Top Items:
Christine Wilhelmy / Apple:
Apple Introduces New Mac Pro — Fastest Mac Ever—Eight Processor Cores Standard — Apple® today introduced the new Mac® Pro with eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor*. The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel's …
Discussion:
Silicon Alley Insider, Infinite Loop, Between the Lines, Gadget Lab, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Switched, TidBITS, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, iLounge, MacUser, UNEASYsilence, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, The Mac Observer, I4U News, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, www.gulker.com, Apple Gazette and The Apple Core
RELATED:
Apple:
Apple Introduces New Xserve—Most Powerful Apple Server Ever — Apple® today introduced the new Xserve®, a 1U rack-optimized server that is up to twice as fast as its predecessor* and includes an unlimited client license for Mac OS® X Server Leopard™.
Discussion:
Gizmodo, Podcasting News, Engadget, TidBITS, Macworld, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Mac Observer, The Apple Blog and Insanely Great Mac
Podcasting News:
Apple Intros Fastest Mac Ever — Apple today introduced the new Mac Pro with eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor. — The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel's new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2 GHz …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Offer to Acquire Fast Search & Transfer — Companies' combined expertise, technology will help businesses capitalize on the power of enterprise search. — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT") today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA …
RELATED:
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 billion; Likely to trigger enterprise search consolidation — Microsoft said Tuesday that it will offer $1.2 billion in cash for Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), a big player in the enterprise search market. — The move is sure to shake …
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft to Buy Data-Search Firm — Microsoft said it plans to buy Norway's data-search company Fast Search & Transfer in a cash deal that values the company at $1.2 billion.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Has Announced A Takeover Bid For Fast Search & Transfer Priced At $1.2 Billion — Microsoft has made an offer to acquire enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer. — Norway based Fast Search and Transfer offers enterprise search to over 3500 companies, including many in the Fortune 500.
Business Wire:
Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts Announces Project Infinity: Strategy to Deliver Exponentially More Content Choice on TV — Comcast To Give Consumers More than 1,000 HD Choices in 2008 — Announces Roadmap to Add 6,000 Movies with 3,000 in HD — LAS VEGAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Comcast Corporation …
Discussion:
Silicon Alley Insider, Media Experiences 2 Go, Tech Trader Daily, panasonic.com and Mashable!
RELATED:
Tim Arangoo / New York Times:
Comcast Plans to Offer a Huge Menu of Films — Comcast, the nation's largest cable television company, will outline an ambitious plan Tuesday to set up two new paradigms for how people will watch movies and television shows in their homes or on the road. — The plan, which Brian L. Roberts …
Financial Times:
Paramount in HD-DVD blow — Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD-DVD following Warner Brothers' recent backing of Sony's Blu-ray technology, in a move that could sound the death knell of HD-DVD and bring the home entertainment format war to a definitive end.
RELATED:
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Enabled Televisions Coming Soon — Japanese manufacturer Matsushita (Panasonic) has signed a deal with Google that will see the company launch flat panel television sets that allow users to access YouTube and other Google services such as Picasa Web Albums.
RELATED:
Larry Chiang / FoundRead:
9 VCs You're Gonna Want to Avoid — Editor's Note: Fundraising is tough. So more and more of you bootstrap as long as you can. But once you get close to $1 million in revenues, VCs will come calling. That's right: they'll come to you. Cash flow positive startups remain hard to come by.
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
A clean hand-off at Mozilla — As in a relay race, the key to a successful enterprise is often the hand-off, a change in leadership at the top. — When it's messy the whole company can suffer. It can die or be taken over. — When it's done right the chief operating officer slides …
Discussion:
Mashable!
RELATED:
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
LaCie updates external hard drives, launches the Little Big Disk Quadra — Alright, LaCie. We understand when you namecheck the designer of your new ultra-minimalist external drives, but the d2 line has been shipping since like 2002 — so we're not going to get excited about the look of the thing …
Discussion:
PC World
BBC:
Copying CDs could be made legal — Copying music from a CD to a home computer could be made legal under new proposals from the UK government. — Millions of people already “rip” discs to their computers and transfer the files to MP3 players, unaware that the process is against copyright law.
