John Paczkowski in News on January 27 at 10:32 am PT
On the heels of the news of his departure from HP Friday, Apple veteran and onetime Palm head Jon Rubinstein spoke with
AllThingsD about the move and the fate of Palm’s webOS.
News Byte
Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 27 at 9:08 am PT
It’s been called the
tablet that just won’t die: After refurbished Hewlett-Packard TouchPads became available for a discount on Woot.com, the 16 gigabyte model — which was being sold for $169.99 — is apparently sold out again,
The Verge writes. Earlier this week, HP
published a road map for open-source development on webOS, the mobile operating system behind the TouchPad, six weeks after the company first
said it was opening up the OS to the developer community.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 27 at 8:47 am PT
The former Apple executive who took over the handheld maker Palm has left its acquirer Hewlett-Packard.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 27 at 7:39 am PT
Here’s how your monthly cable bill gets split up. Spoiler: Disney and ESPN get a really big chunk.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 27 at 5:56 am PT
All these hires are making the secretive networking start-up look ever more interesting by the day.
Loretta Chao and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Social on January 27 at 5:30 am PT
Twitter Inc. says it can now make content selectively available to users based on geography, and plans to use that ability to enter countries with “different ideas” about freedom of expression as a human right — reflecting the difficult ethical questions facing Internet companies.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 27 at 5:01 am PT
There were few household names on the show floor at the annual San Francisco expo, but
AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried found several things of note.
Liz Gannes in News on January 27 at 4:45 am PT
The Internet economy of G-20 nations will nearly double in value to $4.2 trillion by 2016, according to a new projection by the Boston Consulting Group.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 27 at 3:59 am PT
“I know we’ve made mistakes, and I know I’m in for a fight.”
Kara Swisher in Media on January 27 at 1:33 am PT
Our beautiful home in the deep, dark universe.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 27 at 12:18 am PT
Kabam, known for developing hardcore social games such as The Godfather and Kingdoms of Camelot, has acquired a company with deep roots in the console game space.
Earn respect, friendship, wisdom and money with your support for the Kimpire. The Kimpire can make you rich and the other way around. The Kimpire will rule the world, so better be a part of it ;-) …
– Megaupload CEO Kim Schmitz, a.k.a. Kim Dotcom, via his Web site in 2003, recruiting volunteers to power his new “Kimpire”
