- Responding to the success of micro-blogging site Twitter, Facebook announced a revamped homepage that is more “real time”. It is also adding new features to help businesses, celebrities and brands better connect with users.
- Just weeks after releasing the Kindle 2 to great fanfare, Amazon, which has found a breakout hit with its e-reader, made available a Kindle application for the iPhone. With 17m iPhones out there and probably just a few hundred thousand Kindles, Amazon just vastly increased the size of its potential readership, without needing to sell more of its $359 readers. Apple, which has been criticised for missing the ball when it comes to the e-reader, can be none too pleased.
- Hurt by slumping personal computer sales and a pullback in corporate spending, Adobe, maker of Photoshop, Flash and Acrobat, said first quarter revenue missed its forecasts, but that cost-cutting measures should allow the company to meet its profit targets. Shares were up in after-hours trading.
- In an unusual partnership, Cisco and Nasa have teamed up to develop a new set of tools to measure and analyse climate change. Nasa sensors will deliver data to Cisco’s networking technology, and the intended result will be a global monitoring system that tracks, for instance, deforestation in the rain forests.
