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Archive for May 28th, 2008

D: Zuckerberg and Sandberg On The State Of Facebook (Eric Savitz/Tech Trader Daily)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
D: Zuckerberg and Sandberg On The State Of Facebook  —  This should be fun: In the last pre-dinner session at D: All Things Digital, we get Kara Swisher interviewing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.  —  Some highlights:  — Swisher apologized for calling Zuckerberg a “toddler CEO.”

Jerry Yang: “We’re Done” (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jerry Yang: “We’re Done”  —  Walt Mossberg just finished interviewing Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker (my real time notes are here, see Peter Kafka’s notes as well).  —  The two key topics of the interview were the failed Microsoft merger, and Yahoo’s core focus as a company.

SNEAK PEEK: Sony’s Ultra-Thin OLED TV (Peter Kafka/Silicon Alley Insider)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
SNEAK PEEK: Sony’s Ultra-Thin OLED TV  —  Among the worthies appearing onstage at the D6 conference Wednesday morning: Sony CEO Howard Stringer.  Among the things he’ll be talking about, we’re told: Sony’s newish OLED TVs — its line of super-thin screens built using organic light-emitting diodes.

Exclusive: Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini Laptop (Brian Lam/Gizmodo)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini Laptop  —  I bumped into Michael Dell at All Things D after his interview, and he was nice enough to show me this laptop that he was carrying that he said no one’s seen before.  It’s a small form factor notebook, just like the […]

Jerry Yang: We Weren’t Close To Microsoft Deal, We’re Not Under Seige, Give Us Time (Peter Kafka/Silicon Alley Insider)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Jerry Yang: We Weren’t Close To Microsoft Deal, We’re Not Under Seige, Give Us Time  —  This is the definition of a defensive crouch: Explaining, over and over again, that you’re not in a defensive crouch.  —  We’re not sure that given the circumstances, anyone in Jerry Yang’s position […]

MySpace Shows Facebook How It’s Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Shows Facebook How It’s Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging  —  The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user’s local machine and allow for very […]

ComScore Buys Mobile Research Firm M:Metrics For $44.3 Million In Cash (Tricia Duryee/paidContent.org)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Tricia Duryee / paidContent.org:
ComScore Buys Mobile Research Firm M:Metrics For $44.3 Million In Cash  —  Well-known Internet measurement firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) said today that it has acquired M:Metrics, a leader in the mobile measurement business, for $44.3 million in cash and about 50,000 options to purchase shares of comScore common stock.

Live From I/O: Android Pulls An iPhone, App Engine Goes Public … (Mark Hendrickson/TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Live From I/O: Android Pulls An iPhone, App Engine Goes Public, and Google Embraces the Open Web  —  We’re here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for Google I/O, where the Mountain View-based search giant is covering a broad range of topics - from Android to App Engine, OpenSocial to […]

First LIVE images and videos of FULLSCREEN Android demos! (Vincent Nguyen/Android Community)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Vincent Nguyen / Android Community:
First LIVE images and videos of FULLSCREEN Android demos!  —  Google’s latest Android prototype is miles improved over the versions we last saw.  Back at CES the GUI was clunky and the whole thing looked relatively primative; Google themselves asked us to keep an open mind and instead concentrate on […]

First LIVE images of FULLSCREEN Android demo! (Vincent Nguyen/Android Community)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Vincent Nguyen / Android Community:
First LIVE images of FULLSCREEN Android demo!  —  Google’s latest Android prototype is miles improved over the versions we last saw.  Back at CES the GUI was clunky and the whole thing looked relatively primative; Google themselves asked us to keep an open mind and instead concentrate on the OS’ […]