Apple’s’Podfather’ Now Aims to Revive A Wilting Palm  —  In mid-July, as Palm Inc. was putting the finishing touches on its new $99 Centro smart phone, the gadget’s development team received a stark message: It wasn’t good enough.  —  The warning was delivered by Jon Rubinstein …

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Author:   Pui-Wing Tam
Link:   […]

Apple removes displays from front page of store  —  I’ve been saying for a while that Apple is due to announce new displays any day now.  Apple’s current Cinema Displays were released at WWDC in June 2004 and three and a half years is an eternity in consumer electronics.

Source:   The Apple Core
Author:   Jason […]

Facebook outmaneuvers Google; Bebo launches FB-compatible platform  —  When Google announced “OpenSocial”, a set of three common APIs designed to create an alternative developer platform to that offered by Facebook, I described it as a ‘combine and conquer strategy’.

Source:   The Social Web
Author:   Steve O’Hear
Link:   http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=361

Google’s wireless chief, Sacca, leaves to become angel investor  —  Chris Sacca, the head of special initiatives at Google who led Google’s efforts to open up the wireless spectrum to more competition, is leaving Google to invest in early-stage technology companies.  —  Sacca wielded significant clout at Google.

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Matt Marshall
Link:   http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/12/googles-wireless…

Opera files antitrust complaint with the EU  —  Urges Microsoft to give consumers a genuine choice of standards—compliant Web browsers  —  Opera Software ASA, the only company that can put the Web on any device, filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed …

Source:   Opera
Link:   http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/12/13/

Russian computer program fakes chatroom flirting  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Internet chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate person, trying to win your personal data and not your heart, an online security firm says.

Source:   Reuters
Author:   Conor Sweeney
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071213/wr_nm…

Mobile Ads: Not So Fast  —  Mobile advertising revenues aren’t growing as fast as expected, and that could spell trouble for a bunch of venture-funded startups  —  Ads on cell phones have long been hailed as the next big thing.  But flipping through industry forecasts, Didier Kuhn says, “I don’t believe the figures I am […]

Opera files EU antitrust suit against Microsoft  —  Opera Software has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft in the European Union, accusing it of stifling competition by tying its Internet Explorer Web browser to Windows, the Norwegian company said Thursday.

Source:   PC World
Author:   James Niccolai
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071213/tc_pcworld…

A Chapter of ‘Jackass’ as Web Test  —  LOS ANGELES — Paramount Pictures is lurching onto the Web with its “Jackass” franchise, with what it says will be the first studio-backed feature film to have its premiere online.  And the studio hopes the result will be considerably more pleasurable …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   […]

It’s your business  —  Yesterday, while I was on a panel discussion at LeWeb3 talking about the future of video something happened that discussed my future.  I was driving the computer during the panel discussion, demonstrating bleeding edge video technologies like Seesmic and Kyte on stage …

Source:   Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
Author:   Robert […]