http:///263/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Ledger-Enquirer.com en-us Copyright 2008 Ledger-Enquirer.com AP Technology 60 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:29:00 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys support@Ledger-Enquirer.com http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374972.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374972.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:28 EDT Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird." http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375408.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375408.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:04 EDT The pace of U.S. venture capital investments remained steady at $7.4 billion during the second quarter despite a wobbly stock market that has made it increasingly difficult for the financiers of new ideas to cash out of startups. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375410.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375410.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:08 EDT The pace of U.S. venture capital investments remained steady at $7.4 billion during the second quarter despite a wobbly stock market that has made it increasingly difficult for the financiers of new ideas to cash out of startups. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375411.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375411.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:08 EDT THE GOOD: The flow of money going to U.S. startups remained steady in the second quarter as venture capitalists invested $7.4 billion, unchanged from a year ago. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375409.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375409.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:08 EDT THE GOOD: The flow of money going to U.S. startups remained steady in the second quarter as venture capitalists invested $7.4 billion, unchanged from a year ago. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374756.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374756.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:08 EDT Google Inc. shares plunged nearly 10 percent Friday after the Internet search leader's second-quarter earnings missed analysts' expectations. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375073.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/375073.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:58 EDT One of Yahoo Inc.'s largest shareholders is supporting the re-election of the Internet company's incumbent board, delivering a significant blow to an attempted coup being led by activist investor Carl Icahn. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374956.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374956.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:12 EDT I have no reason to feel unsafe in my neighborhood, but I appear to be surrounded by dozens of people convicted of everything from theft and sex crimes to public drunkenness and speeding. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374988.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374988.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:01 EDT South Africa's largest mobile phone network operator said Friday it was unable to agree on a deal in talks with an Indian telecom company. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374893.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374893.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:10 EDT BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374896.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374896.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:10 EDT A little more than two weeks ago, Blizzard Entertainment announced that "Diablo III" was well into development. For the legions of fans who still play the classic RPG "Diablo II" eight years after its release, this was terrific if not entirely unexpected news. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374923.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374923.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:32 EDT Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird." http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374720.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374720.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:49 EDT Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday posted a 97 percent drop in second-quarter earnings and said it would slash 2,000 jobs worldwide in a move to cut costs. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374883.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374883.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:41 EDT In the Soviet days, Russians asked their American friends to bring blue jeans, rock records and other Western goods into the country. Today Russians can buy almost anything they want here - but they are still begging for one item: Apple Inc.'s slick iPhone. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374755.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374755.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:52 EDT Shares of Microsoft Corp. sank more than 5 percent on Friday, a day after the company missed Wall Street's earnings forecast by a penny, and issued softer-than-expected guidance for the current first quarter. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374746.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374746.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:47 EDT Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell at the market open Friday, a day after the chip maker reported the departure of Chief Executive Hector Ruiz and reported a wider second-quarter loss than analysts expected. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373976.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373976.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:58 EDT IBM Corp.'s earnings, used to gauge the health of global technology spending, were a bright spot in an otherwise dreary economic landscape. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373986.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373986.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:57 EDT With a Yahoo Inc. search deal uncertain at best, Microsoft Corp. plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected in the next year to whip its unprofitable online operations into shape. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373975.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373975.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:17 EDT Google Inc. has successfully tackled a lot of complex problems during its first decade in business, but even the Internet search leader may be hard pressed to find a way to sustain its rapid earnings growth amid a sputtering economy in the United States and parts of Europe. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373987.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373987.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:13 EDT Under Hector Ruiz's leadership, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose to challenge larger rival Intel Corp. as never before in AMD's nearly 40-year history. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374268.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374268.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:57 EDT CASH COWS: Sales of Office, Windows helped push Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue up 18 percent to $15.8 billion. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374241.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374241.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:57 EDT THE PROFIT: IBM Corp.'s second-quarter profit rose 22 percent, easily beating Wall Street's expectations. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company is benefiting from continued strength in its services division despite growing economic worries. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373875.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373875.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:27 EDT Mitch Albom has a new book out - well, not really a book, but a commencement speech in book form. And not in traditional book form, but as an e-book, published exclusively through Amazon.com's Kindle reader. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374239.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374239.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:57 EDT RED FLAG: Although its growth rate remains impressive, Google's earnings missed analyst estimates and CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged the economic climate is "challenging." http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374183.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374183.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:57 EDT COMMAND CHANGE: Hector Ruiz, 62, is done as CEO at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. after six turbulent years. He now is executive chairman. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373684.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373684.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:27 EDT Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373898.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373898.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:12 EDT Yahoo Inc. sent a letter to shareholders Thursday in which it called Microsoft Corp.'s actions in its dance to acquire all or part of the Internet company "stupefying." http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373869.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373869.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:12 EDT European Union regulators have expanded their antitrust case against Intel Corp., claiming that the world's largest semiconductor maker has deliberately squeezed rival AMD out of the chip market. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374092.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/374092.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:12 EDT Meeting a regulator's tough conditions for approval of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s purchase of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. may be tough but isn't likely to derail the deal, analysts said Thursday. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373469.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/263/story/373469.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:53 EDT Media General Inc. swung to a loss in the second-quarter on severance costs and lower ad revenue and expects to take an additional charge of up to $550 million to write down the value of its intangible assets.