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Rupert Murdoch, the legendary founder of News Corp., has always had a love-hate relationship with the digital world. Sometimes (read: during the bubbles) he loves it. Sometimes (read: during advertising recessions) he hates it. His recent moves – whether it be getting rid of some of News Corp’s digital holdings or shuffling the chairs at MySpace — are a continuation of that love-hate relationship. (Watch the video below the fold.)  Read more...

It goes without saying that Google has gigantic ambitions. We hear a lot about its various products but i’s hard to contextualize those efforts. A new video from Australian weekly news show, Hungry Beast, is a graphical representation of Google’s grand ambitions. It’s also a lot of fun. Especially when you see former Intel CEO Andy Grove call Google a “company on steroids, with a finger in every industry.” Folks from Consumer Watchdog have embedded the video on Vimeo, as it is impossible to watch the video on Hungry Beast web site outside of Australia.  Read more...

With Apple’s iPad slated for pre-orders next week and availability on April 3, we’re entering a new phase of iPad poker –are you in or are you folding? This round is different from the time immediately after the iPad’s introduction. Back then, folks were making snap decision commentary — betting blind without knowing what the hole cards were. But now it’s later in the game. People have spent more time thinking about what the iPad can or can’t do for them. And come Thursday Friday, when pre-orders start, they’re either all-in or walking away. Actually, there’s a third option and that’s to wait this hand out. I’m hearing more and more comments from people planning to wait for an iPad price decrease, but there are three reasons I think those folks will be waiting for nothing.  Read more...

Woo hoo! Now we know when we get to buy the iPad. However, we haven’t been told where we get to buy it. Of course the Apple Stores (both online and off) will carry it, but the end of the press release has a cryptic statement that the iPad will be sold at select (emphasis added) Apple Authorized Resellers.  Read more...

The Onion has a spot-on spoof today of Google’s alarming level of clarity about our personal lives: “Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology.” The article plays on the Goog’s knowledge of its users through search terms, chat, email, street view, and its ability to communicate with them in all the online and mobile locales they frequent: the Google homepage, Chrome browser, YouTube and Android phones. You’ll probably giggle:  Read more...