After announcing last week that the company expects rather unattractive fourth-quarter results, Intel scheduled its usual fourth-quarter earnings call for 5:30 pm EST Thursday. CEO Paul Otellini, CFO Stacy Smith, and finance and enterprise services VP Kevin Sellers were on the call.

The company has continued to review its numbers since the January 7 announcement, which said that Intel expects revenues of around $8.2 billion, which is down 23 percent year-over-year and 20 percent sequentially. (Make that 19 percent post-call. -- AG.) Betanews liveblogged the call, below the jump.

The current FCC is not going gentle into that Dubya night -- not with the DTV switchover looming on February 17. And reading between the lines of a letter sent Wednesday from FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell to outgoing FCC chair Kevin Martin, we suspect that Julius Genachowski has more than just technical issues to smooth when he takes over Martin's job. (And considering what usually passes for forthright discourse in DC, Martin may want an icepack for his tuchis, to take the sting off those footprints. It's quite the letter.)

McDowell expands on things said at Saturday's panel of FCC commissioners, which Betanews brought to you from CES. Martin also spoke in a separate event on Saturday, and we liveblogged that conversation for you. The letter in its entirety:

The WebOSArena blog is reporting that, for the first 60 days of the Palm Pre's availability, Best Buy will be the exclusive retailer for the new device, launched by Palm at CES last week.

Citing an unnamed "credible source" for its information, the blog notes that the Palm Pre will also be sold directly by Sprint.

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With sales of its mobile phones falling, Motorola announced on Wednesday that it will cut another 4,000 jobs and incur a fourth-quarter loss.

Faced with intensifying competition from Apple's iPhone, HTC's Android-based G1, and other mobile phones in a slowing economy, Motorola has undergone shrinking demand for its own handsets.

In a very different business climate from last year, Google's classic strategy of firing up all burners evenly to see what projects cook first, may have abruptly ended this morning.

In a manner atypical of Google, which usually deposits its resources in a central location, it was left to every department affected by an apparent round of severe budget cutbacks to relay the bad news today on its respective blog. Google referred Betanews this morning to those individual statements, in lieu of a larger corporate comment.

Could the current financial crunch push back additional WiMAX deployments to 2010, the same time frame projected earlier for LTE, the 4G network adopted by AT&T and Verizon Wireless? That's what one analyst group said this week.

"Mobile WiMAX revenues were very strong in the third quarter of last year, and we anticipate revenue for the fourth quarter to hit another record," according to Scott Siegler, senior analyst of mobile infrastructure research at Dell'Oro Group. "However, as we look into 2009, we expect the WiMAX market to be hit rather hard by the economic downturn."

Microsoft showed off developments on Windows Media Center last week at CES. Despite the Ballmer bluster, despite the inexorable march of Microsoft to seize control of all your screens, something important needs to be said.

Specifically: Not bad, Microsoft.

In the RIAA's copyright infringement suit against Joel Tenebaum, the defendant's legal council moved to have the January 22 hearing broadcast online via the Courtroom View Network (CVN). Believing the hearing falls squarely within the public interest, especially given the captivation the "Internet Generation" has for these sort of suits, Massachusetts District Court Judge Nancy Gertner approved the motion.

Further, Gertner found the RIAA's objection to the Webcast curious. "At previous hearings and status conferences, the Plaintiffs have represented that they initiated these lawsuits not because they believe they will identify every person illegally downloading copyrighted material. Rather, they believe that the lawsuits will deter the Defendants and the wider public from engaging in illegal file-sharing activities. Their strategy effectively relies on the publicity resulting from this litigation (though it is possible they have changed their minds about the virtue of this strategy.)"

Apple clone-maker Psystar keeps scraping down deeper to the bottom of the barrel to turn up new claims in its Apple court battle, and its latest arguments seem at odds with its earlier attempts.

In a 17-page response to Apple filed last week in a San Francisco court, Psystar accuses Apple of violating the US Copyright Act by trying to prevent it from reselling the Macintosh OS after buying copies of the software from Apple.

The Apple CEO's health problems are "more complex than [he] originally thought," so today, Tim Cook will be placed in control as Jobs takes a medical leave of absence.

Last Week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs released an uncharacteristic statement to the public regarding his health, and addressing speculation about why he would not be appearing at Macworld.

The deck chairs are being shuffled all over Washington this month, but some familiar net neutrality legislation may be brought up once again. This time, one of the nation's biggest content providers is ready to face it down.

Perhaps the entire success of CE manufacturers' plans to endow their HDTV displays with built-in IPTV channels, linked directly to services such as Netflix through the Internet, is based on the notion that those displays will soon have faster access to less compressed, richer high-definition content than they do today. In fact, the content delivery networks (CDN) that enable movies and other high-bandwidth content to appear faster, if at all, are looking at ways to engineer the Internet itself to reduce the number of hops required to deliver items such as movies.

Sierra Wireless, makers of 3G wireless modems for all major U.S. mobile operators has made a cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of wireless CPU and embedded technology maker Wavecom.

Wavecom is an international company headquartered in France with a specialty in machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The company's technology is found in applications such as automotive telematics, fleet management, GSM/GPS/satellite tracking, wireless alarms, wireless POS (point of sales), WLL (fixed voice), and remote monitoring.

Click here to see a slideshow of LG Skyscraper

When LG showed off the Skycharger last week, your reporter was within earshot of two other press folk. All three saw the same huge device -- and each had an utterly different idea about what to do with a 104-port charger in a tent.

Microsoft has provided a select group of testers early access to an alpha of Office 14 server technologies. With the recent release of Windows 7 in beta, many have begun to look for a beta of the next suite of Office products. There is currently no official word on when a first beta of Office 14 will be released. Alpha testers have reportedly been told to expect an updated release schedule later in the quarter, an initial beta release later in the year, and possibly even a full release by the end of 2009.