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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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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
Intel Drops an ‘Atom’ Brand — The chip maker's new Atom brand includes its Diamondville chip for low-cost laptops and its Silverthorne processor for mobile Internet devices. — Intel's latest branding scheme is truly atomic. — Starting March 3, Intel will corral all its processors for MIDs …
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really. — I TOOK a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off. I was fully disconnected for 24 hours. — The reason for this change was a natural and predictable back-breaking straw.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It's a Deal — Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: the two sides are talking but they don't speak each other's language. A new venture involving a phone company may just add Pluto into the mix.
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 …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Offline Wars about to heat up? — Ryan Stewart (who works at Adobe) wonders if Microsoft is bringing an offline version of Silverlight out this week at Mix. — I'm hearing that Google is about to ship something major offline too. — So, for the next month we might hear “go offline” …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will RealNetworks Buy Scrabulous? — Scrabulous is like Danger Mouse's The Grey Album of Facebook Apps. Everyone loves it except the guys who own Scrabble (Mattel and Hasbro), the board game that inspired Scrabulous. — The legal troubles of the game cooked up by Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla …
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John Fontana / PC World:
Rules altered in OOXML standardization process — Rules changed on the fly to meet five-day deadline to discuss concerns with specification; final vote due in 30 days — ISO delegates working to standardize Open Office XML created new rules on the fly to cover the fact they failed …
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass — Sorry Ev and Biz and Jack, but they got your number over there at Pownce. — I've been asking Twitter to support payloads for months now, and now I have what I was asking for, but it came from Pownce, and it's beautifully implemented …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
After Hijacking Site, Scammers Move to Seize Shareaza Trademark — After taking control of Shareaza.com, imposters trying to pass themselves off as an open-source dev team have stepped up their action to destroy the GNU GPL licensed project. In an audacious move, lawyers representing Discordia Ltd …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose Can't Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can't Wait To Speak With a Human — On Friday, I moderated a fun panel at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami (see photo above). The basic premise was to try to come up with a compelling web app in 40 minutes.
