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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Federal regulators on Friday approved Google’s $750 million purchase of the mobile advertising company AdMob. And now, less than a week later, the search sovereign has closed the deal. Read More »
The debut of Apple Inc.’s iPad tablet computer in Japan is generating a level of hype and excitement rarely seen these days for a new electronics product in this gadget-loving nation, underscoring the paucity of buzz-worthy, homegrown devices. Read More »
Who was it, again, who said Apple’s iPhone “”doesn’t appeal to business because it doesn’t have a keyboard”? Because the device clearly does appeal to business. In fact, quite a few of the iPhones sold today are purchased by business users, according to Ron Spears, chief of AT&T’s Business Solutions unit. Read More »
One of the world’s best-selling copyrighted books, which has bucked the downward trend in the publishing industry in recent years, has gone digital on the iPad after avoiding other e-readers. Guinness World Records, formerly known as the Guinness Book of World Records, was showcased as an iPad app this week at Book Expo America and is currently available for download, with an iPhone app expected to be approved shortly. Read More »
“Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding in the Belmont. Just FYI.”
– Microsoft on rumors that CEO Steve Ballmer will make an appearance during Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s WWDC keynote
Beliefnet, the spirituality site bought by News Corp. in late 2007, is being shopped around for sale, according to several sources.
Sources said that the media giant is also considering selling off Berlin-based Jamba/Jamster, a mobile content provider now called Fox Mobile Group. News Corp. paid $187.5 million to VeriSign for a 51 percent stake in Jamba in 2006 and bought the rest in 2008. Read More »
The privacy practices of the world’s three largest search engines are under fire in Europe again. European Union officials sent letters to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo yesterday claiming their data protection policies flout EU data retention rules. Read More »
Samsung’s John Revie says 3D televisions aren’t a fad, and he believes there’s early evidence to prove it. Revie, a senior vice president for the Korean electronics giant and one of its top bosses in the U.S., smiles when asked what he says to skeptics who say 3D-capable HDTVs will never catch on with the masses. Since they went on sale at the end of March, Revie says sales of Samsung’s 3D televisions are already outpacing those of Samsung’s successful LED televisions at the same stage following their introduction last year. Read More »
Scott McNealy’s Top 15 Reasons He’s Surprised We’re Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Web
by Kara Swisher in BoomTown at 7:30 am PT
Last night, BoomTown headed to San Francisco’s wedding-cake City Hall to attend “The 25 Years of .Com Gala,” which is honoring a quarter-century that I have been jacked into the matrix.
Actually, it’s the 25th anniversary of the .com Internet domain name.
And perhaps the most enjoyable blast from the past was the appearance of jeans-clad former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, who ably retains the title of Clown Prince of Silicon Valley. Read More »
How does Microsoft feel about being overtaken by Apple as the world’s largest technology company? It couldn’t care less. Well, that’s what CEO Steve Ballmer says, anyway. Read More »
So, maybe there could be a surprise or two at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, after all. Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company’s suite of development tools. Read More »
Looks like Palm is suffering a bit of post-acquisition talent drain. Mobile user interface master Matias Duarte has left the company and hired on at the most obvious of places: Google. His new job? User Experience Director for Android. Read More »
QOTD: Too Late. Jobs Never Forgets… 
“It was done in a spirit of good fun.”
– Google Vice-President of Engineering Vic Gundotra on slagging Apple at Google I/O
BoomTown is not much of a fan of Bret Michaels, but it was still nice to see the singer and reality star in good form on “American Idol” last night after a spate of troubling health issues.
Michaels was hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage a month ago and just last week, was back in the hospital due to a “warning stroke.” Heart surgery is to come next.
Still, Michaels managed to belt out “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” the hit from his band, Poison, which he sang with finalist Casey James. Read More »
China Telecom, China’s largest fixed-line operator, appears to be changing its position about possibly offering Apple products in the near future. Chief Executive Wang Xiaochu said at a press conference Tuesday that the company is evaluating market response for Apple’s iPad tablet computer before it holds any talks with the U.S. consumer electronics company. Read More »
Earlier Posts
- Yahoo Investor Day Exec Presentations in Living Color: Collect Them All! on BoomTown
- Mercedes Uses iPads to Speed Deals, End Cubicle Culture on Voices
- Facebook’s New Privacy Settings an Improvement Over the Old–Which Isn’t Saying Much on Digital Daily
- Why Fund-Raising Proved Difficult for Jack Dorsey’s Start-Up on Voices
- And…Boom: Apple Worth More Than Microsoft on Digital Daily
- If You’re Going to Plagiarize Your Commencement Speech, Don’t Lift It From YouTube on MediaMemo
- A Sneak Peek at Facebook’s Drastically Simplified Privacy Settings on Voices
- Trying to Make Online Shopping More Fun on Voices
- Facebook’s New(est) Approach to Privacy on Digital Daily
- Yahoo Announces Deep Integration Partnership With Social Gaming Start-Up Zynga on BoomTown
Chapter, Verse on E-Bookstores
By Geoffrey Fowler. While much of the attention has focused on the e-book reading devices, it's becoming clear that the important decision isn't just which device you choose, but also which e-bookstore you decide to frequent. Read More »
