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Microsoft Earnings And Future Looking Grim

January 23, 2009

Microsoft Corp is expected to miss internal revenue projections when their earnings come out tomorrow. Wall Street is looking for quarterly revenue of $17.1 billion, according to Reuters Estimates, short of Microsoft’s own target of $17.3 billion to $17.8 billion.With that, there is further confirmation that the rumors of Microsoft announcing job cuts tomorrow are [...]

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Screenshots And Analysis Of Blackberry’s Storefront

January 19, 2009

RIM has released official images of their Blackberry application center, the Blackberry Storefront. RIM is yet another mobile manufacturer who thinks a standard platform that allows third-party developers in to sell applications is going to solve everything for the company. Palm has just released their plans of having a platform for third party developers, [...]

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How Google’s Earnings Will Hold Up This Thursday

January 19, 2009

Google earnings expected to be grim when they are released Thursday. According to the WSJ, U.S. search advertising spend fell 8% in the fourth quarter of 2008 from the same period in 2007, according to a new study from search advertising firm Efficient Frontier, whose search industry spending index was flat for most of 2008. [...]

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Hi, We’re Nintendo And We’re The Sh**

January 16, 2009

Gaming giant, Nintendo, just released its 2008 report which is just dripping with industry record breaking specifics.  Of the many impressive statistics mentioned in the report, here are a few of the highlights:

The industry’s top 4 selling games of 2008 were: Wii Play™ at No. 1, Mario Kart™ Wii at No. 2, Wii Fit™ [...]

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HeyZap, The Longtail Competitor To Oberon Media

January 15, 2009

If you haven’t heard of Oberon Media, I’m sure you’ve played a casual game or two on one of the many sites that they power. Since their inception, Oberon has become the king of casual games, providing partners like MSN, MySpace, MTV, Walmart.com, NBC and more with their game player.
Enter Heyzap, the latest product launch [...]

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