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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Facebook today is hosting President Barack Obama at its Palo Alto office for a Q&A session with employees. Having arrived hours early to be metal-detected by the Secret Service, we’ll be live-blogging the chat here unless we pass out from an uncharacteristic lack of Facebook-provided lunch. Read More »
Apple’s March quarter saw, among other things, the iPhone’s debut on Verizon, the launch of the iPad 2 and the new Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Pro line. No wonder it was a blowout. Read More »
Cellular South, LightSquared Decide to Roam Together
LightSquared and Cellular South said Wednesday they had signed a deal to allow their customers to roam across both networks. Cellular South is a privately owned regional phone carrier, while LightSquared is a start-up venture aiming to build out a 4G network that it can resell to others. The deal will give LightSquared customers access to Cellular South’s rural network, while expanding coverage for Cellular South customers in areas its own network doesn’t cover.
Despite a launch marred by lousy execution, PR gaffes and middling reviews, there’s still promise in Research in Motion’s PlayBook–particularly once the company addresses its early shortcomings. Read More »
TiVo Inc. stock was up 35 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday after a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that would force satellite broadcaster Dish Network to shut down millions of digital video recorders because they were found to have infringed upon TiVo Inc. patents. Read More »
Foursquare is ultimately about offline discovery and exploration, said CEO Dennis Crowley in an interview with me last night at an event in San Francisco. He said his goal is for the app to be a sort of personalized helper with personality, like Microsoft’s terrible Clippy office assistant but smarter. Read More »
Yesterday, from the back of the official All Things Digital minivan, BoomTown donned the official ATD Ray-Ban Aviators to talk on WSJ.com’s “Digits” online news show about the $300 million acquisition of Kosmix by Wal-Mart announced earlier this week.
Can the retail giant, which has tried a number of digital moves in years past (to negligible impact), get social and mobile this time? Read More »
Google Maps is useful when you need to find the restaurant you’re headed to or to plan a trip. But the mapping business is more serious and significant than many perceive. Google plans to open up its cloud to companies and governments with huge troves of digital maps to build their own internal Google Earths. Read More »
QOTD: You Know What Sounds Cool? Another Facebook! 
“I know it sounds crazy, but our new company, http://altly.com, is building an alternative to Facebook. More details soon :-)”
– Former Veoh CEO, and, more recently, former MySpace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro, setting some not-very modest goals for himself via Twitter.
The initial reaction to revelations that the iPhone has been tracking all the places it has been was the predictable (and perhaps justified) one of concern. More interesting, though, is the second reaction of many an iPhone user to share that data. Read More »
Check it Out: Amazon Will Add 11,000 U.S. Libraries to the Kindle
Amazon just eliminated one of the biggest differences between the Kindle and competing e-readers. It said today it will be rolling out the Kindle Library Lending feature later this year, allowing customers to borrow books for free from more than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. Other e-readers and e-book services have allowed books to be checked out from the library for some time. Amazon said library books will be available both on Kindle devices and through the Kindle’s mobile apps.
Another report to add to the pile of prognostications claiming Apple will launch the next iPhone in the fall, not the summer as it has in the past. Three unnamed sources tell Reuters the iPhone 5 will hit manufacturing in July or August and ship in September. Read More »
Qwiki and RockMelt Swear Off Silicon Valley Users…And Make iOS Apps (Video)
by Liz Gannes in NetworkEffect at 8:00 am PT
Two young start-ups, both claiming to target a more mainstream user and content consumer than found in Silicon Valley, are this week launching iOS apps. RockMelt, a browser focused on social networking, is launching an iPhone app, while Qwiki, which creates multimedia summaries of information, is debuting an iPad app. Read More »
Looks like Eric Schmidt’s new role as executive chairman of Google comes with a proper salary. Read More »
At least one thing in yesterday’s lackluster first-quarter earnings report for Yahoo that got its Microsoft-search-bashing CEO Carol Bartz excited was the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s traffic gusher for big tentpole events such as the Super Bowl and the Oscars.
There will be more of that, it seems, with the elevation of Yahoo exec Sam Silverstein as head of its special events coverage. Sources said it will be a major area of emphasis, given obvious advertiser interest. Read More »
EBay has acquired Where as the company continues to develop ways to link online retail with physical retail through mobile. Read More »
The Denver-based company, which aims to do for indirect business-to-business sales what Salesforce.com did for direct sales, lands a Series C led by Rho Ventures. Read More »
Microsoft and Boston-based Everyscape are the latest companies to offer iPhone apps that create a single immersive, 360-degree image based video or still images captured on the phone. Read More »
Unlike News.me, this one’s free–and you don’t have to wait for Apple’s approval before you can try it out. Read More »
The start-up, launched by Vindigo founder Jason Devitt, aims to return control of the phone to its owner by blocking unwanted calls and using crowdsourcing to identify callers not in one’s address book.
A new extension of the service, being announced on Wednesday, will allow users to also tell their friends whether they are interested in being called at the moment. Read More »
Earlier Posts
- Sharing the iPhone With Verizon Doesn’t Kill AT&T on MediaMemo
- Facebook Seeking Friends in Beltway on Voices
- iPad Will Rule Tablet Market For Years, Says Goldman on Digital Daily
- Viral Video: Czech President Pen Caper (and Inevitable Facebook Campaign) on BoomTown
- Padopolis Wants to Move the Billion-Dollar Retail Catalog Business to the iPad on eMoney
- A New Role for Honeywell’s T-Hawk on Voices
- News.me, the iPad News Aggregator Blessed by Big Publishers, Gets Ready to Launch on MediaMemo
- Charting Yahoo’s Q1 Search Stumble: The PDF of MicroHoo on BoomTown
- VMware Q1 Profit Jumps 60 Percent; Outlook Raised on Voices
- Otellini: PC Makers Are Buying Plenty of Our Chips, Thanks on NewEnterprise
A Socially Savvy Web Browser
Katie tests the iPhone app for RockMelt, a new Web browser for the serious social network user. Read More »
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