Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 24 at 11:15 am PT
What is
AllThingsD’s Arik Hesseldahl doing in Brussels, anyway? Talking tech, naturally.
Ina Fried in Media on March 24 at 9:00 am PT
Festivities highlighted the opening of a videogame art exhibit at the Smithsonian.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 23 at 7:14 pm PT
In an exclusive internal memo, HP executive VP Todd Bradley puts his team in place, and renames the Personal Systems Group as the Printing and Personal Systems Group.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 23 at 3:14 pm PT
The federal agency took umbrage at AT&T’s suggestion that T-Mobile’s plans to cut jobs prove that the country would have been better off had the two companies been allowed to combine.
News Byte
Kara Swisher in News on March 23 at 3:02 pm PT
Top Yahoo product exec Bill Shaughnessy, who
recently left the Silicon Valley Internet giant, is
joining eHealth as president and COO. Shaughnessy, who will also become a board member at the online health insurance company, was SVP of product management and product marketing at Yahoo, and had previously worked at Microsoft.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 23 at 2:57 pm PT
Groupon continues to gobble up small tech companies that are enabling the daily deals giant to build out a suite of services for small business. The latest: FeeFighters.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on March 23 at 2:54 pm PT
Good news for Hewlett-Packard shareholders: The company is increasing its dividend. On Friday afternoon, HP said in
a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its board has authorized a 10 percent increase of its dividend, which is currently 12 cents per share. The increase will become effective when the company’s board declares its next dividend — likely sometime in May.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 23 at 12:15 pm PT
RIM also says that it will have a beta version of the software tools needed to write apps for the devices.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on March 23 at 12:13 pm PT
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will
on Monday unveil a wide-ranging privacy framework that it has been working on for more than a year, expected to cover online personal data collection and other topics. Don’t expect an anti-social media agenda, though! After a conference call, the FTC will host Facebook and Twitter chats about the framework. Also today: The FTC
launched a technology blog with an introductory post by its chief technologist, Ed Felten.
Voices
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on March 23 at 12:01 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 23 at 12:00 pm PT
The company says T-Mobile’s move to close seven call centers show that the country would have been better off if regulators had allowed the deal to go through.
Mobile Apps
Lauren Goode in Commerce on March 23 at 10:29 am PT
Why race to buy a plastic Etch A Sketch when you can download an app or make a Kinect-a-Sketch?
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 23 at 9:06 am PT
Rovio’s CEO tells Reuters that the company is working to bring its just released game to Microsoft’s phone operating system, but doesn’t give a time frame.
News Byte
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 23 at 8:41 am PT
EBay has sold
Rent.com, a subsidiary that helps renters find a place to live, to
Primedia, an Atlanta-based company that also owns home-rental resources, such as
ApartmentGuide.com,
Rentals.com and
RentalHouses.com. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. In 2005, eBay acquired Rent.com, which helped to build a platform to ship automobiles for eBay Motors.
