iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage?  —  Back when we had commies to worry about, someone came up with the concept of “engage and contain”: eg, rather than avoid them as we’d been doing, we should trade and talk and travel there, and by doing so be able to contain their evil.

Source:   Call Me […]

Apple’s Jobs Subpoenaed for Deposition, People Say  —  Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a backdating lawsuit against the company’s former general counsel, two people familiar with the matter said.

Source:   Bloomberg
Link:   http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory…

Google Shared Stuff  —  Google has just quietly launched a new social link sharing service called Google Shared Stuff.  —  According to this help file, you can add links to your “shared stuff page” by adding a bookmarklet to your web browser’s “Links” or “Bookmarks” bar or by clicking this button …

Source:   […]

ABC’s AOL Pact Marks Web’s Growing TV Allure  —  Walt Disney Co.’s ABC became the latest major network to strike a deal with AOL allowing its full-length prime-time shows to be available free on the Time Warner Inc.-owned portal.  —  ABC shows will be available on AOL starting today …

Source:   Wall Street Journal
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MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked  —  Similar to the previously released e-mails, tracking database and phone call this leak is also spread by the group that goes by the name “MediaDefender-Defenders”.  In the .nfo that was posted with the torrent we read:

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-anti-piracy…

Cities turning off plans for Wi-Fi  —  CHICAGO — Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too costly and complicated.  —  Houston, San Francisco, Chicago and other cities are putting proposed Wi-Fi networks on hold.

Source:   USA […]

Google Shared Stuff  —  Google’s social side is more visible every day.  A new service called “Shared Stuff” lets you share interesting links with your friends and the entire world.  You need to drag a bookmarklet to your browser’s link bar or to click on the “Share” button from a web page …

Source:   Google […]

Ignoring open source is costing us dear  —  Firefox, the browser that dared to challenge the supremacy of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, has just reached 400m downloads - and deservedly so.  It now claims a market share of nearly 20% in the UK and 30% in Germany.

Source:   Guardian
Author:   Victor Keegan
Link:   http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20…

Old mobile spectrum to be freed  —  Old mobile phone frequencies in the UK could get a new lease of life thanks to proposals by regulator Ofcom.  —  The telecommunications watchdog wants to loosen restrictions on who can use the portion of spectrum currently reserved for second-generation mobiles.

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7004426.stm

Zillow Gets Mo Money  —  Earlier this week we were joking about Fundinistas or companies that the ones who raise venture capital relentlessly.  One of them happened to be Zillow, which had raised $57 million.  Well, today they called to let us know that they had raised another $30 million, bringing the total to $87 […]