Best Buy does not fire employee behind iPhone 4, EVO 4G spoof ads |
- Best Buy does not fire employee behind iPhone 4, EVO 4G spoof ads
- AT&T blames software for "capped" upload speeds
- Xbox Live revenue tops $1 billion
- Chrome OS to detect orientation
| Best Buy does not fire employee behind iPhone 4, EVO 4G spoof ads Posted: 07 Jul 2010 10:35 PM PDT  Last week, Best Buy employee Brian Maupin was suspended for posting viral videos spoofing iPhone 4 and HTC EVO 4G zealots. The iPhone video is so popular, it has topped 2 million views. Best Buy suspended Maupin while they investigated the situation, although neither video directly names or even implies the retail giant. Maupin went as far as to say that he expected to be fired completely this week. Today, Best Buy has concluded their investigation, and Maupin is free to head back to work in the morning. Says the company: "We have completed our investigation into the videos created and posted by Brian Maupin, the aspiring film-maker and Best Buy employee. This is an important situation for us because it involved balancing our social media guidelines with a commitment to creating a supportive environment for our employees. It's important to note that our investigation involved three videos that were posted in late June because they were openly disparaging of our employees, our customers and our vendor partners. Our investigation is over, and these videos are no longer on the web. Contrary to rumors, Brian has not been fired, and is scheduled to return to his job at Best Buy this Friday."
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| AT&T blames software for "capped" upload speeds Posted: 07 Jul 2010 10:08 PM PDT  Yesterday, complaints began surfacing online that AT&T was "capping" upload speeds for iPhone 4 users, slowing upstream bandwidth to a crawl in Metropolitan areas such as New York City and Boston. Today, the wireless carrier has blamed software from Alcatel-Lucent for the issues, saying a fix is in the works. Additionally, the company says only 2 percent of users are affected by the defect. Lucent declined to offer a timetable for the fix, and would not reveal which areas were being affected. Customer complaints have been filed from NYC, Central Jersey, Boston, Orlando, Seattle, South Jersey/Philly, Columbus, Cleveland, West Houston, Phoenix, Northern Colorado, St. Paul/Minesota, Suffolk County/Long Island, Quad Cities, South Jersey, Denver, Detroit Metro, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Fairfax, and Minneapolis, so far.
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| Xbox Live revenue tops $1 billion Posted: 07 Jul 2010 09:39 PM PDT  According to a new report from Bloomberg, Microsoft's Xbox Live service brought in $1.2 billion revenue for the fiscal 2009 year. For the year ended June 30th, about 12.5 million Xbox Live users paid an annual fee to play games online which Bloomberg says would account for about $600 million in revenue. Xbox Live COO Dennis Durkin says on top of that, sales of DLC, movies and TV topped subscription revenue for the first time ever, and by a significant margin, leading us to the final $1.2 billion figure. Success with Xbox Live is key to Microsoft's Entertainment division, which has seen slow sales of Zune media players, slow smartphone sales, and a barely profitable Xbox 360 console, which sees most of its profit from software and accessory sales. Adds Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft: "Xbox Live has helped sell a lot of consoles and created a lot of loyalty. Everyone has been talking about Microsoft's inability to innovate, but this is a pretty good example where they have innovated. They timed it just right with this one." If accurate, revenue would have jumped from $800 million in 2008, a pretty hefty increase.
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| Chrome OS to detect orientation Posted: 07 Jul 2010 09:03 PM PDT  Google is readying orientation detection for the upcoming Chrome OS, giving the Chrome browser the ability to use accelerometer data to keep track of which way is up. If you rotate, the interface rotates with you. Furthermore, upcoming apps and games can use the tweak as a method of control. There are no current browsers with the capability, although Mozilla has promised a stable version of it for Firefox 4.0. Safari is likely to add it as well, as it is part of WebKit. Chrome OS, for the most part, still remains a mystery to the general consumer, although Google took time to explain the cloud OS in a series of videos.
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