Introducing Prologue  —  We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more, like a way for each of us to share short messages about what we’re doing or working on internally, or private messages between groups […]

Steve Jobs to Apple investors: ‘hang in there’  —  In a private communication last week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs acknowledged the beating his company’s shares have taken during this time of economic uncertainty, but remained confident that investors would inevitably recoup their losses and then some.

Source:   AppleInsider
Author:   Kasper Jade
Link:   http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/28…

Apple’s $300 million gray market dilemma  —  Having stirred up a hornet’s nest with his first take in the so-called missing iPhones, Bernstein Research’s Apple (AAPL) specialist Toni Sacconaghi has taken a second look at the discrepancy between the number of iPhones Apple sold …

Source:   FORTUNE: Apple 2.0
Author:   Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Link:   http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/01/28…

Google Docs Offline Access  —  In a post Philipp made last week about writing a book in Google Docs, he said:  —  Working with Google Docs requires an internet connection.  In my case, I need this internet connection anyway […] your mileage may vary (and who knows, Google …

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Tony Ruscoe
Link: […]

Introducing new search views  —  Introducing experimental views for search results  —  There have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant — 10 or so web pages in a vertical list.  Frequently this is exactly the right format …

Source:   Official Google Blog
Author: […]

Windows 7 isn’t headed for 2009, says Microsoft.  More like 2011.  —  Hey, it’s not Microsoft’s fault that 2011 sounds like the realm of jet pack VR massage cars, but it’s certainly a long ways away any way you slice it.  Contrary to previous rumors of Microsoft planning a Windows 7 release sometime …

Source:   […]

Windows 7 isn’t headed for 2009, says Microsoft.  More like 2011.  —  Hey, it’s not Microsoft’s fault that 2011 sounds like the realm of jet pack VR massage cars, but it’s certainly a long ways away any way you slice it.  Contrary to previous rumors of Microsoft planning a Windows 7 release sometime …

Source:   […]

The killer Twitter-tracker just arrived and its name is Tweetmeme  —  It had to happen sooner or later.  We’ve had Technorati.  We’ve had TechMeme.  Now we have Tweetmeme, which will track what’s hot on micro-blogging platform Twitter.  The business of tracking the online conversation …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Mike Butcher
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/28/the-killer…

Music file-share site Qtrax forced into humiliating U-turn  —  Jonathan Richards, Dan Sabbagh and Adam Sherwin in Cannes  —  A website which promised to give music lovers the world’s first legal file-sharing service was forced into a humiliating climbdown today after it emerged that the company …

Source:   Times of London
Author:   Tim Hames
Link:   […]

Gore-Backed Current TV Files For $100 Million IPO; $63.7 Million 2007 Revs; Losses Mount  —  A first look into the books of Al Gore’s cable network: Current Media (parent of Al Gore-backed Current TV) has filed for a $100 million NASDAQ IPO, trading under the ticker “CRTM”.

Source:   paidContent.org
Author:   Joseph Weisenthal
Link:   http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-current-media…