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Jason / Laughing Squid Web Hosting:
Massive Power Outage At Rackspace'S Dallas Data Center — Summary: The Rackspace data center in Dallas (DFW), where our servers are located, suffered a major power outage tonight lasting approximately two hours. A truck hit one of their transformers, causing damage, which compromised …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
RackSpace Outage Hits Home — A truck driver drove into a power transformer in San Antonio, Texas, causing it to explode. That explosion caused major power disruption and took down RackSpace, our hosting company. This is second time in less than a week they have had power issues.
Jordan Golson / Valleywag:
Truck driver in Texas kills all the websites you really use [Breakdowns] — Remember the power mishap in July that brought down 365 Main, the San Francisco datacenter? A similar incident took place today at the Dallas datacenter of Rackspace, a San Antonio, Texas-based firm which serves several local Web outfits.
Theo Valich / Inquirer:
Dell's next-gen 30-incher sports Displayport and HDMI — More connectors than on world-class plasma or LCD TV — WHILE DELL'S ORIGINAL thiry-inch 3007 had some limitations in terms of limited resolutions and features, Dell is making sure that its next-gen part will meet every geek's needs..
Interactive Advertising Bureau:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES IN Q3 '07 SURPASS $5.2 BILLION, SETTING NEW HIGH — Industry Maintains Record-breaking Trend; 2007 Q3 Revenues Up Over 25% from 2006 Q3 — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Zune 2.0 update is ready for your first generation Zune — Are you one of the many who snagged an el cheapo, first generation Zune 30GB off of Woot or a big box fire sale? Or — gasp — paid full price? Good, the moment you've been waiting for has arrived.
Steve Hamm / Business Week:
IBM, Cognos, and the End of Best-of-Breed — The software giant's $5 billion acquisition of Cognos shows how difficult it is becoming for midsize software companies to survive on their own — One of the hottest segments of the tech industry, business intelligence software …
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Mobile phone company O2 sells 'tens of thousands' of iPhones over weekend — Mobile phone company O2 claims to have sold "tens of thousands" of iPhones over the weekend after its launch in Britain. — Its chief executive, Peter Erskine, predicted that the UK pre-pay mobile phone market …
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Ben Steverman / Business Week:
E*Trade's Meltdown — The stock price gets slashed in half after the online brokerage says it can't predict new credit losses and an analyst mentions the possibility of bankruptcy — It went from bad to worse for E*Trade Financial (ETFC) on Nov. 12. First, the company said the fair value …
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
First 6 Takes on Zune 80 (Verdict: Better Than iPod Classic?) [Frankenreview] — The $249 Zune 80 is Microsoft's latest attempt to kick the iPod in the nuts, praying to crack Jobs' titanium-diamond alloy cup through Wi-Fi features and a touch of divine intervention.
Typophile:
Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform — Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products and innovative applications for mobile devices, today announced that it designed and engineered a new set of system User Interface …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
The Web in Google's Mobile Browser — Android's SDK offers an emulator that, among other things, lets you use the browser. Google used WebKit, an application framework that also powers Safari and Nokia's S60 browser. — Android's browser does a good job at rendering complex web pages …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Buying the XO laptop: The shipping may sting — For folks used to getting free shipping the XO Laptop from the One Laptop Per Child program will deliver a bit of a surprise. — I purchased two laptops from the OLPC program for $399 and got hit with $24.95 in shipping.
Janet Meiners / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Martha Stewart Launches Ad Network — Launching your own ad network is the rage right now. I read that this year is the year for launching your own social network and next year is the year for launching your own ad network. I overheard a startup that is making it easier for you to do that …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Glam: The success of the network — I have been arguing for as long as anyone would listen that the future of media is less about products and more about networks. It's so nice to be proven right. — Recently, Samir Arora, CEO of Glam, visited to talk about his success story as a network and a platform.
Dave Rigotti / Search Engine Journal:
Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW! — When Facebook announced the Fan pages, there were a number of mixed reviews. Some where hailing it and its integration to the new advertising platform and some hated it - claiming it was turning Facebook into Myspace.
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