Letter that “young adult” Erin Taylor will regret writing or, If You Love Something, Spurn It Because It Isn’t Free.
The four NYTimes journalists who were held captive in Libya recount their harrowing story in today’s paper. Sometimes it’s good to remember what you’re paying for in the first place.
CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: The right news for the right gadget
News organizations are spending a big chunk of time right now trying to wrap their heads around the Cambrian device explosion.
We (that’s the royal we, not the CNNMoney we) were still struggling to get a handle on this “ok, people want news on the Web, not on dead trees” idea, and now all the…
CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: CES Bingo
The Consumer Electronics Show is next week. The show is massively large, and just about every major (and minor) tech company and reporter will be descending on Las Vegas in the coming days. People come from all around the world to see what the next year will bring in electronics, gadgets,…
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It’s not a real tech event unless there’s ice sculptures. -Stacy
CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Need a favor? There's a site for that.
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post from CNNMoney producer Allie Bell, who cheerily covers our 5:30 a.m. shift and works on the site’s social media.
Favo.rs is a beta site that allows users to crowdsource their appeals for assistance. Part of me wonders if the founders…
CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: XCom Global - Thumb (drive) up!
Just wanted to give a belated shout out to XCom Global for saving me the headache of scrambling for a connection at this year’s Mobile World Congress.
At an event with 70,000 attendees, you could imagine that connectivity is an issue — ironic, at a conference about connectivity. Wi-Fi is…
“On many days we’re now getting fewer BB users than Windows Phone 7 users, and we don’t even have a Windows Phone 7 app!”
— YouMail CEO Alex Quilici, who recently pulled the plug on his company’s BlackBerry app development (via cnnmoneytech)
CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Tech Fools Day
Here’s our running roundup of the best tech pranks today …
- Yelp’s unbeatable daily deal: Puppy of the Month club!
- Hulu goes back to 1996. Love the GeoCities button.
- Wanderfly seeks out undiscovered new vacation spots like China’s Kitty City and Your Mom’s House
- Google…
‘Best BlackBerry of the year?’ Well, yes, if it’s the only one…
Photo: Courtesy, Research In Motion
In this tweet today, Research In Motion quoted a CNET review, which claims the just-released Bold 9930 is the “the best BlackBerry of the year.”
Well, that’s objectively true: The BlackBerry Bold 9930 is the only BlackBerry that RIM has released this year. (The Torch 9850 is coming out next week.)
So, congrats, RIM … sort of? -David
“These actions result from a process I initiated about six months ago in a special meeting of the independent directors in which we analyzed the reasons why Yahoo! was not meeting either our own expectations or those of our shareholders.”
— Yahoo board chairman Roy Bostock, announcing his own departure and that of three other directors. The four are, ahem, “volunteer[ing] not to stand for re-election” at the shareholder meeting in the spring. (via cnnmoneytech)
