I’ve had friends ask why I have advertising on my site; After all, it’s not like I’m gonna pay the rent with the kind of traffic that a Snoop Dogg fansite drives. Usually, I explain that I just like to understand how that stuff works, to keep up to date with the customers I deal with at work, or just because of curiosity.
But today, I have a much better answer. It’s because sometimes that little bit of Google code can make something magical happen.
For the first time since the Wikileaks.org domain name was turned off in a dispute with a Swiss bank, the site’s owner, John Shipton, was heard.
Microsoft is confronting the fact that people are simply not willing to pay much for software in an age when so much can be done free online.
The new Google Health service doesn’t (yet) have any advertising. Google still stands to make a lot of money from drug company ads on searches that the service will spawn.
Yahoo’s biggest shareholders who also hold stock in Microsoft might not demand that Microsoft raise its offer because there is more to lose from a decline in their holdings of the buyer.
China’s top search engine has been sued by a local music industry group for alleged copyright violation, the second recent similar action from the industry.
EBay said Thursday that it had bought the three MercExchange patents it had been accused of violating.
Only copies of the year-old operating system that are sold in boxes directly to consumers are affected by the price cuts , which will range from 20 percent to 48 percent.
The company also said it was suspending the payment of its dividend and had borrowed $2.5 billion through a revolving credit facility.
Remember my criticism last year regarding SXSW’s panel-heavy session line-ups? This year I’m putting my mouth where my mouth is, and delivering a co-presention with Michael Lopp. We’re going to pack a day’s worth of advice and strong opinions into a one-hour session. 3:30 Saturday March 8, room B.
Coudal Partners:
Hillary asked a serious question in her latest campaign spot. We thought it deserved an equally serious response.
Best campaign commercial I’ve ever seen.
Incredible Mobile OS X project from Jay Freeman: a port of Debian’s APT with a complete, working BSD and GNU Unix userspace tool set. And a brand new GUI app to manage it, Cydia. And, unlike Installer, the whole thing is open source. Gerd Kamp points out that Freeman also ported PyObjC to Mobile OS X, allowing native iPhone apps to be written in Python. My vaguely informed hunch is that the official SDK from Apple won’t even support that.
Wilson Rothman:
We’ve been fiddling with Time Capsule since it arrived this AM, and so far it works as billed, clean and easy.
I’m not sure what’s more appalling; the purported battery drain Blu-ray drives have on laptops, or the photo of the Blu-ray mascot accompanying the article. And what’s with this quip:
“If you bought an iPhone and you couldn’t watch a two-hour movie, which you barely can now, that would be a huge problem,” [Yankee Group analyst Josh] Martin continued.
A fully-charged iPhone gets way more than two hours of video playback. Walt Mossberg got “just under Apple’s claim of seven hours, enough to watch four average-length movies.”
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New episode of the only podcast featuring Dan Benjamin and yours truly; topics include Apple’s latest MacBooks, Lost (sans spoilers), and the genius of Caddyshack.
It’s pieces like this one — written by a non-nerd, brand-new Apple customer — that make me think the growth in Mac sales over the past two years is just the beginning of an enormous trend.
Nice interactive feature from Condé Nast Portfolio on the new U.S. five-dollar bill, including previous designs back to 1861.
Bob Fernandez, reporting for The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Comcast Corp. admitted yesterday that it paid people to attend a government hearing. Company critics say the freelance attendees were there to crowd them out; Comcast says they were merely saving seats for employees.
Rat bastards.
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