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Chad Lorenz / Slate:
The Death of E-Mail — TEENAGERS ARE ABANDONING THEIR YAHOO! AND HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS. DO THE REST OF US HAVE TO? — By 2002, everyone in my family had become an Internet convert. For the technophobic older generation, signing up for an e-mail account was a concession to us youngsters …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. to Push 'Cloud Computing,' Using Data From Afar — I.B.M. plans to build a sizable business by bringing Google-style computing to mainstream corporate customers. — The I.B.M. strategy, to be announced today, seeks to exploit the technical work and commercial interest in large data centers …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
IBM takes the computing cloud corporate; What cloud will you trust? — IBM on Thursday unveiled "Blue Cloud," a corporate cloud computing bundle of services for data centers. — With the move Big Blue is following the path blazed by Amazon and other cloud services.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
CBS Offers Midtown Manhattan Free Wireless Internet Access — Some awesome news out of Manhattan today. CBS Corporation has announced today that it will "light up" midtown Manhattan with the creation of the "CBS Mobile Zone," a wireless high-speed network enabling New Yorkers …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Sony enjoys high sales on the back of a $400 system and Wii shortages — It's an amazing feat; almost exactly a year after launch, the Nintendo Wii is still hard to find in most areas. The demand will become even greater as we near the holiday season, and games like Super Mario Galaxy …
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Christine Wilhelmy / Apple:
Apple Releases Final Cut Express 4 — New Final Cut Express Features AVCHD Support and iMovie '08 Integration — Apple® today released Final Cut® Express 4, a significant upgrade to its powerful video editing software based on Apple's award-winning Final Cut Pro 6, with a new low price of $199.
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Times of London:
Hidden crime of 'wi-fi tapping': only 11 arrests but most of us are guilty — More than half of computer users have illegally logged on to someone else's wi-fi connection yet only 11 people have been arrested for the crime, an investigation by The Times has found.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
YouTube HD Coming Soon — Speaking at the NewTeeVee conference yesterday, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen confirmed that YouTube was testing HD video but qualified the statement by stating that YouTube is primarily focused on providing content to everyone, which doesn't necessarily facilitate a HD product.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:High-quality YouTube videos coming soon
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Blake Snow / PC World:
Xbox Originals Are Imperfect Says Microsoft — Microsoft says "there are some known issues" with the downloadable games including choppy visuals, lack of additional content, and even system crashing. — Recommend this story? — A day after confirming downloadable Xbox games for 360 …
Mark Ward / Press Association:
Colossus cracks codes once more — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Bletchley's code-breaking effort shortened the war by many months — For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes at Bletchley Park.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Edgar Bronfman Rewrites History, Has A Pretend Epiphany — My distant cousin Edgar Bronfman Jr., the head of Warner Music, is getting some attention today for his remarks at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, where he seemed to be admitting to past mistakes in how the recording industry treated customers.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
BEA: Shares Slump As Oracle's Ellison Says The Stock Is Worth Less Than The Already-Rejected $17 Bid — Now they've done it: BEA Systems (BEAS) has made Oracle's (ORCL) Larry Ellison mad. And BEA shareholders are paying the price. As you no doubt know by now, Oracle recently offered to buy BEA for $17 a share.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
MyOffice: Full Featured Groupware Tool on Facebook — Earlier this week, I posted lamenting the lack of a good office/groupware collaboration tool in Facebook. Many of the commenters wondered why I would ever want such a thing. "I don't see the point of office style apps inside facebook.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Stealth-mode app turns InBox 2.0 into Life 2.0 — Yesterday Mike Arrington noted the stories that both Yahoo and Google are planning to build social networks around their email services. This is based on the premise that you already 'socially network' with people via email, so why not put a social graph wrapper around that?
Chris Mellor / Computerworld:
BitMicro unveils 1.6TB solid state disk drive — The Altima 4GB FC SSD is expected to begin in Q1 2008 with volumes shipping in Q2 2008 — BitMicro has announced a flash memory-based solid state drive (SSD) with wide-ranging capacities of up to 1.6TB. — The drive, which comes in a 3.5 …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Exclusive: Viddler Launches Innovative Video Monetization Plan — Viddler, the online video sharing service, is announcing the launch of their contextual advertising program today. I have been beta testing this for a few weeks now and can say that it's the most innovative program I have seen so far in the video advertising space.
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