Someone must have lit a fire under Apple's (AAPL) App Store review staff last week.
Having drifted along for much of September, approving as few as 58 new apps on a single day, the staff green lighted "an avalance of apps" on Friday according to AppShopper.com. A total of 1,394 new applications were approved that day, 302 of them games.
AppShopper doesn't say whether Friday's haul set a new record, although that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 22, 2009 7:34 AM ET
Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison doesn't expect the U.S. economy to significantly improve until halfway through the next decade – a gloomy scenario he dubbed an L-shaped recovery.
"The American consumer is so deeply in debt, this is not going to come back, certainly for five years," he told a packed ballroom at a Churchill Club event in San Jose. "I believe we're going through some fundamental changes."
Jon Fortt - Sep 22, 2009 6:30 AM ET
Who'll win over consumers this holiday season? We test-drive the newest netbooks and notebooks.
This Christmas expect small computer overload -- so many options, so little time (and money). All the major computer manufacturers are coming out with lightweight 'net-connected laptops, and they're banking on big sales: The researchers at IDC expect some 160 million notebook computers to sell worldwide by the end of the year.
But which company will come out MORE
Kim Thai, contributor - Sep 22, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) is up, as are Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) and to a lesser extent Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry.
Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL) and Yahoo (YHOO) are down.
Such are the high-tech highlights of the 2009 edition of Interbrand's annual listing of the top 100 "best global brands."
Google (up 25%) is the big winner, followed closely by Amazon (up 22%). Dell (down 12%) was the biggest loser.
Apple, whose name is now MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 21, 2009 11:16 AM ET
How does your favorite film stack up among Netflix users?
Here are some findings about Netflix (NFLX) members' viewing habits, culled from the Netflix dataset and from data crunching by Netflix Prize contestants: (Read more about the prize and its winners.)
"Battlefield Earth," Travolta's bomb, according to Netflix subscribers. Photo: Warner Brothers
10 Most hated movies (per analysis by Netflix Prize contestant Benji Smith)
The Stepford Wives
Gigli
Full Frontal
Solaris
Birth
Sky Captain and the World MORE
How To Recommend Movies (and Win $1 million)
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
It was like the machine learning world's version of "American Idol" Monday in New York: A seven-man multinational group dubbed BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos was awarded $1 million by Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings as the winners of the Netflix Prize.
Cooked up three years ago by Hastings, the Netflix Prize challenged all comers to improve the recommendation technology used by MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Sep 21, 2009 10:15 AM ET
Cibus Global uses bioscience to enhance plant genes with a different approach than agribusiness giants.
Enhanced crops, without fear. Photo: Cibus
Israeli crop-protection company Makhteshim-Agan is investing $37 million in San Diego ag-tech startup Cibus Global to spur the development of new strains of crops that will be resistant to various forms of disease, pests, and herbicides.
The investment, which will occur over five years and will eventually allow the Israeli company MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Sep 21, 2009 7:05 AM ET
Apple's Schiller and Microsoft's Turner. Photos: Apple, Microsoft
Apple (AAPL) is awesome. Microsoft (MSFT) is muscular. Apple execs speaks in adjectives; Microsoft's in gerunds. Cupertino wants to show us how cool its products are, and how easy-to-use. Redmond wants us to know how hard it's going to compete to grow its market share.
That's the take-away message from the pair of videos pasted below the fold.
The first -- Apple's Sept. 9 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 20, 2009 12:16 PM ET
Apple's Schiller and Google's Eustace
In the letter to the FCC that Google (GOOG) released Friday -- the one that flatly contradicts the story Apple (AAPL) told the government -- there's an interesting timeline of events.
At the heart of the case, for those who haven't been following every twist and turn, is an application called Google Voice that Google had been trying since June to get onto the iPhone App MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 19, 2009 10:48 AM ET
Image: FCC
"Contrary to published reports," Apple (AAPL) told the FCC back in August in response to a government inquiry about why it rejected Google's (GOOG) famous voice management app. "Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it." (link)
What Google had to say about that was unknown because unlike Apple, which made public its response, Google asked that key portions of its letter to the MORE
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