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Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
Steve Jobs and the Orifice — David Pogue posted a sarcastic list of questions people have been asking about the iPhone over at the NYTimes. David is apparently a true believer and he has actually held an iPhone in his hand. But I submitted this response for posting as a comment on his blog:
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Steve Jobs: iPhone Ain't Opening Up — OK so Jobs didn't use the word "ain't". But in a Newsweek interview with Steven Levy, Jobs put the kibosh on any talk about the iPhone opening up its platform for third party developers: … Perhaps the most revealing quote is about the issue …
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark last year, experts say — An investigation into the ongoing trademark dispute between Cisco and Apple over the name "iPhone" appears to show that Cisco does not own the mark as claimed in their recent lawsuit. This is based on publicly available information …
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Did Cisco lose its right to iPhone trademark last year?
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David Greiner / Campaign Monitor Blog:
Microsoft takes email design back 5 years — As I type this post I still can't believe it. I'm literally stunned. If you haven't already heard, I'm talking about the recent news that Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use …
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Are You Paying Attention?, Channel 9, Ed Brill, Webware.com, All about Microsoft, JD on EP, Jeremy's Blog, Smalltalk Tidbits … and digg
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Why Hollywood Snubbed Jobs at Macworld — Most of Tinseltown won't buy into the Apple chief's digital vision until he ponies up more money and gets more serious about protecting content — By all accounts, Steve Jobs gave a socko performance, delivered with his usual charm and controversial style …
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
AT&T Prepares to 'De-Brand' the Cingular Wireless Name — One of the biggest "de-brandings" in advertising history is to begin Monday when AT&T, now the sole owner of Cingular Wireless, starts changing all Cingular marketing to adopt the AT&T name. — AT&T will not disclose the budget for the campaign …
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Things That, michael parekh on IT, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, ALLIED, Business Filter and SeekingAlpha Wireless Stocks
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emigroup.com:
EMI Group plc announcement — EMI today announces: — A restructuring programme which will generate £110m of incremental annual cost savings — Board and senior management changes — An update on current trading — A revised outlook for the Group reflecting …
Zephoria / apophenia:
a practice broken, another silo solidified — I know i have some quirky habits but i really really really hate when web companies break them with their latest updates. One of my weird ones concerns getting directions to a place (which i do 2-3 times a day).
Light Reading:
Avaya Swoops on Ubiquity — IP PBX giant Avaya Inc. (NYSE: AV - message board) has offered to buy SIP applications server specialist Ubiquity Software Corp. (London: UBQ - message board) for £74.3 million (US$144.8 million) in cash, it announced early Friday.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Will the iPhone be a Serious Business Device? — I had a long debate yesterday with James Joaquin, the former CEO of ofoto and one of the founders of When.com, about whether or not the iPhone will be just a toy or a serious business device. I think it is. He remains unconvinced.
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Apple Gazette
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Tag Cloud View of Bill Gates CES Keynote — Todd Bishop at Seattle P-I newspaper has published a telling tag cloud view of Bill Gates' speech at CES earlier this week. Notes Bishop: … Here is the result: — This is an excellent use of tag clouds! I wrote in our wrap-of Gates' speech …
Richard / Apogee Weblog:
Not Search Engine Spam — It's been a long time since I've engaged in serious spam fighting - about a decade. In 1998, the O'Reilly book Stopping Spam mentioned a spam filtering solution I had designed and helped implement for AOL's usenet system. Now, I find myself confronted …
Donald Melanson / Engadget Mobile:
Verizon increases SMS rates — customers now free of their contracts — It looks like Verizon Wireless is following in Sprint's SMS footsteps, announcing a planned hike in text messaging rates for those not currently subscribed to a messaging package. The hike, which will take effect March 1st …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC denies Comcast request; "integration ban" coming in July — The FCC Media Bureau yesterday put the kibosh on Comcast's request to ditch the "integration ban" that goes into effect on July 1, 2007. The FCC decision means that the ban will go forward as scheduled and cable operators …
Valleywag:
GADGETS: The Ugly Babies of CES — NICK DOUGLAS — The annual gadget orgy known as CES turned out some shiny pretty things, but it popped out some damn ugly (and stupid, useless, wasteful, and all the other things your momma called you) gadgets. Here's an illustrated recap of the worst, and just what makes each so unsellable.
Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:
Getting their video on, in New Jersey — How's this for attitude? "The television station New Jersey doesn't have." — At The Star-Ledger, a Newhouse newspaper in Newark, New Jersey, a new video site called TV Jersey features work by staff photographers and contributions from the public.
