Top Items:
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini Laptop — I bumped into Michael Dell at All Things D after his interview, and he was nice enough to show me this laptop that he was carrying that he said no one's seen before. It's a small form factor notebook, just like the Asus Eee and the HP 2133.
RELATED:
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Is This The Acer Aspire One MiniNote? — Update. Some details are emerging...see below. — Hot on the heals of the Dell Mininote leak are these images which just dropped into our forum. This posts are titled ‘Aspire One.’ — It's got the same touchpad as seen on the HP 2133 and what appears to be an 8.9″ screen.
Anne B. Camden / Your Blog:
Something from Dell at D6 — There's a pretty cool event going on as you read this out in Carlsbad, Calif - the D: All Things Digital conference. Conversations from it have been lighting up the front page of Techmeme since last night. For those who aren't familiar with it …
Discussion:
DailyTech, Gearlog, D6 Highlights, MacUser, I4U News, TechRadar.com, Tech Ticker, Tech Trader Daily and down the avenue
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Glam offers new video ad network, gets acquisition offer for $1.3B — Glam, the fast-growing online advertiser and publisher for women, is announcing a new video offering that may make it easier to monetize videos on the Web. — Beginning tomorrow, Glam is letting its network publishers …
Discussion:
mathewingram.com/work, Webware.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable! and The Blog Herald
RELATED:
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google — Barack Obama's campaign spent at least $3.47 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April. The biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential hopeful's online ad dollars was Google.
RELATED:
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Google Rakes In Campaign Contributions From Obama; Facebook Defeats MySpace! — Unlike political candidates, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and other online ad providers can receive an unlimited amount of campaign cash. While they won't receive the kind of ad money that TV and radio will attract …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report — Akamai is out today with their first “State of the Internet” report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access, and Internet penetration. Some of the interesting stats include:
RELATED:
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Mozilla “Download Day” - Are you in or out? — Mozilla are organizing a “Download Day” to promote Firefox 3.0 and set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Are you in or out? — Maybe it's me and I'm feeling a little cranky today because I've …
RELATED:
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mozilla aims for record-breaking Firefox 3 launch — Our testing of the latest release candidate reinforces the belief held by many that Firefox 3 represents a major breakthrough in performance, usability, and resource efficiency. But that isn't enough for its intrepid developers …
Discussion:
The Mozilla Blog
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Mark Zuckerberg: “A technology company is a company that creates technology” — CARLSBAD, CA — Mark Zuckerberg has learned nothing. Taking the stage at D6, he uttered nothing but bromides and nonsequiturs. Examples: “Facebook is a technology company ... a technology company is a company …
RELATED:
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
D: Zuckerberg and Sandberg On The State Of Facebook
D: Zuckerberg and Sandberg On The State Of Facebook
Discussion:
Epicenter, All Facebook, APC, Outside the Lines, Forbes, paidContent.org, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider and BetaNews
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
The Fork in the Road for Social Media — Social networking is at a major fork in the road. Down one road is adding more features to a walled garden and opening up just enough, so that users seldom need to leave. Most sites are going down this yellow brick road and the prize is clearly a big one.
Discussion:
broadstuff
RELATED:
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Apple to make major studios' films available for download — Apple is poised to announce it will start selling films from four major Hollywood studios for download in the UK as part of its iTunes internet service at prices on a par with DVDs. — The company intends to unveil agreements with Disney …
Associated Press:
Hutchison Telecom to offer Apple's iPhone in Hong Kong, Macau — HONG KONG (AP) - Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. said Thursday it signed an agreement with Apple Inc. to offer the popular iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau later this year. — Terms of the deal were not released.
RELATED:
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
D: News Corp.'s Murdoch “Mystified” By YHOO's Failure To Do MSFT Deal; Sees Recession; Will He Vote For Obama? — For the final session at D: All Things Digital today, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher are interviewing News Corp. (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch, who of course owns the Wall Street Journal …
RELATED:
Alec Saunders SquawkBox:
JAJAH: Change is in the wind — A couple of weeks ago I was invited to give a talk at the University of Toronto as part of their MET Executive Development Program. The room was stuffed full of telecom execs on a two day program run by the engineering faculty at the University.
Vincent Nguyen / Android Community:
First LIVE images and videos of FULLSCREEN Android demos! — Google's latest Android prototype is miles improved over the versions we last saw. Back at CES the GUI was clunky and the whole thing looked relatively primative; Google themselves asked us to keep an open mind and instead concentrate on the OS' potential.
Discussion:
Virtual Worlds News, CNET News.com, InfoWorld, Gadget Lab, Todd Watson, last100, Engadget, Electronista, SlashPhone, Scobleizer, I4U News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, PHONE Magazine, localmobilesearch.net, IntoMobile, stuart henshall, Gizmodo, PhoneDog.com, The Inquisitr, dailywireless.org, Download Squad, Geek News Central, Pocket PC Thoughts.com, mocoNews.net, UMPCPortal, Tech Blog and InformationWeek Weblog
Rory Reid / Crave at CNET UK:
MSI Wind: Hands-on, with exclusive photos — We've just had an exclusive hands-on with the MSI Wind, which we liked the look of in March, and by golly it's good. So good, in fact, that it could take the throne from the Asus Eee PC as the best mini laptop on the planet.
Discussion:
Engadget