Wix’s core product goes far beyond MySpace though, and is a surprisingly advanced site creator. There are templates for artists and musicians or simple start pages for people to put up their resumes—the kind of things you find on competing sites like Jimdo, SynthaSite, and Weebly. The idea is that anyone can build a page [...]

The genius behind Steve–Fortune: This actually came out earlier in the week, but Adam Lashinsky’s profile of Apple COO Tim Cook is worth a read if you haven’t checked it out already. There’s not a lot of new ground broken–Cook is the obvious short-term solution if Steve Jobs had to step down as Apple’s [...]

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The i-Kit worked great with my iPhone 3G–no interference, no fade-outs.

FM transmitters that connect an MP3 player to a
car stereo are notoriously unreliable, subject to lots of interference in urban areas and sub-FM-quality sound. My own experience with these devices was so bad, I paid about $200 to get [...]

Starting July 1, the new prepaid service called “Totally Unlimited” will include free nationwide calling with no roaming charges for $79.99 a month. For $10 more a month, Virgin Mobile users can add unlimited text messaging, IM, e-mail and picture messaging.
Virgin Mobile USA will now offer a flat-rate, unlimited calling plan to compete with the [...]

Krupansky also quoted a reminder letter AOL sent him:

AOL has begun notifying bloggers who’ve used its Journals site that they should move their content to Google’s Blogger or bid it adieu.

Sincerely,

As we wrote in an e-mail on Sept. 30, AOL(R) Journals will permanently shut down on Oct. 31. It’s never an easy decision to shut [...]

Securities regulators and plaintiffs’ lawyers say the practice was widespread in Silicon Valley after the dot-com bust. Some companies, they charged, improperly changed the strike price retroactively to dates when their stock was trading at a lower price. So it was that in 2006, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Brocade’s former Chief Executive [...]

As reported earlier on News.com, mobile carrier Verizon is also working with Rhapsody to provide their V Cast Music customers over-the-air music downloads. Using the new system, V Cast Music customers will be able to download low bit-rate versions of purchased songs directly to their handset, and access higher resolution 256kbps MP3 versions which are [...]

Update 2:23 p.m.: It’s not hard to figure out why shareholders might be upset with the company, which is in the midst of a turnaround effort that began in 2007 and will last through 2008.

• Roy J. Bostock, 39.6 percent, up from 20.5 percent

• Vyomesh Joshi, 7.1 percent, no change

But in the corrected results, Yang’s withhold percentage [...]

Also a plus for a more user-friendly Wikipedia: Ideally, its millions of articles will have a broader depth of coverage. My colleague Declan McCullagh did an assessment last year of the skew toward geeky pop-culture content: the article for the mythological figure Vulcan, for example, is about one tenth as long as the article for [...]

The company on Thursday added an eBay Anywhere application to the dashboard area of the new home page in testing. The eBay application allows users to monitor their buying and selling activities from the Yahoo home page. Other applications blessed by Yahoo include checking various e-mail in-boxes from the Yahoo home page, and down [...]