January 2010
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“It’s all about profit, and I understand where the silence is coming from, but...”
– Dan Slane, chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, speaking to Bloomberg about Google’s plan to offer uncensored search data in China and why the information giant stands alone.
Do you have a Google or China that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox:...
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WatchI definitely don’t agree with Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who believes that iPhone will be the dominant mobile platform. Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget was right to argue that Apple’s mobile phone business would go the same way as the Mac did in the 1980s and 1990s. I made the same case three months ago in the second of the three-linked Betanews stories below:
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“There’s a collective scorn for the way that NBC has so openly pooped on...”
– “Conan Fever” by Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon, 1-24-10.
Do you have a Conan O`Brien story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
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Conan O'Brien Should Out-Fox NBC
NBC’s reasoning for bringing back Jay Leno to late-night TV is baffling. I now understand why TV programming is rife with dumb-ass decisions: The people making them.
Here’s the basic story: Last year, Conan O’Brien replaced Jay Leno as host of the Tonight Show as planned. But then NBC gave Leno his own show at 10 p.m., preempting Conan by 95 minutes, five nights a week. NBC...
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“Morgan Stanley recently decided to stop making payments on five San Francisco...”
– Roger Lowenstein in New York Times Magazine story “Walk Away From Your Mortgage!”; how banks walk away from their mortgages but expect consumers who owe them morally obliged to pay up.
Do you have an ethics or questionable banking story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox:...
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“Evidently, AT&T thought it best not to mention the iconic super-smartphone...”
– John Paczkowski on AT&T’s Consumer Electronics Show event earlier today.
Do you have an AT&T or iPhone story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
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Understanding The Device Agnostic Internet
patriciahandschiegel:
“Slate-type devices, like the thank-God-it-was-canned Smart Display and the it-might-be-released-now-but-who-cares JooJoo, have the limitations of keyboard-less design that make long text entry or complex editing impractical. But their screens are too large to comfortably use for frequent touch input. And they’re too big to fit in a pocket.” — from a recent blogger post...
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