Topic A in the blogosphere: An agency wants to suss out paid endorsements on blogs.
Log on to New York food blog AmateurGourmet.com today, and you'll see an advertisement for cookbook publisher Cook's Illustrated, served up by Google's (GOOG) AdSense service.
No surprise, really, since AdSense matches advertisements to website content. Indeed, Adam Roberts, who writes the blog, has twice tested and reviewed recipes from Cook's Illustrated. What could be more relevant MORE
Maha Atal - Oct 5, 2009 6:11 PM ET
The U.S Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest not-for-profit commercial federation, representing some 3 million businesses. But it no longer represents Apple Inc. (AAPL).
On Monday, Apple resigned from the Chamber "effective immediately" over the organization's opposition to the Obama administration's environmental policies.
"We strongly object to the Chamber's recent comments opposing the EPA's effort to limit greenhouse gases," wrote Apple government affairs vice-president Catherine Novelli to Tom Donohue, CEO of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 5, 2009 5:22 PM ET
Technology isn't a cure-all for getting employees to talk to each other. In fact, it can be the enemy.
By Scott Raskin, CEO, Mindjet
Raskin: Employees need to get leave their cubicles and desks, literally or virtually. Photo: Mindjet
How do you harness the creativity of your workforce? In this age of Twitter, Facebook and other so-called Web 2.0 tools, technology seems like an obvious way to get employees to collaborate. Ditto MORE
Oct 5, 2009 10:00 AM ET
Photo: Apple Inc.
Approximately 12% of U.S. computer households own an Apple (AAPL) computer, up from 9% in 2008, according to the results of a survey released Monday morning by the NPD group.
But here's the kicker: the vast majority -- 85% -- also own at least one PC running Microsoft (MSFT) Windows.
There's a simple explanation for this. Mac users tend to own a lot more computers. In fact, 66% of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 5, 2009 9:39 AM ET
The Newton. Photo: Apple Inc.
The killer quote -- or rather paraphrase -- in Brad Stone and Ashlee Vance's properly skeptical story in Monday's New York Times about the new interest in tablet computing is the one attributed to Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs.
Although he killed the Newton -- Apple's early entry in the field -- when he returned to the company in 1997, Jobs allowed work on a new MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 5, 2009 6:28 AM ET
Company wants to make its Flash technology available everywhere -- and that means penetrating mobile devices.
Flash is coming to most mobile phones - except the one that starts with "i." Image: Adobe
Flash is finally coming to your smartphone—and so is Adobe (ADBE). With today's launch of the newest version its software, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the San Jose-based company is making an aggressive push to get its MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Oct 5, 2009 12:01 AM ET
UPDATE: On Thursday Oct. 8 Apple issued iPhone OS 3.1.2, an update that promises to address several of the glitches described below. Among other things, according to Apple, the update:
Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming
Let us know if this clears things up.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 4, 2009 2:25 PM ET
Two weeks ago, after Apple (AAPL) hit a 15-month high, we reviewed the price targets set by the major analysts and suggested that it might be time for some of them to take another look at the company.
With Apple's shares trading for nearly $185, we singled out for special attention several analysts who were recommending the stock to clients, but whose targets had fallen 10% to 23% behind the stock's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 3, 2009 2:08 PM ET
HP Executive Vice President Vyomesh Joshi isn't as close to Hurd as colleagues Livermore and Bradley are. Photo: HP.
If HP CEO Mark Hurd does merge the PC and printing businesses, what will that mean for printing chief Vyomesh Joshi?
A few months back, I spent some time at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) headquarters with Joshi, who's known around HP simply as "VJ." We talked about how he led the printing group to MORE
Jon Fortt - Oct 2, 2009 2:25 PM ET
Eminem. Photo: Imagine Entertainment
The dispute was over money, and like most civil cases, this one was settled out of court.
After five days of trial in a Detroit federal courthouse, Apple (AAPL) and Eminem's publisher, Eight Mile Style, came to an agreement Thursday night that neither side wants to talk about, according to the Detroit Free Press.
At issue were royalties on 93 songs that Apple has been selling on its MORE
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