Archive for September 29th, 2008

‘60 Minutes’: Inside the Collider

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Correspondent Steve Kroft offers an up-close look at the Large Hadron Collider, a massive scientific endeavor investigating how the universe began.

Analysts: Google Maps wins, rivals ’stagnate’

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Cowen and Co. argues that Google Maps surpasses rivals in features and will help give the company dominant mobile search share.

Apple shares drop 17.5 percent

Monday, September 29th, 2008

The company’s shares experience a sharp dropoff in early morning trading, after Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets downgrade the stock.

Yahoo joins Google in defending ad deal

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Google has already launched a fusillade of blog posts and other commentary to defend its search-ad deal with Yahoo. Now Yahoo is following suit.

Ballmer on mobile: Apple will lose and we’ll win because ‘we’re separatists’

Monday, September 29th, 2008

CEO Steve Ballmer has fighting words for Apple, but he keeps forgetting the party line, probably because it keeps changing.

Facebook hires D.C. lawyer as general counsel

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Ted Ullyot has worked for the White House, a billion-dollar hedge fund, and AOL. Like just about everyone else at Facebook, he went to Harvard, too.

SpaceX orbits success with Falcon 1

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Privately developed rocket has been launched into space and has begun orbiting Earth, a success that comes after three previous failures.

What Oracle didn’t say at OpenWorld

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Oracle didn’t have much to say at its annual OpenWorld conference, and that may be the point.

AOL’s DigitalCity goes after Gawker crowd

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Taking the name of a dial-up-era AOL brand, the new blog aims for “a local slant, but global appeal.” Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work, at least not yet.

Visual Studio 2010 to come with ‘black box’

Monday, September 29th, 2008

The next Microsoft developer tool suite is set to offer a TiVo-like feature for testers, giving programmers video reproductions of their software bugs.