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12:20 PM ET, November 13, 2007

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
RackSpace Outage Hits Home  —  A truck driver drove into a power transformer in San Antonio, Texas, this evening, causing it to explode.  That explosion caused a major power disruption and took down RackSpace, our hosting company.  This is the second time in less than a week that they have had power issues.
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Jordan Golson / Valleywag:
Truck driver in Texas kills all the websites you really use [Breakdowns]
Discussion: Digg
Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
China Mobile in talks with Apple to sell iPhone  —  China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company's CEO said on Tuesday.  But he's not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Virtual Palm OS on your Nokia N-Series tablet — hoozah!  —  You read that headline right, now you can run a Palm OS Garnet VM on your Nokia N-series N770, N800, or N810 tablet.  Access just released a beta copy of their Garnet Virtual Machine software.  Yes, Snappermail, DateBk5, Pocket Tunes …
Discussion: Mobility Site
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Thoughtfix / TabletBlog.com:
ACCESS Garnet for maemo - First Look
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
ACCESS releasing Palm OS Garnet emulator for Nokia's Internet Tablets
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
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
More Misplaced Glam Exhuberance  —  Ad network Glam got a glowing review from Jeff Jarvis today.  And he's not the only person out there that likes them - word is they closed the big round of financing they've been trying to raise, at a $450 million valuation.  —  I mentioned that they were raising money in an August post.
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Samsung Rolls Out Next-Gen WiMax Toys While We Wait and Wait [See The WiMax Future]  —  So is Korea actually a country from the future, or what?  We're asking because Samsung is now rolling out its second generation of phones, mobile devices and USB modems that support WiMax.
Associated Press:
Murdoch: WSJ.com expected to be free  —  ADELAIDE, Australia - News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue.  —  "We are studying it and we expect to make that free …
Discussion: Screenwerk and Lost Remote
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 …
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
Co-founder of Bebo leaves to join venture firm: Q&A  —  Jim Scheinman, one of three founders of Bebo, is leaving the company he helped start to become an Entrepreneur in Residence at the VC firm, Charles River Ventures.  We talked with him to discuss that decision, his days at Friendster …
Business Wire:
Go Daddy Partners with Google to Offer Customers Web Management Tools  —  Integrates Google Webmaster Tools to Help Customers Make Their Sites More Google-Friendly  —  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—GoDaddy.com is working with Google Inc. as the pilot partner for a new effort …
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.
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
XM, Sirius shareholders vote on proposed merger today, await "OK" from gov't regulators  —  Yes, the painfully original XM-Sirius "logo" strikes again  —  Judging by a number posts from earlier in the year, I can tell that a few of you are fans of, or at least followers of, of satellite radio.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Ooyala soft launches Backlot, a video analytics and management tool  —  Ooyala, (good Fortune post for more info) a San Francisco startup formed by a couple of ex-Google employees just soft launched their video management system, Backlot.  Ooyala is a video platform that aims to do more than just show video.
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Brian Garrity / New York Post:
NO BANG, ZUNE  —  LESS HYPE FOR RETOOLED MP3 PLAYER
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PRWeb:
Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment
Colin Barker / CNET News.com:
One-stop open-source support launched in U.K.
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TERRA FIRMA TO SQUEEZE EMI MILLION$
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Sidekick Slides losing power, respect when they slide
BBC:
India enters supercomputing race
Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
VMware Updates Its Free Offering
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A Green Home Away From Home
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Alex Patriquin / Compete Blog:
Connecting the Social Graph: Member Overlap at OpenSocial and Facebook
Bill Ray / The Register:
Optimise your mobile content for free
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Box.net Releases OpenBox Platform for Integration of Web Applications
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Buying the XO laptop: The shipping may sting
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Mobile phone company O2 sells 'tens of thousands' of iPhones over weekend
Ben Steverman / Business Week:
E*Trade's Meltdown  —  The stock price gets slashed in half …
Steve Hamm / Business Week:
IBM, Cognos, and the End of Best-of-Breed
 

 
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi launches Scenes, a mobile feature that lets viewers watch 60-to-90-second trailer-style clips from its library to help with content discovery

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

 
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