THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
April 27, 2009 -- 3:00 p.m.
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More companies are using blogs and "tweets" to communicate with investors and customers, but risk running afoul of SEC regulations.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124078135070257099.html#mod=djemTECH
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What will the energy-efficient house of the future look like? The Journal asked four architects to design an energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living. - Podcast: Deploying Smart Meters - Video: Converting Tides Into Power - Managing Power on a "Smart Grid" - See the full report
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124050414436548553.html#mod=djemTECH
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Best Buy is rapidly expanding its private-label electronics business in a gamble to gain a key competitive advantage over rivals.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124078866665357525.html#mod=djemTECH
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Verizon's profit rose 5.3% as its wireless operations helped shake off broader economic woes and competition from the iPhone. - Digits: Verizon Says No News on iPhone, Netbooks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124082748427758659.html#mod=djemTECH
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Qualcomm swung to a fiscal second-quarter loss due to a $748 million charge for its settlement of a patent-and-licensing dispute with rival chip maker Broadcom.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124083084988858961.html#mod=djemTECH
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As Owen Van Natta sets out to turn around MySpace, he can draw on his vast Internet experience, but the job poses a challenge unlike any he has seen.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124079151348557791.html#mod=djemTECH
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Facebook is expected to open up core parts of its site to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124078628311057281.html#mod=djemTECH
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Sharp reported a fiscal-year net loss of $1.3 billion, the Japanese electronics firm's first annual loss in more than 50 years.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124081409323458625.html#mod=djemTECH
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NEC Electronics will consider a merger with Renesas, which would form the world's No. 3 chip maker from the two Japanese firms.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124082361063858731.html#mod=djemTECH
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The U.K. dropped a plan to set up a central database of phone and Internet traffic, a proposal civil liberties groups had condemned as an invasion of privacy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124083913946759221.html#mod=djemTECH
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Memory chips appear to have hit the bottom of their business cycle, an important signal for the broader semiconductor industry.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124078047367057055.html#mod=djemTECH
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A unit of Intelsat has signed what is believed to be the first major deal reserving long-term capacity on a commercial satellite for a government customer.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124080455789258461.html#mod=djemTECH
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Qualcomm said it agreed to pay $891 million to Broadcom over four years, as part of a settlement of a series of bitter legal disputes between the two chip makers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124079729503758125.html#mod=djemTECH
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Harbinger's Falcone is moving ahead with a multibillion-dollar plan to build a satellite-cellphone business.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124078816346257439.html#mod=djemTECH
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AT&T is coming under scrutiny from lawmakers for using behavioral data on consumers for targeting ads.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124079233996457837.html#mod=djemTECH
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From the BizTech Blog
Verizon Says No News on iPhone, Netbooks
Verizon had plenty to talk about on this morning's earnings call -- wireless subscribers, the Alltel integration, its fiber-optic business FiOS -- so you have to feel for its executives when the first analyst in the Q&A asks about the iPhone.
See Full Post: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/27/verizon-says-no-news-on-iphone-netbooks/#mod=djemTECH
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Moot, 4chan Founder, Takes Time 100 Poll
The twentysomething founder of 4chan.org won Time's title of "World's Most Influential Person" despite accusations that the meme site's fans hacked the online poll.
See Full Post: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/27/moot-4chan-founder-takes-time-100-poll/#mod=djemTECH
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SAP and Teradata Punch Back at Oracle
SAP and Teradata plan to announce Monday a joint effort to make the German company's software work better with Teradata's database systems, the latest example of tech companies combining hardware and software.
See Full Post: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/27/sap-and-teradata-punch-back-at-oracle/#mod=djemTECH
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All Things Digital
Latest Posts
- Ad Giant Omnicom: Stimulus Spending Could Boost Media By End Of the Year
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090427/ad-giant-omnicom-stimulus-spending-could-boost-media-end-of-the-year/?reflink=ATD_wsj_quotes#mod=djemTECH
- Verizon: Look Ma! No iPhone!
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090427/verizon-look-ma-no-iphone/?reflink=ATD_wsj_quotes#mod=djemTECH
- MySpace Musical Chairs: Jason Hirschhorn Also In as Chief Product Officer
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090427/myspace-musical-chairs-jason-hirschhorn-also-in-at-myspace-as-chief-product-officer/?reflink=ATD_wsj_quotes#mod=djemTECH
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TECHNOLOGY VIDEOS
Dell's inexpensive mobile printer Wasabi makes it easy and fun to print on the go. Stacey Delo reports.
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