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Michael Phelps Source: Reuters BEIJING — U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps is not only the hottest competitor in the pool in the first week of the Beijing Olympics but also the athlete causing the biggest buzz online. An analysis of online discussions on blogs and message boards by market researcher Nielsen Online found Phelps, 23, was […]

Lin Miaoke. Source: Reuters BEIJING — Bloggers were fuming on Wednesday over China’s decision at the Olympic opening ceremony to have a pretty little girl lip-synching for the real singer who had crooked teeth. Many said they felt cheated because one of the most touching moments of the critically acclaimed ceremony was not the real […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in the process of approving the appointments of former Viacom (NYSE: VIA) CEO Frank Biondi and former Nextel Partners CEO John Chapple to its board and is expected to name the appointees by Friday, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The appointments are not yet final but likely, […]

Source: Reuters Best Buy will be the first national retailer to sell Apple’s iPhone in the United States in a partnership that could help drive sales of a device expected to be one of the hottest gadgets this holiday season. Best Buy, the leading U.S. electronics chain, will announce on Wednesday that it will sell […]

Intel, the world’s biggest computer chipmaker, is comfortable with its forecast for revenue in the current third quarter in spite of the continued macroeconomic woes, its CFO said on Tuesday. Asked if he was OK with Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) forecast for third-quarter revenue of $10.0 to $10.6 billion, CFO Stacy Smith told Reuters: “Of course […]

Source: Reuters U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co. on Monday said it appealed a recent court ruling that found eBay was not responsible for policing fake Tiffany jewelry sold on its Web site. Tiffany (NYSE: TIF) filed the appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, it said in a statement. “Tiffany’s […]

Liberty Media Chairman John MaloneSource: Reuters Liberty Media Corp. would be open to discussing a deal to swap its stake in Time Warner for the media conglomerate’s AOL dial-up Internet business, Liberty Chairman John Malone said on Monday. Although the opportunity for such discussions has yet to arise, Malone said Liberty Capital, which holds passive […]

Amazon Kindle Citigroup said on Monday that Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle electronic book reader appears to be selling much better than expected and could double a previous estimate for units sold this year, sending shares in the online retailer up 9 percent. With few cool new gadgets expected on the market, the Kindle could be […]

Motorola LANPlannerwww.motorola.com Price: $12,000Pros:   Wizards greatly simplify RF network design, easy prediction and visualizationCons:   Somewhat awkward site survey, no work order or AP config generation   As enterprises roll out 802.11n, most will make hefty infrastructure investments. Skilled carpenters always “measure twice, cut once.” This conventional wisdom also applies to WLANs, where poor planning so […]

Source: Reuters For the first time, Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry cornered 10 percent of U.S. mobile phone sales in the second quarter in a market that grew more than 5 percent despite economic concerns, Strategy Analytics said on Monday. The research firm said Canada’s RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) was seeing huge success with both consumer […]

In the month since Apple opened the App Store, an online software clearinghouse, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone, CEO Steve Jobs told The Wall Street Journal in an interview. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million […]

Source: Reuters Microsoft’s Zune is looking to Hollywood to gain an edge on Apple’s iPod. Microsoft executives have been making the rounds at talent agencies and production companies in recent months in hopes of licensing exclusive original video programming for the portable media player, which has struggled to gain traction in the marketplace. While Microsoft […]