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Archive for October 22nd, 2008

Steve Jobs: We Still Haven’t Figured Out The Living Room (AAPL) (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs: We Still Haven’t Figured Out The Living Room (AAPL)  —  Not Steve Jobs’ most important comment during last night’s earnings call, but still interesting: Apple’s (AAPL) chief admits no one has succeeded yet at bridging your living room TV with the Internet — including Apple […]

Touching Firefox - I finally upgraded from my iBook G4 … (edilee)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

edilee:
Touching Firefox  —  I finally upgraded from my iBook G4 to one of those new shiny aluminum MacBooks last Tuesday, so over the weekend, I got to play around with the big buttonless glass trackpad.  I noticed that I often used the 4-finger gestures to show all windows or the desktop but rarely used […]

Top Ten Android Launch Apps (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Top Ten Android Launch Apps  —  The first Android phone. the G1, goes on sale today at T-Mobile stores.  And, although I have some issues with the software/hardware interface, those are more than overcome by all the great software on the phone.  I’ve been testing out a phone for about a […]

Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping (Andrew Keen/Internet Evolution)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Andrew Keen / Internet Evolution:
Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping  —  When we think of the Great Depression, we imagine long lines of gaunt men, caps in hand, waiting for soup handouts.  The equivalent photos of today’s economic hard times — displayed for free, of course, on Flickr — may be represented by […]

Bill Gates’ mysterious new company (TechFlash)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

TechFlash:
Bill Gates’ mysterious new company  —  Just months after his Microsoft farewell, Bill Gates is quietly creating a new company — complete with high-tech office space, a cryptic name and even its own trademark.  —  Public documents describe the new Gates entity — bgC3 LLC — as a “think tank.”

Make a date with data in Google Analytics (Vineesha Malkani/Inside AdSense)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Vineesha Malkani / Inside AdSense:
Make a date with data in Google Analytics  —  Here in AdSense, we’re big on data.  From spreadsheets and graphs to weekly reports and metrics, we constantly turn to numbers when running our business.  In a similar vein, we’ve heard your requests for more data to help you run your […]

Tough times, hard decisions. (Jason Calacanis/The Jason Calacanis …)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Tough times, hard decisions.  —  Given the challenging economic environment, we’ve decided to cut costs at Mahalo.  —  Although we’ve got a significant amount of cash on hand, and the business is ahead of schedule in terms of traffic (4m uniques a month, double where we thought we […]

Rackspace Buys Two Startups to Beat Amazon’s Cloud (Stacey Higginbotham/GigaOM)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Rackspace Buys Two Startups to Beat Amazon’s Cloud  —  Rackspace Hosting said today that it has agreed to buy startups Slicehost and Jungle Disk, a move aimed at boosting its Mosso cloud offerings in order to step up competition with Amazon’s Web Services.  But whether or not Rackspace …

Music Social Network Imeem In Play; Hires Bank; Laying Off 25 Percent (Rafat Ali/paidContent.org)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Music Social Network Imeem In Play; Hires Bank; Laying Off 25 Percent  —  Online music-focused social network Imeem is on the block, according to our sources, and has hired investment banker Montgomery and Co. to lead the sale.  Coincidentally, we have also learned that the company is announcing …

Apricot drops ‘too complicated’ Linux from netbook line (Tony Smith/The Register)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Tony Smith / The Register:
Apricot drops ‘too complicated’ Linux from netbook line  —  Apricot has pulled the plug on its Linux-based netbook, choosing instead to offer the pint-sized Picobook Pro only with Windows XP.  —  The Pro, which launched last week, was to be offered with a choice of XP and SuSE Linux Enterprise […]