AP Sources: Govt blesses Toyota gas pedal fix (AP)
AP – Toyota Motor Corp. plans to start sending parts to dealers in the coming days to fix a sticky gas pedal problem that has tarnished its image and led to the recall of 4.2 million cars and trucks on three continents, according to people briefed on the matter.
Internet Marketing – Basic Strategies To Boost The Success Of Your Online Business (Turks.US)
Setting up your business on the Internet doesn’t necessarily spell success. Keep in mind that putting up a website alone with useful information about your venture doesn’t bring in the customers.
Mozilla releases its first mobile Firefox browser
Just two days ago Mozilla pushed out the third release candidate for its first mobile Firefox browser. On Friday, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s Maemo arrived.
Appeals court lets Google Street View suit continue
But Third Circuit tosses out all of a Pennsylvania couple’s privacy claims, and hints that they may be only able to collect $1 in nominal damages for trespass.
Chrome 5 debuts more settings options
Google updated its Chrome browser’s developer’s builds to version 5 for Windows and Mac today, the first time any version of Chrome has reached that milestone.
Reporters’ Roundtable Podcast: What the iPad means for Apple
The iPad. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. On this week’s Roundtable, we talk about what the iPad means to Apple as a company and the tech industry at large.
Study: Distractions, not phones, cause car crashes
Laws banning the use of handheld cell phones or texting while driving may not decrease crashes, a study finds. Addressing distracted drivers may be a better solution.
Next GOP Money Bomb? There’s an Ad for That.
Scott Brown made headlines with his one-day “Money Bomb” fundraiser that became a week-long phenomenon raking in millions for the newly-elected Senator from Massachusetts. Now, Republican primary candidate for Senate in Florida, Marco Rubio (he’s running an increasingly tight race against Governor Charlie Crist) is using a similar tactic. That’s Rubio pictured below at “Bike Night” in Clearwater, FL the other night.
And, The Senate Conservatives Fund PAC is running display ads to promote their Rubio fundraising effort – even to people outside the Sunshine State. The ad uses a photo of Crist pictured in cozy contact with the President. I just spotted one on Newsbusters, where I was reading a very important story about how the Obama Girl thinks the Prez needs to focus more on job creation.
The Republicans have become big on advertising for all sorts of things. Yesterday, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s PAC ran display and search ads on Google to promote his rebuttal to last night’s State of the Union Address. If you did a search on “state of the union” you may have seen one.
iPad Video Brouhaha: Apple Caught Wearing a Toupee?
Sites are buzzing today about what appears to be a misleading product video Apple has produced to sell its iPad. An eight-minute clip on YouTube depicts NYTimes.com on the device at about the 2:04 mark. The clip shows The Times’ Video section fully rendered, including a Flash element that sits above an article in the newspaper’s Travel section.
Here’s a screen-grab from the video that shows (apologies for the blurriness) the Video section center-left:
But of course, as Steve Jobs himself showed at the product unveiling on Wednesday, Flash doesn’t work on the iPad:
It’s not the end of the world – a marketer fudging the truth in a sales pitch. But shame on Apple for trying to sneak this by the gadget-conscious universe. That’s almost like Patrick Stewart showing up at a Trekkie convention wearing a toupee and expecting nary a double-take.
Hurt by recalls, Toyota expected to lose US sales (AP)
AP – Toyota’s still-expanding recalls over faulty gas pedals and an unprecedented decision to stop selling and building some of its top-selling models in the U.S. are costing the carmaker dearly: industry analysts are already forecasting its market share will sink to its lowest since 2006.