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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Steve Jobs on MobileMe: the full e-mail — Ever since our report last night on an internal e-mail sent by Steve Jobs about the botched launch of MobileMe, we have received an outpouring of requests for the full text of the e-mail. Although we originally weren't comfortable publishing the entire thing …
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Steve Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple's standards” — In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and “not up to Apple's standards.” The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe's flaws and what could have been done to better handle the launch.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson — Steve Jobs, in an internal email seen by Ars Technica, makes clear that he's upset about the botched launch of MobileMe, Apple's new online suite of applications that has been plagued with bugs, including being flat-out unavailable to some for days at a time.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Broadridge to Yahoo: Oops, We Added Wrong (and Shareholders Like You Lots Less)! — Here's the full statement (below) from the outside firm, Broadridge Financial Solutions, that tabulated Yahoo's recent shareholder vote. — Bottom line: An underreporting of shares withheld for certain directors …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Latest Boneheaded Yahoo Move: Miscounted Proxy Votes** — If Yahoo weren't flailing in other aspects of its business, conspiracy theorists might have a leg to stand on: CEO Jerry Yang “disappeared” millions of proxy votes against him so as to maintain his throttle-hold on the company.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Comcast Buys DailyCandy For $125 Million; Beats Out Viacom For Newsletter Business — As previously reported, Comcast (CMCSA) was indeed interested in buying DailyCandy. But they ended up paying much more than the $75 million we head about earlier this month — the cable company …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Rocketboom Inks Seven-Figure Distribution Deal With Sony — Rocketboom, the daily video blog, is turning over its distribution and ad sales to Sony Pictures Television in return for a seven-figure guarantee plus a share of revenues. Rocketboom will be distributed on Sony's Crackle video site …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Employees Pose for Street View — For the latest Google Maps Street View update, Google not only added pics for Australia, Japan and several US cities, but also included imagery of what seem to be Google employees lining up near-by the Google headquarters.
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Delta Newsroom:
Delta to Become Only Major U.S. Airline to Offer Broadband Wi-Fi Access on Entire Domestic Mainline Fleet — Aircell's Gogo inflight Internet service to be available in first and economy classes on more than 330 Delta aircraft in 2009, the most expansive inflight broadband offering of any U.S. air carrier
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Adds Olympics One Box Results — I was chatting with Danny about the Yahoo Olympics Shortcut on the Daily SearchCast and Danny noticed a search for beach volleyball olympics on Google returns a Google OneBox result. — But other searches also work and they all show special icons and results.
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Business Wire:
The NPD Group: iTunes Continues To Lead U.S. Music Retailers in First Half of 2008 — Amazon improves year-over-year music retailer ranking, based on consumer purchases of CDs and digital music — PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys …
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Jerry Kronenberg / Boston Herald:
Designers on quest to build $12 computer — Derek Lomas, Jesse Austin-Breneman and other designers want to create a computer that Third World residents can buy for less than you probably spend on lunch. — “We see this as a model that could increase economic opportunities for people …
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Analysts slam iPhone security and battery life — Analysts have decreed that the new iPhone's lack of security and poor battery life make it unsuitable for all but the lightest enterprise use. — The conclusions come in a nine-page research note from Gartner, as reported by Computerword.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Cisco's quarter clears hurdles; Outlook murky but close enough — Updated: Cisco Systems on Tuesday delivered fiscal fourth quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 33 cents a share, on revenue of $10.4 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, Cisco reported fourth quarter earnings …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Alexander live shot! — Remember that phone we told you about? Well, we got more info on it and it turns out that it's going to be a Windows Mobile handset. Here's a list of some of the specs we found: … We're working on some more shots and info, but until then... what are you thinking?
Laura DiDio / Yankee Group:
Apple Bites Back with Increased Corporate Presence and Virtualization Role — Analyst — Executive Summary — Don't look now but Apple Mac hardware and the accompanying OS X 10.x operating system software are gaining significant momentum among corporate users.
BBC:
Hi-tech criminals target Twitter — Micro blogging site Twitter is the latest target of cyber criminals who are increasingly finding fertile ground on social networks. — A fake Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
What's Your Vision of the Future of the Web? Mozilla Wants to Know — Everything's changing on the internet these days, so it's as good a time as any to make some drastic changes to the way we interact with it too. Mozilla Labs has put out a call for anyone in the world to share their vision …
DealBook:
Icahn Hires Reporter to Write for His Blog — Carl C. Icahn took his first steps into the Internet earlier this year by beginning a blog. Now he's about to get some help. — The activist shareholder has hired Dane Hamilton, a hedge fund reporter at Thomson Reuters, to work on his Web site …
Consumer Reports:
7 online blunders — These common mistakes can ruin your computer or invite identity theft — ASSUMING YOUR SECURITY SOFTWARE — IS PROTECTING YOU — Security software is fully effective only when activated and frequently updated. (Most products can update automatically.)
