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11:55 PM ET, May 8, 2006

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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
SGI files for Chapter 11 protection  —  Silicon Graphics Inc. announced on Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to reorganize and re-emerge from its financial woes.  —  SGI, a former high-flying server and workstation maker for Hollywood and the graphics industry …
Discussion: Techdirt, TechSpot and Larry Borsato
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Reuters:
Silicon Graphics files for Chapter 11  —  Computer firm's stock plunges on news, as company blames delays in rolling out new technology, competition from rivals.  —  BOSTON (Reuters) - Silicon Graphics Inc., a struggling maker of high-performance business computers, Monday filed …
Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog:
Silicon Graphics files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy  —  It's another harbinger of the end of the first major wave of computing companies in the Internet business: today long-time graphics darling Silicon Graphics threw in the proverbial towel, filing for bankruptcy.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
SGI Files for Chapter 11
Discussion: GigaOM
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Unveils Public Details Of "Panama" Ad System Upgrade  —  Yahoo's finally gone public with details about its new "Panama" ad system upgrade, which when launched later this year will bring the system up to matching what Google's long offered, though both Yahoo and Google …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Eyeballs 2.0 - Boom or Bust?  —  Yahoo, should have been the king of online advertising, it is not.  It should have owned the market now dominated by Google's Ad Sense.  It does not, but has now launched a comprehensive plans to compete with Google in the market place.
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ:   Yahoo Details Search Platform Revamp
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Philippe Naughton / Times of London:
Jobs invites Beatles to join iTunes after Apple legal victory  —  The Beatles were invited to join the iTunes music revolution today after losing their trademark battle with Apple Computer.  —  Apple Corps, the company set up by the Fab Four in 1968, had wanted multi-million pound damages …
Joe / Techdirt:
Beatles Beaten By A Moron In A Hurry
Discussion: Kevin Maney
Andrew Chung / Toronto Star:
Revenge of the nerds  —  Three computer geeks at the U of T are renowned developers of anti-censorship software, including a program out this month that could allow people to outwit the world's most repressive regimes  —  Looking at them you might not guess it.
Discussion: Infothought, Kerabu and robhyndman.com
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Jennifer Slegg / Search Engine Watch Blog:
AdWords Advertisements Not Censored in Google China
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
Mike / Techdirt:   30,000 Internet Censors In China To Be Defeated By 3 Hackers In Canada?
Neville / NevilleHobson.com:
OPML sharing needs to be easier  —  Steve Rubel is right: … Today, though, OPML is definitely a tech tool that requires some perseverance in understanding how to use it beyond just importing and exporting your RSS feeds list in and out of your RSS reader.
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Do More: Online To Do Lists Compared  —  Time is our most valuable commodity.  Productivity pays.  Procrastination costs us time and money, and leaves us stressed, exhausted and unreliable in the eyes of others.  —  For many, the classic "To Do" list is the remedy.
Discussion: Somewhat Frank and Download Squad
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Back in the USSR  —  Nick Carr is truly the gift that keeps on giving.  His latest can-opener concerns the alleged Google strategy of converting all reading interfaces to search and keyword (i.e. tagging) interfaces.  Nick's genius (I think he is the leader in the post-dvorak world of meme-baiting) …
Discussion: Newsome.Org and Valleywag
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AT&T Plans Satellite Broadband, WiMAX  —  AT&T is dead serious about broadband, and is expanding its range of broadband offerings.  AT&T Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre outlined company's future broadband plans at the Detroit Economic Club.  —  AT&T will start selling a satellite-based broadband service later …
Lev Grossman / Time:
A Game For All Ages  —  Nintendo gave TIME the first look at its new gadget, which it hopes will turn girls and even granddads into video gamers  —  It is cherry-blossom time in Kyoto, Japan, and I am dancing the hula for Shigeru Miyamoto.  It's not easy to get into the hula spirit …
Discussion: Kotaku
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Samsung SGH-X820: World's Slimmest Phone, Again  —  How thin can a cellphone get?  Samsung has created a handset that needs to run around in the shower just to get wet with this SGH-X820, which is a nearly-invisible 6.9mm thick.  Even though it's so doggone slim, it still has a fat feature set …
Discussion: MobileWhack.com and TechSpot
Fred / A VC:
Where Do They Go?  —  AOL is shifting from a subscriber based business to an advertising based business and it seems like the transition is working to a degree.  In its first quarter report, Time Warner reported that although AOL lost about 1 million subs (at approx $20/sub, thats $20 million per month) …
Discussion: Newsome.Org and OnlyOnce
Maura Welch / Boston Globe:
Online plagiarism strikes blog world  —  Beth gets more than 500 hits per day at her blog, Cursed to First, which serves as a very personal homage to the Red Sox and the Patriots, so she knew that spicy entries like ''Chicks dig the long ball" were being read.  She didn't realize until recently that they were also being ripped off.
Discussion: Andrew Lark
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Look Who's Talking  —  I returned from New York last night, after a fun weekend.  Excellent weather combined with street fairs - the big city was pulsating.  And it had a raw energy, which can be felt, not described.  I think a lot of that has to do with people moving about, and walking in the streets.
Discussion: MobHappy
 
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Patent office will ask the public to "peer review" inventions
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Last of the 'bird  —  I am closing down Burningbird.
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digitimes.com:
Asustek introduces 20.1-inch widescreen monitor with built-in megapixel webcam
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Cell-Phone Tracking: Laws Needed
Discussion: Techdirt
Ingrid Marson / CNET News.com:
EC reluctant to back OpenDocument
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Microsoft To Map The World In Real Time?
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
TiVo Launches Product Watch: Commercials On Demand
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
For MTV Fans, a Parallel Universe of Programs: At Once Online and on TV
Kristopher Kubicki / dailytech.com:
Announcing Intel Core 2 Duo
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