Fifty years have passed, but the first live televised presidential debate still shapes elections.
YouTube is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first live televised presidential debate, which took place on September 26th, 1960.
It was 50 years ago today that then Senator from Massachusetts John F. Kennedy took on then Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever general election presidential debate. The debate was a turning point not only for the MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 27, 2010 10:34 AM ET
Samsung didn't show off this functionality during its North American demo.
Another great use of the Galaxy Tab, which Samsung is positioning as a "take with you tablet," is as a home automation device. Here's a presentation (via Engadget) of the Galaxy Tab being used to control various devices around the house:
The demo depicts live widget-based control over your home's HVAC, TV (including remote viewing), stove, oven, dryer, vacuum robot, and MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 27, 2010 9:22 AM ET
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"In my opinion, your motives are driven by self-serving factors around ego satisfaction and 'making a buck.'" -- Angel investor Ron Conway to a group of super MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 27, 2010 7:00 AM ET
Smaller rivals like Jumptap and Millennial Media are also gaining, according to IDC
U.S. only. Source: IDC via Bloomberg Businessweek
The pie chart at right is somewhat premature, given that it is IDC's best guess -- via Bloomberg Businessweek -- of what the $500 million U.S. mobile advertising market will look three months from now.
But it's an indication of how the winds have shifted. Apple (AAPL), which had 0% share of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 27, 2010 5:45 AM ET
When growth is graphed against P/E ratio, Apple is literally off the charts
Source: Asymco
Asymco's Horace Dediu, an independent analyst with a knack for generating eye-opening charts (see here and here), has done it again.
This time he examines the question of whether Apple's (AAPL) shares are over-valued.
The stock has certainly had a good run. At more than $290 a share Apple is now, as Dediu puts it, nearly the most MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 27, 2010 4:15 AM ET
A French court ruled earlier this month that Google and its CEO Eric Schmidt were liable for the results of an algorithm.
Courtesy Disney/DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
A man convicted of a three year suspended jail sentence for corruption of a minor claimed that when one Googled his name, the terms "rapist" and "satanist" came up in Google's Suggest feature.
That doesn't bode well for his future job prospects. He claims he tried to contact Google to MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 26, 2010 11:54 AM ET
Apple improves its social network for music, but you still can't "like" The Beatles
Source: Scripting News
Someone at Apple (AAPL) seems to be paying attention to what people have been saying about Ping, the social network add-on to iTunes that Steve Jobs unveiled with such fanfare Sept. 1 and which critics excoriated with such enthusiasm (see Can Ping Be Saved?)
Within four days, Apple had made two out of the 10 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 26, 2010 9:52 AM ET
Informa is bullish on Android expansion.
In March of last year, business information specialist, Informa predicted that Android would outsell iPhone by 2012. Depending who you ask, that may have happened already, two years early.
With that in mind, Informa this week predicts that Android will pass Nokia (NOK) to become the biggest smartphone platform on earth in 2012. And Android won't stop growing there. Informa expects the Android platform to top half a MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 26, 2010 12:25 AM ET
Over 200,000 pre-orders and a queue more than 1,000 customers long
The scene Saturday morning outside one of Apple's Beijing stores. Photo: AFP
What a difference a year makes.
Last November, when Apple (AAPL) first starting selling the iPhone in China -- the world's largest cell phone market with nearly 800 million subscribers -- analysts termed the launch a "disappointment." The queues of customers were underwhelming, and after four days of sales, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 25, 2010 8:41 AM ET
YouTube Instant and now YouTube Time Machine are examples of creative ways people are improving YouTube on their own.
Last Month, Stanford computer science student Feross Aboukhadijeh saw the Google (GOOG) Instant presentation and knew he could do the same thing to YouTube. He bet his roommate it would only take an hour.
He lost, it took three.
His creation, called YouTube Instant , won him some immediate acclaim as well as a million MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.86% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.26 | -0.48 | -3.75% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.22 | -0.25 | -5.59% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.62 | -0.75 | -3.33% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.59 | -0.24 | -1.21% |
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| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.09% |
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