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Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Xbox 360 “Jasper” 65nm GPU in Production — Microsoft preps 65nm GPU for cooler Xbox 360s — Chip process evolution is a usual thing in a console's lifecycle, but rarely has it been as important as in the case of the Xbox 360. — Known for its relatively hardware fragility …
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Ken Liu / CENS.com:Microsoft Contracts Taiwanese Foundries to Build Latest XBox360 Chips
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Ewan Spence / All About Symbian:
dotMobi Buys Mowser For Mobile Web Integration — Congrats to Russ Beattie and Mike Rowehl, the guys behind Mowser. It may well have looked dead and buried a few weeks ago, but the service has been bought by the dotMobi consortium. Reporting on Dev.Mobi, James Pearce charts out the use of their new toy …
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James Pearce / dev.mobi:
dotMobi Loves Mowser — At long last we can announce some great news! dotMobi is acquiring the well-known Mowser service that provides content adaptation services for mobile. — We're very excited about this. Russell Beattie and Mike Rowehl are both very talented mobile gurus and they'll …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Tips For Dealing With Information Overload — I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots).
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Ends Hello — Google is shutting down Hello, Picasa's photo sharing service which was part of the Picasa acquisition back in 2004. On the program, Wikipedia writes: — Hello by Google's Picasa is [was] a free computer program that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs.
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Anders Bylund / Ars Technica:
Nokia aiming to reinvent itself as an “Internet company” — During Nokia's annual shareholder meeting yesterday, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo seemed to change the direction of the entire company. “Our goal is to act less like a traditional manufacturer, and more like an internet company,” Kallasvuo told his shareholders.
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Robert Andrews / mocoNews.net:Nokia Says ‘Less A Manufacturer, More An Internet Company’; Plans Share Buy-Back
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Ryan Spoon:
15 Websites / Services I'd Actually Pay For — One measure of a service's utility and stickiness is its ability to charge for usage. Consequently, I regularly find myself asking, “Is this important enough to me that I'd pay for it?” — Here are some of the services / sites where that answer is yes …
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
TechCrunch Nabs Syndication Deal With Washington Post — TechCrunch got a seal of approval from one of the stalwarts of newspaper journalism today. — The Washington Post said it would begin running TechCrunch stories in the tech section of its site. (It already publishes stories from paidContent.org and mocoNews.net.)
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Irwin Block / canada.com:
Apple offers $45 credit for Canadian owners of older iPods — Following two class-action lawsuits, Apple Canada Inc. is offering $45 credits to Canadian residents who own a new first-, second- or third-generation iPod purchased before June 24, 2004. — The proposed settlement …
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Antone Gonsalves / TechWeb:Apple Reportedly Offers $44 Credit To Canadian iPod Owners
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
AT&T yanks iPhone free Wi-Fi info from site — On-again free hotspot access now off-again — Computerworld) Only hours after posting information that indicated iPhone owners would receive free access to AT&T's public wireless hotspots, the company pulled all references to the service from its Web site.
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Chris Walters / Consumerist:
It's Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay — The cool thing about eBay's support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell …
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Move Suggests Not Reversing Yahoo Decision — Microsoft Corp. released potential proxy board members from their agreements to serve in the event it made a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc., following the software giant's decision last weekend to end its effort to buy the Internet company.
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WebProNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Tech Confidential, Joe Duck, paidContent.org and Tech Ticker
InfoWorld:
OpenOffice.org beta fails the Office 2007 test — I'm not embarrassed to admit it: I'm a big fan of Office 2007. I think Microsoft got a lot right with its latest release, starting with the ribbon interface and including any number of tweaks and improvements that make my day easier.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
The Happy Birthday Copyright Saga: Generating Millions On A Copyright That May Not Exist — from the but-would-anyone-test-it-in- court? dept — In the past we've joked about the (supposed) fact that the song “Happy Birthday” remains under copyright, due to a copyright originally held …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
House overwhelmingly passes controversial PRO-IP Act — The House of Representatives has approved the Pro-IP Act, a controversial legislative proposal that aims to impose stricter penalties for copyright infringement. The bill, which has strong support from the content industry, passed by a vote of 410 to 10.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
LIVEBLOGGING: Schmidt, Page, and Brin Happy About Failed Microsoft-Yahoo Deal — I'm sort of liveblogging a talk that Google honchos Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page is having with reporters before the company's annual meeting. I'll post their comments in chunks as it goes along... and clean it up later.
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Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Mashable!, CNET News.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Epicenter, Bits, paidContent.org and Forbes
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:Google addresses antitrust issue on Yahoo ad deal
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