elcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.
Tech Companies’ Anti-Poaching Agreements Come to an End
The Department of Justice has reached a settlement with Adobeadobe AIR
, GoogleGoogle
, Intel, Intuit, Apple and Pixar that prevents these six leading technology companies from entering into anticompetitive, “no-poach” agreements for each other’s employees.
The settlement marks the end of an investigation by the DoJ to determine whether those agreements violated U.S. antitrust laws which, indeed, they did. All six are now barred from entering into these types of agreements, especially ones that ban “cold calling.”
Digg Traffic Declines Sharply Following Release of “New Digg”
New data from Hitwise reveals that visitor traffic to Digg.com has declined 24% in the U.S. and 34% in the U.K. over the past 11 weeks, dropping off most sharply after the social news network released a new version of its site to users in late August.
Users have staged protests against the new version of the site since its public launch. Digg’sDigg team has been responsive to many of users’ complaints thus far, rolling out changes to its algorithms to give users — rather than publishers — more power over front-page content, for instance; however, they have apparently not done enough to prevent a significant percentage from spending their InternetInternet minutes elsewhere.
Sony Ericsson Drops Symbian OS from Smartphone Plans
Despite Nokia’s best efforts to entice developers, the SymbianSymbian S60 mobile operating system continues to lose support from users and vendors. On Friday, Sony Ericsson spokesman Aldo Liguori revealed that the company has no further plans to develop smartphones based on the OS.
Like competitors Motorola and Samsung, Sony has shifted much of its focus to developing phones based on Google’s AndroidAndroid platform instead.
Further News
Apple has released iTunes 10.0.1, which, in addition to patching the usual bout of bugs, gives increased visibility to the company’s new music-focused social network, PingPing [via TiPB]. FacebookFacebook has officially rolled out a new feature for helping you discover Facebook Pages, dubbed “Page Browser.”Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Oprah on the Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss his $100 million donation to public education in Newark schools on Friday.Just in time for the second season of the hit TV show Glee, Smule has upgraded its popular iOS app, Glee Karaoke [iTunes link].Nine months after Amazon announced the launch of an app store for its Kindle e-reader, the first paid app, Scrabblescrabble
, has made its way into the store.Series supported by HTC EVO 4G This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.
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