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Archive for April 26th, 2008

Missed Twitter Questions from Jonathan Schwartz Interview at Web 2.0 Expo (Tim O’Reilly/O’Reilly Radar)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Radar:
Missed Twitter Questions from Jonathan Schwartz Interview at Web 2.0 Expo  —  In the Jonathan Schwartz interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco yesterday, I screwed up.  After learning we weren’t set up for audience Q&A with microphones, I thought, “well then, I’ll just suggest …

BlackBerry’s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Brad Stone / New York Times:
BlackBerry’s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone  —  STEVE JOBS, Apple’s chief executive and field general, has Napoleonic dreams of global conquest for his 10-month-old wonder gadget, the iPhone.  So it may be fitting that he’s encountering his most serious resistance in a city called Waterloo.

Why it’s time to dump the Web 2.0 sobriquet once and for all (Charles Cooper/Coop’s Corner)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Charles Cooper / Coop’s Corner:
Why it’s time to dump the Web 2.0 sobriquet once and for all  —  Maybe it’s a throwback to my childhood recollections of “duck and cover” school drills, but this nuclear winter Andreessen thing is still rattling around in my head.  —  First, the gloomy view: The economy is slowing […]

Senior Yahoos To Jerry: Please, Please, Please Get This Over With (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Senior Yahoos To Jerry: Please, Please, Please Get This Over With  —  Senior Yahoos “dread” the prospect of Microsoft (MSFT) withdrawing its bid, Kara Swisher says, fearing the dull thud as Yahoo’s stock crashes to $20.  Specifically, Kara says, having chatted with her Yahoo (YHOO) sources,

Senior Yahoos To Jerry: Please, Please, Please Sell to Microsoft (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Senior Yahoos To Jerry: Please, Please, Please Sell to Microsoft  —  Senior Yahoos “dread” the prospect of Microsoft (MSFT) withdrawing its bid, Kara Swisher says, fearing the dull thud as Yahoo’s stock crashes to $20.  Specifically, Kara says, having chatted with her Yahoo (YHOO) sources,

Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked (Brian Krebs/Security Fix)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked  —  Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government — have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on […]

Lenovo To Make Windows XP Available Until 2009 (Paul McDougall/InformationWeek)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Lenovo To Make Windows XP Available Until 2009  —  Hewlett-Packard will also provide Windows XP to business customers that want to downgrade from Windows Vista after June 30.  —  In the latest sign that computer makers are bucking Microsoft’s decision to retire Windows XP at the end of June …

Jonathan Schwartz: A top blogger sees end to blogging (Stephen Shankland/Webware.com)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Jonathan Schwartz: A top blogger sees end to blogging  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz rightly gets credit for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others.  But pretty soon the novelty of his methods will wear off, he predicted.

How We Use Twitter for Journalism (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How We Use Twitter for Journalism  —  How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism?  It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces.  —  Here at ReadWriteWeb we’ve …