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Chrome OS Means Google CEO Reviewing Role on Apple Board

Chrome OS Means Google CEO Reviewing Role on Apple Board

Speaking at the Allen & Company media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt indicated that Google’s newly-announced Chrome OS means that he will have to speak with Apple about how his role on the Apple Board of Directors might change. Google’s Chrome OS will presumably be in direct competition with Apple’s own Mac OS X operating system products. The position not only creates a potential conflict of interest, but federal law prohibits individuals from being on the boards of multiple companies if it decreases competition between them.

Paul Allen Starts New Software Company

Paul Allen Starts New Software Company

Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, made a veritable fortune before he left the company. Since then, he’s been involved in a number of ventures around Seattle, and bankrolled start-ups through his Vulcan investment company.

Now Allen is dipping his toe into software. According to the Seattle Times, he has a new company called Xiant, which has released the beta of its first product, Xiant Filer, an e-mail sorting program that runs in Outlook.

Company spokesman David Postman told the newspaper:

Paul Allen Gets Into 700 MHz Auction

Paul Allen Gets Into 700 MHz Auction

Billionaire entrepreneur and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has applied to bid in the FCC’s upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, going up against major telecommunications providers as well as Internet giant Google. Allen’s application comes via his investment company Vulcan Capital, which has been behind everything from genetics research to the Portland Trailblazers to Seattle’s Experience Music Project.

Vulcan’s name turned up in a list of applicants (PDF) seeking to bid on the 700 MHz spectrum block, seen as being the best opportunity to implement a significant wireless broadband service in the Unites States. Although several blocks of the 700 MHz have already been auctioned off—Qualcomm and AT&T already have pieces—a major swath of the spectrum will be opened up when the U.S. officially ceases analog television broadcasts in February, 2009.

Epson Intros World’s Fastest Inkjet

Epson Intros World

Imaging company Epson has announced its new Stylus C120, which the company claims is the world’s fastest inkjet printer, offering 37 page-per-minute speeds for black, and 20 ppm for color printing in draft mode. Of course, Epson is only comparing the C120 to inkjet printers available for under $160—but that’s not unreasonable considering the C120’s suggested price is just $89.99.

“People who are thinking about buying an entry-level laser printer will love the Epson C120 ink jet printer,” said product manager R. Craig Allen of Epson’s Consumer Ink Jet Printers group, in a statement. “This printer has not only the black text speed of a laser but also color printing and photo capabilities at a very affordable price.”

Leopard: Apple Embraces Windows and Gaming

One of the things Apple does vastly better than Microsoft is move their users between operating system versions. With the one exception of a massive installed base bath they took when they moved to OSX, losing about half of their market at the turn of the century (these were folks that probably weren’t buying product anyway), Apple has been well ahead of Microsoft in terms of installed base migrations.

New Online Film Service Promises First Runs

The model of online film distribution is one still struggling to gain footing between bandwidth issues, lack of selection and potential copyright problems. Enter into this market Clickstar: a new, soon to be available online film service formed as a joint venture between Intel and Morgan Freeman’s film production company Revelations Entertainment.

The idea of Clickstar, according to an announcement today at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, is to create an online service which will allow consumers to access, pay for and download first run, pre-DVD-release films and artist-created entertainment channels.  The new company will be headed by former Sony Pictures executive Nizar Alibhoy.

New York Companies Unprepared For Disaster

On the eve of the anniversary of September 11 and the blackout of 2003, nearly 25 percent of all businesses in New York have not begun to plan for business disruptions, according to a new report released today by the Partnership for Public Warning and AT&T. This makes New York, and, surprisingly, Washington, D.C., businesses among the least prepared cities in the nation, trailing South Florida by 10 points.

The report, “Disaster Planning in the Private Sector: A Post 9/11 Look at the State of Business Continuity in the US,” surveyed 100 executives from the New York area with responsibility for their organization’s business continuity planning. 

Music piracy suit targets 261 downloaders

The lawsuits, filed in federal courts around the country, targeted people who make songs on their computers available to others online — making a distinction between people who download and those who distribute. The suits did not name Internet file-sharing services like Kazaa, Gnutella and Grokster, which enable the downloading of millions of songs.

By late Monday, no suits had been filed in Sacramento, but about 20 were filed in federal courts in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.

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