Nicholas Carlson

Apple (Quote) shares dropped 3 percent to $104.63 in afternoon trading as ultimately false rumors of iPhone and Mac OS X Leopard delays spread across the Internet. The plummet started when technology news blog Engadget.com reported Apple pushed iPhone’s launch from June to October and Mac OS X Leopard from October to January. Ryan Block, […]

UPDATED: The discussion about a reported merger between Microsoft and Yahoo today has ended. According to unnamed sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft broached the merger topic months ago and Yahoo quickly rejected the deal. The deal remains dead. A Yahoo spokeswoman told internetnews.com the company refused to comment on “rumors or speculation.” […]

Apple (Quote)is in a good position to take on the challenge of reshaping its business model around the upcoming iPhone, financial analysts said after the company announced its earnings last week. Apple reported a net profit of $770 million. That’s 87 cents a share and 23 cents above Wall Street forecasts. Sales rose 20 percent […]

Analysis: Google has 30 days to respond to a $1 billion suit brought by media giant Viacom yesterday. It’s only defense: good faith. The question is does the search engine giant have any left? The suit alleges that Google’s YouTube strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail copyright infringement on its site. […]

Google has taken its Web-based applications to the big leagues with Google Apps Premier Edition, a suite of hosted applications targeted at the same enterprise market traditionally dominated by Microsoft Office. Google Apps Premier Edition, which will cost businesses $50 per user account per year, includes Google Calendar, as well as the company’s Gmail e-mail […]

Thanks to Yahoo’s partnership with Dash Navigation, you can now have Yahoo Local search in your car. Dash is calling the feature a GPS-industry first and at least one analyst shares the company’s optimism. Dash’s in-car GPS device, the Dash Express, will allow users to search the Web with Yahoo Local. Results will return formatted […]

It’s Amazon.com. It’s a patent lawsuit. What else is new? Amazon, which has faced a series of patent lawsuits this decade and the last, today faces a new one, this time from IBM. IBM today filed two suits in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that Amazon has “willfully infringed” on at least five patents. […]

Google officially launched its Google Docs & Spreadsheetsservices last week at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Docs is a Web-based word-processing and spreadsheet that Google said is designed to make it easier for people to create, manage, and share documents and spreadsheets online. Google Spreadsheets had been in beta testing since June. Back […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks Wall Street analysts should back off. The $2.4 billion his company earmarked for research and development in 2006 will be money well spent, Ballmer wrote in a company-wide memo obtained by internetnews.com. The memo came a day after Microsoft announced earnings that were shy of analysts’ estimates. Quarterly sales rose […]

Mobile phones have screens, speakers and microphones. They can take pictures and record video. And they can connect to the Internet. So why you can’t make a video-conference call from your mobile phone? For the same reason on-demand video doesn’t really work on mobile devices. And for the same reason you can only watch eight […]