Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a revamped line of iPods and trumpeted a truce with NBC Universal that means the TV network will begin selling programs again on iTunes. The iPod upgrades Jobs unveiled Tuesday in a theater in San Francisco include two slick new Nano models, oval-shaped devices that Jobs said are the thinnest iPods Apple has ever made.
Barack Obama has told voters that John McCain is a poor choice for the highest office because he “doesn’t know how to use a computer” and “can’t send an email.” A new Obama TV ad flashes images of a dumbbell-sized mobile phone, a vinyl record player, and a a Rubik’s cube.
The World Association of Newspapers says it opposes a pending deal on advertising between Yahoo and Google The group wants European and U.S. regulators to block the deal on antitrust grounds. WAN says it fears the deal would give Google “unwarranted” market power in parts of the online ad business. Yahoo expects the deal to generate $800 million in annual revenue.
Lenovo has dropped Linux from the list of operating systems it will preload on desktops and notebooks sold via its website. The operation has been shipping Linux on client PCs since 2000. A Lenovo spokesman told ComputerWorld that its commitment to Linux had not changed. How does that make sense?
The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state’s anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world’s most prolific spammers. The court unanimously agreed with Jeremy Jaynes’ argument that the law violates free-speech protections because it does not just restrict commercial e-mails — it restricts other unsolicited messages as well
The Topics: Steve Jobs’ Exit: Turning Point for Apple? Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs might return in June, but will consumers, or Apple, ever be the same? asks Lance Ulanoff in a recent article. Lance predicts that Apple will be okay even if Jobs doesn’t come back to work, regardless of Apple’s turbulent history without Jobs as CEO.
Opera Sides With Europe, Against Microsoft Opera Software, Microsoft’s browser-rival, has welcomed a European Commission statement that the company has broken European competition law by including Internet Explorer with Windows. Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner supports that the browser is the most important innovation within humanity’s history, and because of this, Microsoft should “start competing on merits in the browser market and letting consumers have a real choice of internet browsers.”
Steve Ballmer’s Biggest Regret Microsoft’s president Steve Ballmer’s claimed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that his biggest regret of the past ten years is impatience. Eight years after replacing Bill Gates as chief executive, Ballmer resents that Microsoft did not strongly pursue a Google-like paid search business back in 1999. Although Microsoft began a paid search project that year, the project crashed after only two months.
Pope Benedict the Next YouTube Star? The Vatican is showing strong reciprocity towards technology as Pope Benedict XVI announces Saturday that he will get his own YouTube channel. The Vatican TV Center and Vatican Radio are collaboration with Google on the project. Catholic Church officials believe that it is necessary to use electronics in order to distribute the Bible in today’s world.
Is Google Looking for a Fast Lane? Google has been discussing a need for a fast lane for its offerings in recent months. If Google is put into some fast lane by itself using a more effective protocol stack including, let’s say, a search engine protocol, could it actually make more Internet bandwidth available?
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