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Sanjay Jha Named Co-Chief Executive Officer of Motorola and Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Devices Business — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today announced its Board of Directors has named Dr. Sanjay Jha as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Motorola and Chief Executive Officer …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Motorola Hires New Cellphone CEO: Qualcomm's Sanjay Jha (MOT) — Motorola (MOT) finally has its turnaround man: The company named Dr. Sanjay Jha co-CEO and CEO of its Mobile Devices business this morning. Jha will lead the company's cellphone spinoff, scheduled for Q3 2008 …
BBC:
Microsoft sees end of Windows era — Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. — Called Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs. — It is centred on the internet …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone nano: A rumor before its time — Is Steve Jobs preparing to launch a smaller, cheaper version of the iPhone in time for Christmas? — That's the rumor — based on a brief item in London's Daily Mail — that had Apple watchers buzzing over the weekend.
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The Apple Core
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Simon Fluendy / Daily Mail:Apple to launch the iPhone ‘nano’ in time for Christmas
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TechCrunch UK, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, Unwired View, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, BloggingStocks, The Next Web, I4U News, Technologizer, iPhone Savior, O'Grady's PowerPage, localmobilesearch.net, broadstuff, CrunchGear, Startup Meme, Distorted-Loop.com, Boing Boing Gadgets, ZDNet.com.au, Crave, VentureBeat, Electricpig.co.uk and 9 to 5 Mac
Laura M. Holson / Bits:
New LiMo Cellphones Protect and Surf — The LiMo Foundation, a consortium of wireless-related companies seeking to create an open operating system for cellphones and other wireless devices, has introduced seven new handsets based upon the Linux operating system, bringing the total to 21.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Social.FM, Formerly Mercora, Shuts Down — Mercora, an early entrant into the social music and music search space that recently rebranded itself as Social.FM, has shut down and suspended operations. After being tipped off by a source, I tried reaching the company's executives, but haven't heard from them.
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Merissa Marr / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Is Ready To Deal AOL Components — Time Warner Inc. has completed the internal work necessary to separate its AOL unit's dial-up-access business from its advertising and content business, the company is expected to announce Wednesday. Now it will get serious about plotting …
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Rachael King / Business Week:
How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World — A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications — At first, just a handful of employees at Sanmina-SCI (SANM) began using Google Apps (GOOG) …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Chilling sign: Private publisher exit plans — The intentions of Copley Press and Advance Publications to explore the sale of two of their signature properties represents a discouraging new lack of confidence in the future of metro newspapers. — The potential sale of the San Diego Union-Tribune …
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eWeek:
Why Microsoft Will Try Again for Yahoo in 2009 — Insider Eric Jackson believes that it's only the second inning in the revival of Yahoo. He expects Microsoft to return with yet another merger proposition for Yahoo next year because Microsoft still needs big help in online services.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Twitter will kick themselves for missing this — Imagine if the world of Instant Messaging had been under one roof, if one vendor had invented it, and had 100 percent market share. Further, what if that vendor had the foresight that there would be other vendors and that compatibility between …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Intel details future ‘Larrabee’ graphics chip — Intel has disclosed details on a chip that will compete directly with Nvidia and ATI and may take it into unchartered technological and market-segment waters. — Larrabee will be a stand-alone chip, meaning it will be very different than the low-end …
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MacRumors, Inquirer, Engadget, Gizmodo, Electronista, TechSpot, dailywireless.org, New York Times, TG Daily and eWeek
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Foxconn Building 800,000 iPhones A Week — Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics giant that produces the iPhone 3G for Apple, has ramped up production to 800,000 units per week, says a source close to Apple with direct knowledge of the numbers. This is “above current full capacity” and there may be some concerns with quality control.
Yakov / Quintura blog:
Alisher Usmanov Seeks To Acquire Stake In Yandex — The founder of Metalloinvest holding and owner of Kommersant publishing house, Alisher Usmanov is becoming a major investor in Russian internet, reported business daily Vedomosti. According to newspaper, he is negotiating an acquisition …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Translation Center, a New Human Translations Service in the Making … [Thanks Tony!] … Google Translation Center ... by Philipp Lenssen |
