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Google’s Latest Assault on Carriers: Number Porting Comes to Google Voice

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 25, 2011 at 11:52 am PT

The search giant confirms that Google Voice users in the U.S. can start porting over existing phone numbers to the service for a $20 fee. New Google Voice users should be able to sign up and bring over an existing number in the next couple of weeks.

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The Steam-Punk Dream Computer: Watch the Babbage Difference Engine in Action

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on December 4, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

Here’s a very special something for the steam-geeks out there: Video of the famed Babbage Difference Engine, widely regarded as the first complex mechanical computer. There are only two in the world, and we captured one in action.

Exclusive: Boku to Be Added as Option to Facebook Credits, Setting Up Face-Off With Rival Zong

Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 2:32 pm PT

For the past 18 months, mobile payments start-up Zong has had the enviable prime spot on Facebook Credits as its sole option for users wanting to use their cell phone number to buy virtual goods for social gaming and other services. But, according to multiple sources, that’s about to change later this week, when the social networking giant starts A/B testing its rival, Boku, as an alternate payment method to Zong. The face-off on Facebook is part of a larger battle for dominance in the fast-growing arena.

The My-Fill-In-the-Space Reset Is Here, as Struggling Social Network Morphs Into Entertainment Hub

Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2010 at 10:56 pm PT

Empty bracket or no empty bracket: Will it work? That’s pretty much the big question at News Corp. tonight, as its much beleaguered social networking site, Myspace, rolls out a new beta version aimed at shifting its fortunes. And how will it do that? By moving dramatically away from its roots as a social networking site–and far, far away from powerhouse Facebook–and becoming a “social entertainment” hub aimed directly at the Gen Y audience.

Yahoo 3Q Earnings Slides: The Good, the Bad and the Revenue Ugly

Kara Swisher in News on October 19, 2010 at 1:54 pm PT

BoomTown will begin livebombing, oops, liveblogging the Yahoo third-quarter conference call with Yahoo execs and Wall Street analysts in five minutes. Until then, please peruse the slides the Silicon Valley Internet giant has provided.

Microsoft Comms Head Smacks Back by the Numbers (Plus a "Rocky"-Inspired Internal Email!)

Kara Swisher in News on June 25, 2010 at 1:33 pm PT

After what he considered weeks of unfair press coverage and running down of Microsoft, the software giant’s Corporate VP of Corporate Communications, Frank Shaw, posted a pugnacious corporate blog today that trotted out some impressive numbers about Microsoft’s business. Of course, he also took the opportunity to put up some not-so-much figures about competitors such as Apple, Netflix, Salesforce.com and, of course, Google. And this comes after a fists-swinging email to staff!

AT&T Responds to BoomTown Privacy Breach Via Email (Oh, the Irony!)

Kara Swisher in News on June 11, 2010 at 7:53 am PT

Earlier today, I wrote a piece about how I was one of the 114,000 AT&T customers whose email and device identity numbers had been easily exposed earlier this week, via a flaw in the way the company registered the Apple iPad 3G for cellular access. I also complained that I had yet to hear from the telecom giant. And lo and behold, it responded. Regrets? AT&T has a few.

Chartastic! Here Are Yahoo's Q3 Financial Highlights, Now With Even More Bars!

Kara Swisher in News on October 20, 2009 at 10:06 pm PT

Yahoo reported its third-quarter earnings earlier today, a pretty good performance in which it soundly beat Wall Street expectations with a stronger net income than expected. While advertising revenue was down at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, also as expected, cost-cutting by CEO Carol Bartz and the sale of its stake in China’s Alibaba seem to have more than made up for it. Here are Yahoo’s financial presentations, full of more numbers than you will ever want to crunch.

Liveblogging Yahoo's Third-Quarter Conference Call: Bartz "Came Down With Something," and CFO Carries On (and On and On and On)

Kara Swisher in News on October 20, 2009 at 2:15 pm PT

Uh-oh, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was expected to appear on the Internet giant’s third-quarter earnings call, but she apparently “came down with something,” according to CFO Tim Morse. BoomTown is sending over chicken soup right now, but let’s hope she gets her vaccinations tout de suite! Thus, no sassy quotes or cursing, but a very earnest Morse, who sounded like he was once a Boy Scout.