Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on November 26 at 8:38 am PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Kara Swisher in Social on November 25 at 10:34 am PT
Sharing via incessantly sorting all your relationships is apparently now a marketing plus.
Greg Bensinger, Dow Jones Newswires in Mobile on November 25 at 9:44 am PT
AT&T Inc. said it withdrew its application with the Federal Communications Commission for approval of its planned T-Mobile USA takeover before commissioners had the opportunity to vote on a proposal to send the merger to a hearing for approval.
Chun Han Wong, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 24 at 10:21 am PT
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. is suing Yahoo Inc.’s Southeast Asian unit for alleged copyright violations, saying that the Internet firm reproduced news content from its newspapers without permission, the companies said Wednesday.
Kara Swisher in Media on November 24 at 8:38 am PT
You know who don’t give a s*&#@?
You got that right.
Ina Fried in Mobile on November 24 at 12:16 am PT
The company also withdrew its pending application to the Federal Communications Commission seeking approval for the purchase, though it says it will fight on.
Right now I’m just in the thinking-about-it stages. It’s a really big movie and it’s going to be a great movie no matter who writes it.
– Aaron Sorkin, discussing the possibility of writing a biopic about Steve Jobs for Sony
Kara Swisher in News on November 23 at 2:38 pm PT
Yahoo has about 30 working days to make what has to be a complex and multiparty deal, in an effort that is akin to herding cats.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 23 at 12:47 pm PT
Cisco’s general counsel asks Hewlett-Packard to quit suing its own ex-employees who want to work for Cisco. But aggressive lawyers are suing ex-employees all the time.
Liz Gannes in Mobile on November 23 at 12:30 pm PT
If you can get past concerns about Facebook having even more intimate insight into your life, would a phone designed by Facebook be compelling?
News Byte
Ina Fried in Mobile on November 23 at 12:02 pm PT
Google said Wednesday it will fix a problem that has been causing sound issues with its recently released
Galaxy Nexus phone. “We are aware of the volume issue and have developed a fix,” Google said in a statement to
AllThingsD. “We will update devices as soon as possible.”
Peter Kafka in Media on November 23 at 11:11 am PT
Trying to boost its flagging advertising business by cutting out layers of technological middlemen, Yahoo is giving DSPs like Turn, MediaMath and Google’s Invite Media the boot.
