A new way to share with friends - Chances are, you use parts … (Harry Huai Wang/Facebook Blog)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008


Harry Huai Wang / Facebook Blog:

A new way to share with friends  —  Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren’t Facebook.  You might post photo albums using Flickr or Picasa, for example, instead of on Facebook.  There are a lot of good sites out there, unfortunately, that can sometimes mean a lot of switching around …

Windows XP SP3 now set for April 29 debut (Emil Protalinski/One Microsoft Way)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008


Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:

Windows XP SP3 now set for April 29 debut  —  Officially, Microsoft has been saying “the first half of 2008” whenever the company is asked to put a date for the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3.  However, various sources have been expecting the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) …

fring for your iPhone - it’s a fringing world first! (Omri/fring)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008


Omri / fring:

fring for your iPhone - it’s a fringing world first!  —  OK.  So if you’re one of the first lucky *#@$%&s to get your hands on an iPhone, you just got even luckier.  We’ve just made a special pre-release R&D version of fring for your iPhone - a mobile VoIP app publicly available for the iPhone?…yep that’s a world-first!

Don’t Be Evil or don’t lose value? (Sydney Morning Herald)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008


Sydney Morning Herald:

Don’t Be Evil or don’t lose value?  —  Google vice-president Marissa Mayer in Sydney last week.  —  Asher Moses  —  As Google comes under ever increasing scrutiny for the power it has over our lives, the web giant is tiptoeing back from its long-held corporate motto, Don’t Be Evil.

Blue Jeans Cable Strikes Back - Response to Monster Cable (Audioholics Home Theater Reviews and News)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008


Audioholics Home Theater Reviews and News:

Blue Jeans Cable Strikes Back - Response to Monster Cable  —  Not long ago we reported that Monster Cable had issued a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable about their Tartan cables.  Little did the lawyer drones over at Monster know that Kurt Denke, the president of Blue Jeans was, in a former life, a lawyer by trade.

Amazon’s MP3s not affecting iTunes (Greg Sandoval/CNET News.com)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008

Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:

Amazon’s MP3s not affecting iTunes  —  Amazon.com’s MP3 service is growing but not at the expense of Apple’s iTunes, according to a report issued Tuesday by market researcher NPD Group.  —  About 10 percent of the people who shopped at AmazonMP3 in February were previous Apple shoppers, NPD said.

IndexTools (Yahoo!) Web Analytics goes FREE! (Dennis R. Mortensen/VisualRevenue)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008


Dennis R. Mortensen / VisualRevenue:

IndexTools (Yahoo!) Web Analytics goes FREE!  —  Hi there, a bit of news for you who follow the Yahoo! IndexTools integration steps.  But first, THANK YOU very much for all the positive feedback I received in blog comments, separate blog posts, emails, phone calls etc.  I truly appreciate that.

Facebook is Dead. I’m Not Being Facetious (Jeremy Wagstaff/loose wire blog)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008


Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire blog:

Facebook is Dead.  I’m Not Being Facetious  —  Either there’s a glitch in Facebook, or else it’s dead.  Well, not dead, exactly, but I noticed that, at nearly 10 pm, none of my friends have done anything today to merit appearing on the News Feed of stuff (see above).

Patent holders take 4G pledge of allegiance (Bill Ray/The Register)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008

Bill Ray / The Register:

Patent holders take 4G pledge of allegiance  —  Defeat 99.7% of all Spam!  —  The owners of the patents underpinning LTE, the fourth generation mobile technology, have agreed to only charge each other “reasonable” licence fees.  —  The companies involved - Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC …

Google Local Business Center Allows Free Form Categories Now (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)

Posted in annoucements by Techmeme @ Apr 15, 2008

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:

Google Local Business Center Allows Free Form Categories Now  —  You can now enter any category that you feel is best for your company in the category section of your Google Local Business Center listing.  In the past, you had to select a specific category that was in Google’s database.