And who are the peers in this group, besides the usual suspects of archrival Advanced Micro Devices, a range of computer makers, and software companies? Add to the mix Coca-Cola, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Safeway, Bank of America, and a host of others.

Otellini’s total compensation package clocked in at $12.1 million last year, up from $5.9 [...]

2. Blu-ray is best on a big-screen TV: Can you see the difference between standard DVD and Blu-ray? Yes–but it may not be as noticeable as you would think. Like all high-definition material, Blu-ray discs look their most-impressive at bigger screen sizes, where DVD can sometimes start to look a bit soft. Put another way: [...]

The partnership also allows for Yahoo to sell display ads on CNET properties and for CNET to sell ads alongside the content it provides on Yahoo sites.
CNET Networks, News.com’s parent company, on Thursday announced a three-year strategic partnership with Yahoo under which CNET will be a third-party content provider of technology news and reviews.
The [...]

Icahn, at the time he filed his preliminary proxy, said he felt the current Yahoo board acted “irrationally” when it did not accept Microsoft’s sweetened buyout bid of $33 a share. Microsoft later withdrew its buyout bid and Icahn filed his proxy slate days later.

The shareholders are asking a Delaware Chancery Court to invalidate [...]

This is my first trip overseas with my
iPhone, and it’s hard to express in polite language how disappointed I am with Apple’s international data roaming packages. I say “Apple’s” instead of “AT&T’s” because with my old Blackberry on AT&T I didn’t have the problem, so I’m laying the blame at Apple’s feet.
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I love my iPhone, [...]

Sounds like a bullseye to me. It will be interesting to see whether Fried will try to rein in the free-wheeling IT culture that Merrill espoused. I somehow doubt that he’ll have much of a choice.
I imagine he’ll have a lot of fun along the way. Google strikes me as a company that does IT [...]

www.LinuxWorldExpo.com: Microsoft JScript runtime error ‘800a138f’ ‘brandGlobalXML.selectSingleNode(…)’ is null or not an object /live/template1.asp, line 42
I had to laugh when this error came up today when accessing LinuxWorld’s website:
To be fair, it’s just a conference company that organizes a wide range of conferences, not all of them focused on open source. Indeed, IDG also [...]

Microsoft declined to comment on why any particular companies might not be on the list. Representatives from Oracle and Google also declined to comment.

The most vocal about not being on that list, hands down, is Red Hat. The Linux seller has been adamant in resisting Microsoft’s idea of a “patent bridge” in which commercial open-source [...]

Foley cites Internet Explorer’s shortcomings as a primary driver for Firefox’s growth, and there’s certainly something to this. But in my experience, Firefox grows because it is simply a better browser. Period. People hear about it via word of mouth. Or people like me install it for our grandmothers and parents to save them from [...]

In the post-label world, who funds these recordings? Peter Spellman, director of career development at the Berklee School of Music, explores three fan-funded (or “crowdfunding”) options in a blog posting on KnowTheMusicBiz.com.

Sure, you can get an decent recording with a portable stereo recorder, or a couple of inexpensive mics panned left and right and [...]