Linkpost | 5.26.2011
Updated 12:22 p.m. • Coming soon: make your phone your wallet and Google Introduces Google Wallet, Works At Over 300,000 Mastercard PayPass Merchant Locations – It will be out “soon”, and initially...
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Updated 6:03 p.m. • Facebook Readies IPO Filing for Next Week and NYSE, Nasdaq battle for Facebook listing – The IPO could value Facebook as high as $100 billion. • Microsoft’s latest home for Kinect...
View ArticleLinkpost | 6.8.2012
• Microsoft, Windows 8, and the Innovator’s Dilemma (or, why you hate Windows 8 ) – Invoking “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, Tim Anderson writes that Microsoft may be doing just what it needs to survive by...
View ArticleLinkpost | 1.4.2013
• Google Agrees to Change Its Business Practices and Google settles on patents, other antitrust claims – Google gets off relatively easy as the Federal Trade Commission closes its antitrust review of...
View ArticleLinkpost | 1.12.2013
• The White House rejects Death Star petition: We have a space station and blowing up planets is bad – The guy who wrote the White House rejection clearly had a great sense of humor . . . and relished...
View ArticleLinkpost | 1.20.2013
• How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala – According to a (now deleted) blog post by a former Lala and Color employer, Apple bought Lala kill off a music competitor whose results were...
View ArticleLinkpost | 1.21.2013
• 4.8-inch iPhone ‘Math’ reports don’t add up – Reports out of China say Apple will have three new iPhones this year, one of them a 4.8-inch model with the bizarre name of iPhone Math. • Eric Schmidt’s...
View ArticleLinkpost | 1.29.2013
• Apple Releases iOS 6.1 with New LTE Carriers and Fandango Siri Integration – The latest update to Apple’s mobile operating system has mostly under-the-hood features, but one item stands out: The...
View ArticleGoogle Maps shines a light on North Korea
In the past, if you tried to check out North Korea on Google Maps, you mostly found a lot of blank space. There were some topographical features, such as rivers and lakes, but roads, highways and...
View ArticleLinkpost | 3.16.2013
• Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them – The letters included a gag order forbidding the recipients from discussing them, which the court found violated free...
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