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News to know: Obama's inauguration streaming; Windows 7; Google; RIM

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Where to watch Obama's presidential inauguration online Jennifer Leggio: Inauguration 2009: Can social networks handle it? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Obama, Dan Lyons, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Dan Lyons: Rotten reporting on Apple

Dan Lyons: Rotten reporting on AppleLyons is correctseriouslly, do you honestly believe that ABC news would say [i]anything[/i] bad about Steve Jobs or an Apple product?Maybe this fellow was trying to impress someone at ABC, maybe for a job there later on?Apple has a spin machine, and because they are...

Tags: Smart phones, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Dan Lyons, Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

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Dan Lyons: Rotten reporting on Apple

Newsweek's Dan Lyons writes that the media's coverage of Apple bites. His rationale? For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn't doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for...

Tags: Steve Jobs, CNBC, Apple Inc., Lyon, Public Relations, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Rotten reporting: Is it just Apple coverage that 'bites'?

Rotten reporting: Is it just Apple coverage that 'bites'?good questionWell, I would have to say that Mary Jo is one of the most honest of MS bloggers - usually you either you get cheerleaders or haters, but she's very good about criticizing when necessary. I don't think you need...

Tags: Application servers, blogger, Rotten, Apple Inc., blogging

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

Rotten reporting: Is it just Apple coverage that 'bites'?

I've always considered the way those of us in the press get access to information and execs as somewhat of an "insider baseball" kind of topic. But after reading Newsweek tech correspondent Dan Lyons' diatribe about Apple and the "rotten" reporting by the press corps that covers that company, I...

Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Exec, Public Relations, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-01-16

News to know: plane crash; Windows 7; Bartz's salary; Intel

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Zack Whittaker: New York plane crash: online media spreads word within seconds Andrew Nusca: New York CTO to statewide...

Tags: Job, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Salary, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Lyons: CNBC "played and punked" by Apple spin machine

This interview of Newsweek's Dan Lyons on CNBC is definitely worth a watch. In in Lyon's claims that CNBC's Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Jim Goldman was "played and punked" by the Apple spin machine on the issue of Steve Jobs' health. Speaking about Apple's transparency (or lack...

Tags: CNBC, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-15

The App Store millionaire club

Despite the recent comments by some iPhone developers on the harsh economics of the App Store, other developers are making a killing by cranking out inexpensive but popular apps. Newsweek's Dan Lyons profiles Ge Wang and Jeff Smith the brain trust behind Smule, creators of four $1...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, App, Ocarina, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-15

No surprise. Yahoo expected to announce layoffs

Word leaked out over the weekend that Yahoo is planning layoffs when it reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday afternoon. The exact number of jobs affected is unknown, thought sources told the San Jose Mercury News and Wall Street Journal that it would likely be more than 1,000. The job cuts...

Tags: Layoff, Yahoo! Inc., Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-20

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Apple CEO Jobs' life not in danger: report

Apple CEO Jobs' life not in danger: reportFinally!I wonder if this will finally calm the fears of all these irrational people?RE: Apple CEO Jobs' life not in danger: reportAnd nothing was wrong and his health is still a private matter which is no one's business but his.RE: Apple CEO Jobs'...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Branding, job, Apple Inc., health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

News to know: Geek sheets; Cuil; Apple; DNS patch

Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives SSDs and Linux Gallery: Crucial Micron Solid State Drives My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i Dana Blankenhorn: The Microsoft way with Apache ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Data Center, DNS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Domain Names, Video Cards, Linux, Storage, Semiconductors, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Components, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer?

Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer?You're so funnyFor such a doomed company, their stocks are soaring higher than ever."only works when you can eat or harm other companies"Same for Google : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitionsFor such an un-innovative company, I guess you've never seen Live Image and Video...

Tags: Branding, Financial accounting, strategy, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more

EclipseCon 2008 opens Monday at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara CA. The schedule for the week includes a trio of interesting keynote speakers, a ton of technical sessions, and a tinge of controversy over the future of Eclipse development. The first day will be...

Tags: Steve Jobs, EclipseCon, Microsoft Corp., Eclipse, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-03-16

The Crunchies: And the winners are...

Last night the San Francisco Web 2.0 crowd filled the high society Herbst Theatre for the Crunchies, a people's choice award program hosted by my friends from TechCrunch, GigaOm, Venture Beat and ReadWriteWeb. You can watch a replay of the event here, courtesy of Mogulus. The...

Tags: Start-up, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-19

Fake Steve's fake traffic

Is Fake Steve Jobs a must read now that he's not fake? The question came to me after Mary Jo Foley pointed out this AP story about Fake Steve (aka Dan Lyons, an editor at Forbes) and his book tour for "oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs." The...

Tags: Alexa.com, Blogging, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-03

Doc Searls on blogging vs. journalism

After the recent Forbes: Attack of the Blogs article, the blogosphere exploded in discussion about the article. Perhaps this was Dan Lyons intended effect after all, like yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre. Ten days later, the hue and cry has mostly passed,...

Tags: blogging, Forbes

Blog posts 2005-11-08