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Russell Beattie / Russell Beattie's Weblog:
Mowser.mobi ! — Mowser has a new home! — It took a few weeks to work out the details, but pretty much on the day that I announced Mowser was shutting, the guys at dotMobi got in touch with us interested in the service. Today is the official announcement that they've acquired the site and technology …
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Between the Lines, GigaOM, HipMojo.com, All About Symbian, RCR Wireless News and Ewan Spence's All New Musings
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Circuit City Board of Directors Authorizes Exploration of Strategic Alternatives to Enhance Shareholder Value — Company Agrees to Allow Blockbuster and Icahn to Conduct Due Diligence — Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC - News) announced today that it has retained Goldman Sachs & Co …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:Circuit City Opens Door To Blockbuster; Icahn May Buy Chain Himself
Bloomberg:
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters — Apple Inc. agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to as many as 2.3 million Macintosh computer owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark. — Customers who bought certain replacement adapters for PowerBook …
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One More Thing, Infinite Loop, MacRumors, TechSpot, The Apple Blog, MacUser and The Mac Observer
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone graphic: Apple's new map of the world — Like many Apple (AAPL) watchers, the investors at IMO's Apple Finance Forum have been closely following this week's flurry of announcements of iPhone deals with carriers around the world. One of the contributors to the forum …
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Hsu Chuang Khoo / Reuters:
Britain's Blinkx flies on Google, Newscorp bid talk — LONDON (Reuters) - Shares of British video search engine firm Blinkx surged 50 percent to a seven-month high on Friday, on talk that Internet giant Google and media conglomerate NewsCorp may bid for the firm.
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Jesper / Jesper's Blog:
Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3? — Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue. — Updated May 9 to add information on possible additional issues as well as instructions for using the recovery console. — Last night WSUS deployed XP Service Pack 3 …
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9000 to be announced May 12th at WES 2008 — You heard it here first, people! The much-awaited BlackBerry 9000 will be announced on May 12th, the first day of WES 2008 in Orlando, FL. There will even be booths setup so y'all can demo the device to your heart's delight.
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Unwired View, Gizmodo, CrackBerry.com blogs, CrunchGear, BB Geeks, Engadget Mobile, BlackBerry Cool, PalmAddicts and IntoMobile
BBC:
Serious playtime — For many years the average video gamer has been male and aged 24 or more. — These young men typically have the disposable income and time needed to support a gaming habit and, it has to be said, many of the titles being released were designed to appeal to such folk.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit — Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. — There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants …
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.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com — The most pressing question for Google (GOOG) shareholders is what product will drive the company's next growth boom as the search product cycle ends. Most likely candidate? Not sexy mobile or video. Just boring old display ads.
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Matthaus Krzykowski / VentureBeat:
Analysis: MySpace and Facebook challenge mobile-only social networks — Ask somebody who works at one of the 47-some mobile social networks in the world about the threat of their millions of users switching to use the mobile versions of MySpace, Facebook and other large computer-based social networks …
Elizabeth Montalbano / IDG News Service:
Microsoft to Appeal $1.3 Billion EU Fine — Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday. — Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said via e-mail Friday that the company …
Aidan Henry / ReadWriteWeb:
The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model — The perennial debate surrounding Twitter's revenue model continues to live on. The micro-blogging service has succeeded in building a strong, loyal following, but failed to capitalize on it. Such a scenario, which lacks a revenue model …
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 …
Financial Times:
Blinkx in focus over Nasdaq — Blinkx , the video search group that was spun out of software specialist Autonomy, was the standout small cap feature yesterday. — Its shares jumped 38.9 per cent to 25p as rumours circulated that Blinkx, which yesterday launched its new online video indexing technology …
