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Nick / Rough Type:
Crash: Amazon's S3 utility goes down — There are reports that Amazon's Simple Storage Service - called S3 - suffered a “massive” outage this morning, beginning at about 7:30 am eastern time. At 9:03, an Amazon official posted a note in the service's customer forum, saying, “We can confirm the high error rate you're experiencing.
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Susan / Check Out Blog:
Wal-Mart Chooses a Hi Def Platform — Back in December I posted a Blog that said “HD or BD - Does Anyone Care.” I only received one response, I was very disappointed. :( But following the news from Best Buy and Netflix, everyone's asking “what about Wal-Mart?” — Ok, so are you ready...Wal-Mart is going Blu.
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Engadget, Telegraph Blogs, DailyTech, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, BetaNews, Engadget HD, The Raw Feed, Zatz Not Funny! and Digg
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Hollywood Reporter:
Toshiba to drop HD DVD, sources say — Company says no decision has been made — The format war has turned into a format death watch. — Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash …
New York Post:
BOARD BUCKS YANG — YAHOO! DEAL CONCERN — While Yahoo! chief Jerry Yang desperately seeks an alternative to Microsoft's $44.6 billion hostile takeover, an independent group of Yahoo!'s board members are taking the lead in shaping the company's future. — The informal group is being led by Yahoo! …
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Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News.com, Computerworld, Mashable!, WebProBlog and Valleywag
David Benjamin / EE Times:
Users' love affair with iPhone stumps Mobile World panel — BARCELONA, Spain — A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best recent advance in the mobile telecommunications user space came …
Business Week:
Building the Perfect Laptop — The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo's bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops — “Phyllis! Get me one of those interoffice mail envelopes!” — It was just after lunchtime on Jan. 15, and Peter Hortensius was storming through the cubicles …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Lenovo X300 vs. Apple MacBook Air... Fight! — As long as Lenovo is drawing a direct comparison between their own X300 and the MacBook Air, we thought we'd go ahead and put them side-by-side for you. So dear reader, how do you define perfection?
Yahoo! Video Blog:
Welcome to the All-New Yahoo! Video — Hey Yahoo! Video viewers and creators (and those that do both), — Notice anything different about Yahoo! Video? As you can tell we've really changed things around here. And it's much more than a facelift. It's an all-new site and I'm really excited about it.
Dieter Bohn / WMExperts:
AT&T Tilt ROM Update Tomorrow — We have it from reliable sources that AT&T will be released a ROM update tomorrow, February 15th. The update isn't going to add any significant new features — unless “working properly” counts as a feature. It's not Windows Mobile 6.1 or a magical driver to speed up the display, either.
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Bradley Horowitz / Elatable:
On Leaving Yahoo... Leaving Yahoo. — Yes, it's true. I've left Yahoo. — It was somewhat overwhelming sifting through the barrage of reactions over the last 48 hours: “Thanks for all you've done”, “How could you?!”, “Congrats!”, etc. It's fascinating to watch people react.
Business Wire:
Best Buy Updates Fiscal 2008 EPS Guidance to Range of $3.05 to $3.10 — Continued market share growth supports plan for approximately 140 new stores in fiscal 2009 — MINNEAPOLIS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Based on lower-than-expected revenue growth in fiscal January coupled with its near-term outlook …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
An Outsider's Flawed View Of Silicon Valley — Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman wrote a blog post a couple of days ago comparing Silicon Valley unfavorably to the Seattle tech scene. — I spend a lot of time in both places, and I think some of his observations are correct (people here compete to the death, people there go hiking).
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Redfin Corporate Blog, Scobleizer, The Drama 2.0 Show, John Cook's Venture Blog and Susan Mernit's Blog
Louise Story / New York Times:
4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet — Four large newspaper companies are joining forces to sell advertisements on the Internet, hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money. — Each of the four companies …
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Dataportability.org video — This is the video I did for Dataportability.org:
Royal Pingdom:
Bebo experiences increase in downtime — The social network site Bebo has for the last three months been experiencing a trend of increasing downtime. The popular social networking service had only five minutes of downtime in November and 30 minutes in December, but in January that increased to five hours and 20 minutes.
