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Archive for August 5th, 2008

Steve Jobs on MobileMe: the full e-mail (Jacqui Cheng/Infinite Loop)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Steve Jobs on MobileMe: the full e-mail  —  Ever since our report last night on an internal e-mail sent by Steve Jobs about the botched launch of MobileMe, we have received an outpouring of requests for the full text of the e-mail.  Although we originally weren’t comfortable publishing the entire […]

The Yahoo Shareholder Vote: Like Florida, Except More Confusing! (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Yahoo Shareholder Vote: Like Florida, Except More Confusing!  —  All Yahoo needs now is for former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris to show up and start recounting votes.  —  It could happen, given all the crazy characters who have been drawn to the much-beleaguered Internet company like a magnet, […]

Hi-tech criminals target Twitter (BBC)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

BBC:
Hi-tech criminals target Twitter  —  Micro blogging site Twitter is the latest target of cyber criminals who are increasingly finding fertile ground on social networks.  —  A fake Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky.

DoubleClick Serves Into Silverlight to Power Video Advertising … (Lynn Tornabene/Google)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Lynn Tornabene / Google:
DoubleClick Serves Into Silverlight to Power Video Advertising for NBC Universal Digital Media  —  DoubleClick In-Stream powers video advertising in Flash, RealMedia, Windows Media and now Silverlight 2 players  —  Today, DoubleClick, a premier provider of digital marketing technology and services …

Rocketboom Inks Seven-Figure Distribution Deal With Sony (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Rocketboom Inks Seven-Figure Distribution Deal With Sony  —  Rocketboom, the daily video blog, is turning over its distribution and ad sales to Sony Pictures Television in return for a seven-figure guarantee plus a share of revenues.  Rocketboom will be distributed on Sony’s Crackle video site …

Analysts slam iPhone security and battery life (Bill Ray/The Register)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Bill Ray / The Register:
Analysts slam iPhone security and battery life  —  Analysts have decreed that the new iPhone’s lack of security and poor battery life make it unsuitable for all but the lightest enterprise use.  —  The conclusions come in a nine-page research note from Gartner, as reported by Computerword.

iPhone security and battery life are crap (Bill Ray/The Register)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Bill Ray / The Register:
iPhone security and battery life are crap  —  Analysts have decreed that the new iPhone’s lack of security and poor battery life make it unsuitable for all but the lightest enterprise use.  —  The conclusions come in a nine-page research note from Gartner, as reported by Computerword.

Delta to Become Only Major U.S. Airline to Offer Broadband Wi-Fi … (Delta Newsroom)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Delta Newsroom:
Delta to Become Only Major U.S. Airline to Offer Broadband Wi-Fi Access on Entire Domestic Mainline Fleet  —  Aircell’s Gogo inflight Internet service to be available in first and economy classes on more than 330 Delta aircraft in 2009, the most expansive inflight broadband offering of any U.S. air carrier

Marriage Proposal in Street View! (Google Earth Blog)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Google Earth Blog:
Marriage Proposal in Street View!  —  Google decided to take some new Street View images at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.  This time they must have let the employees know, as there are many Googlers lining the street.  They must have given advance warning, because some people came prepared.

AT&T joins the cloud computing game (Larry Dignan/Between the Lines)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T joins the cloud computing game  —  AT&T said Tuesday that it will offer cloud computing services via a new service dubbed AT&T Synaptic Hosting.  —  The telecom giant described Synaptic as a “next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses.”