Techmeme: Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple's Board of Directors (Steve Dowling/Apple)

11:50 AM ET, August 3, 2009

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Steve Dowling / Apple:

Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple's Board of Directors — Apple® today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, is resigning from Apple's Board of Directors, a position he has held since August 2006. — “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple …

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Resigns From Apple Board. Surprised? — Lots of people will be arguing today that this was inevitable, but the news comes faster than expected. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is no longer going to sit on Apple's Board of Directors, nearly 3 years after accepting a seat.

Discussion: GigaOM, PC World, eWeek, Ars Technica, FierceMobileContent, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, Mobile Roar and The Technology Liberation …, Thanks:2yadav

David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:

Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board — Eric Schmidt and Apple mutually agree to split ties, citing an increasing conflict of interest after Google unveiled its new Chrome operating system last month. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple's board …

Discussion: Technologizer, Switched and Slashdot

Digits:
Apple Statement: Schmidt's ‘Right Time’ to Exit

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and TechVi

Jack Healy / New York Times:
Google Chief Resigns as Apple Director

Discussion: BNET Technology and Between the Lines

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Google Launches A Major Offensive Against Microsoft With “Going Google” — Microsoft and Google have seen their rivalry kicked up a notch in recent weeks. First, Google announced Chrome OS, the company's first operating system. Then Microsoft announced the new version of Office with major cloud app support.

Murad Ahmed / Times of London:

Apple tries to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order — Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child's iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company. — The Times has learnt that the company would offer …

Discussion: Guardian, Macsimum News, TUAW, CrunchGear, iLounge, DVICE, Lockergnome Blog Network, GMSV, O'Grady's PowerPage, T3.com News, SlashGear, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Gearlog, gdgt, Gizmodo, TechVi, Slashdot and digg.com

Electronista:

Radio Shack rebadged “The Shack” in mobile push — Radio Shack today teased a major rebranding of the company that signals a greater push into the same space as general electronic chains like Best Buy. Also supported by a leak stemming from Engadget, the store name should just be shortened to …

Discussion: Engadget, Maximum PC all, MAKE Magazine, Gearlog, Switched, GottaBeMobile.com and digg.com

Harry McCracken / Technologizer:

Nine Reasons RadioShack Shouldn't Change Its Name — Funny thing about RadioShack: I'm not sure if I've been inside its stores more than a dozen times over the past seven or eight years...and yet I still feel proprietary about it. The company's TRS-80 microcomputers were what got me interested in technology in the first place.

Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com, Pulse2 and Slashdot

Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise:

Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us all — The UK's High Court of Justice has ruled that Michael Arrington and Interserve Inc libeled Sam Sethi (see above.) The original plaint claimed that Arrington/Interserve engaged in a: — “...sustained campaign …

Mike / CrunchNotes:
Update On Sam Sethi Litigation: We Decline To Participate

Discussion: Boing Boing Gadgets

Boy Genius Report:

Verizon drops pricing on almost all existing smartphones to under $99 — Well, hear us out. We've had a flurry of tips sent in today that Verizon Wireless has dropped the prices of almost all existing smartphones they offer to only $99 with a two-year agreement.

Discussion: MobileCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, Community and WMPoweruser.com

Slash Lane / AppleInsider:

Amazon offers Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard pre-order — Snow Leopard, the latest update to Apple's Mac OS X operating system, is now available for pre-order from Amazon, in anticipation of its upcoming September release. — As expected, Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard is priced at $29 …

Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.com: Snow Leopard goes to number one on Amazon.com pre-order

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Now on YouTube, Local News — With its ability to collect articles and sell advertisements against them, Google has already become a huge force in the news business — and the scourge of many newspapers. Now its subsidiary YouTube wants to do the same thing to local television.

Discussion: paidContent, Beyond Search, Beet.TV and Kelsey Group Blogs, Thanks:atul

New York Times:

Out of Search Business, Yahoo Shifts Its Focus — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Carol A. Bartz, chief executive of Yahoo, has been hobbled. — Three weeks ago, doctors gave her a new left knee, made of titanium and plastic. As a result, she is limping around Yahoo's headquarters here …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, FierceMobileContent, Search Engine Roundtable and Reuters

Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:

Google reveals plans for Chrome cloud synchronization — Google has revealed plans for a Chrome cloud service that will allow users to synchronize browser data with their Google accounts. The synchronization framework, which is still at an early stage of development, will arrive …

Discussion: Download Squad and GottaBeMobile.com

Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:

My theory on the Apple Tablet: It doesn't exist, will never exist, and it is probably a 10 inch laptop — IntoMobile readers may be curious to know as to why I'm writing about a product that doesn't fit inside your pocket. I'm doing this out of sheer frustration.

Discussion: ITworld.com

Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:

Netflix Starts Streaming ABC Shows — Netflix and Disney announced today that the online movie rental company will make earlier seasons of hit shows such as Lost, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy available via its “Watch Instantly” streaming service.

Discussion: PR Newswire, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News and Pulse2

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:

Goldman Sachs: BlackBerry, iPhone own smartphones, but if Apple ever gets an enterprise subsidy... Goldman Sachs is increasing its smartphone forecast based on a consumer survey that reveals Research in Motion and Apple are the runaway winners in the field, but for vastly different reasons.

Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:

DIY home surveillance with a Webcam — We're on the tail end of the summer vacation season, which according to the FBI is one of the peak periods of home burglaries. Chances are good you're about to head out of town, leaving your dwelling to fend for itself against intruders.

Monica Chen / DigiTimes:

Flood of ARM-based Snapdragon and Tegra smartbooks to hit market in 4Q09 — An array of smartbooks built around ARM-based Snapdragon or Tegra processors from a mix of players, including Acer, Foxconn Electronics, Pegatron Technology, Compal Electronics and Inventec Appliances …

Discussion: Softpedia News and Engadget

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

AT&T Does Not Manage or Approve Apps for the App Store (Though We May Bitch About the Ones We Dislike) — AT&T has replied to a Federal Communications Commission letter of inquiry into the role it played in the rejection of a number of third-party Google Voice apps and Google's official GV client from Apple's iTunes App Store.

Discussion: TidBITS and Gizmodo

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:

Windows 7, new laptop designs to converge — A rip-up-the-carpet PC refresh of both software and hardware is in the offing as Microsoft's latest operating system and new laptop designs converge later this year. — At the Intel Technology Summit on Wednesday, an executive described …

Discussion: All about Microsoft, Electricpig.co.uk, I4U News and CrunchGear

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Pizza Hut's Delicious iPhone App Tops 100,000 Downloads In Two Weeks — Two weeks ago, restaurant chain Pizza Hut launched an iPhone application (iTunes link) with a bunch of bells and whistles, and apparently users were hungry for it. Downloads of the app for iPhone and iPod Touch …

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:

Analyst claims first hand knowledge of Apple gaming, home media center tablet — Barron's is reporting that an un-named analyst has seen Apple's forthcoming tablet and expects it to be announced in September with a ship date around November. They mention that Apple is such a bellwether …

Discussion: Mashable!, eWeek, PC World, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Silicon Alley Insider, Crave, ChannelWeb, TG Daily, Engadget, SlashGear, MacNN, Electricpig.co.uk, I4U News, Pocket-lint.com, bit-tech.net, PalmAddicts, TeleRead and Gizmodo

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