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According to a board member of Facebook in a Monday interview, Facebook’s 2009 total profits are expected to be around or more than $500 Million! Wow! In the interview, Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said that in a few years, the site can expect profits into the billions. Wow again.
Facebook, being the 4th most visited [...]

It was one of those things where people first found out on Twitter- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had some problems with his private plane and Tweeted what had happened which is how most of the public came to find out. In a Tweet that the Gov sent out last night, he said “A little adventure [...]

Apple’s new iPhone OS 3.0 is out today, soon to be followed by the new iPhone 3GS this Friday. As we covered in an earlier post the day of the Worldwide Developers Conference, the new device software includes new compatibility for upcoming apps and hardware for the devices, copy & paste and several other new [...]

According to new industry numbers released this month, sales of video game consoles are down last month by 30% compared to May of last year. While experts say that the sales of games might follow shortly, they noted that for the first time since August of 2007, the video game console industry is no longer [...]

It’s been a great week here at the GrantBlog and in the tech industry this week- we saw a new iPhone along with software to go with it and upgrades to some of Apple’s most popular products, we also saw some criticism directed at Microsoft’s Bing search engine for going after explicit content and a [...]

Large virus software maker Trend Micro had a hiccupp this morning when almost their entire web site went offline except for the support part. On their site now, you recieve a “Server too busy” error, while other pages give you a multi-lingual “Trend Micro is currently unavailable” error. This is not good for a software [...]

After a lot of planning by the FCC, digital television is here and is taking over the airwaves by midnight tonight. While a lot of TV stations, at least here in Los Angeles, are making the switch during the day and not at the last minute, if you’re not ready for the switch, you don’t [...]

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, in a video interview with the Fox Business Network, said that “I do not think Bing’s arrival has changed what we are doing.” and also said “It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year”.  Schmidt also talked about mobile phones, and said that this is their year. [...]

At Saarland university, students and researchers now say they can, with up to 70% accuracy, detect what a printer is printing only based on the sounds that they make while they print. That’s scary. Although it took a while because they had to match word in the dictionary to words that could be printed, they say [...]

Google’s latest Labs graduate is none other than the new Google Squared, a col new way to search which creates different tables for your results based on a main category you search for.  Say you searched for “Characters In The Office” (by the way my favorite TV show)-your result would probably be a table with [...]