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Google CEO Backs Obama — Schmidt Expands Political Role by Hitting the Campaign Trail — Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling Mr. Schmidt's push for a greater voice in politics …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Let's Be Serious: Online Display Ads Will Fall Sharply In 2009 — For a year, we've listened to analysts passionately explain how online ad spending will power through any broader economic and advertising weakness. Eyeballs are moving online, this story went (goes), ad dollars will follow.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Intel shows off working Moorestown MID device — Intel on Monday showed off a prototype handheld based on Moorestown, its upcoming Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform designed to enable a new generation of ultra-thin, touchscreen devices with extensive battery life.
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Apple Ads About Microsoft Ads About Apple Ads About Microsoft — Apple released a couple of new “Get a Mac” ads today, and while I wouldn't usually bother to mention that here, these ones are noteworthy: They make direct reference to Microsoft's current $300 million ad campaign for Windows.
Mike Elgan / Computerworld Blogs:
Call it a ‘sub-subnotebook.’ New ‘PC’ is small as a cell phone! — SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — IMOVIO launched today a smaller alternative to a subnotebook — much smaller. The new iKIT is about the size of a PDA from ten years ago, but has a QWERTY keyboard and connects to the Internet at 3G speeds via your cell phone or Wi-Fi.
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Andria Cheng / MarketWatch:
Circuit City may shut stores to avoid filing: report — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Struggling electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. is mulling a plan to shut at least 150 stores and cut thousands of jobs to lower costs to avoid filing for bankruptcy protection, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Two Ways Yahoo Can Blow The Mass Firings — Now that Yahoo employees have had the pleasure of reading about their impending fate for weeks, management will reportedly finally announce the mass firings this week. The exact number has yet to be released—somewhere between 1500 and 3000 …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
MSI to launch 3.5G Wind netbook next month — Micro-Star International (MSI) is planning to launch the Wind U120 with a built-in 3.5G module in November this year. The netbook will feature Intel's Atom N270 processor, 1GB memory, 120GB hard drive and Windows XP and be priced around NT$18,000 …
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
CBS Tries to Make Online Viewing Social — Mel Brooks said the hardest thing to do was to make a person sitting alone in a room laugh out loud. Laughter is social, and that's important to consider as watching online video on your laptop or handheld device with headphones can be a pretty isolating experience.
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
We've Got Exclusive Details On New Comcast Speeds, Prices - Broader DOCSIS 3.0 Launch getting very close... Comcast will be shaking up their speed tiers as they deploy DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades, not only increasing speeds on standard tiers, but delivering new, 22Mbps/5Mbps and 50Mbps/10Mbps speed tiers.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica:
Microsoft gets patent for real-time f-bomb bleeping — Back in 2004 Microsoft applied for a patent for real-time censoring of audio streams, and now the USPTO has granted that patent. — As PC gamers have known for a long time, and Xbox gamers have known for a while …
Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
Intel Slashes Desktop, Server Processor Prices — In less than a week after reporting third-quarter financial results, Intel cut the prices on several of its high-end, Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo desktop processors. In addition, Intel dropped prices on some its older Pentium chips for desktops …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Hands on: Fennec alpha 1 puts Firefox on your handheld — Mozilla has announced the availability of the first Mobile Firefox alpha release. The project, which is codenamed Fennec, aims to bring the desktop Firefox browsing experience to mobile devices like MIDs and phone handsets.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Storm hitting Best Buy November 16th? — To be fair, that's what looks to be the in-stock date, not the street date as we're told. We got our hands on a print out of a Best Buy product sheet which clearly shows the BlackBerry Storm's store in-stock date.
InfoWorld:
Researchers log keystrokes from afar with an antenna — Computer keystrokes can be snooped from afar by detecting the slight electromagnetic radiation emitted when a key is pressed, according to new research previewed on Monday. — Other security experts have theorized keyboards were vulnerable …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
RIAA Calls Another Critic Vexatious After She Points Out Flaw In RIAA Logic — It appears that someone in the RIAA's legal team discovered the word “vexatious” lately and now likes to use it. First, the RIAA declared lawyer Ray Beckerman vexatious, and now it's trying to pin the same word …
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Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
RIM stock drops on poor Pearl Flip sales — Analysts from Pacific Crest Securities have issued a pessimistic outlook on the latest BlackBerry 8220 from T-Mobile, and as a result, RIM's stock has taken a dive down 10% to around $50. It's a bit of a double-whammy after the whole market took …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Q4 earnings: A guide to Apple's guidance — Apple guides conservatively - which is to say it low-balls its earnings and revenue numbers for the coming quarter so that it can blow them out of the water three months later. It's a game the company plays every quarter, but the market never seems to learn …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
MPAA slams EFF on RealDVD — The movie industry finally responded to accusations that it has filed suit to stop sales of RealDVD software as a means of maintaining control over those who make DVD players. — The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that advocates for the rights of Internet users …
Jessica Dolcourt / Download.com editors:
Opera Mobile's second beta supports widgets, Symbian UIQ — There's been a lot of activity this week in the world of mobile browsers. On Friday, Mozilla introduced an alpha build for Fennec, the very-much-in-development mobile browser that will grow up to become Firefox for Mobile.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Judge Allows Kentucky To Seize Domain Names — Last month, we wrote about a judge allowing Kentucky's governor to seize 141 domain names that were somehow associated with gambling sites under a bizarre interpretation of Kentucky law. Pretty much everyone involved admits …
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Chris Mellor / The Register:
SanDisk's NAND flash white knight — Toshiba deal could help keep Samsung at bay — SanDisk is gaining $1bn from a Toshiba manufacturing capacity purchase deal to help prod unwanted bidder Samsung into raising its bid price. At least, that's one interpretation of a pretty darn opaque deal.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
SearchMe Adds Music Search With Unlimited Streaming Via Imeem Widgets — Okay, this has to be the coolest hack of the week. Visual search engine SearchMe has just added a music search tab that brings back results with free, legal, unlimited full-song streams and cover art you can flip through.
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