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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Should Sue Wired — Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart. I have a problem with that because Wired Magazine's parent company, Condé Nast, owns Digg competitor Reddit. And because Wired isn't just reporting Digg news …
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Kotaku:
Sony and Kotaku Make-Up — Silent Hill Movie Sequel Confirmed? — Ain't It Cool News reporter Quint got a chance to speak with actress Laurie Holden—she played police officer Cybil Bennett in the original film—who revealed that producers were "going forward with a sequel" …
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Windows portal:
Vista Brute Force Keygen — Thanks to Computer User to report this way and to Snooza to prepare the pack! This method is a brute force attempt at determining a usable key. — This has been reported to work!......look at the following user comments!!! — zapp2 wrote: This WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Vista activation cracked by brute force — Sledgehammered — IT LOOKS LIKE Microsoft's unhackable OS activation malware has been hacked. — There is an active thread at the Keznews forums (account needed), and a summary on its main page about the crack.
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Raf Casert / Associated Press:
Europe threatens new Microsoft fines — BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, threatening new multimillion fines against the software maker over claims it is asking rivals to pay too much for information that would help their servers work with Windows.
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Tim Weber / BBC:
BBC strikes Google-YouTube deal — The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website, owned by Google. — Three YouTube channels - one for news and two for entertainment - will showcase short clips of BBC content.
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Wizzard Media acquires Libsyn — An announcement was made by Wizzard Media that will impact thousands of podcasters like us MobileTechRoundupers. The company announced it has acquired Liberated Syndication, known to podcasters as Libsyn. The Wizzard announcement states their intent …
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Nicole / Inside Windows Live Messenger:
The i'm Initiative and new secret emoticon — The i'm Initiative is the most exciting piece of news I have had to share with Messenger users since I started working on Messenger over 3 years ago and there has been tons of exciting news over the last 3 years.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
$11B IN LIQUID ASSETS AND GROWING — Google filed a K-1 this week (thanks Gary) and there were a few tidbits in there. If you're a Google geek, it's worth a read. — Google had more than 10,00 employees at the end of 2006, for example, and spent nearly $2B in capex in 06.
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Rick Merritt / EE Times:
AMD tips quad-core performance — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices upcoming Barcelona processor will sport floating-point performance 42 percent higher than Intel's current top-of-the line CPU, the Xeon X5355 also known as Clovertown. — The news marked the first performance numbers AMD …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The Attention Economy: An Overview — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — It is no secret that we live in an information overload age. The explosion of new types of information online is a double-edged sword. We both enjoy and drown in news, blogs, podcasts, photos, videos and cool MySpace pages.
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Paritosh Bansal / Reuters:
UPDATE 1-Take-Two agrees to "Grand Theft" settlement talks — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (TTWO.O: Quote, Profile , Research) has agreed to enter into settlement talks in a consumer lawsuit accusing it of selling "Grand Theft Auto" video games containing sexually explicit images under the wrong content label.
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
YouTube Videos Reveal Google Adsense Clicks Data — As you probably know, Google is testing a new Adsense Ad format that streams video directly from YouTube.com. The first such campaign is for GMail Theater Videos run by Google itself. — If Google is planning to roll-out such ads to a bigger audience …
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Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Authors Find Their Voice, and Audience, in Podcasts — Scott Sigler writes science-fiction horror novels, the kind one fan called "steel-tipped boot on your throat, speed-metal fiction." Mr. Sigler has written four such books, though not many people have actually read them.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Mac sales growth up over 100 percent in January, says firm — Sales of Apple Inc.'s Mac line of personal computers saw year-over-year growth accelerate over 100 percent during the month of January, with revenue growth rising even further, according to Pacific Crest Securities.
