New Kids On The Block band member and younger brother of Mark Wahlberg, Donnie Wahlberg, has helped a fan get a new kidney through the power of Twitter. Bobbette Miller was being treated at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center when her friend sent a tweet to Donnie Wahlberg.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has dropped their attempt to get a trademark on the word “Pod.” Now competitors can feel free to use that word in their names and brands. They filed a trademark for the word on July 29, 2004 with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.
Gideon Yu is one of the most prolific investors and executives in the technology sector. He is currently serving as a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, but he will soon become the Chief Strategy Officer for the NFL San Francisco 49ers. Before that he was the Chief Financial Officer of both Facebook and YouTube. Yu also worked as a partner at Sequoia Capital.
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has recently reported their first quarter 2011 financial information. They posted $9.86 billion in revenues for the first quarter, which puts them up 38% during the same quarter last year. But Amazon.com’s net income has decreased 33% to $201 million for the first quarter. During the same quarter last year, Amazon.com reported a net income of $299 million.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) executive chairman Eric Schmidt has interviewed actress, producer, and writer Tina Fey as part of the Authors @ Google series of events. Schmidt talked to Tina Fey about her new book “Bossypants.” The interview runs for close to an hour, but it is very entertaining… I recommend watching it.
The Verizon DROID Incredible 2 by HTC is going for sale on April 28. It has Android 2.2 built in and the cost is at $199.99 with a new two year agreement. The DROID Incredible 2 has an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front. The screen is a 4-inch WVGA display and the processor is a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon. The DROID Incredible 2 can record 720p HD video and it has DLNA streaming support. Below is the full press release:
Verizon has announced a new Android rugged smartphone called the Casio G’zOne Commando. It meets the military standards 810G for immersion, shock, rain, dust-resistant, vibration, salt fog, solar radiation, altitude, low/high temperatures, and humidity.
The video commercial embedded in this blog post called “We’re all in this together” was made entirely in Adobe Photoshop believe it or not. Three Legged Legs is the design studio that made the ad. Below is what they had to say about the commercial:
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