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James Robinson / Guardian:
Google turns to X Factor's Fuller for push into TV — Internet giant Google is in secret talks with Simon Fuller, the British entrepreneur behind the Spice Girls, about a joint venture that could change the way TV is watched over the internet. — News of the collaboration will prompt speculation …
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Intel:
Intel's Fundamental Advance in Transistor Design Extends Moore's Law, Computing Performance — Sixteen Eco-Friendly, Faster and 'Cooler' Chips Incorporate 45nm Hafnium-Based High-k Metal Gate Transistors — Built using an entirely new transistor formula that alleviates the wasteful electricity leaks …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Should Sprint Send Silicon Valley a Super Poke? — Sprint Nextel's (S) rough patch is turning into a highway from hell. The exit of CEO Gary Forsee, questions about its plans for a WiMAX network and its aborted partnership with Clearwire (CLWR) have provided fertile ground for all sorts of rumors.
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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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Engadget, Business Logs, TechCrunch, ParisLemon, mathewingram.com/work, Joe Duck, Search Engine Blog.com, Mashable!, Tech Trader Daily and VoIP Watch
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox? — Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that could — an open-source program created by thousands of contributors around the world without the benefit of a giant company like Microsoft to finance it.
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Cate Doty / New York Times:
Game News in a Duel of Print and Online — Noel Goodman subscribes to three video game magazines, but he wants information faster than the magazines can reach his mailbox. — "I can find out on the Internet information that won't be in magazines for another month," said Mr. Goodman …
Doug Sherrets / VentureBeat:
Facebook search expands — will it take on Google? — Facebook has added a new option for its search bar, allowing users to search for advertising pages. — This continues a steady creep in search options, which already includes tabs to search for people, groups, events and applications.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
AOL Acquires Israeli Social Search Start-Up Yedda; Second Buy In A Week — AOL (NYSE: TWX) has acquired Israeli start-up Yedda, a social search questions-and-answers service launched in 2006 with proprietary semantic matching technology. No financial terms disclosed.
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Joanne Kaufman / New York Times:
A Cookbook of One's Own From the Internet — As a founder of the online photography service Ofoto, Kamran Mohsenin took note of the pleasure and pride his customers derived from making personalized calendars and books. "The perceived value and the sense of accomplishment in creating your own photo book was high," he said.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
CyberHomes Emerges From Beta, With Claims of Better Real-Estate Data — Even as the housing market goes south, real-estate Websites continue to soldier on. On Tuesday, after a year in beta, CyberHomes will launch officially and join a crowded field that includes Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, and Realtor.com.
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Cellphone Straitjacket Is Inspiring a Rebellion — First come the grumblings, then the torches and pitchforks. — Consumers have never been happy about their cellphone carriers and the services they provide — or refuse to provide. But they also have hardly the means to do anything, except switch from one carrier to the next.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks? — Employees generally don't leave hot startups. They lose some or all of their stock options, and they also lose the resume value of being associated with a startup brand. And that's doubly true for executive level employees.
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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".
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
New bill would punish colleges, students who don't become copyright cops — A massive education bill (747-page PDF) introduced into Congress contains a provision that would force colleges and universities to offer "technology-based deterrents" to file-sharing under the pain of losing all federal financial aid.
