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Archive for August 18th, 2008

RIAA “problem” shutters online-music startup Muxtape (Owen Thomas/Valleywag)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
RIAA “problem” shutters online-music startup Muxtape  —  Muxtape, a New York-based online-music startup much favored by the Tumblr set, has shut down its website, citing a “problem” with the RIAA, a music-industry organization which polices copyright.  Could it have anything to do with the ease …

MobileMe: Supplemental 60-day extension eligibility and details (Apple)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Apple:
MobileMe: Supplemental 60-day extension eligibility and details  —  Learn about the 60-day extension to MobileMe subscriptions that Apple is providing to eligible members free of charge.  —  Note: This article will be updated when all 60-day extensions have been made available.

Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it (Tim Anderson/The Register)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Tim Anderson / The Register:
Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it  —  A year or so ago I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it.  Here’s the same kind of list for Microsoft’s Silverlight, based on the forthcoming Silverlight 2.0 […]

Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web? (Tim O’Reilly/O’Reilly Radar)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Radar:
Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?  —  Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention (pdf) when he noted that “over time, Wall Street ‘firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman […]

New iPhone Software 2.0.2 Today, New iPhone Shipment for AT&T Tomorrow (Zach Epstein/Boy Genius Report)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
New iPhone Software 2.0.2 Today, New iPhone Shipment for AT&T Tomorrow  —  First things first, we just got word that iPhone owners can look forward to a nice little firmware update coming their way in just over half an hour.  Version 2.0.2 (5C1) is due to hit iTunes at […]

Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK (Android Developers Blog)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Android Developers Blog:
Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK  —  I’m pretty happy today, for two reasons.  First, I’m happy because I get to let everyone know that we’re releasing a beta SDK.  You can read about the new Android 0.9 SDK beta at the Android Developers’ Site, or if you want to […]

This is a test - ads on YouTube’s mobile site (Christine Tsai/Google Mobile Blog)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Christine Tsai / Google Mobile Blog:
This is a test — ads on YouTube’s mobile site  —  Over the past year, we’ve focused on creating and delivering a full-featured YouTube mobile user experience.  We think we’ve made great strides in doing this, allowing you to access YouTube wherever you are, whenever you want it.

Video Ad Companies: People Love Watching Video Ads! (Michael Learmonth/Silicon Alley Insider)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Video Ad Companies: People Love Watching Video Ads!  —  Everyone knows it, so it must be true: Everyone hates pre-roll video ads — the mini-ads that publishers want you to sit through before you actually watch a clip.  We bail out on them constantly, and everyone we know does […]

Google Pushes White Space, Says Free The AirWaves (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Pushes White Space, Says Free The AirWaves  —  Updated: Today, Google is launching a new advocacy campaign, Free The Airwaves, an effort by the company to get some traction around white spaces, the tiny slivers of spectrum that resides in the 700 MHz band spectrum vacated by analog television’s switch […]

Leaked: Dell Inspiron 910 (Mini Note) Specs and Release Date (Mark Wilson/Gizmodo)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Leaked: Dell Inspiron 910 (Mini Note) Specs and Release Date  —  A few weeks ago we ran some rumored specs of Dell’s answer to the Eee, the Dell Inspiron 910 (aka Mini Inspiron and Inspiron Mini).  Now we’ve gotten our hands on the full (internal) 910 web documentation.