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6:45 AM ET, March 3, 2008

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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.
Discussion: O'Flaherty
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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 …
Discussion: Gawker
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DailyTech:
Thinking Small: New Intel Architecture Champions Sub 1 Watt x86  —  10 Watts, 4 Watts — why stop there?  Intel debuts 0.6 Watt x86 processor  —  A flurry of announcements and roadmaps from Intel this week shed light on the company's 5.5 Watt Penryn and the 4 Watt Diamondville processors.
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:   Intel chooses ‘Atom’ name for new chips
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 …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Team Think
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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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone gets native P2P torrent software  —  Your iPhone plays audio.  Your iPhone plays video.  Until now, you had to sync those suckers.  Today, the insanely brilliant iPhone Hacker core announced a preliminary version of a Transmission Peer-to-Peer client for iPhone.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Digg
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wickedpsyched.net:
Torrent P2P torrent on the iPhone, a sad tale of woe, misery, abject failure... and then eventually success!  —  NOTE: PLEASE!  What ever you do, don't attempt this on EDGE kids!  —  tcp4 0 0 10.146.247.xxx.50278 dsl51B7DBDF.fixi.11653 ESTABLISHED
Discussion: IntoMobile
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 …
Discussion: Inquirer and Engadget
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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Dan Farber / CNET News.com:   Microsoft's supersized data center plans
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 …
Discussion: Mashable!
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.
Discussion: michael parekh on IT
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write 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.
Discussion: The Stalwart
 
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Dan Harrelson / Adaptive Path:
The Death of Mobile Applications?
Discussion: Mobile Opportunity
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
First spam felony conviction upheld: no free speech to spam
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA plays both sides of the street in music royalty debate
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
After Hijacking Site, Scammers Move to Seize Shareaza Trademark
Discussion: Digg
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It's a Deal
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Offline Wars about to heat up?
Discussion: Beet.TV, Ryan Stewart and WinBeta
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose Can't Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can't Wait To Speak With a Human
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will RealNetworks Buy Scrabulous?
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really.