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Archive for February 26th, 2009

CBS Beams ‘Star Trek’ Episodes to iPhones (Saul Hansell/Bits)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

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.”

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) …