Daily Archives: October 2, 2012

Facebook Made A Big Change A Year Ago That No One Protested (FB)

October 2, 2012
Facebook Made A Big Change A Year Ago That No One Protested (FB)

See Also Facebook Engineer Jocelyn Goldfein To Women: Stop Being Scared Of Computer Science Facebook’s ‘Like’ Buttons Are Under Threat Sean Parker: ‘Now Is The Most Toxic Time Ever In Silicon Valley’ Jocelyn Goldfein joined Facebook about two years ago as its director of engineering. Since then, she’s overseen teams working on many of...

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Tim Cook Sent Mark Zuckerberg A Free iPhone 5 (AAPL, FB)

October 2, 2012
Tim Cook Sent Mark Zuckerberg A Free iPhone 5 (AAPL, FB)

AP See Also ZUCKERBERG: I Wear The Same Thing Every Day Six Months Too Late, Facebook’s Top Execs Have Finally Figured Out The Easy Part I Got Fired From Facebook And Cost Myself $100 Million Mark Zuckerberg didn’t have to wait in any lines to get his iPhone 5. Zuckerberg told Matt Lauer at...

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NetSuite CEO: Here’s How We Kept Larry Ellison Off Our Turf (N)

October 2, 2012
NetSuite CEO: Here’s How We Kept Larry Ellison Off Our Turf (N)

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson See Also The Biggest Fanboy In Silicon Valley Just Paid $20K For Lunch With Joss Whedon SAP Almost Killed A Cloud Product That It Now Says Is Super Important INTERVIEW: NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson On Why The Cloud Will Eat Microsoft And SAP NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson has brilliantly wiggled...

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Zuckerberg: More people use Facebook on mobile web than on Android and iPhone combined

October 2, 2012

In an interview with the Today show’s Matt Lauer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid down the importance of the mobile web for the company. More people, he says, use Facebook via its mobile-targeted website than on the iPhone or Android phones combined. Here’s the quote from the Today show blog, emphasis ours:  iPhone is...

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The 4G-ready Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One XL and Huawei Ascend P1 go on sale with EE in the UK today

October 2, 2012
The 4G-ready Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One XL and Huawei Ascend P1 go on sale with EE in the UK today

EE, the parent company of T-Mobile and Orange that was formerly known as EverythingEverywhere, has announced the availability of its latest “4G ready” smartphones, as it gears up to roll out its superfast mobile network in time for Christmas. Just to recap, Everything Everywhere rebranded as EE last month, labelling its new 4G mobile...

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Here’s how the iPhone 5 fares on EE’s new UK 4G network

October 2, 2012
Here’s how the iPhone 5 fares on EE’s new UK 4G network

Earlier today we reported that EE, the parent company of T-Mobile and Orange that was formerly known as EverythingEverywhere, has announced the availability of its latest “4G ready” smartphones, as it gears up to roll out its superfast mobile network in time for Christmas. While we already knew these handsets were coming to EE,...

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New Life For Mail-Order Brands: Google Expands Its Digital Catalogs

October 2, 2012

I can hardly be bothered to spend time in an actual, brick-and-mortar store anymore. Some purchases demand it, like produce, jeans and furniture, but I prefer the immediacy and convenience of shopping via the Internet. But there’s a problem: The Web isn’t anything like a store.  Online, we’re expected to know what we’re looking...

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The Wearable Intersection Of Sensible And Goofy: GoPad

October 2, 2012
The Wearable Intersection Of Sensible And Goofy: GoPad

Google’s Project Glass has made wearable computing hip. Now a Canadian Kickstarter project wants to make it dorky. And the GoPad folks might actually be on to something. The GoPad isn’t a pad at all. It’s a tablet stand plus a carrying strap plus some other hardware to encourage tablet owners to wear their...

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Investors & Advertisers Drive Facebook Deeper Into Privacy Quagmire

October 2, 2012

We warned you on the day Facebook filed for its initial public offering that, from that point onward, the company would be fixated on making investors and advertisers happy, in that order, even if it meant making users unhappy. So it has come to pass. How else to explain Facebook’s latest effort to bolster advertising revenue, which portends yet...

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Why the trick to Twitter as a data source is more data

October 2, 2012
Why the trick to Twitter as a data source is more data

With election season in full swing and presidential debates kicking off on Wednesday, there’s a lot of talk about the role social media — particularly Twitter — will play in gauging how well candidates performed and how well they’re faring among voters. But not everyone is buying into Twitter’s status as a divining rod...

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