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Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple Appointed to Yahoo!’s Board of Directors (Yahoo!)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Yahoo!:
Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple Appointed to Yahoo!’s Board of Directors  —  Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple were appointed to Yahoo!’s board of directors.  —  “We are pleased to add people …

RIAA pays Tanyan Andersen $107,951 (Jon/p2pnet)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Jon / p2pnet:
RIAA pays Tanyan Andersen $107,951  —  RIAA News:- Another huge hole has appeared in Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s s(t)inking ship, the SS Sue ‘Em All.  —  And it’s well below the water-line.  —  Nor is the rapidly foundering merchant vessel MediaSentry looking too good.

Coming in September: Better 3G In The iPhone 3G (Peter Burrows/Byte of the Apple)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Peter Burrows / Byte of the Apple:
Coming in September: Better 3G In The iPhone 3G  —  As we reported last night, two reliable sources say Apple will issue a software fix that will address the widespread complaints regarding lost calls and inconsistent 3G access with the iPhone 3G.  The problem (and it is a […]

Welcome to Engineering Windows 7 (Engineering Windows 7)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Engineering Windows 7:
Welcome to Engineering Windows 7  —  Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7

Engineering Windows 7 - Welcome to our blog dedicated … (MSDN Blogs)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

MSDN Blogs:
Engineering Windows 7  —  Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7  —  Welcome to Engineering Windows 7  —  Welcome to our first post on a new blog from Microsoft—the Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short.  E7 is hosted by the two senior engineering managers …

Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking (Mary Jo Foley/All about Microsoft)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7?  Wishful thinking  —  My ZDNet blogging colleague Ed Bott’s headline took me aback when I read it today.  —  “Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7.”  —  What?!!  Had hell really frozen over while I was at lunch?  —  I bet that Bott’s headline […]

Ben Ling Lands (Back) at Google-This Time, at YouTube (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ben Ling Lands (Back) at Google-This Time, at YouTube  —  Ben Ling-the high-profile Facebook platform exec who came from Google less than a year ago and then up and left the social networking site earlier this week-is about to head back to…Google, this time taking a job leading monetization efforts … […]

Heinen settles with SEC over Apple option backdating complaint (Jack Davis/Docu-Drama)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Heinen settles with SEC over Apple option backdating complaint  —  In doing so, Heinen neither admitted or denied the Commission’s allegations.  —  According to the complaint, “Heinen caused Apple to fraudulently backdate two large options grants to senior executives of Apple …

Netflix Goes Dark And Finds It’s No Place To Be (Jim Goldman/Tech Check with Jim Goldman)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Netflix Goes Dark And Finds It’s No Place To Be  —  It started this morning with an email apology from online movie rental powerhouse Netflix, confirming to its 8.4 million users that the company was suffering a shipping and distribution outage.  —  I called the company this […]

Indie Game Developer Finds Success On Xbox 360 - Est. $825K Sales In First Week (Vasanth Sridharan/Silicon Alley Insider)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Indie Game Developer Finds Success On Xbox 360 — Est.  $825K Sales In First Week  —  Console game developers — people who make games for the Xbox, PlayStation, etc. — have mostly been big companies — EA, Activision, etc. — because of the high cost of game development and […]