Wal-Mart Gets Tough On RFID  —  Sam’s Club suppliers required to use tags or face $2 fee.  —  Wal-Mart has apparently tired of its investments in radio frequency identification turning into a prolonged pilot study and is stepping up pressure on suppliers to comply with its 3-year-old inventory-technology mandate.

Source:   InformationWeek
Author:   Mary Hayes Weier
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Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could Involve Investment  —  [by David Kaplan and Rafat Ali] Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, we have learned.  The Facebook placement could be as prominent as the YouTube button …

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CuePrompter - Your Online Teleprompter  —  Whether you’re recording a podcast, a Squadcast, or anything in between it can sometimes be difficult to remember what you were trying to say once a video camera starts rolling.  CuePrompter is free online teleprompter service that allows you to turn …

Source:   Download Squad
Author:   Emily Price
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New Robert Scoble TV Show on FastCompany.TV will be Monetized via Sponsorships, No Pre/Post Roll  —  As publishers large and small look to monetize online video content, one emerging model is sponsorship, a format in which a brand gets to be associated with a show, usually with an introductory mention and/or graphic.

Source:   Beet.TV
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Social Networks, from the 80s to the 00s  —  As Facebook enjoys its moment in the sun, we should take a moment to step back and look at the history of computers and social communication.  Some historical perspective is in order, both to assess the real value of social networks as businesses …

Source:   GigaOM
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Yahoo (YHOO): More Details on Potential Mass Firings*  —  Last night we reported a tip that Yahoo has created a list of 1,500-2,500 jobs that may be cut within two weeks and that Jerry Yang will make the decision to go ahead with the layoffs—or not—this week.

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Henry Blodget
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Yahoo (YHOO): More Details on Potential Mass Firings  —  Last night we reported a tip that Yahoo has created a list of 1,500-2,500 jobs that may be cut within two weeks and that Jerry Yang will make the decision to go ahead with the layoffs—or not—this week.

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Henry Blodget
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RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”  —  It started out on Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted.  While the Reddit users were trying to kill the RIAA server, someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the site’s entire database.  —  The comments on Reddit are only speculation […]

Associate Email Addresses with a Google Account  —  Alternate email addresses are useful if you forget the password of your Google Account and now you can add more than one.  In your account, click on Edit next to “Personal information” and associate additional email addresses with your Google Account.

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   Ionut […]

Big Yahoo Layoffs Coming Soon?  ; Yahoo’s Response  —  Update: Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) response just came in—no numbers but confirmation that signification shifts are underway: “Yahoo! has embarked on a multi-year transformation that includes making tough decisions about the business to help the company grow.

Source:   paidContent.org
Author:   Rafat Ali
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