10 posts and columns on customization

Déjà Hoo: Yahoo Has Done the Pre-IPO Legal Shakedown Dance Before

in News on March 13 at 6:29 am PT

Been there, done that.
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Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit

in News on March 12 at 3:00 pm PT

Even if increasingly irrelevant, being there at the start apparently has to count for something, says Yahoo in its allegations against the social networking giant.
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Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing)

in News on March 12 at 1:15 pm PT

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive legal attack against the powerful social networking giant for intellectual property violations.
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Korea Not Too Keen on Nexus S

in News on December 31, 2010 at 3:38 am PT

Google’s Nexus S smartphone isn’t generating quite the same interest in Korea as its predecessor. Though Korea Telecom eagerly added the Nexus One to its lineup this past June, the carrier has greeted the debut of its successor with disinterest.

Google’s Andy Rubin Gives a Flash of Tablet Future

in Mobile on December 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm PT

Taking the stage to kick off D: Dive into Mobile, Google’s Andy Rubin gave a glimpse of Android 3.0 running on a prototype Motorola tablet. That was the icing on a pastry-laden talk filled with Gingerbread, Froyo and Honeycomb.

Your Own Digital Magazine

in The Mossberg Solution on July 20, 2010 at 9:03 pm PT

IPad users can create their own personalized digital magazine with a free new app called Flipboard, writes Katie.
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Adobe Co-Founder: We Never Abandoned Apple, but Apple Is Abandoning Us

in Mobile on May 14, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

A couple of weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” a 1,671-word execration of Adobe’s Flash platform. On Thursday, Adobe co-founders and co-chairmen Chuck Geschke and John Warnock followed suit with some thoughts of their own. Their eight-paragraph essay, “Our Thoughts On Open Markets,” mentions Apple only once, but when it does it is to lambaste the company for its position on Flash. I spoke to Geschke Thursday afternoon about his letter, Adobe’s new “We ? Apple” ad campaign and Apple’s stance on his company’s software. After the jump, a transcript of our conversation.

Live From New York: Yahoo Introduces “You”

in Media on September 22, 2009 at 8:19 am PT

CEO Carol Bartz explains what Yahoo is getting for its $100 million ad campaign, its first global marketing effort, which was launched today in New York during Advertising Week. Here’s the rundown of Bartz’s press conference on the branding blowout.
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Like Snowflakes, No Two myTouch 3Gs Alike…

in News on June 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

In a summer of handset debuts that already includes the Palm Pre, Apple’s iPhone 3GS, and soon, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Tour 9630, add one more: The myTouch 3G, T-Mobile’s second Google Android phone. The carrier officially introduced the device today and said customers can begin reserving it on July 8.
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FreshDirect on NYC’s "Horrendous" Grocery Scene

in News on May 11, 2009 at 11:30 am PT

FreshDirect’s Rick Braddock writes today that “too much attention has been given to digital advertising,” and that he and other executives at the online grocery store have instead focused on customer relationships and making sales.