Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Comcast lost 275,000 basic cable subscribers during the company's third quarter, attributing the loss to the economy, the housing crunch and competition. Despite that, the company reported third quarter revenues of $5.91 billion, up 7% from a year MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 28, 2010 6:00 AM ET
How does an Android 2.1 Qwerty slider with unlimited texts and Internet for $25/month after taxes sound to you?
Samsung USA
Virgin Mobile offers the best smartphone plan I've ever seen...by a long shot. If you pay the full price ($249) for a cheaper Samsung Intercept phone, you can jump on Virgin Mobile's $25/month everything pre-paid with 300 anytime minutes. The plan comes with Unlimited Messaging, Email & Web.
Yep, that's it. MORE
Seth Weintraub - Oct 27, 2010 3:29 PM ET
The latest act between the feuding companies is just as baffling as the preceding ones. What exactly does Larry Ellison have up his sleeve?
"Larry Ellison does everything he does for a reason."
Leo Apotheker starts his new job at HP on Monday.
That's what someone who knows Ellison but didn't know his intentions said to me the day the Oracle CEO wrote an inflammatory email to the New York Times, mocking MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Oct 27, 2010 2:49 PM ET
Whether or not the redesign turns the social network around, analysts and design experts seem to agree it's a step in the right direction.
The MySpace homepage.
When MySpace unveiled its radically different logo at the Warm Gun Design conference in San Francisco two weeks ago, the media -- Fortune, included -- scratched their heads. Was the struggling social network off its rocker?
As it would turn out, yes, but in MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 27, 2010 1:13 PM ET
T-Mobile announced that it would sell Samsung's Galaxy Tab on November 10th, starting at $399 with a data plan.
T-Mobile announced this morning that it will be the first U.S. carrier to carry the Samsung Galaxy Tab in the U.S., unless AT&T (T) announces an earlier ship date in the next week or so.
The November 10th ship date beats rival Verizon (VZ) by a day.
T-Mobile will sell the Tab for $399 MORE
Seth Weintraub - Oct 27, 2010 1:12 PM ET
A report today says that Google is in the final stages of acquiring the huge building which it currently rents in Chelsea.
111 8th Ave. via 1118thave.com
The New York Post is reporting that Google is close to acquiring the 111 8th Ave. building it currently rents for approximately $2 billion. The 18-story Chelsea giant is almost three million square feet of space and covers an entire city block, between Eighth and MORE
Seth Weintraub - Oct 27, 2010 11:08 AM ET
Its Maiden, N.C., data center, said to be doubling in size, is still not visible on Google Maps
6081 Startown Rd., Maiden. NC. Source: Googe Maps
How is that the only photographic evidence that Apple (AAPL) is building a giant data center in western North Carolina is a video fly-over shot eight months ago by a Charlotte real estate agent and a snapshot that appeared in the Hickory Daily Record three MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 27, 2010 11:01 AM ET
The quality gap between wired and wireless phones is about to disappear.
Can you call me back on my landline?
The amazing quality improvement in cell phones can be measured in a number of different ways: the explosion of useful and fun apps, the bazillion-megapixel cameras, the museum-quality industrial design that makes hiding the phones in holster feel like a crime. All of which highlights one area where the phones have MORE
Scott Woolley - Oct 27, 2010 10:55 AM ET
The move, similar to its Android phone practice, would bring more developers on board.
"You get a GoogleTV!" Copyright Harpo Productions
Google gave away 3,000 GoogleTVs yesterday at the AdobeMAX (ADBE) conference. The search giant plans on distributing 10,000 GoogleTVs overall in the coming months, according to a post on Google's Code blog. At least 2,500 of those are going to be given away to developers who submit an interesting website idea MORE
Seth Weintraub - Oct 27, 2010 8:49 AM ET
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"Street View, we drive exactly once. So, you can just move, right?" -- Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when asked about Street View (Fortune Tech)
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says he has proof that new MORE
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.86% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.26 | -0.48 | -3.75% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.22 | -0.25 | -5.59% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.62 | -0.75 | -3.33% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.59 | -0.24 | -1.21% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
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| Dow | 12,663.49 | -71.14 | -0.56% |
| Nasdaq | 2,812.82 | 7.54 | 0.27% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.83 | -2.60 | -0.20% |
| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.09% |
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