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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Internet Names the Wrong Killer — In the absence of any official information from police on the identity of the Virginia Tech killer, internet sleuths claiming to be in-the-know have been calling attention — on message boards and online aggregators like Digg — to the LiveJournal blog of a particular 23-year-old gun nut in Virginia.
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Daniel Terdiman / ZDNet News:Journalists look to bloggers for Virginia Tech story
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Intel confirms programmable, multi-core chip — IDF Intel claims to have ended the GPGPU era before it even started with the revelation of a new multi-core processor design called Larrabee. — At the Intel Developer Forum today, Intel server chip chief Pat Gelsinger confirmed the long rumored Larrabee chip.
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Intel:
Intel Names Winners Of Million-Dollar PC Design Challenge — Move Over Big, Beige Box, Home PCs are Getting a Makeover — Intel Corporation today announced the winners of the USD$1 million Intel® Core™ Processor Challenge, a contest designed to spur industry innovation in new …
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Can the Web Replace Time Warner Cable? — The Wall Street Journal's Matthew Karnitschnig has this piece today that says Time Warner is thinking of lowering its investment stake in Time Warner Cable because, in part, the Internet is emerging as a "viable venue for watching TV."
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Joe / Techdirt:Report: Time Warner Considers Getting Rid Of The Cable
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Hjanssen / Port 25:
Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox — A few weeks ago I wrote a blog called 'We're Writing Firefox Plug-ins? Interview with Ian Gilman and Thoughts on 10 Months at Microsoft' (Who came up with that title anyway!) — In which I chronicled my first 10 months on the job.
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InfoWorld, Good Morning Silicon Valley, The Tech Report, Digital Inspiration and JD on EP
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Light Reading:
Could Vonage Sprint to an Exit? — Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG - message board) is in talks with Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S - message board) about a way to resolve that carrier's patent lawsuit against the VOIP provider, Light Reading has learned. And one source says a Sprint buyout of Vonage is on the table.
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CrunchGear, BARRONS.com, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, VoIP Watch and broadbandreports.com
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Quanta may be developing PDA handset for Dell — Quanta Computer is developing a PDA handset for Dell, and the new model is expected to be launched in the fourth quarter of this year, according to industry sources. — Quanta said it would not comment on any issue concerning individual clients.
Olga Kharif / Tech Beat:
The Death of Web Radio? — On April 16, right in the midst of the NAB2007 broadcasters conference, the Copyright Royalty Board upheld its earlier decision to impose higher royalty rates on Web radio stations. The stations will have to cough up these royalty payments …
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Techdirt, Copyfight, mocoNews.net, Mark Evans, The Blogging Times, SearchViews and Ars Technica
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Jon Hicks / hicksdesign:
Google Reader Theme — I've been dugg so the site is taking a right old thwacking at the moment. Thankyou to Jez at Segpub for helping me out with the load! — I've been using Flickr as a bit of testbed for a new site theme I've been working on for Google Reader.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Google Operating System, UNEASYsilence, The Apple Blog and digg
adCenter Blog:
adCenter Quality-Based Ranking — On the 16th April we improved how we establish the quality and relevance of ads and landing pages in relation to the search user's likely intent. This improvement will ensure that we maintain a high quality of ads and relevance to the Live Search user …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple seriously considering iPhone rebate, subsidy - report — Several recent developments on Apple's iPhone strategy have compelled one analyst to raise his estimates and price target on shares of the company, such as word that the iPod maker is seriously considering a move to subsidize …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Local TV stations face Net threat — LAS VEGAS—The Internet is the cause of much fear and loathing here at this gathering of broadcasters. — Some attendees of the National Association of Broadcasters conference this week are worried that local television affiliates will be the next business species …
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Russell Beattie's Back With A New Project — Mowser — Russell Beattie's been busy since he quit blogging last year, he's just been a little more quiet about it. However, he's announced a new project, Mowser. It's a combination of a transcoder (so mobile users can visit full HTML sites) …
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Tariq Krim / Netvibes.com Blog:
Enter the Netvibes Universe — Today we're introducing something that will change, and improve, the way you use Netvibes: the Netvibes Universe. — Personal Universes — Soon, every single Netvibes user will be able to create a personal Netvibes Universe, that is …
Amanda Chapel / Strumpette:
EXCLUSIVE: PC Magazine Considers Edelman Boycott — If there's one thing that characterizes the current social media explosion, it's the rush to push the limits. It's absolutely exhilarating... well... that is, until the Gods push back. — This is about the Gods pushing back.
PR Newswire:
EMC Reports Record First-Quarter Results — Delivers 15th Consecutive Quarter of Double-Digit Revenue Growth, Q1 EPS increase of 36% — HOPKINTON, Mass., April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC - News), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions …
