Archive for April, 2007

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Wanted, a few dozen Mac Geniuses

Om Malik, Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 1:59 PM PT Comments (1)

Apple is looking to hire a couple of dozen Mac Geniuses, for its expanding retail chain network, according to a search on SimplyHired and Indeed.com. The jobs are spread pretty widely, geographically speaking. However the listings are for new locations, like Louisville, Kentucky. The news of an Apple store in Louisville had been reported earlier, [...]

What really happened at S60 Summit?

Om Malik, Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 1:32 PM PT Comments (2)

Richard Bloor of Symbian One on the recently concluded S60 Summit in Madrid:
Blogging, like reality TV and soap operas, is essentially about living vicariously. The closest an outside observer could get to that, for the S60 Summit, was on flickr where ohl@work and Benoit.darcy were busy. S60 Summit seems to be a PR opportunity lost.

Google, the best global site

Om Malik, Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 1:27 PM PT Comments (0)

Byte Level Research has put together a list of most global sites. Google tops the rankings, followed by Wikipedia and Cisco Systems. HP, Seagate, Microsoft, and American Express are also on the top ten list of global sites.
Google has become a regular in the number one spot. But it’s not just because of its 100+ [...]

Pidgin, Firefox of IM Clients

Om Malik, Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 9:39 AM PT Comments (28)

Mac users are lucky to have Adium, one of the best IM aggregation tools on the planet. On the Windows and Linux side, there are many options, but Anil Dash says Pidgin (formerly GAIM) rocks, and is following the trajectory taken by Firefox, the open source browser.
Pidgin, formerly GAIM, is the best instant messaging client [...]

King Ed & his retirement package

Om Malik, Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 6:57 AM PT Comments (7)

AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre is retiring on June 3rd, and his retirement package is getting a lot of attention. All told he is walking out with about $158.5 million, making him sort of a boomer hero. This is second largest retirement package for a public company CEO. The Wall Street Journal points out that the [...]

WSJ censoring Vonage’s Ads?

Paul Kapustka, Friday, April 27, 2007 at 5:27 PM PT Comments (13)

When we looked at the back page of Friday’s Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the delivery person had perhaps taken offense with the Vonage ad campaign about its patent case with Verizon, with what looked like some black-pen editing, the kind you might see in edited government documents:
A closer look [...]

King Ed Walks into the Sunset

Om Malik, Friday, April 27, 2007 at 1:12 PM PT Comments (4)

Ed Whitacre, having realized his dream to put together AT&T (well almost) is walking into the sunset, ready to hang up his gun sling, and enjoy life. The AT&T CEO is going to hand over the reins of the sprawling Ma Bell Empire to his longtime heir apparent Randall Stephenson on June 3, 2007.
An industrial [...]

DuggBack into the Digg Trail

Katie Fehrenbacher, Friday, April 27, 2007 at 11:01 AM PT Comments (13)

Digg fans are getting their own Wayback Machine type mashup for locating lost Digg stories. DuggBack is a site that helps you find removed stories using a mix of mirrors and caches. The service uses the Digg API, and mirror services from DuggMirror, Coral CDN, Wayback Machine and DotCache, and web cache services from Google, [...]

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