In an unexpected move, Microsoft announced Thursday that it will take a charge of $1.05 billion to $1.15 billion due to what the company calls “an unacceptable number of repairs”…

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The ‘new’ CNN.com is up and running after more than a year of planning. SVP/GM David Payne borrows a line from the Staples ad campaign: “If there were an ‘easy…

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The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and assistant Katherine Boehret have just released a detailed review based on two weeks of iPhone use in multiple scenarios across the U.S. The…

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Apple is intent on making iTunes indispensable beyond media sales and playback. In update emails Tuesday, Apple (full text) and AT&T warned prospective users the expensive phone they lust for…

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Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, said in an interview with SF Gate that the company has sold “a little over a million Zunes”, which is…

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Microsoft wants to take a more hands on role in the production of the next version of its Zune media player and is building a factory in China to manage…

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has no problem identifying his chief regret when it comes to business (although my guess is critics could come up with others): “Really understanding the power…

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Vudu, another new digital movies-to-tv service, gets a huge hype treatment on the front business page in Sunday NYT, so much so that the story rivals the recent spate of…

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Instant messaging continues to be one of the major pluses for portals as they expand social networking. Where new social nets have to create their own, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft…

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One of the two competing hi-def DVD standards is finding more favor with European movie distributors than the other, FT reports. Some 35 titles are available in Toshiba’s HD-DVD format…

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First RealNetworks last year, now Yahoo: SanDisk has launched its new Wi-Fi-enabled MP3 portable player Sansa Connect, and it works closely to download songs from Yahoo’s subscription music service. As…

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This almost counts as alarming ... when AT&T COO Randall L. Stephenson held up an Apple iPhone, due to be distributed this June with Cingular AT&T as the exclusive carrier,…

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Yesterday Apple wasn’t confirming that its new wireless set-top was on the way; this morning there’s a press release and a party of the front page displacing the months-away iPhone.…

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After a delay. Apple TV hits living rooms this week heralded by a rave review from the Journal’s Walt Mossberg. The $299 wireless set-top with “carefully limited” functions worked great”…

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Apple’s iTunes DRM, which does not allow consumers to transfer iTunes Music Store purchases to non-Apple music players, has until now come in for limited European criticism, beyond the legislative…

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Amazon ups the download ante, at least among the 600,000 or so folks with TiVo hooked up to their home networks—well, actually a few hundred of them in a deal…

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We’ve written a bit here about the ongoing saga at Apple involved back-dated options and faked board meeting minutes. Now the company is reporting via its 10-Q SEC filing “informal…

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Microsoft may stick with Zune but we have learned that Bryan Lee won’t—the corporate VP-entertainment business is retiring “to pursue personal interests,” according to an internal memo from Robbie Bach,…

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I didn’t think I would be able to make it to the Vista events today but turns out the Steve Ballmer press lunch was right across from the hotel at…

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Earlier this month in Las Vegas I sat on a brown leather couch in the Microsoft press tent across from Bryan Lee, one of the senior execs charged with making…

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[By Robert Andrews] Microsoft has suggested that new, Flash-based models of its Zune media player could be released later this year. The Redmond company launched the device in November in…

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Crunchgear has an essay on whether place-shifting technologies—specifically Slingbox—will undermine efforts to launch mobile TV services. Personally, I think the second option is the most likely argument against this—what they…

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The headline has been corrected to reflect the accurate amount of revenue and profit. Updated to include earnings call. Apple turned in strong numbers for the quarter ending Dec. 30:…

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Despite an aggressive GBP2.5 (US$4.9) million ad campaign featuring former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, NTL’s Virgin Mobile—the first to market in the U.K. with a broadcast TV service to mobile…

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A change in my 6 a.m. travel plans—I swear, I only had one glass of wine at BlogHaus—gave me a few hours to spare in Las Vegas and a chance…

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