Bad News For RIM: Only 150,000 Torches Sold At Launch? — RIM needed a hit, and the data increasingly indicate that the Blackberry Torch is not that. While 150,000 units sold is nothing to sneeze at, and RIM's overall sales are still strong, I can smell their decaying brand from here.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Bad News For RIM: Only 150,000 Torches Sold At Launch? (Devin Coldewey/MobileCrunch)
Exclusive: Yahoo Eyes CafeMom for $100 Million Acquisition (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Exclusive: Yahoo Eyes CafeMom for $100 Million Acquisition — According to numerous sources, Yahoo is eager to close a deal to acquire CafeMom, a social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, in a move aimed at turbocharging its often-meandering strategy in the important women's space.
Is the web really dead? - Wired uses this graph to illustrate ... (Rob Beschizza/Boing Boing)
Is the web really dead? — Wired uses this graph to illustrate Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff's claim that the world wide web is “dead.” Their feature, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet, is live at Wired's own website. Without commenting on the article's argument …
Google TV Is a Tough Sell Among Would-Be Partners (Jessica E. Vascellaro/Wall Street Journal)
Google TV Is a Tough Sell Among Would-Be Partners — Google Inc. is launching a campaign to line up TV networks' support for its new Google TV software, but many remain reluctant to partner with a service that encroaches on their turf. — The service will allow people to watch and search cable …
HTML5-Optimized Yahoo Mail Hits the iPad (Chloe Albanesius/PC Magazine)
HTML5-Optimized Yahoo Mail Hits the iPad — Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled an updated, HTML5-optimized version of Yahoo Mail for the iPad, promising a faster, more organized, and feature-rich experience. — “If you've used our recently launched HTML5 mobile Web mail for iPhone you'll feel right at home …
Ebay Takes Down U.S. Access To Loquo Amid Sex Trafficking Allegations (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Ebay Takes Down U.S. Access To Loquo Amid Sex Trafficking Allegations — Craigslist, embattled over the most recent allegations of sex trafficking and underage prostitution, pointed their finger at eBay yesterday. Craigslist has put significant efforts into moderating inappropriate listings on their site, says CEO Jim Buckmaster.
Google Shows the Future of Browser Games (Sam Kennedy/1UP.com)
Google Shows the Future of Browser Games — Google's game developer advocate Mark DeLoura demonstrates the Google App store and more. — Earlier today at GDC Europe, which takes place before Gamescom this week in Germany, Google's new game developer advocate Mark DeLoura …
Investors Chide Michael Dell (New York Times)
New York Times:Investors Chide Michael Dell — SAN FRANCISCO — Dell's shareholders delivered a sharp rebuke of Michael S. Dell, the company's founder and chief executive, when a fourth of the investors withheld support of Mr. Dell in a recent vote. — In a regulatory filing released Tuesday … ]]>
Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26 (Lee Mathews/Download Squad)
Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26 — The title pretty much says it all on this one, folks. — Yes, our source tells us that Google is building a Chrome OS tablet. It's real, and it's being built by HTC. No surprise there, since HTC churned out the Nexus One for Google.
Plastic Surgeon Was Texting in Car Before Fatal Crash (Howard Breuer/People.com)
Plastic Surgeon Was Texting in Car Before Fatal Crash — Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was sending a Twitter message about his border collie just before his fatal car accident, his ex-girlfriend tells PEOPLE. — “He lived up in Malibu on a tiny street …
Verizon to Put Live TV on the iPad (Ryan Lawler/NewTeeVee)
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:Verizon to Put Live TV on the iPad — Verizon unveiled a series of new video applications today, including an upcoming iPad app that will allow FiOS subscribers to watch the same linear programming that is available on their TV screens on their tablet devices.]]>
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)
Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record — Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a great way of making public statements that are at once frank, unorthodox, thought provoking - and a little frightening. This weekend The Wall St. Journal ran an interview with Schmidt …
Geek Squad owners send cease-and-desist letter to God Squad (Bruce Vielmetti/JSOnline)
Geek Squad owners send cease-and-desist letter to God Squad — Luke Strand (center) and his classmates at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in St. Francis pose with the God Squad car in 2008. According to the Three Holy Women parish bulletin where the photo appears, the people in the photo are …
JULY SEARCH SHARE: Google Loses, Yahoo Gains, Bing Hits Wall (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)
JULY SEARCH SHARE: Google Loses, Yahoo Gains, Bing Hits Wall — Comscore has adjusted its search methodology to mute the impact of automated searches, “hovers,” and other gimmicks. — The new numbers only measure “explicit” searches, in which a user types a term in a search window and clicks “search.”
