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Hewlett Packard, the Palo Alto giant reported a profit of 2.4 billion USD in the last quarter, up from 2.1 billion USD year over year. Earnings per share was 99 cents, up from 84 cents a year go.
Revenue in HP’s all important printing and imaging division fell 15% to 6.5 billion.
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Hardware
Hewlett-Packard
Are you are a film buff? There is good news for you if you want to keep track of the latest movies: twitMovie .
twitMovie aggregates information, opinion, and discussion from around the internet on both upcoming and recently released movies, letting you stay up to speed on all blockbusters. ...
Online
For the Android world saddened by the exclusivity of Google Maps Navigation to Android 2.0 (free turn by turn directions), be excluded no more: Google Maps Navigation is now open for all devices running Android 1.6.
Google has also upgraded the application to now include layers of information ...
Mobile
Android
Google Maps
Wikipedia
Last week Eytan Galai, brother of Yaron Galai (Founder of Quigo that sold to AOL) showed off all the latest that’s been happening over at Outbrain .
For anyone who doesn’t know, Outbrain is a content ratings & recommendations widget that sits on many sites across the web. We ...
Online
Surely you heard the news that Microsoft is contemplating a deal with News Corp to pay the news giant to pull itself from Google.
Bing, of course, would still be able to spider News Corp properties, giving Bing a major competitive advantage.
From myself, and the rest of the internet ...
Online
Microsoft
Bing
BNO News , “owner” of the 1.4 million follower @BreakingNews Twitter account, has signed an agreement with MSNBC.com that will see the news site take control of management of the account, according to PaidContent .
This is not an investment in BNO nor an acquisition clarifies ...
Online
Microsoft
Michael Dell
In line with expectations, Apple will indeed be participating in the “Black Friday” sales event, across the world. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Apple has released a teaser image, sent to many customers directly, stating ...
Hardware
Apple
Mac
Apple TV
Regator , the super popular blog directory and feed reader, is launching a pro version of their iPhone app.
Australian co-founders, Scott Lockhart and Kimberley Turner, say the app is currently in the Apple approval process but ” is expected to be approved any day”.
The new ...
iPhone
iPhone
Almost all of today’s so called Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) heavily make use of a technology named Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML.)
Essentially Ajax provides a mechanism to exchange data with remote servers and place incoming bits into a page without the need to refresh ...
Online
With only 33 days left till Christmas, don’t you wish you could send a greeting card or maybe a gift to your favourite twitterer s? Well now you can, thanks to SendSocial.com that launched today!
SendSocial allows you to send parcels to your friends on Twitter, without ever knowing ...
Online
While most of us use Twitter and other social media for sharing what we’re doing (or indeed “ What’s happening “) some use it to tell stories.
Let’s take a look at some of the ways social media can be used to tell a tale, from serialised novels to a multimedia ...
Online
There is a fascinating story on TorrentFreak regarding the revenues for an artist from a streaming service such as Spotify. Or, more correctly, the lack thereof. The popular Lady Gaga makes quasi-nil from Spotify, despite being a top artist on the service.
This is an excellent example of the ...
Online
Wave is not doing anything for me, and I wonder if it does much for anyone.
I logged into Wave today, for the first time in a week, to head to a wave that actually mattered. A friend is working on a secret project, and wanted to get my input. He dropped everything into a wave, and told me ...
Online
Tweet Wave is a Twitter app allowing your message to be exposed to a potential 1 million users in a ‘wave’ like effect through members of the site re-tweeting your messages, guaranteeing your Tweet substantial exposure.
Based in the UK, Tweet Wave is the work of Need Creative CEO ...
Online
So it looks like Twitter is finally ready to get serious about making some money – ads are on their way.
At TechCrunch’s Realtime CrunchUp today Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo told attendees that Twitter ads are coming soon but they’re going to be a bit different from ...
Online
Welcome to The Next Web’s Weekly Recap.
*** If you have a story we should include in our Weekly Recap please tweet it and include the hashtag #tnwrecap .
This week saw the first unveiling of Google’s Chrome OS, some big Microsoft announcements from their developer conference in ...
Online
Sony have announced plans to launch an online download service next year. It will see the ability for Sony product users to download media content such as music and videos to their televisions and other Sony devices. The move is part of Sony’s Chief Executive, Howard Stringer’s aim ...
Hardware
Sony
A post on ZDNet today took me back to when I first considered how web browsers like Firefox made their money.
Many believe that Mozilla, known generally as an “open source” alternative to the likes of Internet Explorer, survives and thrives off donations. That is not the case. ...
Online
Mozilla
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Microsoft
A recent study by RapLeaf shows that Twitter and LinkedIn are at least twice as popular amongst Gmail users as they are with Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL users.
RapLeaf looked at social network memberships of 120,000 users of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo accounts to gauge where they spend time ...
