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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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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.
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Rachael King / Business Week:
Building a Brand with Widgets — The customizable bits of software on Facebook and other social networking sites are the latest trend in viral marketing. But are widgets here to stay? — The cards were stacked against A&E Television Network as it tried to generate positive buzz about its new series, Parking Wars.
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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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Wowza! TNS Acquires Compete for $75 Million - $150 Million — Tracking service Compete has been acquired by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres plc) out of London. Initial acquisition price is $75 million with an additional $75 million paid out over 2008-2010 based on meeting certain revenue targets.
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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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Acquia Dresses Up Drupal for Corporate Users — Acquia, a North Andover, Mass.-based startup, is announcing a supported product using Drupal, the open-source programming language that underlies many of the community aspects on the web, from sites such as Fast Company to The Onion.
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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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John Hagel / Edge Perspectives with John Hagel:
Shift Happens - The Future of Advertising — In a world of rapid change, shift piles upon shift. One can get thoroughly confused and draw the wrong conclusions by focusing on one change while losing sight of the shifts that are coming up. — Advertising is a case in point.
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 …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ASUS busts out 7-inch R70 UMPC at CeBIT — It's big, thick, lacking any sort of keyboard and not all that pretty. But if you're aching for ASUS' next gen UMPC to cut loose from the product chute then the R70a is it. Besides toting a 7-inch display with Vista tucked inside a 120GB disk …
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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