Indicted Apple Manager Was Paid for Consulting, Cresyn Says (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:Indicted Apple Manager Was Paid for Consulting, Cresyn Says — Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) — Cresyn Co., a maker of earphones for Apple Inc. iPods, said it paid a manager of the U.S. company, who was indicted by a U.S. grand jury, for market consulting services. — “It was our understanding … ]]>
Ex-Apple manager pleads not guilty (Pete Carey/Mercury News)
Pete Carey / Mercury News:Ex-Apple manager pleads not guilty — A former Apple manager pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he and a confederate collected more than $2.5 million in kickbacks from six Asian suppliers of parts for Apple's hottest products. — Paul Shim Devine, 37, of Sunnyvale … ]]>
RIM Said to Give India BlackBerry Access; Shares Fall (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:RIM Said to Give India BlackBerry Access; Shares Fall — Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd. will give India access to its BlackBerry messenger service beginning Sept. 1 to address security concerns, two government officials said in New Delhi today. The stock fell the most in a month.]]>
Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed ... (Joshua Topolsky/Engadget)
Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview — We've known that proper Xbox Live gaming (powered by XNA) was coming to Windows Phone 7 devices, but we'd yet to see any of that thumb-spraining goodness in action besides a brief demo and a few developer videos.
Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive (Matthew Danzico/BBC)
Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive — Chris Yurista, a Washington, DC resident who lives out of a backpack, claims digital technology has replaced the need for his home and his possessions — Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books.
Report Says Apple to Launch 7-inch IPad by Christmas (Dan Nystedt/PC World)
Dan Nystedt / PC World:Report Says Apple to Launch 7-inch IPad by Christmas — Apple is readying another tablet similar to the iPad but with a 7-inch touchscreen for launch as early as the end of this year, according to a major Taiwanese newspaper. — This is the second report of an iPad 2 sighting in Taiwan … ]]>
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet (Wired)
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet — Sources: Cisco estimates based on CAIDA publications, Andrew Odlyzko — Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.
Tap Snake Game in Android Market is Actually Spy App (Sarah Perez/ReadWriteWeb)
Tap Snake Game in Android Market is Actually Spy App — Another day, another Android app scare. This time, the app in question isn't a Russian-created Trojan that drains bank accounts but rather an innocent-looking clone of the “Snake” game called “Tap Snake.” However, Tap Snake isn't just a game.
China Unicom Clinches iPad Deal (english.caing.com)
China Unicom Clinches iPad Deal — A source from China Unicom said that the company has finalized an agreement to be the sole distributor of Apple's iPad in China — China Unicom, the exclusive provider of Apple's iPhone in China, has won the right to sell the iPad in the world's largest mobile market.
What Happened to the Grooveshark iPhone App? (Grooveshark)
Grooveshark:What Happened to the Grooveshark iPhone App? — After over a year of diligently working, last week marked us leaping through all the hoops necessary to finally offer what is far-and-away our most-requested feature: a Grooveshark app for the iPhone. Obviously the last few days … ]]>
Feds: No charges in Pa. school laptop-spying case (Associated Press)
Associated Press:Feds: No charges in Pa. school laptop-spying case — PHILADELPHIA — Federal prosecutors will not file charges against a school district or its employees over the use of software to remotely monitor students. — U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says investigators have found no evidence … ]]>
Monday, August 16, 2010
Professional Content Platform SlideShare Goes Freemium (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)
Professional Content Platform SlideShare Goes Freemium — SlideShare,the “YouTube for presentations,” has been focusing its efforts on becoming the premier platform for professional and business content. Today, SlideShare is going freemium with the announcement of tiered, paid plans for businesses.
Intel succumbs to evolution of 4G (Financial Times)
Financial Times:Intel succumbs to evolution of 4G — By Maija Palmer in London and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco — Intel is facing a bitter blow as it becomes increasingly clear that future, fourth-generation high-speed mobile phone networks are going to be based on long term evolution (LTE) technology … ]]>
Both Verizon Wireless iPhone and next generation iPad about to hit field testing? (Boy Genius Report)
Both Verizon Wireless iPhone and next generation iPad about to hit field testing? — One of our Apple sources has just informed us of something very interesting. Way down deep within iOS 4 is a pretty intriguing block of code. Our source says that the code queries the device …
Why Facebook Would Buy Chai Labs (Liz Gannes/GigaOM)
Why Facebook Would Buy Chai Labs — Facebook is buying Chai Labs, a small startup founded by the former product manager and launch engineer for Google AdSense, Gokul Rajaram, according to All Things D. While the small deal — an “acq-hire” of a company with relatively little funding and few employees …
Chitika: Bing Passes Yahoo In Search Market Share (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Chitika: Bing Passes Yahoo In Search Market Share — Well here's a surprise. New stats from Chitika show Bing has taken over the second place spot for search market share from Yahoo — and back in January 2010! — Chitika is an advertising network similar to Google AdSense.
