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Archive for September 7th, 2007

“Photoshop Express” RIA sneak-peeked today (Jnack/John Nack on Adobe)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

“Photoshop Express” RIA sneak-peeked today  —  Today the crowd at Photoshop World got a quick preview of Photoshop Express, a new application currently in development at Adobe.  First hinted at by Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen some six months ago, Photoshop Express isn’t meant to duplicate/replace Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop Elements.

Source:   John Nack on Adobe
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Apple seeks TV price cut (Josef Adalian/Variety)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Apple seeks TV price cut  —  Download costs could be chopped in half  —  Apple is mulling a plan to cut the price of TV show downloads in half — an idea that’s not going over too well in Hollywood.  —  According to three people familiar with the proposal, Apple has told networks and studios […]

HP Blackbird ‘kicks the living crap out of Dell XPS’ - read the HP interview (Ben Hardwidge/Custom PC)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

HP Blackbird ‘kicks the living crap out of Dell XPS’ - read the HP interview  —  We talk to Rahul Sood and Mark Budgell from HP about the company’s new water-cooled gaming PC  —  The first piece of design to come out of HP’s acquisition of Voodoo has finally been unveiled …

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‘The Long Tail Is Just Not That Long’ (Brian Steinberg/AdAge)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

‘The Long Tail Is Just Not That Long’  —  Q&A: Starcom’s Emerging Video Guru Tracey Scheppach  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Tracey Scheppach’s job is, simply, to help advertisers find new methods to hawk their wares on TV.  But deciding on those methods is far from simple.

Source:   AdAge
Author:   Brian Steinberg
Link:   http://adage.com/mediaworks/article.php?article_id…

IPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut (New York Times)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

IPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut  —  In June, they were calling it the God Phone.  Yesterday, it was the Chump Phone.  —  People who had rushed to buy the Apple iPhone over the last two months suddenly and embarrassingly found that they had overpaid by $200 for the year’s most coveted gadget.

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Upcoming Netscape changes (Tom Drapeau/The Netscape Blog)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Upcoming Netscape changes  —  › tags: Community, Netscape, Portal, Social News, SocialNews  —  To the Netscape Community…  There are some upcoming changes to the Netscape.com site that we hope will improve your experience.  We’ll be providing two different news options for you based …

Source:   The Netscape Blog
Author:   Tom Drapeau
Link:   http://blog.netscape.com/2007/09/06/upcoming-netscape…

Netscape Digg Clone Is Kaput (Duncan Riley/TechCrunch)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Netscape Digg Clone Is Kaput  —  We’ve known about it for weeks (despite Netscape’s claims that our post was innacurate), but now it’s confirmed: AOL has announced the end of Netscape as a social news portal.  —  In a statement, Tom Drapeau spun the decision as being AOL listening …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
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The Puppet Master - I have never before quoted myself at length … (I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

The Puppet Master  —  I have never before quoted myself at length in a column, but this week’s Apple iPhone pricing fiasco calls for it, so here is the beginning of a column I wrote back in January 2002:  —  In 1999, I was commissioned by Vanity Fair magazine to write a story about the […]

Multiply, social networking for 30-somethings, raises $16.6M (Eric Eldon/VentureBeat)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Multiply, social networking for 30-somethings, raises $16.6M  —  Multiply, a social network aimed at 30-somethings, has just announced additional venture funding of $16.6 million  —  The Boca Raton, Florida-based Multiply struggled after launching in late 2003.

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Eric Eldon
Link:   http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/06/multiply-social…

Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview  —  Social bookmarking site Delicious launched a limited, invite-only preview of version 2.0 of the service this afternoon.  The new site can be accessed at preview.delicious.com, although only invited users can actually get in.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/exclusive-screen…