Joshua Topolsky:
Why Engadget is blocking the DiggBar — Some of you may be wondering why you’re not seeing the latest piece of Digg’s news-puzzle — the DiggBar — on Engadget. Let me explain. — If you’ve seen the tool in action, then you know that it appears to offer an easy way to read […]
Archive for April 10th, 2009
Why Engadget is blocking the DiggBar (Joshua Topolsky)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
TweetStack: Get Your TweetDeck Columns on Your iPhone [Free Copies] (Jennifer Van Grove/Mashable!)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
TweetStack: Get Your TweetDeck Columns on Your iPhone [Free Copies] — Even at $2.99, Tweetie has managed to claim the hearts and minds of iPhone Twitterers who are willing to pay to get features like multiple accounts, retweeting, following, and search in a fast and flexible Twitter app.
Bye, MG Siegler, we’ll miss you - especially your headlines (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Bye, MG Siegler, we’ll miss you — especially your headlines — It’s with a heavy heart that I write this post. Reporter MG Siegler is leaving VentureBeat to begin work at competing blog TechCrunch. We always viewed MG as one of our better writers, and he fit really well with our […]
Report: Amazon At Work On Larger-Screen Kindle (Chad Berndtson/ChannelWeb)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Chad Berndtson / ChannelWeb:
Report: Amazon At Work On Larger-Screen Kindle — The second version of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader hasn’t been out two months, but Kindle 2 may already have a big brother on the way. According to a late Friday The Wall Street Journal report, Amazon is working on a new larger-screen version … […]
Skype Founders Seek to Buy Service Back (Brad Stone/New York Times)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Skype Founders Seek to Buy Service Back — SAN FRANCISCO — The European duo who created Skype and sold it to eBay for billions may have another trick up their sleeve: buying it back. — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the original founders of Skype, have approached several private […]
Fiber sabotage reward jumps; more damage discovered (Sam Diaz/Between the Lines)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Fiber sabotage reward jumps; more damage discovered — If there were a show called CSI: Silicon Valley, this could be the pilot episode. It appears that the Case of the Silicon Valley Fiber Line Cuts has taken a few more turns today. — First, AT&T has upped its reward […]
Is this the Zune HD? - Uh. Looks like something is happening … (Joshua Topolsky/Engadget)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Is this the Zune HD? — Uh. Looks like something is happening — big time — in Zune land. We present what might possibly be your first look at, yes… the Zune HD. In the gallery below, you can see images from what appears to be a forthcoming marketing campaign for […]
Current TV Cans IPO (PE Hub Blog)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
PE Hub Blog:
Current TV Cans IPO — Current Media Inc. (a.k.a. Current TV), a San Francisco-based television news and information network for young adults, has withdrawn registration for a $100 million IPO. It cited “current market conditions.” — The company had planned to trade on the Nasdaq …
IPhone Needs A New Brain (Brian Caulfield/Forbes)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
IPhone Needs A New Brain — Will Apple’s wonder gadget get more memory? Will it come in different colors? Who cares. A new processor is what it really needs. — Will the iPhone get more flash memory? Will it get new features, like a compass? — Who cares. What the iPhone […]
AP Exec: “To the Untrained Eye It Looks Like We’re Stupid” (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
AP Exec: “To the Untrained Eye It Looks Like We’re Stupid” — Rough week for the Associated Press, at least if you measure it by headlines: First, the venerable news organization/aggregator confused the likes of me by announcing a vague plan to fight the Internet.