5 O’Clock Roundup: Oracle results are meh, PC sales drop, funding you missed this week while reloading TechCrunch
Oracle’s profits up 4 percent despite lower sales – Quarterly revenue was off 5 percent, but the company kept costs down and grew profit margins by 4 percent. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company earned $1.124 billion, or 22 cents a share, on sales of $5.054 billion. In… Continue Reading
Next-generation netbooks’ killer feature: 3G Internet
A panelist of management and marketing execs who work on netbooks tried to explain the exciting new future of the tiny laptops this morning at GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 conference in San Francisco.
Unfortunately, the panel quickly turned into a discussion of under-the-hood components I could’ve gotten… Continue Reading
Nokia plans Android netbook for 2010
“We have confirmed that Nokia is planning to enter the netbook market,” wrote Lazard Capital Markets analyst Daniel Amir in a research note published Friday morning.
Amir says Nokia’s laptop will be “a Google Android, ARM-based notebook that would be sold at carriers.” That means it’ll… Continue Reading
An FAQ about those Android netbooks
Since our post yesterday about Google’s Android platform running on netbooks, we’ve been asked a lot of questions. Here are the most frequent questions, along with our answers.
Do you think Android could run on laptops or PCs?
The simple answer is “yes, with an asterisk.” The… Continue Reading