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BBC:
Teraflop chip hints at the future — A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel. — The Teraflop chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo Mail integrates IM — Beginning Monday, some Yahoo Mail users will be able to chat in real time through their e-mail program. Yahoo said in November that it would embed instant-messaging technology directly into its Yahoo Mail program so that users wouldn't have to open up …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero" — A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Podcasting to Generate $400 Mil. in Ads by 2011 — Podcasting, the hot new media darling before YouTube mania swept in, is poised for a major growth spurt in ad dollars, despite the fact that the young medium's usage has failed to match the recent proliferation of Apple's iPod and other MP3-playing devices.
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Frank Barnako, Mark Evans, The Praized Blog, Geek News Central, 901am, SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks and Paul Colligan's …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Breakthrough Technology Enabling Simple Access to Broad Set of Digital Content, Including Music, Games, Video, Ring Tones and Pictures — Microsoft PlayReady powers next-generation media experiences on mobile networks; mobile operators worldwide announcing support include …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google decried as friend of piracy over AdSense earnings on piracy sites — Google rules the direct marketing world thanks to AdSense, and AdSense is popular thanks to the fact that almost anyone can sign up. As it turns out, that's a problem when sites break the law.
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Rational rants, Law Blog, Google Watch, PaidContent, reBang weblog, Googling Google, Slashdot and digg
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
YouTube shuts down Gawker account — YouTube has removed videos posted to the site by Gawker Media, many of which featured clips from top TV shows that appeared between advertisements for Gawker's blogs. — More than 50 clips were removed and the YouTube user account, "belowtheradar," …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Is "crowdsourcing" just cost-cutting 2.0? — It would be nice if the proprietors of KFTY-TV in Santa Rosa, California — a tiny pimple on the giant media corpus that is Clear Channel Communications — had decided that "citizen journalism" or "crowdsourcing" or "open source journalism" …
Gamasutra:
The 10 Minutes Game Sales Potential Test — Everybody in the gaming industry has a great idea for a game. The desire to see that idea become a reality is what brought many of us to this industry. Sadly, the quality of this idea - or even of the game itself - isn't enough to guarantee …
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Will Widgets Kill the Webpage? (Exclusive Netvibes video). … Click To Play … Tariq Krim is widget crazy (watch the video above). The CEO of French startup Netvibes, the site where you can build a personal homepage from news and data feeds from all over the Web, is about to unleash a whole lot of widgets onto the Web.
Roger Friedman / Fox News:
BEATLES READY FOR LEGAL DOWNLOADING SOON — The Beatles songs — all of them — will be offered for downloading soon. That's what Neil Aspinall, the head of Apple Corps Ltd. and the man who's protected the Beatles legacy for the last 40 years — told me over the weekend.
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Infinite Loop, Apple, Gizmodo, Gear Live, Listening Post, Good Morning Silicon Valley and hypebot
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FBI lost 160 laptops in last 44 months — How many laptops does the FBI lose? The Office of the Inspector General (or OIG; it's a part of the Department of Justice) sought to find out back in 2001, when it did an initial audit of the Bureau's losses of both weapons and laptops.
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Gizmodo, Between the Lines, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, Neowin.net and Washington Post
Valleywag:
Yahoo Photos shutting down, Flickr triumphant? — Time to upgrade this from rumor to unannounced fact — that's our bet, anyway. "Consolidation" was the word seized upon most in Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse's "Peanut Butter Manifesto." And consolidating the duplicate services provided …
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …
Nokia:
Nokia unveils new mobile internet video experience — Co-operation with YouTube allows users to enjoy YouTube(TM) videos on the go via Nokia Nseries devices — 3GSM World Congress 2007, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced a new mobile internet video experience …
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Niall Kennedy's Weblog, Engadget, dailywireless.org, GigaOM, Monkey Bites, MobileTracker and Open Gardens
Alan Graham / Web 2.0 Explorer:
CommunityNext Highlights — 300-400 people got together this weekend at Stanford to find out what would happen if you supplied them with unlimited Red Bull and Rice Krispie Treats. — Organized by Noah Kagan and described as... We started on Friday night with about 30-40 people at a dinner in Palo Alto.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Music Vets Prep Next-Gen Player — Three digital music veterans have launched a stealth startup and are close to unveiling both a new portable media player and what they're calling an "internet radio ecosystem," Wired News has learned. — San Diego-based Broadband Instruments' co-founders Jim Cady …
