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| Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
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 Apple Cements Lead In Mobile SoftwareApple's iPhone 3.0 software preview didn't introduce any bold, revolutionary new features. (And Apple didn't show off any new gadgets. But no one expected any.) Instead, Apple showed off a lot of little improvements that will make the iPhone significantly better this summer -- and the mobile race significantly harder for its rivals. Read >  Copy & Paste Finally Coming To The iPhoneApple iPhone 3.0 Software Event DiscussionWindows Slaughters The Mac In February Sales | |
| Google Names New US Sales Boss Google's replacement for for departing US sales boss Tim Armstrong will be Dennis Woodside, reports BoomTown. Dennis is currently vice president and managing director, UK, Benelux & Ireland. Here's how Omid Kordestani, SVP, Global Sales & Business Development, described Dennis in an internal memo. Read > | |
| Time For America's CIO Vivek Kundra To Resign Looks like Obama's choice for the nation's first CIO, Vivek Kundra, will continue as scheduled. We think that's a mistake. While we're quite elated to see one of our own on the job, his managerial ineptitude makes us think his hire is an error. Only a week after his appointment, FBI agents raided Vivek's former offices and arrested two amidst an ongoing investigation into kickbacks, forcing the White House to put him "on leave." At this point, there's no choice: Vivek Kundra should step aside. Read > | |
| Twitter, Facebook, And Google Owe Everything To AOL When, in his first memo to the troops, new AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wrote that his plan is to "make AOL and its sister properties the most powerful brands on the Internet," we observed that he was hallucinating. But when, in the same memo, Tim wrote "AOLers are responsible for some of the most important innovations on the Internet," he wrote something that's true. Read > | |
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Major win for Gazillion Entertainment, a gaming startup no one ever heard of before this week. Gazillion is announcing a ten year exclusive deal to build online videogames around Marvel Entertainment's inventory of 5,000 comic book characters, including everyday names like Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Hulk. Read > Analyst: YouTube Revenues Will Hit $500 Million This Year That's about twice as much as what most people expect YouTube to enjoy in 2009. Read > 'Millions' To Cut Cell Phone Spending While we don't expect people to get rid of their cellphones during the recession -- it seems that cutting the landline is more likely -- it does make sense that people would cut back on extras or trim their mobile budgets. Read > 'Sizable' Layoffs Coming To MySpace, Fox Pali Research analyst Rich Greenfield says "sizable layoffs" are coming to Fox Interactive. Mostly this has to do with Google being unlikely to renew its search deal with the News Corp. property when it expires in 2010. Read > Dell Adamo Vs Macbook Air: The Side-By-Side Comparison Dell introduced its new, high-fashion, high-price, ultra-thin Adamo laptop computer, and everyone is comparing its form to Apple's Macbook Air. But how do the features compare? We break it down. Read > | |
| Ten New Video Feeds Coming To Roku This YearApture Raises $4.1 Million, Gets NYT DealFour Months After The Election, Portfolio Puts Palin On The CoverGoogle Brags The New Chrome Is Blazing Fast, Chrome-For-Mac Still MIA | |
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