Venture Summit: Has the Internet Jumped the Shark?  —  So I moderated a panel yesterday at AlwaysOn’s Venture Summit West, held at the Ritz Carlton at Half Moon Bay, Calif., with the title “Is There Still an Upside to the Internet?”  —  Of course, I redubbed it: “Has the Internet Jumped the Shark?”

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CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores  —  The consumer electronics store will run store-closing sales during the holidays to get rid of inventory.  —  DALLAS (AP) — Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA said Friday it will close its stores after the holidays following sale of the company …

Source:   Associated Press
Link:   http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/07/technology/compusa.ap/

Gemstar-TV Guide Sold; Murdoch’s Nightmare Over  —  Gemstar-TV Guide (GMST) finally found a buyer, and Rupert Murdoch found a way to offload his 41% stake in the company—ending the most significant losing bet he’s made in the last decade.  It’s not too hard to see how owning Gemstar …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
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Kindling  —  When I started writing this column in the spring of 1997 Apple was on the skids.  It was the era of Gil Amelio, still several months before the return of Steve Jobs.  Apple’s products were a confused mish-mash, with product planning coming more from CompUSA than from Cupertino.

Source:   I, Cringely . The […]

Syria blocks access to Facebook  —  DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli “infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net, according to residents and media reports.

Source:   Associated Press
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071207/ap_on_hi_te…

Commodore 64 still loved after all these years  —  (CNN) — Like a first love or a first car, a first computer can hold a special place in people’s hearts.  For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64.  Twenty-five years later, that first brush with computer […]

The Crazy Cousins Thank Gordon Crovitz  —  One of the nice things about having a blog is that I can mouth off on just about anything I want and include whatever I want too (such as, for example, shamelessly making videos of my kids in a fruitless attempt to try to cajole Yahoo’s Jerry Yang […]

Coke Promotes Itself in a New Virtual World  —  COCA-COLA lovers will have a new place to hang out starting today, and it is an island on the Internet that is shaped like a Coke bottle.  —  At CC Metro, the name of the island, visitors can set up a virtual alter ego known as […]

Macrovision/Gemstar: The Early Read From The Street  —  Yeesh, investors really do seem to hate the proposed Macrovision (MVSN) merger with Gemstar (GMST), don’t they?  —  Still waiting for the full blast of Street research on the deal, but early comments suggest that on the one hand …

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Software Freedom Law Center goes after Verizon over GPL  —  The Software Freedom Law Center on Friday said it has filed a suit against Verizon Communications alleging that it has violated the terms of the General Public License, which governs the use of thousands of free and open-source software products.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Martin […]