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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 …
Nokia:
T-Mobile and Nokia introduce Nokia 6650 exclusively for T-Mobile customers — Espoo, Finland - Today, at CeBIT 2008, T-Mobile and Nokia announced the Nokia 6650, a stylish and easy to use device optimized for use with T-Mobile services. Available exclusively for T-Mobile International customers …
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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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tnsglobal.com:
TNS extends digital capability through acquisition of Compete — London — TNS extends digital capability through acquisition of Compete — Taylor Nelson Sofres plc (TNS), a world leader in market information and insight, announces that it has agreed to acquire Compete, Inc. …
John Markoff / Bits:
Reading Steve Jobs — Second guessing Steve Jobs — or actually first guessing — is Silicon Valley's most popular spectator sport. Dozens of Web rumor sites pour over every one of his pronouncements as if he were the Pope, looking for product and strategy hints.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Facebook's German version may not impress the locals after all — EUROPE: Facebook launches in German this week thanks to 2,000 users who helped translate it for freee using a Facebook application which also now covers Spanish and French. User can set their language to German …
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Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:Faux Facebook fatigue
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Actual Performance, Perceived Performance — If you've used Windows Vista, you've probably noticed that Vista's file copy performance is noticeably worse than Windows XP. I know it's one of the first things I noticed. Here's the irony— Vista's file copy is based on an improved algorithm …
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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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Bonnie Cha / CNET News.com:
TomTom GO 930, GO 730 make their debut — Today, TomTom added two new models to its GO series of portable navigation systems: the TomTom GO 930 and the TomTom GO 730. Both GPS devices feature enhanced user interfaces with new icons and a technology called Alfa Blending that claims to deliver smoother graphics.
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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 …
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Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Blog:
The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud — I had no idea the Hubble telescope could see only 12 billion years into the past. — Frankly, I'd never really thought about telescopes looking into the past until Dr. Michael Norman, a researcher from UCSD gave me a basic education in astronomy …
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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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards — GALWAY, Ireland—PortoMedia is probably the only start-up in the world inspired by the movie Carlito's Way. — Company founder Chris Armstrong explains: Four years ago, he set out to his local DVD store to rent a movie. First, he stopped at the ATM to get cash.
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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.
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Sun hires two key Python developers — San Francisco - Sun Microsystems is looking to bolster its stance in the Python programming realm with the hiring of two prominent developers in this space. — The company today is announcing the hiring of Ted Leung, long-time Python developer …
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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.
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