Christopher Saunders

eBay cut its full-year revenue forecast as its online auctions business slows down, sending its shares down 6.3 percent. The stock decline in after-hours trade extended a 14 percent drop in the regular session on Wednesday, fueled by investor fears that the company would be hit hard by a global recession. “It’s really the guidance […]

Motorola, the world’s third-biggest phone maker, unveiled a touch-sensitive phone to be sold by Verizon Wireless, as both companies look to compete with Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. Motorola, (NYSE: MOT) which has been losing ground in the mobile phone market as it has failed to come up with a hit phone to replace its once-lauded […]

A new report by the Federal Communications Commission is challenging opposition to a plan that lays the groundwork for free, nationwide wireless broadband. As with a number of soon-to-be-vacant portions of wireless spectrum, the spectrum — also known as Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) in the 2155-2175 MHz band, or AWS-3 — has become a battleground. […]

A conversation I had this weekend with the head of a branding and creative agency here in the city got me thinking. How well is Linux positioned to convince users at the small business or consumer levels to switch? That’s right. I’m talking about the other “Switch” here — not the Windows-to-Mac one. I mean […]

YouTube Hot Spots. Source: Google I noted with interest Google’s latest addition to YouTube: a new feature for video uploaders called “Hot Spots”. Here’s the gist: When viewing a clip’s stats through the seven-month-old Insight tool, an uploader can now identify the most popular parts of their video. From Google: > We determine “hot” and “cold” […]

Source: Reuters A security hole in Adobe Systems’ software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com’s video streaming service. The problem exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining […]

NEW YORK — Media, technology and networking giants are teaming up to tackle what they call key problems with digital content distribution. Calling themselves Arts+Labs, the coalition counts major stakeholders in content distribution and creation — including Viacom, NBC Universal and the Songwriters Guild of America (SGA) — as well as networking titans AT&T and […]

Comcast has provided U.S. regulators details of how it plans to change the way it manages Web traffic over its high speed Internet network without blocking any applications or content. The move comes after the Federal Communications Commission voted last month to uphold a complaint that Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) had violated the regulator’s open-Internet principles […]

Apple CEO Steve JobsSource: Reuters  SAN FRANCISCO — Apple CEO Steve Jobs poked fun at reports of his poor health on Tuesday as he introduced new iPod nano and Touch music players. Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) fell more than 3 percent during the presentation, as frequently happens during eagerly anticipated product launches by the […]

NetSuite is first out of the box in support of Google Chrome — and in support of the surge of buzz around the much-discussed, variously (depending on where you look) Firefox-killing, IE-killing, paradigm-killing browser. Yes, the SMB and enterprise SaaS vendor released a statement today pledging that its wares are “Optimized with Google Chrome Browser.” […]

From the Google Chrome announcement Well, I’m sold. With all due respect to the Firefox crew, I’ve been hoping and waiting for more attention to be given to the problem of slowdowns after long periods of use. And even with Version 3 of Firefox now in fairly wide use, I’ve yet to see dramatic improvement. […]

NEW YORK — This week marked the commencement of the U.S. Open, and those here in the New York area not exhausted by Olympimania have two weeks of top-notch tennis to look forward to. Yes, we’re already seeing great things from perennial heroes like four-time U.S. Open champion Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal, fresh off […]