The front page talked about Microsoft-Yahoo, and the business section led with Hasbro‘s latest response to Scrabulous, the unlicensed (and possibly infringing) ad-supported Scrabble knock-off up on Facebook. (Note this comment on how Mattel and Hasbro split worldwide Scrabble rights which has fragmented their response to this challenge).
- Doug Field, the former CTO of Segway (the electric vehicle company) has become VP of product design for Apple, working for SVP Jonathan Ive. I wonder what the reuse of skills or expertise is here?
- The LA Times reminds us (via the Merc) that battery-powered portable TVs become useless with next February’s digital TV handover. The recommended alternatives: $200 battery powered TV, use your laptop, run the DTV-to-NTSC box using an inverter, or get TV service on your phone.
- The newspaper ran a 1/9 page ad entitled “Ads by Google”, with plugs for B&H Photo and four other vendors. Apparently this is an old program, but I hadn’t seen it before.
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