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Mobilized Pays a Visit To Tech News Today to Chat Apple, Sony and More
On Wednesday, I had a chance to reunite with former CNET colleague Tom Merritt as a guest on his Tech News Today show. We had fun bantering on a range of issues from Apple’s iPhone OS update to the...
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Exclusive: Longtime Yahoo Front Page Editor Liz Lufkin Out
According to sources close to the situation, longtime Yahoo front page chief Liz Lufkin has parted ways with the company. The departure last week appears to be related to a reorg by newish...
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How to Solve the Mystery of Spotify and the Missing Coldplay Album
You can listen to just about any song in the world, for free, on Spotify. One big exception: ”Mylo Xyloto,” the new Coldplay album, which isn’t available on the streaming music service or any of its...
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On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts
Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge. Well, kind of — it’s the result of many months of work by the gang...
View ArticleHow Facebook Fired Up Techmeme
Spotify song sharing is like the new FarmVille, and its auto-sharing turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for folks who didn’t quite understand just how frictionless Open Graph sharing would be....
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Viral Video: Donkeys Get Lonely on TWiT (Video)
I motored on up north to lovely Petaluma, Calif., on Sunday, to be on Leo Laporte’s most excellent “This Week in Tech” show. My fellow panelists included Milk’s Kevin Rose, CNET’s Rafe Needleman and...
View ArticlePhoto-Filter Hounds, Rejoice! Instagram Is Coming to Android.
Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing app that has racked up around 14 million followers in the year since it launched, has always been an iPhone-only app — until now. CNET, The Verge and other...
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Viral Audio: A Look Back at Tech in 2011, and Forward to 2012
I was on San Francisco’s public radio station today, talking about this past year in tech with “Forum” host Michael Krasny and fellow panelists, former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy and CNET’s Molly...
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Sprint Announces First LTE Cities and, Prematurely, Its First LTE Phone
Sprint made a bunch of 4G network news on Thursday and some of it was even intentional. On the intended front, CEO Dan Hesse told investors that the company would launch its first high-speed LTE...
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Antennagate Ends, With a $15 Settlement
Crazy to recall this now, but back in the the summer of 2010, the Apple world was briefly obsessed with the design of the iPhone’s antenna, and whether it did or didn’t contribute to the phone’s...
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Turntable.fm Gets Its Label Deals Done
Turntable.fm, the digital music start-up that got a whole lot of buzz last summer, now has deals with all four of the big music labels. The company was slated to announce the pacts — with Universal...
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Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media
In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production...
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The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey's Apple Attack and the Media
Who in their right mind would lie to Ira Glass? That was my first reaction to the revelation that the theatrical monologuist Mike Daisey had lied or fabricated — or in his words, “taken dramatic...
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I didn’t get the sense that Mike was anti-Apple. I think he loves Apple’s products and I told this to Steve Jobs. I think Mike was looking at Apple to become one of the positive forces for having...
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Amid Worries About Strategery, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Tries to Soothe the...
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who has developed a tough-talk reputation within Yahoo of late, went all sweet — well, less crabby, I guess — the day after the layoffs in which 2,000 employees were fired....
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All Things Hired: Bonnie Cha Is Our Latest ATD Reviewer
On the heels of our recent hiring of Mike Isaac to cover social tech for this site, Bonnie Cha will be joining the staff of All Things Digital as a senior reviewer. She joins Walt Mossberg and Katie...
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Key Strategic -- And Digitally Inclined -- CBS Exec Lurie Departs
Zander Lurie — CBS’s SVP of strategic development, who worked on a number of its key digital initiatives — is leaving the media giant. Lurie has been involved in everything from the company’s...
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Columbia University Names Sree Sreenivasan Its First Chief Digital Officer
If you know anyone in the New York media scene, then you either know Sree, or you know someone who does. And more often than not, you need only mention him by his first name: Once you and another...
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Divorce at eHarmony: Founder Takes Back CEO Job from former Zynga Exec Verba
The founder and chairman of eHarmony, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, is returning to the job of CEO at the well-known and oftimes controversial matchmaking site, according to an internal memo I obtained. He...
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Apple-Samsung Juror Tells CNET Debate Was "Heated"
CNET nabbed an exclusive interview with one of the nine jurors in the high-profile and complex trial. The jury largely handed over a victory to Apple in the patent infringement case, along with an...
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