
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Gizmo Goes All Calls Free...Mostly — VoIPWatch has learned that tomorrow GizmoProject will introduce their "All Calls Free" program. According to the company the "new program gives active Gizmo Project users unlimited free calling to landlines and mobile phones in 60 countries around the world.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
AOL launches corporate IM service — AOL is set to launch on Wednesday its new AIM Pro instant-messaging service, which features security and online meeting functions aimed at corporate users. — The service, which is free for anyone to use, integrates with Microsoft Outlook's calendar …
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Internet Stocks on SeekingAlpha:
eBay Inc. Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (EBAY) — Executives — Analysts — Heath Terry - Credit Suisse First Boston — Christa Sober Quarles - Thomas Weisel Partners — Presentation — Operator — Please stand by, we are about to begin.
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Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music — You can buy a personalized version of the new Jessica Simpson song "A Public Affair" from Yahoo! Music's Web Site (Music.Yahoo.com) for $1.99, and it's an MP3. Dear digital consumer, even if you're not into Jessica Simpson …
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
AT&T launches box with Web, satellite — NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. is launching a satellite TV set-top box Wednesday that also connects to the Internet for movie downloads, reinforcing the phone company's push into video services. — The box, called AT&T Homezone, will be initially available …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Weak Sales of Text Ads at Yahoo; Shares Dip — Shares of Yahoo fell to their lowest level in nearly two years in after-hours trading yesterday as it reported weak revenue from Internet search advertising in the second quarter and a delay in a critical project that is meant to increase search revenue.
