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Skype Is Working, No Explanation Yet for What Happened

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 24, 2010 at 9:22 am PT

After two days of struggling with an embarrassing pre-holiday system failure, Skype appears to be running again today. The company is offering free service to customers, but hasn’t yet explained what happened.

EMI Gets a New Boss. When Does It Get a New Owner?

Peter Kafka in Media on March 10, 2010 at 3:53 am PT

Terra Firma, the private equity fund that owns EMI Music Group, has brought in a new CEO for the music label. Elio Leoni-Sceti is out; Charles Allen, the former CEO of British broadcaster ITV replaces him. The real question: How much longer will Terra Firma own EMI?

Mac Quicken Gets Deductions for Iffy Upgrade

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 24, 2010 at 6:04 pm PT

Intuit’s upgrade of Mac Quicken keeps its promises, but is no match for the Windows version—and a step backward in some features on the 2007 Mac version.

Watch Hollywood Crater in a Single Sentence

Peter Kafka in Media on February 1, 2010 at 11:57 am PT

DVD sales are collapsing, nearly as quickly as music sales did over the last decade. Just ask MGM, which saw sales drop off a very steep cliff in just a couple of years. And remember this when you hear talk of Hollywood’s resurgence or the coming boom in 3-D.

iPhone Slow to Catch On With Jiangxi Province Farmers

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 29, 2009 at 2:02 pm PT

Sales of the iPhone in China appear to be picking up steam after a relatively underwhelming start. Though it took China Unicom, Apple’s carrier partner in the country, 40 days to sell its first 100,000 iPhones, the company managed to sell another 200,000 in the 20 days that followed.

Google Announces Jan. 5 Android Event

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 29, 2009 at 9:38 am PT

This just in: Google will host an Android press gathering at its global HQ on Jan. 5. Presumably, the event will have something to do with the company’s Nexus One, an Android phone that Google plans to sell on its own Web site and perhaps through T-Mobile as well.