http://truemors.nowpublic.com Tell the world Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:52:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en John McCain's loss in November dashed Meg Whitman's hopes for a White House gig, but the former eBay CEO doesn't have any plans to leave politics behind. Speculation around Whitman's rumored run for California governor sparked up again today when the possible future candidate quit the boards of Procter & ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35544 Apple's planned exit from future Macworld expos has IDG World Expo, the show's producer, feeling the pressure for 2010. With no Steve Jobs stage strutting or hyped-up gadget announcements, plans for the future of Macworld remain fuzzy, but rest assured, the show will go on, with or without Apple. Banners ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35542 Crowd-sourced magazine JPG folded last week, much to the dismay of fancy photo fans everywhere, but now word has emerged that the mag could rise from the dead as potential buyers eye snapping up the publication. Interested suitors engaging in the reported bidding war include Flickr, Smugmug and Alexander Muse. ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35538 Pink slip rumor du jour: the buzz around the business world says Beijing-based Lenovo will layoff 200 employees, including at least 10 at senior management level, at its headquarters. China Tech News reports that the job slashing still needs government approval and could just be the first of the firings ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35536 Bill O'Reilly is gay, CNN's resident twitterer Rick Sanchez may skip work to smoke crack and Britney Spears boasts a four foot wide vagina with razor sharp teeth. Well, at least according to Twitter. The Twitter phishing scam that popped up over the weekend has managed to claim some of ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35534 Apple CEO Steve Jobs wants all the worrying Apple watchers to stop nervously chatting about his health and released a public letter Monday to clear up speculation flying around gossiping tech circles. Jobs blames a hormone imbalance for his dramatic weight loss and reveals he will undergo a "relatively simple" ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35528 Looks like Jimmy Wales has a bright future as a PBS pledge drive host or a well-dressed panhandler as the Wikipedia CEO's "personal plea" seems to have worked with the community-driven online encyclopedia meeting its $6 million fundraising goal. With just a few days to spare, Wikipedia surpassed the six ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35503 Nick Denton should now have enough cash to supply his doomsday shelter with champagne and a hot tub after the Gawker Media founder sold his Consumerist blog to Consumer Reports for an estimated $1-$2 million in cash. Doom 'n gloom Denton has been on job-slashing, blog selling rampage since summer ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35481 The state of Steve Jobs' health has everyone gabbing, even a clerk at a popular frozen yogurt shop in Palo Alto who chimed in on the Apple CEO's rumored illness by claiming a healthy and sprightly-looking Jobs skipped in for a little fro yo only days ago. So, the Steve ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35474 Coffee getting cold on those long winter commutes? Those fast food fries not quite hot enough for your taste? For the person who has everything (in their car), you may want to look through the after-Christmas sales bonanzas to see if you can dig up one of these nifty In-Car ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35467 Digg and ad-selling partner Microsoft couldn't quite seem to work out the kinks on targeted ads, leaving tech stories with erectile dysfunction ads and environment stories littered with Hummer advertisements, but now Kevin Rose and co. may have gotten their act together. Digg's auto section now features car ads and ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35443 Despite a nearly fourteen year ban on trade with Iran, Hewlett-Packard printers continuing flying off shelves in the Middle Eastern nation faster than George W. Bush dart boards. The Boston Globe uncovered the backdoor way HP printers have snuck into the country--a Dubai-based third-party distributor, called Redington Gulf, has sold ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35437 Dallas Mavericks owner and loudmouth extraordinaire Mark Cuban has snapped up a 9.4 percent stake in Carmike Cinemas, the United States' fourth largest movie chain. So, does Cuban have a secret fondness for romantic comedies and Jackie Chan flicks? Not exactly. Cuban declined to talk specifics, but did discuss his ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35417 YouTube's crappy ad revenues and somewhat chaotic approach to business has the head honchos from some major music labels eyeing a partnership with Hulu. Sources say discussions between execs from Universal MG, EMI, Warner and Sony BMG have already started and involve different plans, including the Hulu deal, formulating a ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35413 The cutsey, teeny-tiny laptops that have everyone from business execs to soccer moms looking like squinting giants caused a selling bonanza on Amazon. Netbooks nabbed 17 of the 25 top-selling notebook spots on the shopping giant, putting big smiles on the faces of laptop manufacturers, who had spent the last ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35400 Kevin Rose has decided to hop in bed with Biz Stone and Ev Williams for some sort of nerd threesome--get your mind out of the gutter, Digg has just decided to make the plunge and finally join Twitter. Heck, Rose even went in full-force with like 15 accounts. Although, with ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35375 Facebook and Twitter have both enjoyed a fantastic 2008 (even though neither really has a revenue-making plan) and the two sites often found themselves lumped together on year-end lists of web winners, but a couple calculations reveal Twitter still has a long way to go to reach Facebook status. Read ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35357 Apple's green initiative has Dell VP Bob Pearson red in the face, which works well with the Christmas holiday. You know, green and red? No? Ok, move on. Apple has promoted its new aluminum Macbooks as "the world's greenest family of notebooks," but Pearson finds the environmental schtick laughable, claiming ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35362 Hubspot's "State of the Twittersphere" has provided enough tiny Twitter tidbits to impress and probably annoy your family throughout Christmas dinner because really, who doesn't want to hear about the microblogging service's stellar year over a honey-baked ham? A few interesting items from the report: 70 percent of all Twitter ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35351 Troubled smartphone maker Palm has received a helping hand in the form of a $100 million bailout from the Elevation Partners investment firm. Elevation's managing directors include U2's Bono (hence the company's name) and investor Roger McNamee, who already dumped $325 million into the Treo maker last year. Palm hopes ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35349 The Associated Press has lured Hulu under the mistletoe and went to town with smooches. Ok, not exactly, but the visual will stay with you. The AP selected the NBC-News Corp. joint venture as 2008's Website of the Year for being "a trailblazing answer to how professional content can thrive ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35347 Attention gold diggers: PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and his $1.3 billion net worth have landed on CNN-IBN's list of the most eligible, filthy rich bachelors. The "Rich and Available" list highlights men with enough money to make up for their physical shortcomings or, in Thiel's case, his political leanings. http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35341 Blogging-made-easy company Posterous has reason to toast eggnog-champagne cocktails as the San Francisco-based start-up raised $725,000 from XG Ventures and angel investors that include Guy Kawasaki and Mozilla Foundation chair Mitch Kapor. Can Posterous' cash infusion help it compete with bigger, more cash-backed Tumblr? http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35339 Only 41 days until some of the most brilliant and innovative minds come together to spread ideas and spark endless conversation at the annual TED Conference and now we know who will take the stage. TED 2009 speakers include Bill Gates, Seth Godin and Herbie Hancock. Wannabe attendees would have ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35328 The Chief Privacy Officer at Facebook would reportedly rather hang with Arnold Schwarzenegger than Mark Zuckerberg, and really, who wouldn't? TechCrunch claims Chris Kelly plans to make a run for California's Attorney General gig in 2010. The Harvard Law School grad will run as a Democrat and faces tough competition ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35330