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John C Abell / Epicenter:
Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Mantra is ‘Bulls**t,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple's Steve Jobs (Updated) — (Updates with more details from the Town Hall as reported by macrumors.com) — After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs at Apple Town Hall Meeting on Google, Adobe, Next iPhone, 2010 Macs and More — Steve Jobs held a town hall meeting with Apple employees late last week following the iPad launch. Wired reports on what was said at the meeting by Steve Jobs. Two of the biggest topics included Google and Adobe.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? — Robert Scoble has a good analogy: … Regarding those blue boxes that indicate embedded Flash content in MobileSafari, think of it this way: Who can make them go away? — Adobe can't. They can't put Flash Player on iPhone OS on their own.
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Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary:
Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight — (Apologies for the formatting; I'm typing this on a netbook with a tiny keyboard.) — Last Friday, Amazon.com unilaterally pulled most or all of Macmillan's books from their online store. (You can still find them via afilliates …
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Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Macmillan CEO Confirms Amazon Price Feud — In a paid advertisement in Publishers Marketplace, Macmillan CEO John Sargent confirmed that Amazon (AMZN) had stopped directly selling books by the publisher. “It is impossible to reach you all in the very limited timeframe we are working under …
Andrew Lim / Recombu:
iPad board games: Apple has created a ‘Jumanji platform’ — While many people struggle to understand why they would ever buy an iPad, we think we've come up with a pretty exciting reason - digital board games. If you've ever tried to play a board game on a games console …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism — GAME CHANGER? — The more, the better. That's the fashionable recipe for nurturing new ideas these days. It emphasizes a kind of Internet-era egalitarianism that celebrates the “wisdom of the crowd” and “open innovation.”
Ahandy / Software Development Times Blog:
Facebook rewrites PHP runtime — A week ago, I let ya'll know that the core PHP team had been brought to Facebook's main campus. That team were forced to sign NDA's, and taken to a very quiet, secluded meeting room where some cool new Facebook-backed open source project was described.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Labs Adds Search Icon To ‘Compose Mail’ Window In Gmail — Orli Yakuel noticed that Google has quietly added a new icon in the ‘Compose Mail’ window of its free webmail service Gmail, enabling users to run search queries from within the interface and insert results and URLs straight …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We're Getting There — In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more. The pattern has held true from the personal computer to the Internet, as it takes time, brainpower and investment to conquer the scientific and economic obstacles …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
How Do E-Readers Stack Up With iPad In The Mix? Use Our Chart As A Guide — When we did the first version of this chart heading into the 2009 holiday sales season, four contenders—including the unexpected Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) Nook—were set to crowd the instant-download e-reader field that Amazon …
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Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
Trillian chat client gets a Mac version, now in alpha — Trillian has enjoyed a nice, long run as one of the most popular multi-protocol IM clients for Windows. It's not just surviving, though, it's thriving and expanding to new platforms. I tested out the very nice iPhone version recently, and now there's finally Trillian for Mac!
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