Google Android: 1.5 Million T-Mobile HTC G1s Have Been Pre-sold (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)
12 Oct 2008 8:25pm GMT Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: Google Android: 1.5 Million T-Mobile HTC G1s Have Been Pre-sold — Whoever thought Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) would not give Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) a run for it's money when it comes to mobile handsets was wrong. Later this month, Google will be releasing it's Android operating system on the T-Mobile HTC G1 phone.
A Netbook-style clamshell for the iPhone is coming! (Alex Zaharov-Reutt/iTWire)
12 Oct 2008 7:45pm GMT Alex Zaharov-Reutt / iTWire: A Netbook-style clamshell for the iPhone is coming! — OLO - it's the name of what looks like a notebook or netbook computer, but in place of the trackpad, you slot in your iPhone - and use its screen as a trackpad instead! Genius of an idea - or as dumb as the Palm Foleo that never was?
Amid the Gloom, an E-Commerce War (Brad Stone/New York Times)
12 Oct 2008 2:55pm GMT Brad Stone / New York Times: Amid the Gloom, an E-Commerce War — WHEN the e-commerce giant eBay emerged from the last recession seven years ago with an aura of invincibility, its chief executive, Meg Whitman, boasted that “eBay is to some extent recession-proof.” — As the online auctioneer's revenues and stock price kept climbing …
Smart Startup Advice: Don't Panic - Profit (Peter Kafka/Silicon Alley Insider)
12 Oct 2008 2:20pm GMT Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: Smart Startup Advice: Don't Panic - Profit — VCs and angels sent out a series of “look out!” warnings to their charges last week. Now we're starting to see slightly more positive takes from other investors to their startups: Something along the lines of “Look out! But take advantage of the openings”.
TechCrunch Turns Into F**kedCompany 2.0 (Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life)
12 Oct 2008 12:40pm GMT Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life: TechCrunch Turns Into F**kedCompany 2.0 — Some of my readers who missed the dotcom boom and bust from the early 2000s may not be familiar with F**kedCompany, a Web site that was dedicated to gloating about layoffs and other misfortunes at Web companies as the tech bubble popped.