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Archive for April 3rd, 2008

Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe’s 64-bit roadmap (Jnack/John Nack on Adobe)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Jnack / John Nack on Adobe:
Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe’s 64-bit roadmap  —  As you’ve probably seen, among the great features in the Lightroom 2.0 beta is its ability to run 64-bit-native on Mac (Intel, 10.5.x) and Windows (Vista 64).  If you think it feels great to beat Aperture to the punch here, you’re right. […]

Live: MySpace Music Call: DRM-free Downloads, International Plans And More (Staci D. Kramer/paidContent.org)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Live: MySpace Music Call: DRM-free Downloads, International Plans And More  —  Work in progress Waiting for the MySpace Music call to begin … In the meantime, some details on what is being billed as a “global initiative that will include a 360 music experience”:

Trademark Dispute Pits Apple vs. The Big Apple (Bryan Gardiner/Wired News)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Trademark Dispute Pits Apple vs. The Big Apple  —  The Big Apple has a new logo, and Apple says: Drop dead.  —  At issue is the emblem for New York City’s GreeNYC campaign, which has started to appear around the city on bus shelters, hybrid gasoline-electric taxicabs and even Whole […]

Study: ‘Influencers’ Possess Less Clout (Gavin O’Malley/MediaPost Publications)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Gavin O’Malley / MediaPost Publications:
Study: ‘Influencers’ Possess Less Clout  —  IN THE WORLD OF SOCIAL media, so-called “influencers” might have less clout than some marketers think.  —  According to a new study from Canadian research firm Pollara, self-described social media users put far more trust in friends and family online …

Psst…secrets of Google News exposed! (Andy Golding/Google News Blog)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Andy Golding / Google News Blog:
Psst…secrets of Google News exposed!  —  Often publishers ask us why Google News didn’t include one of their articles, or skipped the image associated with an article.  In the search for answers, we’ve noticed that there’s a lot of confusion about how we include and rank articles.

Hands off our network, Bell tells CRTC (CBC News)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

CBC News:
Hands off our network, Bell tells CRTC  —  BY PETER NOWAK — Bell Canada Inc. is calling on the courts to scrap mandated access by competitors to its network, a move that could jeopardize some smaller companies that sell phone and internet services.  —  The Montreal-based company …

SONY ROLLS OUT WORLD’S SMALLEST FULL HD CAMCORDER JUST IN TIME … (Sony)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Sony:
SONY ROLLS OUT WORLD’S SMALLEST FULL HD CAMCORDER JUST IN TIME FOR YOUR SUMMER VACATION  —  The new pocket-sized Sony HDR-TG1 Handycam® camcorder’s weighty high-definition capability will appeal to vacationers who prefer to “travel light.”  —  This diminutive camcorder weighs in at only ten ounces.

Imitation Is Flattery? Or Just Bad for Entrepreneurs? (Chrisshipley/The Guidewire)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Chrisshipley / The Guidewire:
Imitation Is Flattery?  Or Just Bad for Entrepreneurs?  —  There are a dozen other, perhaps more important and insightful, posts I’d rather be writing today.  But, alas, my friends at TechCrunch put a wall in my path today and I just can’t ignore it, despite counsel from perhaps wiser advisers to […]

Comcast to Twin Cities: Want WideBand? Gonna Cost You Big (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Comcast to Twin Cities: Want WideBand?  Gonna Cost You Big  —  Comcast, the largest cable company in the US announced today that it is going to start selling a 50 megabits per second (down) connection in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region.  The connection with 5 megabits/second upstream capability …

Arrington: ‘Demo needs to die’ (Daniel Terdiman/Geek Gestalt)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Arrington: ‘Demo needs to die’  —  TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, in discussing the decision to place TechCrunch 50 at the same time as DemoFall said, ‘Demo needs to die.’  —  The scheduling of the TechCrunch 50 conference, which was announced Wednesday, has pit it directly against DemoFall …