- The web is abuzz about Gmail getting Tasks. It’s simple and easy to use but not closely integrated into other Google apps like Calendar or Docs. If you’re already using Remember the Milk tasks management with Gmail and Google Calendar there’s no reason to switch. Yet.
- AppleInsider.com picked up a rumor about Apple possible switching to a new iTunes format untethered by digital rights management this morning. Like most things within the Apple rumor mill, it wasn’t true. RIAA, +1.
- Yahoo’s CEO chair — I hear it’s just a purple Steelcase chair — is still vacant. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Yahoo board is deliberating amongst a number of candidates. Vodafone Group PLC’s retired CEO Arun Sarin is rumored to be on that short list. Terry Semel looks like a genius pick now.
- Realizing that it’s not Apple, Sony cuts 8,000 jobs, 4% of the company’s headcount and 10% of their manufacturing capabilities.
- MySpace announces their answer to Facebook Connect — software to selectively share your personal obsessively collected Facebook info with other sites — it’s going to be MySpaceID. The dream of having a single identification account has been a Silicon Valley geek dream since the start of the Internet and I’m just glad I can add glitter text to it.
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