“Part of the reason for the timing of the CEO transition…(is) we’re just about at the goal line on Asset Smart,” Prairie said. “It’s at a point where it requires 100 percent of Hector’s time and focus to see it through.”
Advanced Micro Devices will split into separate companies as it spins off its manufacturing [...]
Digital copies of death certificates have been removed from the Web site of Maricopa County in Arizona because they could be used for identity fraud, The Arizona Republic
reported on Wednesday.
“There is so much personal information on them: a mother’s maiden name, what they died from,” said Helen Purcell, recorder for Maricopa County, which [...]
I’ve stopped accepting requests to join new social networks. I can barely keep up with one, much less 10. More to the point, I don’t want to have silo’d data repositories. It’s this last point that keeps me grounded in e-mail.
Sure, we now have OpenID to provide a central clearing house for identity online, but [...]
I’ve read close to 20 books on my Palm Pilot TX and its 3.8-inch screen is plenty big enough.
Certainly, the Kindle’s advantages as an e-reader aren’t enough to trump the host of iPhone features: a phone on a new faster network, camera, video player, it holds photos, contacts, you can play games and there’s [...]
GIBBS: That’s why I didn’t give the email address.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that, thanks to a “compromise,” his boss will be able to keep a security-enhanced BlackBerry and use it for e-mail.
Q: How specifically will this be allowed to be used? I mean, will all
members of his senior [...]
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Capossela’s assumption that Microsoft will be able to charge companies more under the cloud model seems optimistic, given the different economics of providing software as a Web service and the aggressive pricing strategies of cloud pioneers like Google, Zoho, and Amazon.
Microsoft expects to lose margins as “cloud” competitors start to eat away at its core [...]
Sezmi, formerly known as Building B, isn’t naming those partners yet, so it’s not clear exactly how many channels or how much Web content will be accessible on the box. But the company nevertheless is willing to call its offering “a complete TV 2.0 solution.” In addition to content, a Sezmi box allows for up [...]
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Bonus: What’s CallWave doing in this market?
Prior to releasing this product, CallWave made and sold an “Internet answering machine,” that did speech-to-text summaries of your voicemail. The company is backing away from that product. CallWave CEO Jeffrey Cavins told me that while there was good uptake from techies, the [...]
Use of Twitter in the United Kingdom has increased tenfold year-over-year, according to a report from market research firm Hitwise. According to the report, “Twitter ranked as the 291st most visited Web site in the U.K., up from a ranking of 2,953 (in 2007), for the week ending January 19, 2008. U.K. Internet traffic to [...]
MySpace says that 1 billion songs have been streamed since the News Corp. social network debuted its MySpace Music service last month.
The iTunes Music Store, the biggest name in digital music, hit the five-billion-songs mark in June after over five years in business. But it’s not really comparable to MySpace Music, because iTunes is a [...]
