TiVo's 'best performance yet': almost breaking even
Though there have been rare exceptions, TiVo generally does not turn a profit. However, that is not to say the company cannot exceed expectations.
The DVR maker was projected to sustain a net loss of between $9 and $12 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, but in the end, net loss for the company was only $6.4 million. The result for the whole of last year was a loss of $31.5 million, a 34% improvement over the prior year's $47.7 million loss.
Is Silverlight 2 catching up with Flash?
As Adobe and Microsoft come out with new releases of their respective multimedia platforms, the debate rages on among developers over which is the most viable. And Flash's proponents are using Linux as their trump card.
One indisputable fact for now is that, while Flash works across both Windows and Linux, the same really can't be said for Silverlight. Moonlight, a free and open source edition of Silverlight, is still under development by the Mono Project, seemingly with no end in sight.
Steve Ballmer on Google, Yahoo, Apple and more
FROM MIX 08 - In his Thursday afternoon keynote at MIX, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down for a one-on-one chat with former Apple employee and Alltop co-founder Guy Kawasaki. We've condensed the discussion down to the key points.
- Current status of the Yahoo deal: "We've made an offer! It's out there baby."
New Yahoo service shares users' locations with online services
Fire Eagle is Yahoo's location-aware middleware, which ultimately lets users share their locations with online services, so those sites and applications can deliver results relevant to where they are.
Ten thousand invitation codes were sent out yesterday, in addition to the literal golden tickets given out to those present at Etech in San Diego. Yahoo hopes to entice developers to integrate Fire Eagle into their services to help make location-specific data readily accessible.
Vudu begins shipping 1TB box, updates system software
Vudu pushed an update to its platform this week which would allow for users to free up hard drive space by "storing" purchased movies on the company's own servers.
Known as the "Vault," it appears to merely allow for the customer to delete the movie from the set-top box's hard drive by flagging the movie as having been previously purchased from the Vudu servers.
Alienware counters HP's Blackbird with a quad-GPU monster
Today, Dell division Alienware announced its Area-51 ALX CrossFireX gaming desktop, a pricey quad GPU gaming PC that utilizes so many bleeding edge hardware features that it actually requires Windows Vista.
So much for the theory that frequency is dead in computing. One of the big selling points for Alienware's new Area-51 ALX CFX system, which premiered just today and is available now, is that customers should feel free to experiment with the 4.0 GHz barrier.
First new principles, now an interoperability initiative for OOXML
Microsoft wants to show that it's working really, really hard on adopting the principle of interoperability in its key software. To keep the rhythm flowing in its direction, it's building new alliances with software vendors.
A few days after the scheduled Ballot Resolution Meeting of ISO Standards Committee 34 has come to a close, Microsoft wants to leave a positive picture in the minds of members still considering their Office Open XML votes. That picture, it hopes, shows a company that is practically flogging itself over the interoperability issue.
Ask.com refocuses business to target core users
March 6, 2008 4:10pm - Ask.com sat down with BetaNews Thursday afternoon to publicly dispel some misunderstandings regarding Wednesday's news, as well as provide additional clarification on our original story.
Primary to this, Ask.com spokesman Nicholas Graham said that while Ask.com certainly does have a large female demographic, it was "not becoming a women's site." Rather, the new strategy going forward will pay closer attention to this group, while also attempting to expand it outside of this demographic.
New iPhone firmware, Exchange support, third-party software en route
Two of the Apple iPhone's biggest negatives were addressed on Thursday, as the Cupertino company announced both native third-party application and Exchange support.
Along with the new functionality, Apple also demonstrated a beta of the 2.0 release of the iPhones firmware, which incorporates the changes necessary for the new development platform.
Circuit City gives HD DVD buyers more time to return players
Saying it wants to take care of its customers, Circuit City announced Thursday that it would extend its standard 30-day return policy to 90 days for buyers of HD DVD players.
Toshiba disclosed last month it would stop producing HD DVD players, effectively ending the high-definition format war that it was waging against Sony for the past three years. Although early adopters of HD DVD knew there was a risk that Blu-ray would come out on top, it wasn't until January -- when Warner Bros. went Blu-ray exclusive -- that Sony gained the advantage.
MPA settles with Bejing Jeebo over movie piracy
A settlement has been reached with a Chinese company accused of providing cybercafes with copies of movies by MPA member studios.
Announced Thursday, the agreement was reached on February 28, and will settle any pending litigation. Five MPA member companies had filed complaints with the Shanghai No.2 Intermediate Court in September and December of last year.
New Mitsubishi displays will have built-in TV Guide
Establishing deals with practically every hardware manufacturer, Gemstar's program guides have already found their way onto millions of screens. Today's announcement just keeps up the pace.
Gemstar-TV Guide announced a multi-year licensing deal with Mitsubishi to build its Digital G-Guide interactive program guide (IPG) directly into new Televisions and DVRs in Japan. Gemstar claims that more than 20 million CE devices and personal computers in Japan use G-Guide.
Apple misses goal of 1,000 rentable movies on AppleTV
Adobe is not the only target of Steve Jobs' ire -- it appears movie studios are as well. The Apple CEO made clear in comments earlier this week he's unimpressed with progress in making videos available through iTunes.
While an exact count of the number of rentable movies has yet to be assessed, current estimates peg it at about 400 to 500. This is less than half the promised amount when Apple first announced its rental initiative at Macworld last January.
Intel CEO vows to overcome flash price meltdown
Intel now plans to move aggressively into new markets, to help offset the impact of major price drops in the NAND memory chips used in Apple iPods and other CE devices, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said on Wednesday.
The company is also re-assessing its level of investment in NAND, according to Otellini.
Google opens up Contacts API to help encourage collaboration
In a move to make its online applications more accessible to people who use collaboration tools -- especially with Outlook -- Google yesterday announced it's going to implement a little interoperability of its own.
Google yesterday announced that its Google Contacts Data API is available to developers.
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