Headlines for June 15th, 2009
Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by [modern media mom] in Lastest Headlines, Latest News, Links & Resources
- DTV Switch: Mostly A Smooth Move – “The big DTV switch is essentially over and while the FCC continues its mopping up campaign, some consumers are still struggling with converter boxes and antennas to get reception.”
- All eyes on Minnesota as RIAA trial starts over – “The only file-sharing trial ever to go before a jury met with a spectacularly unsympathetic one back in 2007. As Jammie Thomas-Rasset (the former Jammie Thomas) prepares once again to face federal charges that she shared 24 songs over KaZaA back in 2005, keep an eye out for these developments:”
- Adobe begins to charge in online apps battle – “Adobe has moved its online software suite out of beta and will ask US customers to pay for the privilege of using its the combined productivity and collaboration offering, as of today.”
- Twitter traffic growth stalls – “Growth for Twitter, the superhot San Francisco microblogging startup, slowed significantly in May, according to the digital traffic measurement firm Compete.”
- Microsoft Will No Longer Pay for Employee iPhones, Blackberries – “Microsoft has implemented a new policy that will no longer pay for employees’ mobile phones and data plans, even when used extensively for work, if the mobile phone runs on anything other than Windows Mobile.”
- Millions Grab Their Facebook Name – “Bloomberg reported that more than 3 million people registered user names in the first 12 hours after the social networking site offered members the chance to claim a personalized Internet address.”
- Hunch Web Service Is Pretty Darn Nosy – “Hunch, a new Web-based service that is designed to help users answer questions, is now live. But Hunch is not a search engine. Instead, the service wants to help users make smarter decisions.”
- Google adding microblog indexing to its search results – “There is evidence that Google is close to launching a service to search micro-blogging services such as Twitter for popular trends. Combined with other Web results, such searches may provide insights into what people say about a particular subject, or even what they are talking about right this minute.”
