Looks Like Even Google Forgot Knol Existed

• July
• 29

Knol, Google’s platform for sharing articles about specific topics, appears to have been shutdown. It’s unclear if this is a temporary or permanent situation. We’ve reached out to Google for comment.

We’ve long been speculating as to when Google will shut down Knol. The knowledge-sharing site has essentially been reduced to a “Craigslist wannabe.” The original idea behind Knol was that people could collaboratively write definitive articles about any topic they like and get rewarded by earning a share of the AdSense revenues for each page they author. Unfortunately, no one seems to be reading anything on Knol and the product never really panned out. More information: click here

Microsoft hosts annual financial analyst meeting (AP)

• July
• 29

AP – Analysts will be looking for clues about the future of Microsoft Corp.'s mobile and online businesses and its strategy for Windows-based tablet computers at an annual meeting with the software maker on Thursday. More information: click here

HTC Beefs Up Management Team But Loses A Top Executive

• July
• 29

Mobile phone maker HTC this morning announced a series of executive promotions and newly created management positions.

The Taiwanese company said it had poached two senior execs from rival Sony Ericsson and that it had promoted three others to its management team. Buried in the press release, however, is that a senior executive of its own has quit the company. More information: click here

Sony surprises with return to profitability (Reuters)

• July
• 29

<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100729/tc_nm/us_sony”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100729/i/r858281920.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=tgjcaZujMEjNNJyJI5BaEA–” align=”left” height=”84″ width=”130″ alt=”A woman visits a Sony Corp showroom in Tokyo in this June 18, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao” border=”0″ /></a>Reuters – Sony Corp lifted its annual outlook and returned to profitability in the first quarter on booming demand for its Bravia flat TVs and PlayStation 3 game consoles.</p><br clear=”all”/> More information: click here

Facebook CEO talks privacy on Hill (Kim Hart/The Politico)

• July
• 29

Kim Hart / The Politico:
Facebook CEO talks privacy on Hill  —  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made his first visit to Washington Wednesday, meeting privately with members of Congress about online privacy and other technology issues.  —  Zuckerberg, the site’s 26-year-old CEO, has received plenty of attention lately …
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Playstation, TVs boost Sony to $294 million profit (AP)

• July
• 29

<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_hi_te/as_japan_earns_sony”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100729/capt.a297d9554a8e445595f9117ace087f23-a297d9554a8e445595f9117ace087f23-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Zj.l2VPo4NcjPr9_WFW3qA–” align=”left” height=”86″ width=”130″ alt=”A salesclerk adjusts one of 3-D models of Sony's Bravia liquid crystal display TVs on display at Yamada Denki LABI electric shop in Tokyo, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Sony bounced back to profit last quarter and raised its full-year earnings forecast, fueled by stronger demand for its PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, personal computers and televisions. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)” border=”0″ /></a>AP – Sony bounced back to profit last quarter and raised its full-year earnings forecast, fueled by stronger demand for its PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, personal computers and televisions.</p><br clear=”all”/> More information: click here

Google Rolls Out Android’s New Anti-Piracy Mechanism

• July
• 29

If we’re hearing any one thing from developers that is scaring’em away from Android, it’s that Android apps are just way, way too easy to pirate. Hell, you don’t even have to go through shady third party download sites; just buy an app, copy it to the sd card, and refund the application. Ta-da! (Read: Don’t do that.)

Google’s been talking for some time about a new, considerably more secure system for protecting applications from pirates and dishonest refunders. Today, that system goes live. More information: click here

Time Inc.'s iPad Problem Is Trouble for Every Magazine Publisher (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

• July
• 29

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Inc.’s iPad Problem Is Trouble for Every Magazine Publisher  —  Time Inc. likes to show off its iPad apps as a symbol of the company’s future.  But inside the publisher, the digital editions have become a source of hair-pulling frustration.  —  That’s because the magazine giant …
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Reliance Communications may allow users to create own music tones

• July
• 29

Reliance Communications (RCom) is in talks with Hyderabad-based Altruist Technologies to create an open source network to allow its 105 million wireless subscribers (GSM and CDMA networks) to create t… More information: click here

Libraries top Netflix, Redbox when it comes to loaning DVDs (Ben Patterson/Yahoo! News)

• July
• 29

Ben Patterson / Yahoo! News:
Libraries top Netflix, Redbox when it comes to loaning DVDs  —  Sure, Netflix and Redbox may rule the U.S. DVD rental market, but it turns out that the nation’s public libraries are loaning more DVDs each day than Netflix rents to its by-mail subscribers.  —  So says a new survey …
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