Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on Apple’s IPad — Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPad, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans.
Hugo Miller / Industries:
RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on Apple’s IPad — Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPad, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans.
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on IPad — Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc’s iPad, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans.
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
MoneyBall for Startups: Invest BEFORE Product/Market Fit, Double-Down AFTER. — My apologies… this is a long piece (~2500 words). Not for the faint of heart. If you want the short story, read the abstract below & 3 core assumptions, then cut to the conclusions at the bottom.
Lauren Goode / Digits:
How Low Will E-Reader Prices Go? — As Amazon prepares to release a 9 Kindle e-reader next month, could even cheaper e-readers be close behind? — A small manufacturer already plans to introduce a device this fall. Copia, a subsidiary of DMC Worldwide, is set to offer a …
Erin White / Northwestern University News:
Not as Web Savvy as You Think — Young people give Google, other top brand search results too much credibility — Google it. That’s what many college students do when asked to read an excerpt of a play for class, write a resume or find the e-mail address of a politician.
RIM Buys “BlackPad.com”, Presumably As A Home For The BlackBerry Tablet (Greg Kumparak/MobileCrunch)
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
RIM Buys “BlackPad.com”, Presumably As A Home For The BlackBerry Tablet — Unless someone at Research In Motion is taking the time to screw with all of us, it looks like we might have an official name for their long-rumored BlackBerry tablet project: BlackPad.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Blekko: New Search Engine Lets You “Spin” The Web — Did you think the search engine wars had devolved into a fight between only Google and Bing? Think again. New challenger Blekko is stepping into the fray, opening to limited beta testing today. It offers a compelling way to …
Joi Ito / Joi Ito’s Web:
The issue of license proliferation — When I was on the ICANN board, we were dealing with the issue of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), an initiative to allow non-latin characters in domain names. Technically, it was difficult and even more difficult was the consensus process to decide exactly how to do it.
An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet (Clay Dillow/Popular Science)
Clay Dillow / Popular Science:
An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet — The Keys to the Internet Each smart card contains a portions of the DNSSEC root key, which would be necessary to reboot the Internet as we know it if connections were severed to stem a cyber attack.