Sony on Thursday reported its results for the first fiscal quarter of 2012. The struggling Japan-based consumer electronics giant posted $79 million in operating profit for its June quarter, down 77% from the same quarter one year earlier. Analysts were expecting nearly triple the income Sony reported
Brutal.
They decided to get some “man on the street” comments from tourists in front of Buckingham Palace, and one of them was Evander Holyfield! Blink and you’ll miss him—Holyfield thought the segment was “wonderful”—but the NBC crew didn’t seem to … Continued
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin unfurl the first U.S. flag on the moon. Of the six flags planted, this is the only one that does not remain upright.
The microblogging service suspended Guy Adams, the Los Angeles correspondent for London-based daily The Independent, after he sent a tweet on Friday revealing NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel’s email address.
The solution is simple — just don’t suck so bad NBC.
Stories now include inline links as well as the “Sources” at the end of the article. Good. Justin Ellis and Joshua Benton from Nieman Journalism Lab have the details.
BuzzMachine:
Reading the #nbcfail hashtag has been at least as entertaining as much of NBC’s coverage of the Olympics. It’s also enlightening — economically enlightening.The people formerly known as the audience have a voice and boy are they using it to complain about NBC’s tape delays of races and the opening ceremonies, about its tasteless decision to block the UK tribute to its 7/7 victims, and about its commentators’ idiocies.The counterargument has been an economic one: NBC has to maximize commercial revenue, which means maximizing prime time viewership, to recoup the billions paid for the rights to broadcast, billions that pay for the stadiums and security and ceremony. The argument is also made that NBC’s strategy is working because it is getting record ratings.
What do you think? Are you watching the Olympics live, either on TV or online? Or are you waiting for the evening recaps? Thanks to Dan Frakes for the link.
Non-media are asked to write in a “diary-type format” and “not in the role of a journalist.” They “must not report on competition or comment on the activities of other participants,” which sounds like a pretty dull diary. Athletes and others who take pictures inside the Olympic Village are supposed to get the subjects’ permission before sharing anything.
So when it came time in the opening ceremony for something that has been widely interpreted as a tribute to the 52 victims of terrorist attacks in London in 2005, it’s not shocking NBC didn’t see lingering on that as helping its overall marketing effort. When asked why NBC didn’t show the memorial, NBC spokesman Greg Hughes on Saturday said only that “our programming is tailored for the U.S. audience. It’s a tribute to (opening ceremony producer) Danny Boyle that it required so little editing.”
Some stunning pictures from the 2012 Olympic Games.
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A special poem for Peter.
A legally blind archer from South Korea has set the first world record of the 2012 Olympics in London.
Rian van der Merwe took one of my laughs from Amplified and made it into an iPhone ringtone. Thanks Rian.
Cockpit Chronicles:
Al “Blacky” Blackman has reached a milestone few can claim. He has worked for 70 years as a mechanic for American Airlines based in New York, starting when he was only 17 years old.Surprisingly, he has no plans to retire. “I don’t consider this work. It’s being able to do what you like and getting paid for it.”
Al celebrated his milestone in a way suitable to his amazing employment longevity – with a flight around New York City in an original American Airlines DC-3, the oldest DC-3 still flying.
Vint Cerf, who helped create TCP/IP, says that he “would happily fertilize [his] tomatoes” with a recent article that claims the Internet was invented by Xerox.
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In April, Zynga conducted a “secondary stock offering” in which insiders dumped 43 million shares of stock at $12 a share, raking in about $516 million.Yesterday, four months later, Zynga reported a horrible quarter, and the stock plunged to $3.
Ouch.
Sam Radford makes a case for Apple to allow some type of sharing between iCloud accounts.
Dan and Jim talk about the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple’s quarterly earnings report, guitars, and more!Sponsored by DocuSign, Sourcebits, and Hover (coupon code DANSENTME or 10% off).
A look inside an ambitious NASA plan to resurrect Skylab as an orbiting way station for the Space Shuttle.
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A couple of pieces from Bansky.
Samantha Grossman: Over the past five years, the average net worth of Canadian households has exceeded that of American households. So for the the first time in history, Canadians are wealthier than Americans — by more than $40,000, on average. … Continued
Scientists have engineered a “biohybrid robot” that mimics the movements of a jellyfish, in the hopes of building an artificial heart.
M.G. Siegler:
I have no problem if someone wants to hurt themselves. I have a problem with people who want to hurt other people. My right to extend my arm ends at your face.
“You are doing important work — please don’t stop.”
Microsoft has reported its first quarterly loss.
The CEO of laptop maker Lenovo gave away part of his annual bonus – $3 million – to his employees.
Sparrow, which develops an eponymous e-mail client app for OS X and iOS, announced on their Web site Friday that they’ve been acquired by Google and are becoming part of the Gmail team.
The statement from Sparrow CEO Dom Leca said, “Now we’re joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google.”
He said that the Sparrow development team will be “working on new things at Google,” but Sparrow will remain available and the team will continue to provide support for users.
Terms of the acquisition were not revealed.