“We’d love to support Facebook apps,” said Bianchini, who co-founded Ning with veteran entrepreneur Marc Andreessen. “Right now, Facebook hasn’t neccessarily set it up in a really clear, programmatic way…(Facebook) has talked about it, then came back from it, and it’s a little bit in limbo right now in terms of really what and how [...]

Yahoo on Wednesday said it plans to ask the court to dismiss an amended shareholders lawsuit and noted it would also oppose the plaintiffs’ motion to seek a speedy trial to invalidate its employee severance plans.

The brief note foreshadows actions Yahoo plans to take by Monday to preserve its controversial employee severance plans.

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Miami-based Psystar, owned by Rudy Pedraza, will sue Apple under two federal laws designed to discourage monopolies and cartels, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act, saying Apple’s tying of the
Mac OS to Apple-labeled hardware is “an anticompetitive restrain of trade,” according to attorney Colby Springer of antitrust specialists Carr & Ferrell. Psystar [...]

Happy to say that there may be a technology answer to the problem. Dr. Lawrence Roberts, who invented computing networking via data packets, gave a talk at the recently concluded Structure 08 conference. I chatted on today’s Daily Debrief with Webware’s Rafe Needleman, who covered Roberts’ speech.
The backlash against BitTorrent is only [...]

Plaintiff’s Joint Response to Intel’s Preliminary Pretrial Statement
As part of the ongoing legal process, AMD
filed a response
(to Intel’s Preliminary Pretrial Statement) on Thursday with the U.S. district court in Delaware concerning Intel’s alleged monopolistic practices.
AMD also makes some more sweeping allegations, including: “What this case is…about is Intel’s conditional payments, conditional discounts, punishments, threats, [...]

Balsillie was not asked how his products were faring against the
iPhone 3G, RIM’s main competitor at this stage of the game. That might be because the two companies do not report earnings on the same schedule, making direct comparisons a little difficult until market share numbers are released from the usual suspects. Apple is [...]

Facebook banded together with hordes of programmers this week at the f8 developers’ conference at San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition & Design Center, where company CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced advancements to the Facebook Platform.
Take a look at some of the scenes from the show, including application developers hard at work, doughnut girls, and Zuckerberg’s out-of-character [...]

When you need to access a confirmation e-mail sent to your throwaway address, just choose the label in the list at the bottom left of the Gmail in-box and select the message in the resulting window.
Keep mail sent to your throwaway account out of your Gmail in-box by selecting the bottom two options.

If your ISP [...]

Regardless of whether you’re into Macs, check out the upcoming schedule of Editors’ Office Hours shows here.
We usually do these things on Tuesdays, but figured we’d put together a special one commemorating the Mac, which is finally old enough to rent a
car. Brian and I will be on camera taking your questions, so make [...]

After twenty years in business and being the marketing chief at three public companies, Christopher Lochhead retired at 38. Now, he serves on a few boards and is a part-time strategy advisor. Every year he gives a handful of speeches, and from time to time writes something. Check out www.lochhead.com.

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