| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | AT&T Wants To Acquire DirecTV, Report Says
| | | AT&T has approached satellite provider DirecTV about a possible acquisition, in a bid to more closely integrate TV and broadband services, according to the Wall Street Journal. (Computerworld)
Why This Is Important: The merger would be worth more than $40 billion and affect approximately 27 million subscribers.
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| | #2 | Tech Hubris: The Silicon Valley Antitrust Hiring Case
| | | Steve Jobs wouldn't appear to have been an emoticon guy, but history will show that on at least one occasion, when words failed to convey his delight, he resorted to one. It was March 2007, and Jobs had received an e-mail from Eric Schmidt, then Google's chief executive officer and a board member at Apple. (Businessweek)
Why This Is Important: The lawsuit was filed on behalf of more than 64,000 programmers and engineers who accused companies like Apple and Adobe of refusing to hire one another's employees in order to limit competition and wage disputes.
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| | #3 | Virgin Atlantic Tests Apple's iBeacon At Heathrow
| | | Fresh from testing out Google Glass, airline Virgin Atlantic is now piloting Apple's iBeacon location-aware technology in one of the largest trials of the technology to date. (ZDNET)
Why This Is Important: Virgin Atlantic has been testing various technology in recent months, including Google Glass and smart watches to improve its customer service.
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"We carefully assess new technologies that are out there and — as you can see from this and the Google Glass experiments — it's very much about ensuring there is a customer benefit to deploying these technologies. There needs to be a solid rationale," said Virgin Atlantic in a statement about their use of iBeacon at Heathrow airport in England.
| | | Blog Post of The Day | Excavating The Video-Game Industry's Past
By Ted Trautman
In 1982, Atari controlled eighty per cent of the video-game market. A year later, as its C.E.O. stood accused of insider trading, demand for video games had fallen so much that the company dumped fourteen trucks' worth of merchandise in a New Mexico landfill and poured cement over the forsaken games to prevent local children from salvaging them. More » |
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