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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Tough times. Tough decisions. — As you will no doubt know we are all operating in some very challenging and uncertain times right now. It's never easy to address topics like this but as a company we have felt the need to get Seesmic ready for what most are anticipating to be a bleak economic outlook …
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
YouTube Adds Full-Length CBS Content — Select Cable and Network Shows Will Contain In-stream Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — YouTube is getting its Hulu on. The Google-owned video site has partnered with CBS to air full-length TV shows, starting today.
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Hungry for more? YouTube now serving full-length TV dinners — We are starting to test full-length programming on YouTube, beginning with some fan favorites requested by you. Let's see if you know your full-length TV ... You asked to be beamed up with Scotty, to devise a world-saving weapon using …
Richard Behar / Fox News:
World Bank Under Cyber Siege in ‘Unprecedented Crisis’ — The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
11 troubled Web companies: The next Kozmos? — “We are going to lose some good companies.” That's the warning cry from investors in tech these days. — Some we won't miss, of course: the lame, me-too, or single-featured “products” masquerading as businesses. But be prepared.
Waxy.org:
Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey — Like the rest of the world, I've been completely obsessed with the presidential election and nonstop news coverage. My drug of choice? Gabe Rivera's Memeorandum, the political sister site of Techmeme …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Memorandum Colors: X-Ray Glasses for Political Bias in Blogs
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Apple:
MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues — Symptoms — In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Zuckerberg: Be patient, we're opening up — LONDON—These are tough times for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The economy is in the tank, Madison Avenue still doesn't have full faith in the social network's ability to generate ad revenue, and entertainment-industry analysts estimate …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Employees Watch In Horror As 60 Percent Of Their Stock Options Drown — The entire stock market is taking another drubbing today, and Google is no exception. Its shares tried to rally in the morning, but are now trading below the $329 they closed at yesterday.
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Gates dethroned as tech's richest get thumped — Larry Ellison searches sofa for change — It seems that tech's billionaires are sharing the privations of ordinary citizens, whose savings are vanishing and pensions becoming worthless as stock markets tumble.
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Likely Feature List of New MacBooks — Pictures: Fantasic mockups by Miguel Suárez — This is guesswork, but here's the likely feature list of the new MacBooks due October 14: — * Penryn Core 2 Duo chips: 2.4GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz, and 3.06GHz. — * 2GB of RAM (MacBook); 4GB of RAM (MacBook Pro).
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week — It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. — (Update: I originally said “Silverlight 2.0 in this post. But I've heard from a couple of Softies they are calling the next version plain old 2.)
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Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Google Readies iPhone Ad Options — NEW YORK As Apple continues to flood the market with more iPhones, Google is readying new options for advertisers to target iPhone owners directly. — In meetings with agencies, Google has presented a new option to show different ads in response to searches made from iPhones.
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dailymobile.se:
Unboxing Pictures: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 — Oh yeah! Its finally out in Sweden! Enjoy the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 unboxing pictures! — About Sony Ericsson Xperia — The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is an arc slider mobile phone delivering a premium, converged mobile experience …
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Chip and pin scam ‘has netted millions from British shoppers’ — A sophisticated “chip and pin” scam run by criminal gangs in China and Pakistan is netting millions of pounds from the bank accounts of British shoppers, America's top cyber security official has revealed.
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Electronista:
MS may have “standing offer” to buy RIM — The recent plunge in Research in Motion's shares may help trigger a takeover by Microsoft, Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek says. The financial expert believes that Microsoft has a “standing offer” to buy out the BlackBerry maker at a value …
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Wojtek Dabrowski / Reuters:Plunge in RIM's shares could attract takeover bid
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Chris Gaither / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Tim O'Reilly to software developers: Get serious — Computer-book publishing magnate Tim O'Reilly is urging young geeks to stop making software that lets you throw sheep at your friends on Facebook or drink beer on your iPhone and to instead start making a difference in the world.
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Ellison Says Oracle Is Eyeing Acquisitions — Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison said his company may take advantage of the slumping economy to acquire other software companies at a buyer's price. — “Acquisitions that we have been looking at for some time may now be more attractive …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Team Cyprus Move To Undo “The Video” — A group of twenty or so tech elite were partying 1999-style in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of the Journey song “Don't Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Enough Is Enough — Has Apple (AAPL) hit rock bottom? — Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner thinks maybe it has. This morning, Reiner repeated his Outperform rating on the stock, though he cut his price target to $145 from a no longer realistic $213. He's also trimmed estimates …
Dan Raywood / SC Magazine UK:
WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection — WiFi is no longer secure enough to protect wireless data. — Global Secure Systems has said that a Russian's firm's use of the latest NVidia graphics cards to accelerate WiFi ‘password recovery’ times by up to an astonishing 10,000 per cent proves …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Fast Company publisher to lay off 20 — Times are tough all over. That's the excuse bosses are now using for cleaning house, making hard decisions they were too timid to execute in bubblier times. We've just heard that Mansueto Ventures, the publisher of Fast Company and Inc. magazines, is laying off 20 people.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Yahoo Activist: “I Sold My YHOO Stake” — No surprise here. Yahoo shareholder dissatisfaction is following a trend line inverse to the company's plummeting share price. In fact, the price has dipped so low that Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson-the dissident Yahoo investor who agitated …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Anonymizing Google's Server Log Data — How's It Going? — Back in March 2007, Google promised to begin anonymizing log data to better protect user privacy. That kicked off a wave of privacy pledges from competing search engines. In addition, by agreeing to limit itself …
Kim Dixon / Reuters:
FCC Likely to Recommend Unlicensed Spectrum Use — The Federal Communications Commission will soon release a report on the feasibility of opening up unused spectrum, or white spaces, for use with wireless broadband. The FCC engineering report will share results of several years of data collection …
