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Intel's 2Q earnings jump 16 percent
Jul 19 2005 10:59PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Intel Corp.'s second-quarter earnings grew 16 percent and sales jumped to a record $9.23 billion Tuesday as the world's largest chip maker continued to profit from the rising popularity of notebook computers and growth in emerging markets.
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Cell phone sales to reach 779M this year
Jul 19 2005 8:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Global sales of cell phones will reach nearly 800 million this year, and the annual tally will surpass 1 billion in 2009 though market growth will soon slow sharply, the research firm Gartner Inc. says in a new forecast.
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Blinkx offers TV, radio program searches
Jul 19 2005 8:44PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Search company Blinkx launched a free service on Tuesday that scans radio and television programs available on the Internet and automatically delivers the shows to a user's computer.
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Ex-Microsoft exec sued over Google job
Jul 19 2005 8:44PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. sued Google Inc. on Tuesday, accusing it of poaching a top executive the search engine company had wooed away to head a new research lab in China.
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Yahoo's 2Q profit up more than sixfold
Jul 19 2005 8:43PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc.'s second-quarter profit increased more than six-fold as the owner of the Internet's most popular Web site cashed in on a hefty investment gain and continued to parlay its expanding audience into an advertising bonanza.
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UC systems offering music, movie downloads
Jul 19 2005 12:55PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The University of California and California State University systems have struck deals to offer their students legal music and movie downloading services to curb rampant piracy.
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Golden Tee video golf game scores fans
Jul 19 2005 11:31AM (CT)
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Art Chernobrov peers down a blazing green fairway, his brow furrowed in concentration, feet slightly staggered, and lets rip.
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Gates puzzled by computer science apathy
Jul 19 2005 11:24AM (CT)
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Speaking to hundreds of university professors, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says he's baffled more students don't go into computer science.
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Snap.com plans to combat 'click fraud'
Jul 19 2005 11:21AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - People scoffed nearly a decade ago when serial entrepreneur Bill Gross proposed an online search engine that ranked results based on how much advertisers were willing to pay to have their links tied to specific requests.
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Video game sex hack puts focus on ratings
Jul 19 2005 7:49AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Shooting. Killing. Vehicular mayhem. Sexual conquests. Teenagers can experience it all through today's almost-anything-goes breed of video games, primarily among those rated "M" for mature.
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