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Retail Sites Crash as Shopping Season Opens — Several retail Web sites experienced technical problems Friday, the latest reminder of one of the Internet's oldest rules: If you encourage people to visit your Web site, make sure the site can handle the extra traffic.
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Black Friday traffic takes down Sears.com — SEATTLE (AP) — Sears.com was inaccessible to U.S. shoppers for two hours on Friday in what was the most notable Web hiccup of the holiday gift-buying season's official start. — Other sites, including Amazon.com Inc., experienced minor slowdowns …
Planetbeing / Linux on the iPhone:
LINUX ON THE IPHONE — Linux on the iPhone! — I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near? — When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has decided to throw good money after bad-as in nearly $1 billion bad-by buying almost seven million more Yahoo shares, according to a regulatory filing.
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Dyan Machan / SmartMoney.com:
Jeff Bezos on the Future of Amazon.com — IN THE PAST decade, Jeff Bezos's online bookstore has exploded into an enterprise that sells everything — snowplows, canned goods, you name it. More recently, Amazon.com (AMZN) has ventured into selling its own back-office software to other e-commerce businesses …
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Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
New iStorez site gives users the scoop on Black Friday — iStorez, the web site that aggregates specials, newsletters and coupons from online stores to help its users hunt for deals, recently unveiled its new swanky look — and could prove a prime resource for Black Friday (and subsequent holiday) shoppers.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel rethinks Netbooks: ‘Fine for an hour’ but... The Netbook, take two: When Advanced Micro Devices said it wasn't going to focus on Netbooks, as Intel and its partners defined them, maybe it was on to something. — Intel is re-evaluating the Netbook market as possibly not The Next Big Thing.
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Amy Gahran / E-Media Tidbits:
Responsible Tweeting: Mumbai Provides Teachable Moment — This morning when I checked the news about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, I saw many people on Twitter reporting that the Indian police or government had asked Twitter users to please stop reporting on police and military operations related to the attacks.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nikon outs D3x in own Pro magazine — Uh, oops. Sorry Nikon but your D3x is now even less of a mystery. According to your own Pro magazine, the D3x will sport an FX-format, 24.5 megapixel sensor shooting 5fps at full resolution or 7fps at a reduced 10 megapixels.
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Clearwire completes massive Sprint merger, gets $3.2 billion infusion — Clearwire and Sprint Nextel announced that they've finally completed the merger of their wireless broadband companies, a process that began in May. — Under the deal, Clearwire takes over Sprint's WiMax assets …
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Forbes:
Businessmen of the Year — China's Yang Yuanqing and American William Amelio pursue a different PC strategy for Lenovo, challenging mindsets and market dips along the way. — Forbes Asia's first such honorees from a Chinese company are actually not to be found in China in the normal course of business.
Dong Ngo / Crave: The gadget blog:
Unlocking iPhone 3Gs—the Vietnamese way — Editor's note: CNET editor and Crave contributor Dong Ngo is spending the next month in his homeland of Vietnam, and plans to file occasional dispatches chronicling his impressions of how technology has permeated the culture there.
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Joe Gould / NY Daily News:
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede — A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said. — The 34-year-old worker …
Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk:
MSI WindBox unveiled … In France MSI has unveiled a new product into its Wind range that makes the comical moniker even more amusing. — The “WindBox” is a low-cost, Asus Eee Box rivalling desktop PC - or nettop as these machines are increasingly being labelled - with a fairly unique twist.
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Cyber-attack on Defense Department computers raises concerns — The ‘malware’ strike, thought to be from inside Russia, hit combat zone computers and the U.S. Central Command overseeing Iraq and Afghanistan. The attack underscores concerns about computer warfare.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Put change.gov Under Revision Control! — Last week, the New York Times wrote about Changes at change.gov: … The changes, as it turned out, were mostly to tone down the partisan politics of the policy documents as published during the campaign. But the lesson remains …
