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PR Newswire:
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
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:Circuit City retains Goldman Sachs to explore ‘strategic alternatives’
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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 …
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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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Gizmodo, Unwired View, CrunchGear, CrackBerry.com blogs, BB Geeks, BlackBerry Cool and IntoMobile
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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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 …
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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Open Gardens
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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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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Office Sustained Engineering:
Office 2007 SP1 releasing to Automatic Update — As we noted when we released Office 2003 Service Pack 3 via Microsoft Update (MU), we are committed to providing at least 30 days notice before making Office service packs available via Microsoft Update automatic distribution (for Vista and XP).
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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 …
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 …
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Mark Evans
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Piracy now “public nuisance” in Los Angeles County — Piracy has been called many things, but Los Angeles County is adding a new appellation to the list: public nuisance. As first reported by Wired, the county's Board of Supervisors has just adopted a new ordinance (PDF) …
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 …
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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GamePro.com, CENS.com, CrunchGear, I4U News, TECH.BLORGE.com, Engadget, TechRadar.com and Xbox 360 Fanboy
Josh / HP 2133 Guide:
New Mini-Note Models coming on Monday and Thursday? — A very nice young lady from the middle east got to chatting with an HP rep today and sent her the following: … The rep also said he had not heard about any user configurable options, so I'm not sure what's up with that.
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rumor: .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0? — A little birdy told us about some unusual happenings at Apple. According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expects to occur at WWDC 08).
