Author: Jamie Welch, Senior Editor

Apple's shareholder meeting is uneventful, no Jobs.

Posted by | Feb 25, 2009 | |

Apple’s first annual shareholder meeting in more than 10 years without founder and CEO Steve Jobs was largely uneventful, as COO Tim Cook and board members stepped in to handle questions regarding Apple’s disclosure of Jobs’ health. Five shareholder proposals were considered, and only the one approving the re-election of Apple’s eight existing board members was approved in preliminary voting. As in past years, the informal question-and-answer section was by far more interesting, although without Jobs’ usual acerbic replies to institutional shareholders on soapboxes, a little duller. Some of the more interesting highlights from the meeting: Jobs’ health Happy birthday Macworld Executive compensation Al Gore, socialism, and TV ads To see a full recap, go to http://go.cosmicthings.com/apple/shareholder09/ [CNET...

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Microsoft goes back on it's demands for refunds

Posted by | Feb 24, 2009 | , |

We recently reported to you that Microsoft was demanding some of the money that it had given it’s employees back (see http://blogs.cosmicthings.com/techtalk/microsoft-cuts-1400-employees-and-then-asks-for-severance-package-refunds/). Now, Microsoft goes back on it’s decision and sates that the employees can keep the money.Amid a wave of criticism, Microsoft is backtracking on a decision to require laid off workers to pay back money that the software maker said was in excess of its planned severance, CNET News has learned. Over the weekend, Microsoft confirmed it had overpaid severance to some workers and underpaid others. At the time, the company did not say how much money was involved, but sent the workers who were overpaid a letter saying they would be required to pay back the money in excess of the severance they were due. On Monday, Microsoft human resources chief Lisa Brummel said the company was reversing course.   For full article, go...

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New bebo upgrades announced

Posted by | Feb 23, 2009 | |

AOL continues to upgrade the Bebo social network it bought in 2008, layering in more functionality from the social data aggregator SocialThing it also acquired that year. In December, we covered Bebo’s new Social Inbox, which gathers social updates from your friends on other services and shows them on your Bebo home page. There’s also a new feature, Lifestream, which will collect data from the Bebo user’s external sites and put them all into one data stream that any Bebo friend can see. This feature is reminiscent of the social network aggregation function in FriendFeed. AOL on Monday is announcing several more enhancements to the Bebo service, although not all of them will be available to users...

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