Month: March 2013

Google

Google’s CFO says Motorola’s products aren’t ‘wow’ by Google standards (update)

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch If you were hoping to see a revelatory smartphone from Motorola in the near future, you might want to tone down those expectations. Google’s Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette today said that products in Motorola’s pipeline are “not really to the standards that what Google would say is wow — innovative, transformative.” The surprisingly honest admission came during Pichette’s session at the Morgan Stanley…

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Business Cloud

Salesforce 4Q Revenues Up 32% With $3.05B For The Fiscal Year

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Salesforce.com has announced its fourth-quarter earnings with revenues of $835 million, up 32%, compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings per share were 51 cents. Financial analysts had expected revenues ranging from $825 million to $830 million. EPS was estimated to come in at 40 cents. For the full fiscal year 2013, the company reported revenue of $3.05 billion, an increase of 35% from the prior year. Salesforce.com is reporting that revenue…

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Military News

Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty For Supplying WikiLeaks, Says Newspapers Ignored Calls

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Private First Class Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks. Reading from a 35-page statement, Manning said he leaked diplomatic cables to “spark a domestic debate as to the role of the military and foreign policy in general,” but denies aiding the enemy. Perhaps most revealing, Manning said that he first attempted to go to media outlets, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, but his…

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Entertainment

Telefonica shows off streaming 4K video on home fiber HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas The future of TV is supposed to involve streaming video, and it’s also supposed to involve 4K TVs — but melding the two has been difficult. Telefonica wants to show that the feat is at least possible with mere mortal connections: it’s been using Mobile World Congress to show 4K video streaming on a 100Mbps fiber-to-the-home link. As our Spanish teammates can attest, the (admittedly very local) demo works as well as you’d…

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