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Palos Verdes, California (Reuters) — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he has no date in mind to take the internet social networking company public, and defended changes to the service that have provoked privacy concerns.
The world’s largest social network last week unveiled a set of features to give its nearly half-billion users better control over what data they share with the public.
But Zuckerberg said “pushing the boundaries on other personalization” feature that automatically shares users’ personal data with websites like Pandora and Yelp, was part of what made Facebook such an innovative company.
“Certainly on a day-to-day basis if we didn’t disrupt things that would be the easiest way to proceed,” Zuckerberg told the All Things Digital conference Wednesday.
“But we don’t believe that if we did that we’d be doing the best thing for us long-term or for the industry,” he continued.
Facebook will continue to make what it believes are the right changes, even if some of them are controversial, he said.
Facebook has grown into one of the world’s largest Internet services and is closely-watched by investors hoping to one day buy public shares in the fast-growing company.
The Palo Alto, California-based company is incresingly challenging more established Internet players like Yahoo and Google for consumers’ online time and for ad dollars, even a it tries to strike a delicate balance between protecting privacy and promoting social sharing by its users.
The 26-year-old Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, was Zuckerberg asked if he expected to remain CEO if the company went public. said he did, adding that he doesn’t “think about going public…much.”
Mozilla has announced the first, and hopefully only, release candidate of Firefox 3.6.4., an incremental update which adds one significant new feature to Firefox 3.6 — plug-in’s now run in separate processes. That means if Flash crashes, it won’t cause the entire browser to crash with it.
To give the new beta a try, head on over to the Firefox beta downloads page. If you’ve subscribed the beta channel in the past you’ll automatically get the update, or you can force Firefox to update using the “Check for Updates” menu item.
The new feature is known as “out-of-process” handling, and eventually, Mozilla plans to have each tab isloated in its own process as well, which will also increase stability. Once that feature is there, each web app would be cordoned off inside its own tab, so if one crashes, that single tab simply closes and the rest of the browser keeps cooking along as usual. Isolated tabs won’t arrive until Firefox 4, which is slated for later this year.
Isolated plug-ins an tabs are among the best things about Google Chrome. It’s had isolated tabs since its debut, and isolated plug-in handling arrived at the same time as Chrome Extensions.
With the release candidate available, look for the final version of Firefox 3.6.4. to ship in the next couple of week. If you just can’t wait, or would like to help to test the latest build, head over to the Firefox beta download site. (Note that the build is still labeled “build 6″, but according to the post on the Mozilla Developer Network, this is the release candidate.)
In less than 60 days, Apple has shifted 2 million iPads. If you remember, it took just 28 days to see the first million, so it doesn’t look like sales are slowing down much yet. In fact, it seems like Apple could have offloaded a lot more if only it could make them fast enough.
The announcement, somewhat callously released on Memorial Day yesterday, comes after the opening weekend of the iPad’s international launch. While there’s no way to tell just how many unites made it to Europe, Australia, and Japan, one thing is certain: They sold out. Most places just had demo units that were being pawed and covered in finger-grease by eager crowds.
Accessories, too, remain in short supply. There are plenty of cases and screen protectors, but Apple’s own add-ons – the docks, cables, and camera connection kit – are still weeks away.
Two million sounds a lot, but how does it compare to a rather mature segment, let’s say, the Mac? In the first quarter of this year, Apple sold 3.36 million Macs. Extrapolate the iPad figures to three months (3 million) and you get pretty close to that figure. And if you compare the sales of portable Macs for that same quarter (2.1 million), the iPad is already outselling the MacBook line. Sure, the entry-level iPad is half the price of the cheapest MacBook, but the iPad is also a brand new category of device, not a seasoned – and known – bestseller.
Apple , long an irksome thorn in the backside of software giant Microsoft, Wednesday overtook the Redmond, Wash. -bash company as the most valuable technology firm. The Cupertino, Calif. company was worth $223 billion at the end of yesterday’s trading, compared to $219 billion for Microsoft.
Key to Apple’s rising fortunes are the iPod and iPhone, turing the desktop computer company into a global consumer electronics giant focused on entertainment and mobility. Apple’s share prices have skyrocketed in the past year, doubling its price to over $244. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s shares have remained relatively steady, inching up to $25, compared to $20 a year ago.
Anther factor in Microsoft’s decline was its inability to match Apple’s nimbleness. While Apple shifted gears from a purely U.S. -based maker of high-end desktop computer to a global creator of mobile Microsoft’s size helped it dominate the marketplace, it also became a ready target for antitrust lawsuits and other legal actions aimed at the Windows maker.
Apple’s overtaking of Microsoft on the trading floor is just the lastest episode illustrating the fading lot for the software firm. Apple’s iPhone OS outsells Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and attempts by Microsoft executives and may shakeup its Entertainment & Devices division, responsible for the Windows 7 Phone, the Zune MP3 player and the Xbox game console.
A shakeup in Microsoft’s gaming and devices business finally splits two groups that should never have been together, and could unleash the company’s mobile device efforts. Whether CEO Steve Ballmer’s decision is timely or too late remains to be seen. Ballmer announced Tuesday via a company e-mail that Robert Balch is retiring. As cheif of the company’s Entertainment and Devices division, Balch has overseen both Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console business and its smartphone and mobile business for the better pat of the decade. The group reaped $1.67 billion in sales for the first calendar quarter, about 11% of the company’s total revenue for the period, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Balch won’t be replaced. Instead the two executives who head both united will report directly to Ballmer.
For Andrew Lees, chief of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business (MCB), that clears the decks for him to take whatever steps he wants with respect to the radically redesigned Windows Phone operating system, the most visible of the company’s mobile offerings. (On the gaming side, Don Mattrick, who leads the interactive entertainment business, will have a similar opportunity.
Lees grew Microsoft’s server products into a multi-billion-dollar revenue river. In early 2008, Ballmer shifted him to MCB to turn around a failing operation. Microsoft was being outclassed, out-developed and out-marketed by longtime rivals such as Research in Motion, and even worse, by brand-new mobile platforms, first Apple’s widely successful iPhone and then Google’s Android mobile OS. Its againg Windows Mobile platform was, and is, shrinking in market share.
Taking the helm, Lee’s recruited a host of new marketing talent from Microsoft’s consumer businesses (such as the Zune music player and Windows Media Center). He enticed new engineering talent into the group from elsewhere in the company, including nearly 20% of Microsoft’s elite “distinguished engineers.” He also drew from outside. One of the outsiders is Albert Shum, a key designers behind the radical revision of the mobile platforms user interface. Shum previoulsy had spent 12 years at Nike in design.
The new mobile platform has been well received by Microsoft developers, many of whom already possess the experience with Microsoft development tools to begin grappling with Windows Phone applications. It compares very well to the iPhone OS, according to some developers, such as blogger and author Kevin Hoffman, who has experience with both mobile platforms.
Microsoft worked closely with phone manufactures and carriers to craft a hardware specification for phones running the new operating system, to ensure that users will get the performance and display needed for a consistently high-quality experience.
The first of these new handsets with Windows Phone 7 is due out perhaps as early as September 2010.
At CES this year, Microsoft’s mobile chief, Robbie Bach, echoed those ideas, telling a group of financial analysts, “I am certainly confident that we are going to see (Windows Mobile 7) as something that is differentiated and sets the bar forward, not in an evolutionary way from where we are today, but something that looks, feels and acts and performs completely different”
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