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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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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.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever. — Skype ruffled some feathers in the internet telephony world earlier this year when they announced they'd be offering free SkypeOut calls to the US and Canada for the rest of 2006. We weren't too interested since it came off …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Voice, Now Nearly Free — First it was Skype, then came Jajah, and now it is the turn of Gizmo Project to offer almost free voice calls to the old PSTN numbers. We are seeing the price of plain vanilla voice collapse to almost zero. (Some argue, with Skype to Skype calling, those prices are already zero.)
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 …
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.
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.
Associated Press:
EU: Town Can't Build Fiber-Optic Network — AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The European Commission on Wednesday banned a small Dutch town from building its own fiber-optic network, saying the plan would be unfair to broadband companies - a decision with potentially far-reaching consequences.
Dana Gardner / Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect:
PodShow attaches business podcasts to new AIM Pro — but at what cost to the businesses? — There's nothing like hitching a ride on a partner's voluminous installed base to get a new product or service into the market fast. Looks like that's what PodShow has done by hooking up with AOL and its new AIM Pro offering announced today.
