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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
When Will We Have Our First Valleywag Suicide? — Today I read all the sordid details about the alleged sexual encounter between a notable technology visionary and a woman who appears to be looking for as much publicity as possible. Where did I read it? On the Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
After Suicide, Blog Insults Are Debated — Advertising blogs churn out some of the Web's more scathing, and personal, vitriol. Last week, the bloggers absorbed some body blows of their own. — Visitors to AgencySpy and AdScam, two sharp-tongued blogs written by advertising industry insiders …
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Intel:
Intel Announces Intel® Atom™ Brand for New Family of Low-Power Processors — Intel's Smallest Processor Built Using World's Smallest Transistors Designed for New Internet Devices, Low-Cost PCs — The Intel® Atom™ processor will be the name for a new family …
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George Ou, dailywireless.org, CrunchGear, Engadget, MacRumors, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, GigaOM and Gadget Lab
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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:Intel Drops an ‘Atom’ Brand
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Silicon Valley Watcher, New York Times, Inquirer, Electronista, TGDaily.com, Technology Questions, Between the Lines and Gizmodo
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Expand Microsoft Online Services for Businesses of All Sizes — Exchange Online and SharePoint Online enter beta. — Monday from the annual Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., will announce that the company will offer Microsoft Online Services to businesses of all sizes.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I Really Hope Microsoft Has More Than This — Excitement rose this weekend with the rumor, kicked off by Nick Carr, that Microsoft may be releasing web versions of Office and other software. Software and storage would be moving to the cloud. — But now I fear that the rumor may have been wrong …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites — Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts
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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Nine Inch Nails Pushes Onward In Digital Music Distribution Experimentation — Continuing their ongoing digital music experimentations, Nine Inch Nails has released a new instrumental album online named Ghosts I-IV. — Like Radiohead's In Rainbows before it, you can choose the price you pay …
Nick / Rough Type:
Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push — I've received a few more hints about the big cloud-computing initiative Microsoft may be about to announce, perhaps during the company's Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this coming week. One of the cornerstones of the strategy, I've heard …
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Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Faux Facebook fatigue — Michael Parekh points to the Youtube video below and calls it further evidence of Facebook fatigue. — I disagree. I'm not a diehard Facebook fanboy, but I've done enough consumer internet product management to know that you can't ask users what they think, you have to watch what they do.
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Enterprise Community Provider Mzinga Swallows Propsero — Burlington, MA-based Mzinga, which provides social networking, community, and e-learning solutions for the enterprise, is today announcing that it has acquired Prospero. Prospero is itself a provider of enterprise community solutions …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:More Consolidation in the White Label Social Networking Space …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
MacBook Air aflutter: demand stays strong, sold out often — It might not be the iPhone, but the MacBook Air is selling much stronger than many of us would have guessed. After a full month of being on the market, the Macbook Air is still a difficult commodity to obtain in some markets …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books — SAN FRANCISCO — Some of the largest book publishers in the world are stripping away the anticopying software on digital downloads of audio books. — The trend will allow consumers who download audio books to freely transfer …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write an Unfiltered Blog — Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart's biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista. — “Is it really all that and a bag of chips?” he wrote on his blog.
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