Facebook Dislike button scam spreads virally (Graham Cluley/Sophos)
Facebook Dislike button scam spreads virally — Have you seen a message like this on Facebook? — If so, don't click on the link. — It's the latest survey scam spreading virally across Facebook, using the tried-and-tested formula used in the past by other viral scams including …
Rumored $99 iTV Could Pave Way for $2,000 Apple-Connected Television (John Paczkowski/Digital Daily)
Rumored $99 iTV Could Pave Way for $2,000 Apple-Connected Television — “The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy. The TV industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box.
Suit alleges Disney, other top sites spied on users (Greg Sandoval/CNET News)
Suit alleges Disney, other top sites spied on users — A lawsuit filed in federal court last week alleges that a group of well-known Web sites, including those owned by Disney, Warner Bros. Records, and Demand Media, broke the law by covertly tracking the Web movements of their users, including children.
N.Korea uses Twitter for propaganda offensive (Agence France Presse)
N.Korea uses Twitter for propaganda offensive — SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea's propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heals of its foray into video with clips posted on YouTube. — South Korea blocks the site and few in North Korea have access even to a computer.
Exclusive: Facebook Snaps Up Chai Labs (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Exclusive: Facebook Snaps Up Chai Labs — In yet another small acquisition, Facebook has bought Chai Labs, several sources said. — BoomTown could not confirm the price for the purchase of the content-focused start-up, but it is likely to be around $10 million and directed at acquiring talent.
Google To Acquire Like.com After Leaving Them At The Altar In 2005 (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Google To Acquire Like.com After Leaving Them At The Altar In 2005 — In late 2005 Google was on the verge of acquiring a company called Riya - the first real attempt at image facial recognition and tagging for consumers. Google eventually walked away from Riya, and the company trudged on.
Epic 4G review (Chris Ziegler/Engadget)
Epic 4G review — Of the seemingly countless variants of the Galaxy S that Samsung's in the process of deploying around the globe, one stands out in a couple very unique (and important) ways: Sprint's Epic 4G. The Epic hangs on to a couple of the Galaxy line's most important characteristics …
LTE or not, WiMax 2 set to roll out in 2012 (Brad Reed/Computerworld)
Brad Reed / Computerworld:LTE or not, WiMax 2 set to roll out in 2012 — Network World - While LTE starts rolling out from major U.S. carriers in 2011, the WiMax Forum is hoping to have the so-called WiMax 2 standard up and ready to go by the start of 2012. — What WiMax 2 promises]]>
Hulu Is Seen as Readying to Go Public (New York Times)
New York Times:Hulu Is Seen as Readying to Go Public — Hulu, the rapidly growing hub for online television and movies, aims to go public through an offering that could value the company at more than $2 billion, according to people briefed on the matter. In recent weeks, Hulu executives have begun talking … ]]>
Hurd Deal Inflamed Board (Wall Street Journal)
Hurd Deal Inflamed Board — H-P Chief's Surprise Settlement of Harassment Claim Contributed to His Ouster — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board decided to oust Mark Hurd Aug. 6 after the chief executive reached a sexual-harassment-claim settlement that directors thought impeded their probe of the claim …
Yahoo Japan Buys Location-Based Mobile Advertising Company Cirius (Serkan Toto/Asiajin)
Yahoo Japan Buys Location-Based Mobile Advertising Company Cirius — Something pretty rare happened today in Japan's web industry: a big Internet company acquired a smaller one. In this case, Yahoo Japan (the nation's biggest website) snatched up all shares of location-based mobile advertising company Cirius Technologies.
Apple hires NFC expert as mobile commerce product manager (Sarah Clark/Near Field Communications ...)
Apple hires NFC expert as mobile commerce product manager — Benjamin Vigier has been involved in the development of near field communication technology since 2004 and most recently was product manager for mobile wallet, payment and NFC at mobile payments specialists mFoundry.
Samsung Galaxy Tablet coming soon to Vodafone UK? (Darren Murph/Engadget)
Samsung Galaxy Tablet coming soon to Vodafone UK? — You know the old ‘smoke and fire’ adage by now, and while the alarms aren't sounding just yet, we get the feeling that they will be shortly. We've heard Samsung itself confirm that an Android-based tablet would be departing its labs sometime this year …
An atom bomb aimed at Intel: Smooth-Stone raises $48M for low-power ARM server chips (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
An atom bomb aimed at Intel: Smooth-Stone raises $48M for low-power ARM server chips — Hoping to outdo Intel in the server chip market, Smooth-Stone has raised $48 million to complete development of its ARM-based server chips which consume small amounts of power.
Motorola DROID Pro, World Edition and Tablet all found in Verizon Wireless systems (Boy Genius Report)
Motorola DROID Pro, World Edition and Tablet all found in Verizon Wireless systems — One of our Verizon Wireless sources has done a little digging for us, and we have turned up some awesome information. We exclusively reported that Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch a barrage …
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