Hulu could still launch on the iPad, or it could not

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

On a similar note to yesterday’s post, we have another iPad Maybe. The iPad won’t support Adobe’s Flash, which means no Hulu. But wouldn’t it be cool if Hulu made an app?

Sure, why not.

Citing a “rumor [he's] heard from an industry insider,” a TechCrunch blogger says Hulu is working on an “iPad-friendly version of its site that should be ready by the time the iPad hits the market.”

OK, well, we’re almost there. We’ll keep an eye out. Thanks for the tip, TechCrunch and its man who is apparently inside of an industry.

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Apple could sell TV shows for $1, or it could not

Posted on March 29, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Financial Times screams down the iPad hallway with news that “Apple could begin selling U.S. television shows for $1.” Or, you know, it could not.

The company will maybe do a limited trial in April for the release of the iPad, FT reports. Because how can you not trust “people familiar with the discussions?”

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Thanks, two people who eavesdropped on Microsoft execs

Posted on March 27, 2010 | Leave a comment

Yeah, we’ve fallen behind on updates again. But at least we’re not doing what the Wall Street Journal is doing.

This shot comes from CNET’s Molly Wood. Wood writes, “The death of journalism is nigh when this ‘sourcing’ is on WSJ’s front page.”

Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives.

That’s pretty awful, says one person who heard about the article from a CNET editor.

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Google cancels event in China it had never planned to have

Posted on March 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

This one practically writes itself. Well, I guess it already has.

AllThingsD broke the story that Google planned to cancel an event it was planning in Beijing for the Nexus One. Or rather, wasn’t planning. No such event ever existed in any capacity.

D (or CNET, one or the other) corrected the error, which came courtesy of an equally erroneous Reuters report.

Well done, fellas.

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It’s an easy job, but someone has to do it

Posted on March 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

SFWeekly’s technology editor, Alexia Tsotsis, a new Valleywag favorite, says:

It’s a lot easier to call bullshit nowadays.

Is that because of all the magical search-and-destroy technologies we have nowadays, or is it because there’s a lot more bullshit out there to step in? Alexia?

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AT&T and Sprint get new HTC phones, says Boy Genius (he’s a genius, after all)

Posted on March 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

Would you trust a blog called Boy Genius Report? I would. Why? Because it has “genius” in the name. Just like those guys at the Apple Store who can never figure out how to fix my iPods, so they just give me new ones or tell me to fuck off.

BGR says it “hit up a source close to HTC” to get these tidbits about the Desire (basically, the Nexus One) coming to AT&T and the Hero 2 coming to Sprint. The HTC Desire is supposed to drop between May and June, and the genius has no intel on the Sprint phone. Continue reading →

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Guy who ratted out TechCrunch laptop kid outs himself

Posted on March 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

Can’t read my, can’t read my, no, you can’t read-uh mah TechCrunch stories written by Dan Brusilovksy.

Michael Arrington‘s (in)famed laptop boy is back in the news again thanks to a public, self-inflicted unmasking (prompted by a light anal probe by 1938 Media) of the fellow who tattled on Brusilovsky. Continue reading →

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Irresponsible Windows Phone 7 rumor pays out

Posted on February 22, 2010 | Leave a comment

We called out two blogs called PPC Geeks and MobileTechWorld for printing an attribution-less trash piece of a rumor about Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. Fortunately for them and unfortunately for the world of responsible journalism, it paid off. Continue reading →

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TheStreet.com’s crappy tech ’exclusives’ in pictures

Posted on February 22, 2010 | Leave a comment

This is what we’re talking about.

Technologizer points out TheStreet.com’s abysmal history of using the headline keyword “exclusive” in place of “rumor” or “we sort of made this up.” TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz‘s integrity is on the chopping block here. Continue reading →

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TechCrunch’s Arrington calls Brusilovsky’s laptop providers ‘the victims’

Posted on February 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington mounted his high horse again today in a piece called “Why you should confess everything before you get caught.” In it, he calls out InfoWorld’s apology on account of one of its writers who misrepresented his identity.

As laughable as Arrington’s horn tooting was, he goes on to qualify his not disclosing the name of the company that traded former TechCrunch writer (not intern) Daniel Brusilovsky a laptop for press by saying they were “the victims of this whole thing.”

Allow us to get on our horse. Continue reading →

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