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GigaOM:
Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight — Yahoo has lost about $20 billion in market cap over the last two years. The fight that it was supposed to put up against Google has been full of Brownian Motion, generating no real momentum. — Yahoo has a staggering 500 million users.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple store down: pink iPod nano and Canadian iPhone rumors swirl — Yup, it's down again... on a Tuesday... just hours before they announce their quarterly financials. We've been hearing about new pink iPod nanos all morning which have apparently been shipped to big box retail locations.
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PC World, Infinite Loop, Hardware 2.0, MacRumors, Paul Kedrosky's … and O'Grady's PowerPage
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:Apple Pushes Pink iPod nano in Time for Your Valentine
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Neowin.net forum member posts first review of Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1 — Looks like it didn't take long for the first external build of Windows 7 to be leaked on to the interwebs. Black fumes were reported escaping Steven Sinofsky's office earlier this morning after news Microsoft …
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Chris / LiveSide:
Windows 7 details emerge - look Software + Services — Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners. One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and while unsurprisingly its difficult to verify this …
Mylene Mangalindan / Wall Street Journal:
EBay Chief Whitman Plans to Retire — EBay Inc. Chief Executive Meg Whitman is preparing to retire. — In the past few months, Ms. Whitman, who has led the San Jose, Calif., Internet auctioneer since March 1998, has been delegating more daily responsibilities to her lieutenants and is completing …
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Digital Daily, Bits, TechCrunch, CrunchGear, paidContent.org, Digital Trends, 901am, VoIP Blog, David Galbraith, The Register, Seeking Alpha, BloggingStocks, Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, WebProNews, Valleywag, Clickety Clack, Tech Beat, Pulse 2.0, John Battelle's Searchblog and Mashable!
Jeffro / Jeffro2pt0.com:
The Digg Story Doesn't Sell Anymore — Muhammad Saleem posted an article on Techcrunch.com that goes over 9 different reasons on why the Digg story sells. Muhammad makes a series of points that I agree helped to propel Digg.com to success. However, the golden days of Digg.com are long gone.
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Life after Google, with millions — What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million? Would you retire, go to work every day at the company that made you rich, or chase other dreams? — That's the multimillion-dollar question for hundreds of early Googlers.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
USA Today:
Boston gets Comcast's TiVo-powered DVR — NEW YORK — TiVo aims to make life easy for its digital video recorder customers. But its journey to this potentially pivotal week was extraordinarily difficult. — After three years of painstaking work, Comcast, (CMCSA) the nation's largest cable provider …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
MacBook Air Unboxed, Compared to Sony VAIO — Here you have the first MacBook Air unboxing: iPhone-styled tiny packaging, minimalist and all in smooth black. Not only that, but they were allowed to compare it to another thin laptop, a Sony VAIO (fight!) Akiko Wada, a Japanese blogger …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista virtualization move opens real doors — Microsoft's decision to allow Home versions of Vista to run inside virtual machines may have far-reaching benefits in the coming years. — The initial market for such virtual Vista machines is likely to be among Mac users looking to run Windows …
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rim.com:
RIM Showcases BlackBerry Platform Enhancements at Lotusphere 2008 — Orlando, FL, Lotusphere 2008, Booth 516 - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced a series of updates for its market-leading BlackBerry® platform that include enhanced messaging and collaboration …
Nokia:
Nokia unveils two handsets that offer a range of useful features and colours aimed at consumers in emerging markets — Nokia Sharing Survey reveals mobile phone sharing on the rise — Espoo, Finland - Today, Nokia unveiled the Nokia 2600 classic and the Nokia 1209, two mobile handsets …
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Engadget Mobile, The Boy Genius Report, Newlaunches.com, IntoMobile, Gadgetell, Ubergizmo and Phone Scoop
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Oscars Live Stream Nominations — Just as they do every year, the Academy trotted out its Oscar nominees at the crack of dawn this morning, but this year had a twist. All of the announcements were streamed live on the web at Oscar.com. But like so many traditional media titans' web initiatives …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Shooting yourself in the foot: Time Warner's usage caps — Last week, we learned from a leaked memo that Time Warner Cable is preparing to roll out usage-based broadband service tiers to new customers in Beaumont, TX. The company has since confirmed its plans, with monthly bandwidth caps set at 5GB, 10GB, 20GB, and 40GB.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Laid-Back Layoffs at Yahoo? — There have been a plethora of reports over the last week about what is happening at Yahoo with relation to layoffs. — As regular readers of BoomTown know, cutting staff is one thing we have suggested as something many think the Internet giant should do more of …
