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Archive for January 18th, 2008

Don’t miss lessons Radiohead, Trent Reznor offer (Greg Sandoval/CNET News.com)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Don’t miss lessons Radiohead, Trent Reznor offer  —  Musicians aren’t merchants.  —  We certainly learned that through Radiohead and Trent Reznor’s separate experiments with choose-your-price album promotions.  —  In October, Reznor, the leader of the band Nine Inch Nails …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9853174-7.html

Don’t miss lessons Radiohead, Reznor offer (Greg Sandoval/CNET News.com)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Don’t miss lessons Radiohead, Reznor offer  —  Musicians aren’t merchants.  —  We certainly learned that through Radiohead and Trent Reznor’s separate experiments with choose-your-price album promotions.  —  In October, Reznor, the leader of the band Nine Inch Nails …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9853174-7.html

Seesmic killed the YouTube star? (Darren Waters/BBC NEWS)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Seesmic killed the YouTube star?  —  It’s not often you are presented with a vision of the future of online video in a pub in London.  —  But that’s exactly what I was shown last night by celebrated French blogger, well-connected entrepreneur and Seesmic founder Loic LeMeur.

Source:   BBC NEWS | dot.life
Author:   Darren Waters
Link: […]

Eee PC with 9-inch touchscreen in the works? (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Eee PC with 9-inch touchscreen in the works?  —  Details of future generation Eee PCs from ASUS have been trickling out even before the first generation shipped.  Now that sewing circle of Taiwanese component makers have whispered a few secrets in the direction of DigiTimes.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Thomas Ricker
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/eee-pc-with-9-inch…

Sprint Nextel Reports Fourth-Quarter Subscriber Results … (Sprint)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Sprint Nextel Reports Fourth-Quarter Subscriber Results, Announces Actions to Streamline Operations  —  Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) today reported wireless subscriber results for the fourth quarter of 2007, announced initial plans to streamline its business as part of an ongoing review …

Source:   Sprint | 2008 News Releases
Link:   http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149…

Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers (Richard MacManus/ReadWriteWeb)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers  —  Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities.

Source:   ReadWriteWeb
Author:   Richard MacManus
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

The MacBook Air CPU Mystery: More Details Revealed (AnandTech)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

The MacBook Air CPU Mystery: More Details Revealed  —  Author: Anand Lal Shimpi MacBook Air Products  —  Earlier this week Apple announced its MacBook Air, and within hours we had the mystery of its “60% smaller” CPU uncovered.  Or at least we thought.  —  It turns out there’s even more depth …

Source:   AnandTech
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Orange Chief: French IPhone Selling (Emma Vandore/Associated Press)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Orange Chief: French IPhone Selling  —  France’s Orange Says IPhone Sales Better Than Expected  —  PARIS (AP) — Sales in France of the much-hyped Apple Inc. iPhone after the holiday season are going better than mobile carrier Orange expected, Didier Lombard, head of Orange parent France Telecom, said Thursday.

Source:   Associated Press
Author:   Emma Vandore
Link: […]

Skype cross-zone scripting vulnerability (Aviv Raff/Aviv Raff On .NET)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Skype cross-zone scripting vulnerability  —  Skype uses Internet Explorer web control within the application to render internal and external HTML pages.  Examples for this pages are the “Send money via PayPal” dialog, or “Add video to chat” dialog.  —  Recently, I’ve discovered that Skype is running this web control in Local Zone.

Source:   Aviv Raff […]

Web Ad Buyer: Online Less Robust Than You Think, CPMs Headed Down (Michael Learmonth/Silicon Alley Insider)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Web Ad Buyer: Online Less Robust Than You Think, CPMs Headed Down  —  Most prognosticators predict another booming year for online advertising, but Carl Fremont isn’t so sure.  Fremont, the global media director for digital ad giant Digitas, says the weakening economy will slow down Web ads as well.

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Michael […]