Roundup: Google faces further DoubleClick delays, patent hoarder seeks $1B, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) EU delays Google’s DoubleClick acquisition
2) Intellectual Ventures looking for $1B to buy patents
3) Wall Street Journal’s online version to be free
4) Microsoft working on Flickr competitor
5) … and changes the name of its mobile interface
6) Yahoo settles case brought by Chinese reporters
7) Wal-Mart’s $200 desktop sells out in two weeks
RackSpace servers go down; Om gets poetic
European Union sets back Google’s DoubleClick acquisition another five months — Saying it needs to examine… Continue Reading
ZenZui, offering rich “visual” mobile applications
Zenzui is a significant new spin-out out from Microsoft that delivers rich mobile applications — from Amazon, to Traffic.com and travel site Kayak — to your mobile phone.
Zenzui is still in closed testing mode, and will be distributed more widely beginning this summer.
So far, Zenzui has built the interface to handle 36 applications, and the ones being tested appear to be slick and easy-to-use. The apps sit on your screen as little “tiles” next… Continue Reading