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Tea Parties, Pirate Ships and a Kayak: A Summer at Sea

Thursday - July 2, 2009

For seven months, a New York Times reporter named David Rohde was held prisoner by Taliban kidnappers. However, you wouldn't learn that from reading The New York Times -- or even Wikipedia, for that matter. In addition to other news organizations, the Times reportedly asked Wikipedia not to publish information on the abduction. For Wikipedia, that meant monitoring Rohde's entry and quickly deleting information regarding the kidnapping as soon as anyone put it up. Everyone involved seemed to have good intentions. [More...]

Joost Feels the Squeeze

Wednesday - July 1, 2009

Just three years after launching in a fanfare of publicity, Joost, which provides professionally made TV on the Web, is shifting directions. It will now provide white label online video platforms to media companies and distributors. Joost is closing down its offices in the Netherlands, retaining offices in the U.S. and the UK. [More...]

Jobs Is Back, Apple's Still Standing, Life Goes On

Wednesday - July 1, 2009

After all the excitement about Steve Jobs' health, the market reaction to news that the Apple CEO had returned to work appeared muted. Apple shares closed at $142.43 at close of trading Tuesday, 46 cents up from the previous day's close. They were actually down from Monday's open of just under $144. [More...]

Grumbling Over Transparency Intensifies as Jobs Returns to Apple

Tuesday - June 30, 2009

Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs has officially gone back to work, according to numerous media reports. Beyond saying that Jobs would be working both at his office and from home, and that the company was happy to have him back, Apple provided no details about its chief's future involvement with the company. [More...]

New ICANN Chief Eager to Mediate Internet Policy Wars

Sunday - June 28, 2009

The Internet agency with key oversight of the monikers behind every Web site, email address and Twitter post named former U.S. cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom Friday as its next chief executive. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved his hiring in a voice vote as ICANN capped weeklong meetings in Sydney, Australia. [More...]

Jobs' Return to Apple Is Path Strewn With Controversy

Wednesday - June 24, 2009

The public relations strategists at Apple might want to consider a job in politics for their next gig: It is rare for any company to be so deliberately opaque with information essential to stockholders -- and still manage to stay on this side of the law. Indeed, the company's recent disclosure that CEO Steve Jobs was back at work was a thing of Machiavellian beauty. [More...]

Of Jobs, Wireless Exclusivity and the Competition

Wednesday - June 24, 2009

Are concerns about Steve Jobs are impacting Apple's share prices? Apple's share prices have been slipping since it was learned over the weekend that the company's CEO may have had a liver transplant. Trading in Apple shares was volatile on Tuesday, with prices changing by the minute. [More...]

Reports Fan Flames of Speculation Over Steve Jobs' Health

Tuesday - June 23, 2009

Once again, the technology mediasphere is engrossed with Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health, and the questions are ricocheting off the virtual walls: What did Apple know? When did it know it? What is it legally obliged to reveal? This latest round of speculation was prompted by a weekend Wall Street Journal report revealing that Jobs had a liver transplant in April. [More...]

New Yahoo CFO Embarks on Journey to Cost Control

Sunday - June 14, 2009

Yahoo has hired a cost-cutting specialist as its new chief financial officer, signaling the Internet company's determination to weed out the bureaucracy that has been dragging down its profits for the past three years. The company said Thursday that it had lured Tim Morse away from computer chipmaker Altera. [More...]

Former iPod Guru Takes Palm's Helm

Thursday - June 11, 2009

It's no accident that the new Palm Pre smartphone is compatible with Apple's iTunes. The man who helped Steve Jobs turn the iPod and its online music store into a digital revolution is the same man who has helped design the Pre and its well-reviewed webOS operating system. Now that man, Jon Rubinstein, will be the new Palm chairman and CEO. replacing 16-year company veteran Ed Colligan. [More...]

Bartz to Investors on Microsoft: Forget About It

Friday - June 5, 2009

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has a message for investors hoping for a quick fix at the slumping Internet company or for an online search partnership with Microsoft -- don't expect either to happen any time soon. The no-nonsense executive hired by Yahoo five months ago got her latest points across Wednesday during an appearance at an investor conference in New York. [More...]

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