Start-up unveils Bloom Box, touts customers like Google, eBay, Wal-Mart
At a news conference attended by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Silicon Valley start-up today took the wraps off a fuel cell designed to enable individual homes and businesses to generate their own power.
Google, eBay are trying out the new energy device that will be unveiled Wednesday
A Silicon Valley start-up is getting ready to unveil an energy device this week that executives say could one day power individual homes and businesses while replacing the traditional power grid.
Popularity of the chip used to play pirated Nintendo games continues to grow despite an agreement with the two major online merchant sites.
Nintendo’s deal with major online merchant sites to stop selling R4 chips has done little to dampen the rampant piracy of games on the company’s handheld console.
Company hires two new executives and increases its R&D investment
Business software vendor, MYOB has appointed Dominic O’Hanlon as Chief Strategy Officer and Simon Raik-Allen as Chief Technology Officer.
Website providers are under increasing pressure to sort out their IPv6 strategy, analyst claims
The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.
CEO and President John Donahoe says his three-year turnaround plan is working
Growth at PayPal and its core auction business helped eBay beat analyst expectations for the fourth quarter.
The court found the online auction site has failed to comply with an earlier injunction
A French court has fined eBay €1.7 million (US$2.5 million) for failing to comply with an earlier ruling that required the online retailer to prevent the sale of certain brands of perfume to French consumers on its sites.
The suit was filed by a man banned from eBay for selling used Autocad software
A Seattle judge ruled in favor of a man arguing that he has the right to sell secondhand software, in a case that had some people worried about an end to used-book and CD stores.
They will be able to build home page applications using the Yahoo Application Platform
Yahoo is opening its newly redesigned home page to external developers so that they can build applications for it, the company said Tuesday.
A luxury-brands group sued the auction site for counterfeiting for using its brands in keywords
A French court has found eBay guilty of counterfeiting and fined the online auction site €80,000 ($135,500).
Dean Nelson is the latest in a series of top data-center executives to switch companies
The man in charge of Sun Microsystems' global data-center strategy and a noted speaker on data-center energy efficiency is leaving Sun to work at eBay, he said on Tuesday.
When eBay bought Skype, it had hoped the VoIP service would improve communications between its customers
The future looked bright in September 2005 when eBay announced it was buying Internet telephony company Skype Technologies for $2.6 billion. But after four years of unfulfilled expectations, the marriage between the online auction giant and the upstart VoIP provider came to an end Tuesday when eBay said it was unloading Skype to a group of private investors for $1.9 billion.
A group including Marc Andreessen's new investment firm plans to buy the VoIP company
EBay plans to announce a deal to sell its Skype voice-over-IP service to a group of private investors, The New York Times reported on its Web site, citing people briefed on the company's plans.
Plan was to mesh Skype with eBay marketplace to boost communications and commerce
EBay has reached an agreement to sell a 65 percent stake in its Skype Internet telephony, video conferencing and instant messaging unit for $1.9 billion in cash to an investor group led by Silver Lake.
Second-place Yahoo trails far behind
The latest worldwide statistics for search engine queries don't paint a pretty picture for Google competitors.
