William Shatner Says He Never Made $600M From Priceline
Shatner:
Someone stupid said a stupid thing about me making $600M. It ain’t so. Relatives are coming out of the woodwork. Too bad it never happened.
So much for this then.
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Judge Denies Media Request for iPhone Prototype Warrant
Declan McCullagh:
The reason for the sealing is that the documents contain the names
of two individuals of interest, whom police do not want to alert,
an attorney for the media coalition said after talking to Stephen
Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney.
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Direct Mail
My thanks to E3 Software for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Direct Mail, their mailing list management and email tracking software for Mac OS X. Direct Mail offers the convenience of a hosted solution, but also the privacy and flexibility of a desktop Mac app. Check out their feature comparison charts to [...]
The Inquirer Says Apple Might Regret the iPad
Nick Farrell:
The ipad has doomed Apple, according to market analysts that are
expecting the tablet to spell trouble for its maker. […] Rather
than killing off the netbook, the ipad is harming sales of the
iPod and MacBooks.
Uh-huh. Sure. Doomed.
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Scribd in HTML5
Using their new HTML5 document presentation technology to explain their new HTML5 document presentation technology.
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Nintendo Prepares for War Against Apple
Leo Lewis, reporting for the Times Online:
Nintendo is preparing to unleash the full force of its development and marketing artillery against Apple after profits tumbled at the Japanese giant for the first time in six years. […]
Satoru Iwata, the Nintendo president, is understood to have told his senior executives recently to regard the battle with [...]
Marco Arment on App Store Keyword Scammers
This is the sort of dishonest trickery the review process ought to prevent.
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Tim Bray on Android and Private APIs
Nice explanation from Tim Bray on Android programming APIs:
The Google-provided SMS app has its own database that it uses to
stash away the SMS history, and it sets up its own Content
Provider for its own internal use. It turns out that if you read
the source code, you can figure out [...]
Mark Cuban: ‘Tax the Hell Out of Wall Street and Give It to Main Street’
Regarding yesterday’s stock market panic, Mark Cuban suggests a 25-cent-per-share trading tax, which would mostly affect traders (who buy and sell constantly), rather than investors (who buy and hold stocks for the long run).
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iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28
Apple PR:
Apple today announced that ipad will be available in Australia,
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the
UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all ipad models
from Apple’s online store in all nine countries beginning on
Monday, May 10.
My condolences to those of you in countries [...]
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