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Apple Asks Microsoft to Stop New Ad Campaign-> 0

Submitted by Hyppy on Thursday July 16 2009, @10:33AM

Hyppy writes "Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has received multiple correspondences from Apple requesting that Microsoft cease their new ad campaign. From the article: "Turner said Apple's legal eagles tried to depict the ads as inaccurate. 'Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices,' Turner quoted Apple's attorneys as saying. 'They took like $100 off or something,' said Turner. 'It was the single greatest phone call in history that I've ever taken in business.'""
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Apollo 11 40th anniversary re-enactment online now 0

Submitted by roundisfunny on Thursday July 16 2009, @08:27AM

roundisfunny writes "As part of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 trip to the moon, the JFK Library has setup a website that will re-enact the launch in real-time over the next couple of days. Check it out on http://wechoosethemoon.org/ — live Twitter feeds available if requested."

Visa charges $2.3e16 for cigarettes 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2009, @07:45AM

An anonymous reader writes "Man's Visa bill shows charge of $23,148,855,300,104,500.00. For a pack of cigarettes. http://www.amny.com/media/acrobat/2009-07/23136028.pdf"

New Moon Landing Video-> 0

Submitted by PaGeN on Thursday July 16 2009, @07:42AM

PaGeN writes "After 40 Years, the better quality video of the moon landing finally gets shown. NASA, after prompting from NPR, has completed an exhaustive effort to find the better quality video originally recorded in 1969. The degraded video was created when the high quality video was converted to 1969 broadcast quality TV. Thought lost for the last 40 years, NASA has now compiled better video it is now begining to share. The link is to NPR and has text of the story, audio broadcast, and parts of the video released today. NASA link on the 40th anniversery of the Moon Landing can be found at http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_landing/index.html."
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The Rise of Google: Beating Yahoo! at Its Own Game 0

Submitted by Gammu on Thursday July 16 2009, @07:27AM

Gammu writes "Google was incorporated in late 1998 and after only two years became so popular that it replaced the in-house search engine on the most popular website on the Internet. Google won its popularity through the quality of its search results and because of its management. In an era of spendthrift Internet startups, Google controlled costs and grew slowly (at least in terms of employees. Read more at Low End Mac."

Apple compains to Microsoft about commercials 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2009, @01:08AM

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Seattle Times and Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, an Apple lawyer called him asking the company to stop running recent ads revolving around the differing price points between PCs and Macs. Why? Because Apple lowered prices. "It was the greatest single phone call that I've ever taken in the history of business," Turner said in a presentation at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference in New Orleans. "I did cartwheels down the hallway." I assume some lawyer in Cupertino is probably offering his liver to Jobs right about now..."

Apple demanded MS to stop its Laptop Hunters ads 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2009, @07:58PM

An anonymous reader writes "Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote not only about the upcoming Microsoft Stores this fall that will be beside Apple stores but also about how Apple's lawyers wanted Microsoft to take down their Laptop Hunter ads. Here's the story he told (keep in mind that it's coming from a Microsoft executive): 'And you know why I know they're working? Because two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal department saying, hey — this is a true story — saying, "Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices." They took like $100 off or something. It was the greatest single phone call in the history that I've ever taken in business.'"

Birth of Handspring and the Treo 0

Submitted by Gammu on Thursday December 06 2007, @08:12AM

Gammu writes "After leaving Palm (after years of mismanagement and interference by its parent company, 3COM) Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins founded Handspring. To the outside world, Handspring appeared to be an ordinary PDA company, releasing the well respected Visor with its SpringBoard slot and enhanced software, but in reality, it was a communications company in disguise. Visor sales helped finance the development and marketing of a new flagship product, the Treo. After two generations of Treos were released, Palm acquired Handspring and adopted the 'communicator' strategy, continuing to release new revisions of the original Handspring design. Read the full history of Handspring and the Treo at Silicon User."

Palm Before the PalmPilot 0

Submitted by Gammu on Sunday October 21 2007, @02:02PM

Gammu writes "The Pilot (later PalmPilot and finally just Palm) saved Palm Computing. Before the release of the Pilot, the company was subsisting (barely) on revenue from connectivity packages for HP PDA's and a version of Graffiti for the Newton. This was because its first PDA hardware product had failed under the weight of feature creep and design by committee. Read about Palm's early history at SiliconUser."

History of Podcasting 0

Submitted by Gammu on Tuesday September 18 2007, @04:31AM

Gammu writes "The idea of syndicating audio content via the Internet was not new in 2002 when the first podcasts debuted. Originally implemented by radio stations looking to cut costs by having a national catalog instead of creating a new one for every market, audio syndication as an open Internet standard was born by developers exchanging ideas on the brand new RSS on a free Yahoo! message board. It would take years for the idea to be implemented but when it was, podcasting (as it was called) experienced meteoric growth. Now, everybody from Apple to Microsoft to NPR support podcasting in one form or another, a far cry from its humble roots as a research project at Apple (and eventually Netscape) during the mid-nineties."