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8:55 AM ET, February 12, 2007

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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Intel shows off 80-core processor  —  Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it to boost your Doom score just yet.  —  Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel Prototype May Herald a New Age of Processing  —  Intel will demonstrate on Monday an experimental computer chip with 80 separate processing engines, or cores, that company executives say provides a model for commercial chips that will be used widely in standard desktop, laptop and server computers within five years.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Slashdot
Intel:
Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'  —  80-Core Programmable Processor First to Deliver Teraflop Performance with Remarkable Energy-Efficiency  —  Intel Corporation researchers have developed the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single …
Discussion: The Tech Report and Seeking Alpha
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
Intel demonstrates 80-core processor
Discussion: digg
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Universal Near Deal With Video Site on Royalties  —  Universal Music Group is poised to win a small battle in its war to claim royalties from sites that allow users to upload videos that contain its music.  —  Universal, the country's largest music label, is in the final stages of negotiating …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:   Bolt.com Selling to GoFish for $30M
Business Wire:
Adobe Flash Lite To Support Video for Mobile Handsets  —  Upcoming Release of Flash Lite to Integrate Video Playback Capabilities  —  BARCELONA, Spain—(BUSINESS WIRE)—At the 3GSM World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that support for video will be integrated …
Discussion: The Universal Desktop and JD on EP
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Adobe's Flash Video to Play on Mobile Phones, New Transcoding System …
Discussion: Ryan Stewart
Nokia:
Advanced technologies, new functionality, sleek designs and color appeal to working titans  —  3GSM World Congress 2007, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia (NYSE:NOK) today introduced the second wave of the Nokia Eseries portfolio with a trio of feature-packed, design-rich devices …
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and Phone Scoop
Stuart Dredge / Tech Digest:
3GSM 2007: Will MusicStation be a mobile iTunes beater?  —  http://www.omnifone.comThat's certainly how Omnifone, the company behind the new mobile music service, has been spinning it in a series of pre-briefings to journalists this week.  —  MusicStation is a music subscription service for mobile phones …
Discussion: SMS Text News and Shiny Shiny
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox 3 To Support Offline Apps  —  An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand (which unfortunately I wasn't able to attend).  Robert O'Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications.
Discussion: Ryan Stewart
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
MySpace offers tools to block unauthorized videos  —  NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (Reuters) - News Corp.'s (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile , Research) online social network MySpace said on Monday it is offering free software tools to let media companies block the uploading of unauthorized video clips …
Discussion: PaidContent
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
PowerHype At Powerset  —  The more I dig into the new search engine startup Powerset the more I am wondering if it is nothing more than a house of cards.  They're an odd company with a bit of a split personality.  For example, in some ways they are very secretive - everyone who gets to see …
Peter / 99 Lives:
Xbox Live + Mac = MacLive  —  As any Mac user can tell you, Microsoft is notorious for leaving Mac users out in the cold.  Being a 360 owner who prefers OS X as their platform of choice, I've always been green with envy of the ability to access Xbox Live and track friends within Windows Live Messenger.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
YOUTUBE HOLY WAR?  —  Apparently this fellow made a video showing violent quotes from the Koran, putting the holy book in a bad light.  It was a slide show, that's it, no commentary.  YouTube banned his account and pulled all his videos.  He's an atheist, but not a nut.  This is a bad precedent.
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RON / Xooglers:   Long time no blog  —  Can you believe it's been over six months since …
Kdawson / Slashdot:   Two Ways Not To Handle Free Speech
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zlango Update: BenchMark and Accel Invest $12 Million  —  Israel-based Zlango will announce a $12 million round of financing tomorrow, led by BenchMark Capital and Accel Partners.  The company launched the Zlango icon-based SMS service in the middle of 2006, and has expanded to three countries …
Discussion: MobileCrunch
Joe / Techdirt:
Stuffy Economist Magazine Experiments With Social Media  —  from the Sir, dept  —  One of the mistakes many companies make when trying to embrace social networking or social media is to think that they should just build their own version of MySpace, or clone of some other popular site.
Ted / Signal to Noise:
Why the "i" in iTunes should stand for "indy"  —  iTunes debuted several years ago, and I continue to be impressed with the simplicity and superiority of Apple's value chain for music-from the iPod to the Mac/PC all the way up to the store itself.  Not so much for video delivery, but that's a subject for another Sunday.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Very Ugly Bug at BarackObama.com  —  The "find a group" section of the new Barack Obama social network contains a hard coded racial and sexual orientation slur.  When searching groups, a couple of search options appear along with the hard coded text "Example: Gay Nigger Association of America -#@ for Obama, 16892."
Discussion: The Bivings Report, A VC and 901am
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MyBarackObama: Who Built This?  —  Everyone's buzzing …
Discussion: WebProNews, A VC and Unit Structures
 
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Jonathan Dube / CyberJournalist.net:
User-generated content isn't free
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SacredFacts:
Stir it up...  Well I seem to have created a few sparks …
Michael / Apple Gazette:
Star Trek TV Shows GONE from iTunes
Discussion: MacUser
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
How To Get Rid of DRM Effectively: Open Letter To Steve Jobs and The RIAA
Discussion: digg
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Transmeta now officially out of the CPU business
Martin Stabe:
Attention journalists: Focus on blog signal, not noise
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Nintendo VP on corp. differences: Nobody got shot for Wii
 Earlier Items: 
Chris Williams / The Register:
Mobile forensics turns up heat on suspects
Discussion: textually.org
Anything But iPod:
Sony Video Walkman Due in March?
Discussion: Engadget and Ubergizmo
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:
Community Next  —  Yesterday I attended Community Next …
Discussion: Wired and listen out loud
Luca Filigheddu / Thoughts on VoIP, technology:
10 reasons why VoIP has succeeded
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Shots surface of ATI's R600 — and boy is she a big one
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Future of Personal Computing ?
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Social Network Fatigue and the Missing Web 2.0 Address Book
Jamie Stockwell / Washington Post:
WiFi Turns Internet Into Hideout for Criminals
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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