A rundown of noteworthy news and headlines on our radar this afternoon …
Can it get any worse for Research in Motion? The maker of the BlackBerry, trying to get its mojo back after a devastating network outage, instead delivered the news that the next generation of its smartphone platform will be delayed. The New York Times sums up the situation in this post: RIM’s Year of Misery.
The official rollout of Facebook’s Timeline feature poses a problem for people who don’t have an epic photograph of themselves to use as their “cover shot” in the new picture-centric layout. Msnbc.com offers up some online resources to help.
With no shortage of equations and diagrams, Microsoft explains how the picture-password login will work in Windows 8.
In the era of endless digital pictures, what happens when professional photographers are challenged to take just one? KIRO-FM’s Josh Kerns has a great piece today on an initiative called the Focused Project.
That awesome infographic might be fertilizing a link farm. TBD.com digs into the case of a graphic that apparently duped bike bloggers around the country — with the exception of Seattle’s DL Byron of Bike Hugger, who sounded the alarm in this post on Google+.
Apparently Microsoft is on Team Brangelina? This is the actual text of an advertisement that a GeekWire tipster spotted online this week, touting the version of Microsoft Firefox that includes Microsoft’s Bing search engine: “Like Brad and Angelina, Bing goes with Firefox.”
We’re not quite sure what to think about that — and we can only imagine how Jennifer Aniston feels.
For Microsoft’s sake, hopefully Brad and Angelina are bigger fans of Bing and Firefox than they are of Amazon.com.
