Around the Web. 8.22.08: Texting, iTunes and MySpace
-- Goodbye, Olympics online: Hello, Democratic Convention online. Lots of live streaming should cure people frustrated by the Olympics' Web coverage. NewTeeVee
-- R U Driving: A divided California Senate passes a bill to ban text messaging while driving. LAT
-- No iTunes in China: For days, people trying to access it have not been able to download music. Business Week
-- AT&T to the rescue: AT&T is offering home technology assistance, even for non-AT&T customers. USA Today
-- iPhone actor: Today, the iPhone goes on sale in Poland. Worried about demand, Orange, the mobile phone carrier for the iPhone, is paying people to stand in line. Reuters
-- iPhone flood: Apple plans to sell 40 million phones in the coming year. Business Week
-- Man-machine merge: Man and computer will be one in 2050, predicts Intel's chief technology officer. Engadget
-- Music wars: Facebook may be the darling of social networks, but MySpace is king. And that may be because of music. And that's before it launches its new, much-anticipated MySpace Music. TechCrunch
-- Yahoo sinks: Shares of Yahoo are trading below the price they were when Microsoft first began courting the company. NYT
-- Michelle Quinn
Photo: Street vendor in Denver, where the Democratic Convention begins next week. Credit: Jae C. Hong / Associated Press
Where were made the T-shirts with the Senator Obama face? Are made-in-China? India? Russia? ...
Domingo
Posted by: Domingo A. Trassens | August 23, 2008 at 02:43 PM