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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RIM CEO: Buggy smartphone software is the “new reality” — While our experience says otherwise, we really hope that the practice of launching buggy smartphones hasn't been institutionalized. The Wall Street Journal just published a report about the “bumpy launch” of the BlackBerry Storm …
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Apple:
iLife '09 Shipping January 27 — Major Upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie & GarageBand — Apple® today announced that iLife® '09 will be available tomorrow, January 27, and features major upgrades to iPhoto®, iMovie® and GarageBand®, with breakthrough new ways to organize and manage photos …
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Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Announces Actions to Reduce Labor Costs by about $1.2 Billion — Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) today announced that the company will take actions in the first quarter of 2009 to reduce internal and external labor costs by approximately $1.2 billion on an annualized basis.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Sprint To Chop 8,000 Jobs By March 31 — Sprint Nextel (S) this morning said it will cut 8,000 jobs by March 31 as part of a program to internal and external labor costs by about $1.2 billion a year. The total includes 850 positions expected to be eliminated under a voluntary separation plan started late last year.
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Intego:
New Variant of Mac Trojan Horse iServices Found in Pirated Adobe Photoshop CS4 — Exploit: OSX.Trojan.iServices.B Trojan Horse — Description: Intego has discovered a new variant of the iServices Trojan horse that the company discovered on January 22, 2009.
Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
Chip complex delaying Apple's new iMac line, says analyst — Apple's next-generation iMacs are being held up for business reasons and a minor technical obstacle, according to one Wall Street analyst. — Kaufman Brothers' Shaw Wu, citing supply chain checks, says the new iMac appears …
Times of London:
Speculation grows over eBay plan to sell Skype internet telephone division — Chief executive's descrition of internet telephony group as great standalone business fires speculation — Speculation is mounting that eBay, the internet auction website, is preparing to sell Skype, its internet telephone company.
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Patrick Foster / Times of London:
Music pirates will not be disconnected from the internet — Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by illegally sharing music and video files, The Times has learnt. — Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, said last year that the Government had …
Adam Sage / Times of London:
Nintendo brain-trainer ‘no better than pencil and paper’ — A 10p pencil is just as good as a £100 Nintendo at stimulating the memory, according to a study that dismisses the DS Lite's claims to boost the brain. — The survey of ten-year-old children found no evidence to support claims …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
TurboTax face-off: Treasury Secretary Geithner vs. Intuit — Most likely to be Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner-the man entrusted with overseeing with the Internal Revenue Service and a remaining $350 billion in bailout funds-apparently isn't so smooth when it comes to Intuit's TurboTax.
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PE Hub Blog:
ChaCha Raising $30 Million — ChaCha Search Inc., a Carmel, Ind.-based search startup, has secured around $11 million of a $30 million Series C round, according to a regulatory filing. No new shareholders are listed. The company had previously raised around $14 million from Morton Meyerson …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA seeks sanctions against Harvard Law School prof — Joel Tenenbaum's file-swapping case is being handled by a Harvard Law prof and his students, but the RIAA wants Professor Nesson censored and fined after he tries to depose a mysterious music industry lawyer. — Does the RIAA look at Charles Nesson and see Denny Crane?
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Silicon Valley's Fork in the Road — Unless we spend more on technology and science, companies like Apple, HP and IBM could be eclipsed by foreign rivals. — From the magazine issue dated Feb 2, 2009 — Could Silicon Valley become another Detroit? It's hard to imagine as you crawl along …
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Abbey Klaasen / AdAge:
Online CPM Prices Take Tumble — Many Pin Blame on Web's History of a ‘Spray-and-Pray’ Medium — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Forget about first-quarter woes in the display-ad market. For content companies, what will be more important are the long-lasting effects of a recession-induced ad slowdown …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Netflix Shrs Rally Ahead Of Earnings This Afternoon — Netflix (NFLX) shares are on the rise this morning ahead of the company's Q4 earnings report due after the close of trading this afternoon. The question investors are likely to focus on: can the company continue to put up solid growth numbers …
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InfoWorld:
Wireless app development marching on — The battered economy is not stopping wireless developers from building enterprise applications for devices, according to an Evans Data study detailed on Monday. — The survey of more than 400 wireless developers worldwide in the commercial …
PC Pro:
EU could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with Windows — The European Commission could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. — The revelation came as part of Microsoft's quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission.
Robin Harris / Storage Bits:
Windows kicks Linux to the curb — Gosh, that didn't take long! — Last July Linux had a huge opportunity to beat Windows in the red-hot netbook market (see Linux for housewives. XP for geeks. ). But faster than I'd expected Microsoft has kicked Linux to the curb, claiming an 80% attach rate for netbooks.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Long Tail Not Dead Yet: eMusic Says It's Alive And Well — There have been a series of criticisms to Chris Anderson's concept of “The Long Tail” lately. While most don't hold up under scrutiny, a few have made some good points that don't actually go against the long tail concept, but may adjust some of how people understand it.
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Is Conde Nast Finally Fostering Digital? — Publisher Consolidates Operations in New Unit, Gets Rid of Condenet … NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — On the list of magazine publishers that have built big businesses online, Condé Nast Publications ranks pretty low.
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Can Microsoft Blame Netbooks? — Over the last two days, a couple people have told me that Microsoft largely blames year-over-year Client revenue division declines on netbooks, which most analysts refer to as mini-notebooks. Yes, netbooks can claim much, perhaps most, of the blame.
