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Archive for March 13th, 2008

Hummer Winblad Partner Will Price Resigns To Head WidgetBox (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hummer Winblad Partner Will Price Resigns To Head WidgetBox  —  It’s not often a partner at a successful venture capital fund leaves to do anything except retire.  But Will Price, a general partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, has resigned from his firm and, as of today, is the CEO of […]

Organizing more than one world’s information (Michael Weiss-Malik/Google LatLong)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Michael Weiss-Malik / Google LatLong:
Organizing more than one world’s information  —  We like to think big.  Vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big (to paraphrase one of my favorite authors).  And thanks to the flexibility of Google Maps technology and the world wide web, we’ve been able to work at a universal scale (literally).

Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 - No Word on Windows 7 M2 (Marius Oiaga/Softpedia News)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Marius Oiaga / Softpedia News:
Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 - No Word on Windows 7 M2  —  Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 is right on track for release in 2010.  Concomitantly with the leaked details associated with Windows 7 Milestone 1 dropped by the Redmond company to select partners in January 2008 […]

The Lost Features of Google (Philipp Lenssen/Google Blogoscoped)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
The Lost Features of Google  —  Google created tons of products in the past.  And some of them, they removed again after finding that they didn’t work, required too many resources, didn’t take off, or were overshadowed by legal concerns.  Here are some of the “lost” Google services and features.

Apple Announces WWDC 2008 (June 9-13, 2008) (Arn/MacRumors)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Announces WWDC 2008 (June 9-13, 2008)  —  Apple has announced the dates for the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) 2008.  The event will take place on June 9-13, 2008 in San Francisco, CA at Moscone West. … Apple is offering 3 tracks for developers: iPhone, Mac, and IT.

Our solutions for ad serving (Rohit Dhawan/Official Google Blog)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Rohit Dhawan / Official Google Blog:
Our solutions for ad serving  —  Earlier this week, we completed our acquisition of DoubleClick.  Together, we’re now focused on building a full suite of products and tools that help publishers of all sizes improve productivity, manage their inventory, generate additional revenue opportunities …

MSN exec Bradford leaving for ad company (Todd Bishop/Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog:
MSN exec Bradford leaving for ad company  —  Microsoft executive Joanne Bradford, who has been a key player in the company’s MSN and online advertising units, is leaving to join Spot Runner Inc., according to a news release issued this morning by the Los Angeles-based advertising technology company: […]

OpenSocial Beta Apps Go Live on MySpace (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
OpenSocial Beta Apps Go Live on MySpace  —  If you’ve been wondering how the OpenSocial platform will look in MySpace, its biggest implementation, today’s the day you can take a first look.  Right on schedule the first batch of apps go live today, one month after the platform was opened to […]

Source: Yahoo in informal talks with Microsoft (Dawn Kawamoto/CNET News.com)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Source: Yahoo in informal talks with Microsoft  —  Microsoft and Yahoo are holding informal merger discussions, marking a shift from the “radio silence” that previously existed between the two companies, according to a source familiar with the talks.  —  A lot has changed over the past two weeks …

iPhone 2.0 “sneak peek” (John Biggs/TechCrunch)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

John Biggs / TechCrunch:
iPhone 2.0 “sneak peek”  —  There has been a lot of talk about the new iPhone firmware and its enterprise capabilities.  Well, the iPhoneDevTeam has cracked the 2.0 (actually 1.2) firmware and created a version of the firmware that works with any GSM SIM card without difficult incantations and installations.