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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.
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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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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..
PR Newswire:
Yahoo! Extends Global Mobile Leadership Through Nine New Partnerships With Mobile Operators in Asia Pacific — Yahoo! Expands Reach with Sixteen Total oneSearch Operator Partnerships across Asia Pacific Region; Offers Localized Content for a Personalized Mobile Internet Experience
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 …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Box.net Releases OpenBox Platform for Integration of Web Applications — Online storage provider Box.net is announcing today the launch of OpenBox, a platform for developers to integrate their web applications into Box.net. — The platform, once rolled out in full by December 5th …
Glam Media . The Power of Distributed Media:
LIFETIME NETWORKS PARTNERS WITH GLAM MEDIA TO DEVELOP NEW VERTICAL MEDIA NETWORK … "Smart media companies like Lifetime are seizing the network model — to find and create new audiences to connect to their advertisers," — said Samir Arora, chairman and CEO, Glam Media. "The network model,
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Optimise your mobile content for free — Volantis, a specialist in making the same content work on every mobile phone, is open sourcing its server, allowing anyone to download and run their content-optimising system for free. — The Mobility Server: Community Edition is initially available …
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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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 …
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.
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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