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Archive for January 31st, 2009

Adobe’s Narayen Says Flash on IPhone Is a Challenge (Bloomberg)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Bloomberg:
Adobe’s Narayen Says Flash on IPhone Is a Challenge  —  Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Adobe Systems Inc. faces a challenge in creating a version of its Flash video software for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen said.  —  “It’s a hard technical challenge …

Adobe, Apple working together on Flash for iPhone (Aidan Malley/AppleInsider)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Adobe, Apple working together on Flash for iPhone  —  Once thought to be building Flash for the iPhone mostly on its own, Adobe has mentioned at the World Economic Forum that it’s not only continuing work on the animation plug-in but has teamed up with Apple to make it a reality.

BART signs 20-year deal for Wi-Fi (Rachel Gordon/San Francisco Chronicle)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Rachel Gordon / San Francisco Chronicle:
BART signs 20-year deal for Wi-Fi  —  A pilot project testing high-speed Internet access on portions of BART will expand systemwide, allowing people to surf the Web, send e-mail and videoconference when riding the rails or waiting in the stations.  —  The goal is to outfit the 104 miles […]

Google glitch causes confusion (Maxim Weinstein/StopBadware Blog)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Maxim Weinstein / StopBadware Blog:
Google glitch causes confusion  —  This morning, an apparent glitch at Google caused nearly every [update 11:44 am] search listing to carry the “Warning!  This site may harm your computer” message.  Users who attempted to click through the results saw the “interstitial” …

“This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?! (Marissa Mayer/The Official Google Blog)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
“This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?!  —  If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message “This site may harm your computer” accompanied each and every search result.  This was clearly […]

Source: Intel prepping for mass roll-out of Android netbooks (MG Siegler/VentureBeat)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Source: Intel prepping for mass roll-out of Android netbooks  —  As netbook sales continue to pick up in a struggling world economy, Intel, which makes the Atom processor found in many of those netbooks, is looking towards the future of the market.  Specifically, it’s stepping up its efforts …

The Economics of Giving It Away (Chris Anderson/Wall Street Journal)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Chris Anderson / Wall Street Journal:
The Economics of Giving It Away  —  In a battered economy, free goods and services online are more attractive than ever.  So how can the suppliers make a business model out of nothing?  —  Over the past decade, we have built a country-sized economy online where the default price […]

Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware  —  We’re not quite sure what’s going on, but a couple of minutes ago any search result from Google is flagged as malware with a message saying “This site may harm your computer”.  —  Twitter is abuzz with people reporting the massive error, and it’s […]

The Best E-Mail Program Ever (Farhad Manjoo/Slate)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The Best E-Mail Program Ever  —  How Gmail destroyed Outlook.  —  As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages.  Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail.

OpenTable Files For IPO, And Reveals Its Finances (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
OpenTable Files For IPO, And Reveals Its Finances  —  OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation site that was founded in 1998, is hoping to raise as much as $40 million in an IPO, according to a filing with the SEC (embedded below).  The prospectus offers a detailed look at the company’s finances […]