Google Executives Lavish Praise on iPhone in
Conference Call

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Saul Hansell:

For a company that is busy building its own cellphone operating system, Google shared a lot of love for the iPhone on its earnings-related conference call today. The most heartwarming story came from Sergey Brin, the company?s co-president, who said that he uses an iPhone himself.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Tim Cook and Steve Jobs to sing the praises of Android.

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Terry Semels Hollywood Ending

post from Daring Fireball on 01 February 2008 10:25:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Dave Pell:

I keep imaginging a 2001 Help Wanted Ad that goes something like this: ?Most popular and promising internet company looking for a new CEO to come and re-direct the company into a giant shithole. Compensation includes a permanent suite at the Fairmont and $500 million.?

That?s basically the role Terry Semel stepped into at Yahoo.

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Unboxing the MacBook Air

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 01 February 2008 08:45:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

In addition to the teardown photos posted earlier, we have some delivery and unboxing photos of Appl...

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FontShop

post from Daring Fireball on 01 February 2008 08:42:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

My thanks to FontShop for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed.

If you love fonts, you should love FontShop. (If you don’t love fonts, what is wrong with you?) FontShop sells more than just terrific type (like, say, thee brand-new FF Meta Serif), though — they also sell resources like FontBook, “the largest type reference in the world”.Their special deal for DF readers: call or email them and tell them I sent you, and you get 10 percent off any order.

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Tweet Scan

post from Daring Fireball on 01 February 2008 08:07:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Real-time Twitter search; very well done. Weird that Twitter itself doesn’t offer this. (Via Andy Baio.)

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CleanApp 3

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 01 February 2008 06:50:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Synium Software has introduced CleanApp 3, a new version of the uninstaller and system management to...

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Hardball

post from Daring Fireball on 01 February 2008 06:17:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Kara Swisher on how Microsoft plays ball:

Sources at Yahoo tell me that Microsoft made its most recent overtures right after Yahoo announced its earnings Tuesday and then told Yahoo execs they had two days to respond or Microsoft would go public with the offer.

When Yahoo balked at the heavy-handed tactic, guess what? Microsoft went public.

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Microsoft and Yahoos Shotgun Marriage

BBC business editor Tim Weber:

If Yahoo agrees to the deal with Microsoft, it will be a shotgun marriage, but it will be Google holding the shotgun.

If Yahoo’s management says “yes, I do”, it will be an admission that its attempts to turn around the company have failed. […] For Microsoft, however, this is the deal that could break it. Making the offer is an admission that Microsoft’s management has been scared by the success of Google.

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Apple TV guided tour

Apple has posted a guided tour of iTunes movie rentals on Apple TV, introducing visitors to the set ...

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Crazy EDGE Outage

As many folks have reported, AT&T’s EDGE network is struggling in the midwest. Outages have been patchy but seem to have effected entire cities, or at least large areas. But to my knowledge, there haven’t been any accounts of service dropping within inches…until now.Here I sit, in downtown Cincinnati, and of the three iPhones in [...]

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