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| Tuesday, February 3, 2009 |
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 Less Than 10% Of Enterprise Users Bought VistaJust how big of a disaster has Windows Vista been for Microsoft? Consider a Forrester report obtained by Mary Jo Foley: With Windows 7 just around the corner, 71% of all enterprise PCs still run Windows XP. Vista, nearing the end of its lifecycle, has seen adoption rates of below 10% for enterprise customers throughout North America and Europe. Read > Guess What Happened To The Guy With The Microsoft TattooTech Reporters From 1981 Ask: Will People Ever Read Their Newspaper On A Computer? | |
| Yahoo Blows Another Huge Lead Over Google Conventional wisdom among online ad-buyers has been that Google is for search and Yahoo is for display. This has worked out for Google, which just reported $4.2 billion net revenues during a brutal Q4. But it hasn't been all bad for Yahoo, which eMarketer says owns 33% of the $7.1 billion US online display market. Read > | |
| Facebook Growing Seven Times Faster Than LinkedIn LinkedIn founder and CEO Reid Hoffman tells TechCrunch that the company is growing by about 1 million new users every 17 days. That's an average 59,000 new users a day, or about one seventh of Facebook's user growth rate. But: While Facebook is famously unprofitable, Hoffman says LinkedIn has $80 million in the bank and has "been profitable for the last two years." Read > | |
| Motorola Earnings Preview: How's That Cellphone Spinoff Going? Motorola already warned that it had a terrible Q4: Last month, the company said Christmas quarter cellphone shipments dropped 54% year-over-year, and that revenue would miss consensus by as much as $500 million. So when the company discusses its earnings Tuesday morning, we'll be listening closest for what's next. Read > | |
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An update to Apple's iMac line could help boost desktop Mac sales, which dropped 25% year-over-year last quarter. So when will Apple start selling new iMacs? Read > Motorola Demotes Windows Mobile, Fires Staff Part of Motorola's massive cuts: A team of more than 70 working on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform in Florida, according to the WSJ. Read > Yahoo Gives Up On RSS Ads We admit we're a little perplexed by this one: Yahoo (YHOO) has shut down its Publisher Network RSS ads program. Read > Forrester: E-Commerce In For A Tough Year, But Still Grabbing Share From Offline Sales E-commerce cooled in 2008 from 2007, and it's only going to get worse this year, says Forrester. But offline retail is even worse. And even as e-commerce growth slows, online sites will continue to take market share from brick-and-mortar outlets. Read > Netflix Puts Out Feelers: Premium Streaming Content For $10 A Month? Netflix asks its subscribers: Would you pay $10 a month for HBO? So is HBO coming to Netflix? Or is "Epix?" Read > | |
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