[Medianews] Jobs speaks! The complete transcript

2010-10-18 Thread Monty Solomon
Jobs speaks! The complete transcript Posted on Oct 18, 2010 10:03 pm by Jason Snell, Macworld.com [Editor's note: Steve Jobs had a lot to say Monday during his conference call with analysts following Apple's announcement of record earnings and sales. Here's the Apple CEO in his own words.] Hi,

[Medianews] Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

2010-10-18 Thread Monty Solomon
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results Record Mac, iPhone and iPad Sales Highest Revenue and Earnings Ever CUPERTINO, California-October 18, 2010-Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 fourth quarter ended September 25, 2010. The Company posted record revenue of $20.34 billi

[Medianews] AP to form news group to make money from mobile

2010-10-18 Thread George Antunes
AP to form news group to make money from mobile Oct 18, 2010 4:04 PM (ET) By APRIL CASTRO and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press http://apnews.myway.com//article/20101018/D9IUAGC01.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Associated Press is overseeing the creation of an organization to help

[Medianews] Former music label boss: beat pira cy by selling albums for £1

2010-10-18 Thread George Antunes
Former music label boss: beat piracy by selling albums for £1 By Nate Anderson Ars Technica Oct 18, 2010 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/former-music-label-boss-beat-piracy-by-selling-albums-for-1.ars Would musicians make more money selling more copies of albums at a fraction

[Medianews] Fox throws anti-net neutrality pie at Cablevision in carriage wars

2010-10-18 Thread George Antunes
Fox throws anti-net neutrality pie at Cablevision in carriage wars By Matthew Lasar Ars Technica Oct 18, 2010 http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/10/fox-throws-anti-net-neutrality-pie-at-cablevision-in-carriage-wars.ars The hand-to-hand rhetorical combat between Fox Television and Cablevi

[Medianews] Free conference calls and porn! The case for traffic pumping

2010-10-18 Thread George Antunes
Free conference calls and porn! The case for traffic pumping By Matthew Lasar Ars Technica Oct 18, 2010 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/free-conference-calls-and-porn-the-case-for-traffic-pumping.ars There's a new study decrying the rural phone company practice that the big c

[Medianews] Fox-Cablevision Blackout Reaches a 2nd Day

2010-10-18 Thread George Antunes
October 17, 2010 Fox-Cablevision Blackout Reaches a 2nd Day By BRIAN STELTER and BILL CARTER NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/media/18cable.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print What started as a routine contract dispute between Cablevision Systems and the News Corporation ha

[Medianews] Google Determined to Crack the Social Code

2010-10-18 Thread George Antunes
October 17, 2010 Determined to Crack the Social Code By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/technology/18google.html?_r=1&ref=business&pagewanted=print Google has been stunningly adept at devising computer algorithms to help people search the Internet. But when it c

[Medianews] Cablevision-Fox feud drags on, leaving Giants fans in the lurch

2010-10-18 Thread George Antunes
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/10/cablevision-fox-feud-drags-on-likely-leaving-giants-fans-in-the-lurch.html Cablevision-Fox feud drags on, leaving Giants fans in the lurch By Joe Flint Los Angeles Times October 17, 2010 | 10:07 am Hey, New York, are you ready for

[Medianews] US may outsource lightweight satellite launches to India

2010-10-18 Thread George Antunes
17 Oct, 2010, 02.16PM IST,IANS US may outsource lightweight satellite launches to India The Times Of India http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/US-may-outsource-lightweight-satellite-launches-to-India/articleshow/6763608.cms NEW DELHI: The United States could outsource li

[Medianews] Has Facebook lost control of the Platform?

2010-10-18 Thread Williams, Gregory S.
Has Facebook lost control of the Platform? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20019867-36.html This time around, Facebook may actually have seen its privacy Watergate: A report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday found that the phenomenal amount of personal information that Facebook members put i

[Medianews] MacBook Air update rumors spike ahead of Apple event

2010-10-18 Thread Williams, Gregory S.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/mabook-air-update-rumors-spike -ahead-of-wednesday-announcement.ars When Apple gets "back to the Mac" this Wednesday, it is widely expected that the company will unveil an update to its MacBook Air ultraportable laptop. The device hasn't been updated since

[Medianews] Woman Finds Stolen Dress on Craigslist

2010-10-18 Thread Williams, Gregory S.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/105128889.html CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) -- A 25-year-old Chippewa Falls woman's impatience helped find her stolen wedding dress and solve several other burglaries. The owner of a storage unit called Alena Gadke on Oct. 8 to tell her of some break-ins, so Gadk

[Medianews] New CPR is spelled C-A-B

2010-10-18 Thread Williams, Gregory S.
http://us.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/18/cpr.rules.heart.association/index.ht ml?hpt=T2 (CNN) -- It was 5:16 a.m. when the call came in to a 911 dispatcher in Madison, Wisconsin. The story, from Cathy Silver, came out staccato: Cathy's husband, Jim, was gagging, gasping for air. A nurse at the Universi

[Medianews] Facebook in Privacy Breach

2010-10-18 Thread Williams, Gregory S.
Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230477280457555848407523696 8.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEADNewsCollection By EMILY STEEL And GEOFFREY A. FOWLER Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-network

[Medianews] What They Know: The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets

2010-10-18 Thread Monty Solomon
WHAT THEY KNOW The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on consumers. First in a series. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703940904575395073512989404.html Microsoft Quas

[Medianews] Will Apple's Culture Hurt the iPhone?

2010-10-18 Thread Monty Solomon
Will Apple's Culture Hurt the iPhone? By MIGUEL HELFT October 17, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO - If you want a smartphone powered by Google's Android software, you could get Motorola's Droid 2 or its cousin, the Droid X. Then there is the Droid Incredible from HTC, the Fascinate from Samsung and the Al