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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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Ryan Kennedy / Yahoo! Mail Updates:
Messenger and Mail...together at last! — At the Web 2.0 conference in November, we took the wraps off of one of our newest, coolest features: Yahoo! Messenger integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta. But, that was just a preview of what was to come. Today, we will start to release this exciting new feature.
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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 …
ZDNet:
Microsoft launches 'PlayReady' DRM system — Microsoft has launched a new digital rights management system that will allow users to use commercial content on multiple different devices for a single fee. — Microsoft PlayReady was unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
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laptopmag.com:
HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger — HP's latest iPAQ doesn't look like an iPAQ at all. It's a compact candy bar phone without a keyboard, and that features Wi-Fi and runs Windows Mobile 6. The 510's biggest innovation, however, is its Voice Commander technology, which enables the phone to read …
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Andrew / Treonauts:
Windows Mobile 6 On Treo 750: Exclusive First Images! — Yesterday at 3GSM in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed details of its new Windows Mobile 6 operating system which features support for rich HTML e-mail, increased functionality within Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile and Office Mobile programs …
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 …
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.
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," …
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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FilmLoop Betrayed By Investors? — When I added FilmLoop to the TechCrunch DeadPool last month based on rumors of mass layoffs, it was clear there was more to the story. The thirty person company had raised $11.5 million in capital and by any calculation should have still had at least $3 - $5 million left in the bank.
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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.
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, Google Blogoscoped, PaidContent, reBang weblog, Googling Google, Slashdot and digg
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.
USA Today:
EMI in talks to dump copy protection — LOS ANGELES — The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection. — Major label EMI — home of Coldplay and Norah Jones — is in discussions with online music stores about selling its music without copy protection …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Command, Option, Control — Two asinine criticisms of Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music" are that (a) it's a shameless attempt to jump on the anti-DRM bandwagon — i.e. that Jobs and Apple are merely attempting to take credit for the already inevitable move toward non-DRM music; and (b) …
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Can Executives Find Happiness With a BlackBerry Minus Its Scroll Wheel? — Executives who are longtime BlackBerry users will have to teach their right thumb some new tricks if they switch to a model introduced on Monday. — The model, the BlackBerry 8800, eliminates a tiny scroll wheel …
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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.
