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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
A Change in Seasons — If there's one thing I've learned during my time as CEO here at Technorati is that making tough choices is a daily reality. But some choices are tougher than others, particularly when they involve one's own self. — You see, I've made the tough decision to turn …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati Loses A "Great Leader." PodTech Also Loses CEO — We've all known that blog search engine Technorati and videocasting site PodTech weren't doing particularly well: that both companies were conducting CEO searches. But today the bloodletting became real. — PodTech CEO John Furrier is out.
Joosep / Heartbeat:
Problems with Skype login — UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon …
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VoIP & Gadgets Blog:
Skype Outage — Skype is experiencing a major outage. My fellow TMC co-workers noticed it late Wednesday when they couldn't IM fellow co-workers. TMC's Dave Rodrqiguez told me that he went home for the day, signed into Skype from home and was bombarded with a ton of Skype IM messages that didn't go through earlier.
Business Wire:
Dell Independent Investigation Completed; Will Restate Financials — Remedial Action Under Way to Correct Control Deficiencies — ROUND ROCK, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dell (NASDAQ:DELL - News) today announced that its Audit Committee has completed its independent investigation into certain accounting and financial reporting matters.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Dell restates financials; Says books were cooked
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:Dell execs skewed numbers to meet earnings targets
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Welcome Xohm: Sprint's WiMAX service gets name, $5 billion price tag — Sprint Nextel has given its upcoming WiMAX service a name and a web site (which will teach you how to pronounce "Xohm"). Sprint will launch the service in Chicago and Baltimore by year end, with a nationwide launch coming in spring 2008.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
USAToday's Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off — When USAToday relaunched its site in March as a social network around news, I and others thought it was big news. — They integrated Pluck's new Social Media Suite, a group of social networking products that a number of high profile news sites have adopted.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
HP firing on all cylinders — Hewlett-Packard on Thursday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $2.1 billion, or 66 a share, and revenue of $25.4 billion. Overall, HP delivered a solid performance across all of its business units. — Excluding one-time items, HP reported earnings of 71 cents a share.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
IBM expands support for Sun's Solaris 10 — IBM and Sun today announced that day announced that IBM will distribute Solaris 10 and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers to clients through IBM's channels. The servers include IBM System x3650 …
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:IBM embraces - wtf - Sun's Solaris across x86 server line
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Podtech / John Furrier:
Taking it to the Next Level - PodTech Has a New CEO — Today the company, which I founded two years ago, is announcing a new CEO - James McCormick. James has been the Chief Operating Officer for the past 9 months. In his role he has been setting up the business and operating infrastucture for PodTech.
Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
Knowledge Networks pays $300,000 to settle internal copyright complaint — (InfoWorld) - Analyst firm Knowledge Networks has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a complaint that it distributed news articles to its employees without permission of the copyright owners, a trade group announced Thursday.
Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Apple's iWork Package Is Elegant but Wimpy Compared With Office — When you hear that Apple has released a new product, you think of a sleek Macintosh laptop, or perhaps a beautiful program for editing videos. But a spreadsheet? Not a spreadsheet. After all, expertise with spreadsheets …
David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream media — Back in 1991, when I first started as a tech journalist for PC Week (now eWeek), there was no Web. There was print, TV, and radio. PC Week was a print book and, to the extent that any of the parent company Ziff Davis' publications were online …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's anti-Google lobbyists, revealed — If it wasn't official before, we have it in writing now: Microsoft is directing at least a small fraction of its massive (by tech industry standards) lobbying shop toward Google's proposed purchase of DoubleClick.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
AOL's Truveo Introduces New Video Search Site And Consumer Destination — AOL acquired video search engine Truveo in January, 2006 and has used it primarily as a technology platform to power AOL video since that time. Simultaneously, the company has been supporting video search on third party sites.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple designing 'collapsible connection receptacle' for ultra-portable systems — Apple Inc., which is expected to introduce a widescreen ultra-portable in the coming months, may compact the notebook's I/O ports into a collapsible connection receptacle on the rear of the unit in order to conserve space …
