Biondi is a senior managing director of investment adviser WaterView Advisors, former chairman and chief executive of Universal Studios, and former head of Viacom. Chapple is president of Hawkeye Investments in Redmond, Wash., and former CEO of Nextel Partners.
In a statement, CEO Jerry Yang had this to say:
This seemingly puts [...]
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An anonymous Apple employee says company executives are in talks with Immersion to license its haptic technology for use in the
iPhone, according to a report at Palluxo.com.
In separate news, Immersion on Thursday named Clent Richardson its new president and CEO. According to Immersion’s press release, Richardson has previously held prominent positions at TiVo, [...]
The paid .tel product will allow its subscribers to control which networks their contacts reach them on, if I understand the preview info I saw correctly. Telnic also has a plan in place to allow people to claim their name — a critical function, since there can be only one BobSmith.tel.
Two domain-based identity sites [...]
I had never seen an operation like this before, which surprises me. I heard afterward that this is something that’s popular on river-rafting routes, but I’d not seen it on popular highways. And being from the San Francisco Bay Area, which is of course close to the Pacific Coast Highway, that surprised me.
But it’s the [...]
Terms of the deal, which is part of IAC’s Consumer Applications and Portals division, were not disclosed.
Late last year, the company announced that it would be splitting into five separate corporations as an attempt to center its operations on ad-supported media rather than retail or financial services. And after lying low through the spin-off process [...]
So much for being everyone's darling
But that’s ancient history now and Facebook is coming off badly since it began blocking Google’s Friend Connect last week. And just to make sure that we didn’t forget that Google was on the side of the angels, the company’s put up a detailed primer over the weekend of [...]
SeaWorld's Shamu Cam has the videocamera under the surface of the water.
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For the puppy fans, the Web cam gives them an escape from larger world issues and from the monotony of their own lives.
American Museum of Natural History has a Live Butterfly Cam.
I’ve been wanting to write about the phenomenon of animal [...]
As an added bonus, social networks may be part of the reason that low-income students are largely just as technologically proficient as their peers, contradicting parts of a 2005 Pew study that detailed an economic “digital divide.” According to the new study, a full 94 percent of students use the Internet, 82 percent use it [...]
“The key foundation set of constructs, web services and APIs to support when building the mesh - is the area of profiles, personas, friendships, relationships, social graphs and groups. It all starts with humans and every construct, element and component of the open social web we’re building has to do with people.”
My friend Marc Canter [...]
Requests from advertisers for mobile ads targeted to iPhone users rose to 236 million in October, more than doubling from the 103 million requests recorded in the previous month. Worldwide, AdMob’s mobile-ad requests for all device makers grew 13.8 percent in October, to 5.8 billion.
Fueling the iPhone’s October performance was particularly strong traffic outside the [...]
