Between the Lines

“The first part of fixing a problem is admitting the problem. At AOL we have a big F-ing problem,” says Brad Garlinghouse, president of consumer applications at AOL.

A report today says that a Facebook is in no rush to go public and that an IPO likely won’t come until 2012.

A new study of the iPhone 4’s antenna problems revealed that the issues are unique to the iPhone 4

Amazon unveiled the Kindle 3 this week with a few minor improvements and a much better price tag. But do customers still want dedicated e-readers? Take the poll.

Comcast is determined to get “anytime, anywhere television” right and the NBC Universal acquisition is designed to accelerate the application of innovation without worrying about negotiating friction between distribution and content partners.

Microsoft at its financial analyst meeting made the case for being a cloud computing leader and argued that its economic prospects will improve as information technology shifts to an on-demand model.

Using fluorescent dyes and a simple ultraviolet flashlight, Ellen Beaulieu, a medicinal chemist at SRI International has created a test to detect parasitic infections in human beings.

Intel today won a key ruling in an antitrust case when a Delaware court rejected the request to grant the case class action status, according to reports.
Intel is accused of wrongfully offering discounts to manufacturers, which led to inflated prices. But the court said that the plaintiffs could not show that consumers were harmed by [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave analysts a glimpse at the software giant’s marketing around Windows Phone 7. The plan: Let Windows Phone 7 ride shotgun with Windows 7. The punchline: “I’m a phone too.”

Real Networks’ second-quarter loss was narrowed but the company, which is in the midst of a restructuring, still missed Wall Street’s estimates.

A day after Symantec’s earnings bombed, smaller rival McAfee reported a mixed second quarter and acquired a mobile security firm, tenCube.

Coinstar says the DVD business is continuing to grow and, as such, it has raised its financial forecast for the rest of the year and announced the addition of Blu-Ray disks to its Redbox DVD rental kiosks

The Department of Justice has sued Oracle for defrauding the government out of “hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.”

YouTube is upping its game - and video time limits - for non-partner customwers.

Microsoft’s operating chief Kevin Turner set out to position the software giant as a cloud computing leader with a broad portfolio that rivals such as Google, Salesforce.com, Amazon and VMware can’t match.

Best Buy and Clearwire are teaming up to offer 4G connectivity beginning in 2011.

Android now has over 70,000 apps to choose from. TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner shows you 25 of the best ones to download.

IBM has acquired Storwize, a privately held company that focuses on data compression.

Citrix reported a better-than-expected second quarter in part because of its XenDesktop virtualization software.

Motorola reported a better-than-expected second quarter and said its enterprise mobility business did well. The company also said that it expects to gain smartphone market share with the Droid X launch.