Saul Hansell / Bits:
CBS Beams ‘Star Trek’ Episodes to iPhones — CBS is taking the iPhone where no iPhone has gone before. — Today, it released an iPhone application for its TV.com site that can play full episodes of TV series, ranging from “C.S.I.” to the original “Star Trek.”
Archive for February 26th, 2009
CBS Beams ‘Star Trek’ Episodes to iPhones (Saul Hansell/Bits)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Digg Is Working On a Toolbar To Go After StumbleUpon, TinyURL, and All The Rest (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Digg Is Working On a Toolbar To Go After StumbleUpon, TinyURL, and All The Rest — A super-secret Digg toolbar has been spotted in the wild. We tracked down a beta tester who gave us the skinny on its features. The toolbar lets you Digg or Bury the page you are […]
Governing the Facebook Service in an Open and Transparent Way (Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook Blog)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Governing the Facebook Service in an Open and Transparent Way — Last week, we returned to our previous Terms of Use as we worked on a new set of governing documents that would more clearly explain the relationship between Facebook and its users. Since then, I’ve been excited …
PowerBook explodes in London office (Paul Hales/Inquirer)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Paul Hales / Inquirer:
PowerBook explodes in London office — STAFF IN THE London office of a marketing company were left shocked and reeling yesterday after an Apple PowerBook burst into flames. — The company asked not to be identified, as IT manager Steven told how he was called to the scene by reports of […]
Dell Q4 Revenues, EPS Come In Far Short Of Estimates (Eric Savitz/Tech Trader Daily)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Dell Q4 Revenues, EPS Come In Far Short Of Estimates — Dell (DELL) this afternoon reported revenues and profits for its fiscal fourth quarter ended January 30 that were well short of Street estimates. But the company also announced plans for a new round of cost-cutting, something the Street […]
Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition Friday (Joe Mahoney/Rocky Mountain News)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Joe Mahoney / Rocky Mountain News:
Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition Friday — Executives from E.W. Scripps Co., announce their decision on the future of the Rocky Mountain News in the 150-year-old newspaper’s newsroom on 2/26/09 in Denver. In December 2008, the Rocky’s parent company put the paper up for sale … […]
Yahoo CFO Jorgensen resigns (Sam Diaz/Between the Lines)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Yahoo CFO Jorgensen resigns — Yahoo CFO Blake Jorgensen, who addressed analysts at the Goldman Sachs Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday, has resigned from the company. In a very brief SEC filing, the company wrote: … He was pretty much a Yahoo cheerleader during the Goldman Sachs event […]
Why Are iPhone Users Willing to Pay for Content? (Saul Hansell/Bits)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why Are iPhone Users Willing to Pay for Content? — It may be no surprise that the bestselling computer book so far this year is “iPhone: The Missing Manual,” by my colleague David Pogue (O’Reilly, 2007). — But here is something that did surprise me: The most popular edition of this […]
Facebook releases draft of new user terms, asks for user feedback (Eric Eldon/VentureBeat)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook releases draft of new user terms, asks for user feedback — Facebook is now asking for user feedback on a draft version of its proposed replacement for its previously-contested Terms of Service. The company is also announcing a guiding set of “Principles” (also open for comment) …
White hat hackers target the iPhone (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
White hat hackers target the iPhone — How secure is your smartphone? We may find out next month. — Hackers and computer security experts gathering on March 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the third annual Pwn2Own contest will be targeting five smartphones: an Apple (AAPL) …