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AppleInsider Ascribes to Malice What Could Easily Be Explained By Incompetence
This is truly bizarre. Though it just came to my attention, AppleInsider Monday reported that the whole Sidekick data loss problem we’ve been talking about the last several days? They say it was most likely sabotage. The fact that no data could be recovered after the problem erupted at the beginning of October suggests that ...
Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek; Still a Bargain Despite the Crushing Debt
It was announced a few minutes ago that BusinessWeek will be sold to Bloomberg for a “cash offer in the $2 million to $5 million range.” Here’s run down of the plans post-sale: – The logo will eventually incorporate the Bloomberg name in some still-undetermined way. – They will continue to publish weekly in print ...
How to: Re-tweet (or The “Art” of the Retweet Guide)
A blog is a place where periodic content is posted in reverse chronological order. Why I bring that up in the first sentence will become clear later on in the post. Every so often, I see an old post from Ben Parr over at Mashable surface in my various timelines called “How to Retweet: A ...
SiliconANGLE’s SAP TechEd 09 Live Coverage
Today marks the start of the SAP TechEd gathering in Phoenix, Arizona. In case you’re unfamiliar with the event, it’s an IT conference with a focus on inspiring the attendees as well as providing hands on workshops, lectures and community discussions. We’ll be covering live, in our typical liveblog format, the event from start to ...
Jermaine Dupri is No Longer a Corporate Tool
Something that’s occasionally fun to do as a pundit is to roll back into your archives a few years and see what the veracity of your predictions are. Michael Sean Wright and I were on the phone this weekend chatting a bit about what he’s going to be doing at Blogworld Expo this year (he’ll ...
Where’s the Old Media Accountbility?
It seems that interest in the ongoing struggle for Iranians to escape the oppressive regime continues, and interest in it appears to be on a resurgence as well. I’ve noticed in my feeds an uptick in the number of posts carrying the #IranElection tag, and I continue to be fed interesting stories from our friends ...
#IranElection: Yahoo May Have Turned Over 200k Usernames to Iranian Authorities
[Editor’s Note: According to an update we’ve been alerted to by the editors of ZDNet, they now would like to consider the original post retracted. From the original post is a note from Larry Dignan: “I’m ending this back and forth now. This story, which derived from a blog post in Iran, has turned into ...
FTC vs. the Blogosphere Day 3 and 4 Roundup
We skipped a day on the FTC blogola round-up, not because there wasn’t a lot of posts on the topic, but because, well, other stuff was worth saying, and we didn’t want to have 90% of the blog be all-FTC all the time. We’re still following this story, though, and as we noted early this ...
Zynga’s CafeWorld Gets 8.6 Million Users in One Week
One of the fastest growing applications on Facebook has been FarmVille, a Zynga production. Farmville’s growth is soon to be overshadowed by a new Zynga application, CafeWorld. Farmville grew to 11 million daily active users over the course of two months, but CafeWorld, according to a report today by Eric Eldon over at Inside Facebook, ...
#SAPTECHED09 is coming up next Tuesday a…
#SAPTECHED09 is coming up next Tuesday and Wednesday. As per usual, SiliconANGLE’s very own Idarose Sylvester will be liveblogging from the event. If you’ll be there and want to liveblog for us (all you need is a Twitter account), let us know! More details to come.
