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• Qualcomms CEO Paul Jacobs Talks About Smartbooks and More!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  When in San Diego recently, BoomTown paid a visit on Qualcomm and its Chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs to talk about a new “smartbook” device that wireless technology company unveiled last week. Well, sort of–while I got a gander at a prototype, the real one is not actually set to debut until the 2010 Consumer ...
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• The Missing Final Chapter of Aulettas Google Book: 25 Media Maxims

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Last week, New Yorker writer Ken Auletta launched his new book on the search giant: “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.” But one final chapter was actually cut from the book, which Auletta posted this past weekend on his Web site. Auletta emailed BoomTown, explaining that he killed it, because it ...
  19 hours ago

• Weekend Update 11.14.09- Keeping your Heads and Data in the Cloud

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 690
  If you follow AllThingsD, and Weekend Update hopes you do, then one thing you’ve come to value is the special way the staff gets around the world to cover the important stuff and report it straight from the geek’s mouth. This week our bi-coastal brigade brought the tech news as it happened, and in Boomtown’s ...
  2 days ago

• As "Twilight: New Moon" Mania Descends Online, Try "Firelight" Instead

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Oh dear, just a single week away and Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and every gossip site on the Web is aflame in expectation of the second installment of the young-vampires-in-lust movie series, “Twilight: New Moon.” As pictures of its are-they-or-aren’t-they-holding-hands (um, they are ) stars, Robert Pattinson ...
  3 days ago

• Viral Video: How Much Do I Love Taylor Swift? (Take That, Kanye!)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  In this ruthlessly funny video–especially for such a sweet-looking young lady–singer Taylor Swift manages to ice pretty much everyone who ever dissed her. And Kanye West’s attention-grabbing antics at the MTV Video Music Awards in September are not the only ones getting a musical smackdown from the 19-year-old, ...
  4 days ago

• AOLs Mass Layoffs Will Cost $200 Million

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 746
  AOL formally acknowledged that it plans on a round of very large cuts: In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Time Warner (TWX) unit said it plans on taking up to $200 million in restructuring charges through the first half of 2010. Earlier this week, Kara Swisher reported that AOL’s coming ...
  4 days ago

• Want Women In Tech, Find The Role Models

  
  Regular Geek — Authority: 561
  The Next Web has an interesting set of posts regarding women in technology. The first post by Boris makes the accusation that women are holding themselves back. He even includes this inflammatory idea: The longer I work in our industry the more I’m starting to think that most women never miss an opportunity to ...
  4 days ago

• Is Google Scary? Not to Silicon Valley, Even at a Party for a Book About How Scary It Could Be!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  While at a book party for author Ken Auletta in San Francisco last night, BoomTown took the opportunity to ask those gathered whether they were scared or not of Google and its growing power. The Auletta book covers a lot about the search giant, but also drills in on how traditional media and advertising, as well as ...
  4 days ago

• Author Ken Auletta Talks About Google and Its "Lack of Emotional Intelligence"

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Guess what? Google has too many Spocks and not enough Captain Kirks. That was one of the many interesting insights BoomTown gleaned from a video interview last night–which you can see below–with well-known New Yorker scribe Ken Auletta, who has just written a new book , “Googled: The End of the World as We ...
  4 days ago

• From the Department of Oh No, She Didnt: Whitman Defends eBays Skype Debacle

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  If spinning is an intense political skill, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is doing her very best at trying to create a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. As Om Malik reports on GigaOm , Whitman–who is trying to nab the Republican gubernatorial nomination for California–told a radio interviewer recently that ...
  5 days ago

• Apple Uses "Switchers" Ad to Keeping Smacking Windows 7

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  While sales of Windows 7 are doing well–especially compared to the previous Vista operating, according to many reports–Apple (AAPL) is continuing to slap the Microsoft (MSFT) operating system software around. There were a bunch of mean-spirited “Get a Mac” ads right when Windows 7 was released in late ...
  5 days ago

• The Judge Was Wrong: RealNetworks RealDVD Appeal Document

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  RealNetworks just lobbed its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals, in the case revolving around its DVD-copying software, RealDVD. A U.S. District judge had put a preliminary injunction on RealNetworks (RNWK) to stop sales in August and then renewed it in October . In a typical Hollywood move, the Motion Picture ...
  6 days ago

• Viral Video: "2012"–Killer Special Effects…Literally!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Hollywood is selling the end times hard this week with the opening of “2012,” a blockbuster-style movie about the last days of the world for humanity. Apparently, we were warned! It’s based on junk theories about how the 5,125-year-long Mayan Long Count calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, which can only mean ...
  6 days ago

• TwinkedIn: The Reeses Cup Video of LinkedIns Reid Hoffman and Twitters Biz Stone

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Guess what? It’s yet another online company going gaga over Twitter integration–this time LinkedIn is announcing a partnership with the microblogging service. Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) recently announced various ways they were lacing their various services with Twitter’s feed, mostly around search. ...
  6 days ago

• AOL: Small Layoff Today, a Voluntary Buyout and, Then…the Big One

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Essentially–although AOL is located in New York and not California, it’s going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today, as about 100 employees are laid off. Sources said the cuts, first reported by Valleywag’s Ryan Tate , will be widespread across AOL, even as it inches ever closer to ...
  6 days ago

• Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today…No, Really!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Who said the venture capital industry is sucking wind lately? Well, it is–but not today, and especially, not Accel Partners, which sold two of its portfolio start-ups to large public companies for a total of $1.5 billion. That would be the sale of AdMob to search behemoth Google (GOOG) for $750 million in stock ...
  1 week ago

• Google Primer on AdMob Acquisition: We Can Believe We Ate the Whole Thing!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Google has a Web page up about today’s acquisition of AdMob for $750 million in stock, which includes the lovely image below of the differences between what the Silicon Valley companies do in the mobile advertising space. Said Google (GOOG) on its site about the purchase : “Mobile advertising is a rapidly ...
  1 week ago

• Google Acquires AdMob for $750 Million in Stock (Plus the Press Release and Video With CEO)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 733
  Google has acquired AdMob for $750 million, a huge price for an innovative start-up that has pioneered online ads on mobile and now smart phones. BoomTown visited AdMob last fall and posted about how it was likely to eventually be acquired by… Google (GOOG)! (Google has provided a primer on the sale , which ...
  1 week ago

• Weekend Update 11.07.09—Big Trouble in Little China Edition

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 690
  Big news often comes in small changes, and Boom Town was all over the little moves that meant big stories this week. Kara covered a massive redesign of the MSN (MSFT) homepage that follows the old car racing mantra turned web design ethos. Add power and lightness. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when boom Town ...
  1 week ago

• Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling [Hackfights]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  Youd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one...
  1 week ago

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