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Rumor Mill: Google Acquiring Sprint — Recent news that Sprint is not going to work with Clearwire to build out a WiMAX network only added to the rumors I have been hearing about Google acquiring Sprint Nextel. On the surface it seems like this would be a bad move for Google but in reality …
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TechCrunch, mathewingram.com/work, Tech Trader Daily, Joe Duck, Mashable!, VoIP Watch, UNEASYsilence and Search Engine Blog.com
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Tumbleweeds outnumber punters, as iPhone's First Night flops — Journalists and PR minders outnumbered buyers on Friday night as interest in Apple's iPhone miserably failed to live up to the pre-launch hype in the UK. — The iPhone went on sale at stores operated by retail titan Carphone Warehouse …
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Christopher Null, Data Mining, broadstuff, Open (finds, minds …, Odelbee and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
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John Naughton / Guardian:
It's stunning, powerful and elegant... so set the iPhone free — The Apple iPhone arrived in the UK on Friday and evoked a predictable spectrum of responses - from ecstatic boosterism to technophobic spluttering. The Daily Mail said Carphone Warehouse expected to sell 10,000 on the first day …
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Intel jabs bruised AMD with 12 new Xeons and desktop dynamo — Months of torturous fanfare come to a close on Monday as Intel will officially start shipping its family of "Penryn" processors built with a whiz-bang new manufacturing process. — Normally, Intel tries to keep the launch date …
Rands In Repose:
The Nerd Handbook — A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That's the nerd working on his project in his head. — It's unlikely that this project is a nerd's day job because his opinion regarding his job is, "Been there, done that".
IDC:
Handheld Device Shipments Decline 43.5% Year Over Year As Vendors Exit or Transition Product Lines, According to IDC — The worldwide handheld device market posted its fifteenth consecutive quarter of decline in shipments, signaling either vendor intent to scale back production or exit from market entirely, or both.
Fred / A VC:
My Facebook Ad — Thanks to everyone who commented and emailed me after my post yesterday afternoon. I am indeed dense. The social advertising system on Facebook is up and running, I just couldn't find it. — Here is my ad. It took me all of a minute or two to create it.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Questions for YouTube's Steve Chen? — Next week at NewTeeVee Live, we're interviewing Steve Chen, co-founder and CTO of YouTube. The interview will be live-streamed and live-blogged, so if you can't make the conference, you'll be able to experience some form of it.
Blog World Expo Blog:
This is not Mike Arrington's Fault. It's Mine — 11 Nov, 2007 by Rick Lastest Blog Drama, Its All About the Show — First off I apologize to everyone for not responding to this sooner. It's the day after the show and I was wiped out this morning, then stuck in the car all day driving back from Vegas.
Mark / dive into mark:
Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way) — What follows are instructions for building and installing MySQL 5 on Ubuntu. These instructions should work perfectly on both Feisty (7.04) and Gutsy (7.10). — If you're a pro at this type of thing already, if you're impatient …
XD:
Stacks Overlays — Stacks is pretty much Leopard's only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy, but the fact that the icon representing the stack is whatever the top file in the folder happens to be really ruins it (for me at least).
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Sony CEO wants to go back in time, avert high-def format war — Customers aren't the only ones frustrated with the high-definition format wars—Sony CEO Howard Stringer is reaching the end of his rope as well. Blu-ray, which is backed by Sony, was doing well up until recently and winning …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Can You Clone Tangler For $1,500? — We've praised new hosted forum startup Tangler on a number of occasions - most recently calling it the bleeding edge in new discussion board/forum startups. — Apparently someone else likes it too. Someone in Turkey is willing to pay up to $1,500 to anyone who can "clone Tangler."
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!:
Exclusive: NBC Launches TV Downloads Service — NBC Direct, the free service from NBC that lets you download full episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs, Heroes and more, has gone live on the NBC site. — Currently in beta, and originally scheduled to launch in October …
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