Around the Web 6.9.08: Fly a new iPhone
-- Really? A new iPhone will be announced today? USA Today
(Steve Jobs talking around 10. Check back here for updates about the new iPhone).
-- And here's what to do with it: JetBlue is buying Airfone, figuring that we won't mind the massive fuel surcharges so much if we can e-mail friends midflight to complain. WSJ
-- The first computer to do a thousand trillion calculations per second will work on U.S. nuclear arsenal, global warming. Steroid use is not suspected. NYT
-- Here's a strange case of a stolen digital camera phoning home and helping its owner figure out who had taken it. Reuters
-- Microsoft buddy Carl Icahn writes yet another letter to Yahoo board, probably because he's seeking a volume postage discount. Reuters
-- Who needs Facebookers to click on your social ads when you can just get millions more from Sand Hill Road VCs? Not RockYou. TechCrunch
-- Biggest (not to say clunkiest) managed health group, Kaiser Permanente, to join forces with biggest (not to say clunkiest) software maker, Microsoft. Hilarity ensues. WSJ
-- Mattel launches a $5.99-a-month subscription service for its Barbie Girls website. GigaOm
-- A few months after poaching Douglas Merrill from Google to become digital president, EMI Music hires Second Life co-creator Cory Ondrejka as senior vice president of digital strategy. Silicon Alley Insider
-- Game off? Four big publishers have left the video game industry trade group, the Electronic Software Assn. WashPost
-- Joseph Menn
Photo: Ben Stanfield via Flickr
does the new iphone have voice commands for auto dialing by name?
Posted by: ss | June 09, 2008 at 12:31 PM