Cornell study links toddler TV watching to autism – http://www.slate.com/id/2151538/ – absolute must-read. [View]

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Yesterday’s launch of would-be Google search killer "Cuil", dreamed up by several ex-Googlers with $33M in funding, may have been a lesson in launch catastrophe.
But even more problematic than the apparently relatively poor search results and availability outages (Cuil had after all boasted of a larger search index than Google), were the crimes against branding [...]

News today that billionaire investor and Micro-hoo meddler Carl Icahn was given a seat on Yahoo’s board, as well as two additional board seats for people close to him, put to rest fears of a proxy fight at the August 1 Yahoo shareholder meeting.
But beyond that, it’s anybody’s guess as to what will happen next:
Is [...]

Microsoft’s desperate attempts at purchasing all or part of Yahoo in recent months has highlighted the deep and ongoing branding mess that Redmond finds itself in.
So bad have things gotten that this fact was acknowledged in no less than MSFT’s internal email on how to get its listing Internet division to profitability:

… 4. [...]

The Micro-hoo saga has been turning uglier in the last few days, if such a thing is possible:
The three-way "negotiations" between Carl Icahn, the Yahoo board, and Microsoft turned up another non-starter offer for MSFT to cherry-pick Yahoo’s search assets, which in turn led to much finger-pointing, and general acrimony.
The result is that Icahn may [...]

First off, it’s great to see Twitter being up on an iPhone launch day, especially one where all hell has apparently broken loose… [View]
… Gizmodo has already coined a new term for it: The iPocalypse. Cute. So all those 1st gen iPhone owners upgrading the firmware are… [View]
… crashing the servers and are thereby preventing [...]