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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
CBS Interactive/CNET Re-Org: The Complete Memo — CBS paid $1.8 billion for CNET last summer, and today it is dealing with the consequences: A re-org and layoffs. — CBS execs won't release specifics on the firings and wont't say how many people were let go altogether.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How Many Bodies Exactly Is CBS Interactive Trying To Hide? Try “275-ish.” — The pink slips were passed out on Thursday throughout the various business duchies that make up CBS Interactive—CNET, CBS.com, CBSNews,com, CBSSports.com, BNET, GameSpot, TV.com, last.fm, and CHOW.
PR Newswire:
RadioShack Introduces 3G Netbook Utilizing AT&T's Mobile Broadband Service to Help People Stay Connected — Innovative portable notebook technology for $99.99 when combined with qualifying AT&T mobile broadband service — FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec 11, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Acer Aspire One goes official on AT&T's 3G network — Hey, remember that Acer Aspire One equipped with on-board 3G we spied in a Radio Shack ad the other day? Well guess what? It's real — and we've got the PR to prove it. Just as expected, the netbook is being offered for the teensy price of $99.99 …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Computing Without a Whirring Drive — SHERMAN BLACK, a senior vice president at Seagate Technology, a leader in hard drive manufacturing, lies awake at night worrying that his teenagers are part of a new generation of computer users who don't care if their data is stored locally or in the Internet “cloud.”
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Mike Eckel / Associated Press:
OMG: Russia entrepreneur looks for $$$ from ;-) — How much would you pay for a ;-)? A Russian businessman has trademarked the emoticon — or combination of punctuation marks — used to convey a wink in text messages and e-mail. — Oleg Teterin, president of the mobile ad company Superfone …
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
NFL Launches “Game Rewind”, Every Game On-Demand In HD With No Commercials — Today, the NFL launched a new video on-demand service called Game Rewind that lets you watch every NFL game in HD quality, with no commercials. The service, which costs $19.99 for the season or $4.99 for a week pass …
Daily Yomiuri Online:
Images read from human brain — OSAKA—In a world first, a research group in Kyoto Prefecture has succeeded in processing and displaying optically received images directly from the human brain. — The group of researchers at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International …
Nick Heath / silicon.com:
UK police: ‘We need crime breathalysers for PCs’ — Cyber cops chase next gen digital forensics — UK police are hoping to one day develop a breathalyser-style tool for computers that could instantly flag up illegal activity on any PC it's attached to. — Detective superintendent Charlie …
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia takes on Huawei in connecting laptops — HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia plans to tap the surging market for connecting laptops to wireless networks taking on market leader Huawei Technologies, its senior official said. — Nokia will start to ship …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update may be around the corner — Apple this week is believed throwing the finishing touches on Mac OS X 10.5.6, the last planned maintenance and security update for Leopard during the 2008 calendar year. — Developers on Wednesday were reportedly equipped …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
As Chrome leaves beta, here's an update on the Mac version — Google officially announced that its web browser, Google Chrome, has left beta testing status behind today. That's great news, the browser is amazing. But there's a problem — it still only runs on Windows.
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Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Now Flickr is hit by Yahoo layoffs — Thought the Yahoo layoffs were over? Not quite... today it seems that George Oates, a high-profile member of the Flickr team and one of the site's early employees, was told that she was being given the chop too. She's recently been in Australia …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Lady Blog Network BlogHer Gives Bloggers a Pay Cut — BlogHer, a women's ad network/publishing network and conference organizer, is cutting the amount it pays to its blog partners by 10 percent. That's really sort of a double cut, since the blog owners/writers in its network get paid based …
Peter Kaplan / Federal Trade Commission:
Sony BMG Music Settles Charges Its Music Fan Websites Violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act — Company Will Pay $1 Million Civil Penalty — Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Sony Music) has agreed to pay $1 million as part of a settlement to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The “capital calls” crisis: separating fact from fiction — Recently, reports started circulating that Ambric, a chip company that enables high-performance computing, has shuttered after failing to raise money from its investors. — Ambric's fate was sealed by a “capital calls” problem …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Santa visits Nintendo early: Wii sales more than doubled in November — Nintendo sold more than 2 million Wii game consoles in the U.S. last month, more than double the number it sold in November 2007, according to Reggie Fils-Aime, president of the Japanese company's North American division.
David Berkowitz / AdAge:
Facebook, Google and MySpace Represent the Future of Web Registrations — We have the browser wars, the search engine wars and the social network wars — so where will the next digital battle take place? It's among services that offer third-party logins for publishers, which sounds as unsexy as it gets …
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Nick Heath / silicon.com:
Jobless techies turning to crime — Impoverished techies and IT workers who have been made redundant will go rogue in 2009, selling corporate data and using crimeware, reports predict. — The credit crunch will drive IT workers to increasingly use their skills to steal credit card data …
Michael Young / Redfin Corporate Blog:
Our Maps Are Googley Now — Redfin just released a new version of the site. In addition to improving our short sale detection in Orange County and parts of LA and making our neighborhood pages a little more discoverable from the map page, we switched to using Google Maps exclusively instead …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Video game sales continue ‘blistering’ pace in November, NPD says — Shrugging off the effects of a downbeat economy, the video game industry posted a 10% sales increase in the U.S. last month to $2.91 billion, up from $2.64 billion in November 2007, according to market research firm NPD Group …
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Don Clark / Business Technology:
Not Tonight Dear, I'd Rather Blog — Men have always faced challenges when it comes to romance. Here's a sign that technology may have raised another hurdle. — An online survey commissioned by Intel has found, among other things, that 46% of women would rather go without sex for two weeks than give up the Internet for that long.
USA Today:
The iTunes App Store is iPhone's killer app; free stuff — The killer app for the iPhone is — drum roll, please — the iTunes App Store. Five months after Apple launched its online emporium, I believe it even more, having downloaded a gaggle of programs, including some that transform …
