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Sticky Situation of the Month: Ex-Yahoo Communications Head (and … (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Sticky Situation of the Month: Ex-Yahoo Communications Head (and “Peanut Butter Manifesto” Scribe) Garlinghouse to Helm Similar Unit at AOL  —  In the ongoing game of musical chairs among top managers at Internet companies, former Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse-famous for his controversial …

Technical issues could delay iPod camera upgrade [u] (Neil Hughes/AppleInsider)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Technical issues could delay iPod camera upgrade [u]  —  Just days before Apple is expected to unveil its new line of iPods, multiple reports are suggesting that some of the widely anticipated camera-equipped media players could be delayed due to technical difficulties.  [Updated with info from Hardmac.]

Services’ E-Mail Hacking Illegal, but Officials Need More Than That to Prosecute (Tom Jackman/Washington Post)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Services’ E-Mail Hacking Illegal, but Officials Need More Than That to Prosecute  —  When Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say.  So she turned to YourHackerz.com.  —  And for only $100, YourHackerz.com provided Cioni …

WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSSCloud (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSSCloud  —  All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in (using this plug-in) will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud.

RSS in the Clouds - RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication … (Matt/WordPress.com News)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Matt / WordPress.com News:
RSS in the Clouds  —  RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader or Bloglines.  You may not know what RSS is but chances are people are using it to read your blog.  We […]

Facebook ‘enhances intelligence’ but Twitter ‘diminishes it’ claims psychologist (Lucy Cockcroft/Telegraph)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Lucy Cockcroft / Telegraph:
Facebook ‘enhances intelligence’ but Twitter ‘diminishes it’ claims psychologist  —  Spending time on the Facebook networking site could enhance a key element of intelligence that is vital to success in life, a psychologist has claimed, but using Twitter may have the opposite effect.

First look at Spotify on S60 (Andres Sehr/Spotify)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Andres Sehr / Spotify:
First look at Spotify on S60  —  Today is turning into mobile day here at Spotify.  You’ve had a few hours to play around with our iPhone and Android apps but we didn’t want to leave out all those people who have a phone that runs the S60 mobile platform.  —  […]

New AT&T specific features rumored for future iPhone update (AppleInsider)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

AppleInsider:
New AT&T specific features rumored for future iPhone update  —  Apple and its exclusive US wireless provider AT&T could soon deliver new carrier-specific features to iPhone users through a future software update in a bid to increase customer satisfaction.  —  At least one of the enhancements …

ASUS planning dual screen Eee Reader: world’s cheapest e-book reader (Darren Murph/Engadget)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Darren Murph / Engadget:
ASUS planning dual screen Eee Reader: world’s cheapest e-book reader  —  Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together?  You betcha.  After catching an up close and personal glimpse at ASUS’ dual panel touchscreen concept at CeBIT this past March, we soon forgot ASUS even had such a beast […]

Life Recorders May Be This Century’s Wrist Watch (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Life Recorders May Be This Century’s Wrist Watch  —  Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long.  It has GPS and the ability to wirelessly upload the data to the cloud … […]