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Archive for March 19th, 2008

How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong (Leander Kahney/Wired News)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Leander Kahney / Wired News:
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong  —  One Infinite Loop, Apple’s street address, is a programming in-joke — it refers to a routine that never ends.  But it is also an apt description of the travails of parking at the Cupertino, California, campus.

Dell reportedly plans to resume handheld device business (Daniel Shen/DigiTimes)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Dell reportedly plans to resume handheld device business  —  Dell reportedly plans to resume its handheld device business and the company may team up with Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to develop Windows Mobile-based handheld devices, according to market sources in Taiwan.

The Google Conflict: Search Engine or Destination? (ClickZ)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

ClickZ:
The Google Conflict: Search Engine or Destination?  —  Google’s search results are evolving into destination pages, marking a change in the way marketers and Google itself will have to do business.  —  That assessment was made by several speakers during a Search Engine Strategies …

More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
More Bloggers Raising Money.  Here Come The Politics.  And Here Comes My Rant.  —  More blogs are raising venture capital, we’re hearing from people they’ve pitched.  Newcomer Silicon Alley Insider is looking for a $2 - $3 million round, if reports are correct.

Adobe developing Flash for iPhone (Andy Space/9 to 5 Mac)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Adobe developing Flash for iPhone  —  Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has confirmed his company is now working with Apple with a view to offering Flash support on the iPhone.  —  The move follows Apple’s release of the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK).  Narayen, who was speaking during … […]

The Disruptive Entrepreneur’s Dilemma (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Disruptive Entrepreneur’s Dilemma  —  Andrew Mobbs, managing director of the Hatchery, has a big dream.  He wants to move the world off of credit cards and onto using their cell phones to pay for things.  He’s not the first to have that dream, but I think he’s thought through … […]

Exclusive: Blogdigger Acquired by Odeo (Richard MacManus/ReadWriteWeb)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Exclusive: Blogdigger Acquired by Odeo  —  Blog search engine Blogdigger will be announcing shortly that it has been acquired by SonicMountain, parent company of Odeo - the podcast network that is currently being rebuilt as a full-fledged platform for digital media.

Wireless spectrum auction comes to a close (Michal Lev-Ram/Techland)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Michal Lev-Ram / Techland:
Wireless spectrum auction comes to a close  —  After nearly eight weeks and 261 rounds of bidding, the government’s spectrum auction finally ended Tuesday.  —  In January, the Federal Communications Commission began auctioning off the coveted 700MHz spectrum, which is particularly suited …