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.
Outgoing Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie, who joined the company in 2005 when his company Groove was acquired, sent out his farewell memo yesterday. "It's important that all of us do precisely what our competitors and MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 26, 2010 5:48 AM ET
Entrepreneur Eric Garland thinks he has a better music chart. His secret? Tweets, status updates, and web chatter.
By Steve Knopper, contributor
Before the rise of online radio station Pandora and music video sites such as Vevo -- and years before Apple (AAPL) launched its iTunes music store -- Eric Garland reckoned that the Internet was going to transform the music industry. Back in 2000, when a lot of online listening activity MORE
Fortune - Oct 26, 2010 3:00 AM ET
"The only bits that matter," says Lockheed91, who created this YouTube video.
There's an odd beauty in an Apple (AAPL) event when it's condensed 50 to 1.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 25, 2010 3:32 PM ET
With state and local governments in a tax crunch, small towns often don't have the resources they need to provide -- in a traditional way, at least -- the services they must offer their residents. Here's how the cloud can help.
By John F. Moore, contributor
As founder of The Lab I have the opportunity to work in multiple roles in Government 2.0. As I wrote in my last article, It's time MORE
Oct 25, 2010 3:14 PM ET
As a $149 add-on to the Logitech Revue GoogleTV, the HD camera makes the device a whole new product.
I'm not done putting the Logitech Revue unit through its paces for a full review, but as a standalone product, the Logitech Revue's HD camera is a really compelling offer. I've spent the last few days getting friends and family up on Logitech's Vid HD software for PC and Mac to test this thing MORE
Seth Weintraub - Oct 25, 2010 1:04 PM ET
Despite Apple's gains, Microsoft dominates the World Wide Web
Source: Net Market Share
"There's no evidence that the marketplace is abandoning Windows to any significant degree."
So wrote ZDNet Windows guru Ed Bott in a blog post Sunday that's getting some attention today. Bott went looking for data to support the widespread impression that Apple (AAPL) is gaining on Microsoft (MSFT). Using data from Net Market Share, which tracks what devices are MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 25, 2010 11:12 AM ET
Samsung calls the press to gather in New York in two weeks to announce a new Android product, likely to be available for the holidays.
Image from Samsung email
Update: On second thought, the ticker seems to indicate that Samsung is going to update its Galaxy S line with a new product called Continuum.
I'm not sure what they have in mind but my bet is that Samsung is MORE
Seth Weintraub - Oct 25, 2010 11:09 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 weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Photo: Leon Neal/AFP
Controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's latest actions -- releasing nearly 400,000 classified documents from the Iraq war -- hasn't gone over well with the chairman of the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 25, 2010 6:45 AM ET
After spending four years in court, the tech banker is back with a new firm and a string of big deals.
By Mina Kimes, writer
Forget Gordon Gekko: The biggest comeback kid of 2010 is Frank Quattrone. The star technology banker, who spent years battling charges that he improperly handed out IPO shares in exchange for business, suddenly seems to have his hand in every big deal in Silicon Valley. His new MORE
Oct 25, 2010 3:00 AM ET
Melinda Gates. Image via Wikipedia
Apparently the charity of the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation does not extend to Apple (AAPL). From the Sunday, Oct. 24, issue of the New York Times Magazine:
Do you own an iPod, which is made by Apple? No, I have a Zune.
What if one of your children says, "Mom, I have to have an iPod"? I have gotten that argument -- "You MORE
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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