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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 …
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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™.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Comcast Preps Four-Minute HD Movie Download Service For '08 Release — Just when Sony's (NYSE: SNE) Blu-ray may have thought the Hi-Def video war was over, the format is likely to face a much tougher challenge from Comcast's (NSDQ: CMCSA) Wideband internet service.
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.
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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.
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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.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life! — Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made his inaugural CES appearance, outlining how he plans to evolve his company ahead of the curve and to become an indispensable starting point for consumers' Web experience, which has become richer and more complex over the last decade.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Here Comes Yahoo Live, I Mean Yahoo Life
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging — Tech bloggers (and I put myself squarely in this group), I am sorry to report that many of us have become lazy - really lazy. So, with this in mind I offer a challenge: in 2008 let's strap back on our thinking caps and get our blog mojo back.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Radiohead's Physical Album Selling Well — Despite what some claim, Radiohead made it abundantly clear from the very beginning that the “name your own price” download offering was part of a promotional campaign to get more people to buy the physical CD. And buy it, they are.
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