Top Items:
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Adobe Launches Online Office Suite and New Flash-Enabled Acrobat 9 — Back in March, we said Adobe was slowly building an online empire. Today, that news turns out to be true. Adobe is has just launched their version of an online office suite available at Acrobat.com, complete with word processor …
Discussion:
VoIP Watch
RELATED:
Microsoft:
Microsoft Live Search Toolbar to Be Distributed on 2009 HP Consumer PCs — North American distribution deal also includes Live Search browser defaults, custom toolbar based on Microsoft Silverlight. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP …
RELATED:
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Microsoft Live Search Toolbar to be Shipped with 2009 HP PC's — Microsoft has announced a partnership with HP where the Live Search toolbar will be distributed on 2009 PCs. The toolbar will appear on consumer PCs shipped to customers in the U.S. and Canada.
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Today's Hot Meme Comes To Us From Plurk — Plurk is a newish microblogging service that is spreading like wildfire through the first adopter community today. — According to Plurk, the service is “a really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life …
RELATED:
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:I Like Plurk Better Than Twitter, But Should I Even Bother?
Discussion:
/Message
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Chip Makers Put Rush on Mobile Gadgets — Pocket-Size Devices Being Pushed by Intel Spark Product Scramble — Intel Corp. has been heavily promoting a new breed of pocket-size portable devices as a future market for its chips. Its competitors now hope to reap the benefits.
Discussion:
Gizmodo, Reuters, MarketingShift, BloggingStocks, Unwired View, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer, Ubergizmo and Digg
RELATED:
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's Robbie Bach ‘thought about killing’ Surface — Microsoft's Surface computing is the kind of Buck Rogers' technology that can dazzle consumers and boost a company's “cool” factor. But in an interview last week, Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of Entertainment & Devices Division …
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Turner Forms Ad Net: Links Sales for Web Holdings — The cable-centric company said it plans to begin packaging both display and video ad inventory for advertisers from 19 different Web sites. — Turner is pasting together its vast collection of Web properties to form a sizable …
IDG News Service:
Asus Shows off Atom-based Eee PC — Asustek Computer on Monday offered a preview of the Eee PC 901, the next version of its popular ultraportable laptop that is based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor. — The Eee PC 901 was on display at the WiMax Expo, which is being held alongside Taipei's annual Computex exhibition.
Discussion:
Engadget, InfoWorld, DailyTech, Boing Boing Gadgets, Gizmodo, Electronista, SlashGear, I4U News and UMPCPortal
RELATED:
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
NetSuite acquires OpenAir — NetSuite said Monday that it has acquired OpenAir, which provides on-demand professional services automation software, for $26 million in cash. — The tuck-in acquisition(statement)-all 56 OpenAir employees will continue to work at NetSuite-will give the company …
Cate Doty / New York Times:
Is the Main Character Missing? Maybe Not. — When Dan Walsh, a 33-year-old technology manager in Dublin, started posting doctored versions of the comic strip “Garfield” on his blog in February, he thought he might amuse a few friends. — Instead, his site on Tumblr started receiving …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
The Humans Behind the Google Money Machine — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If Google were the United States government, the data that streams onto Nicholas Fox's laptop every day would be classified as top secret. — Mr. Fox is among a small group of Google employees who keep a watchful eye …
PrimeNewswire:
NASDAQ is the First U.S. Stock Exchange to Facilitate Free, Universal Access to Real-time Stock Data CNBC, Google, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Xignite to Deliver New Service — The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that The NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ(r)) …
louisgray.com:
Are Blog Comments Really Conversations, or Are They Just Replies? — The issue of comment fragmentation has been rearing up every other week or so since the initial discussion flared up in early April, but of late, I've been thinking about the purpose of comments in the first place.
Kate Greene / Technology Review:
The Future of Mobile Social Networking — IPhone users will soon be able to enjoy Whrrl, software that combines activity recommendations with real-time location data. — When Steve Jobs strides onstage at Apple's annual developers conference on June 9, many will be expecting fireworks.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Semiconductor sales up 5.9 percent in April — Semiconductor sales grew 5.9 percent worldwide in April, a healthy clip given the current sluggish economy, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday. — Chip sales rose to $21.2 billion in April, up from $20.1 billion a year ago and flat with the previous month.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
From NeXT to Cocoa — This is the third part of a four-part series describing how one developer became disillusioned with the Windows platform and was reinvigorated by the bright lights of Mac OS X. — In part 1 of this series, I described how misfortune and adversity left Apple …
Discussion:
Digg
