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New York Times:
Satyam Chief Admits Huge Accounting Fraud — NEW DELHI — Satyam Computer Services, a leading Indian outsourcing company that serves more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies, significantly inflated its earnings and assets for years, the chairman and co-founder said Wednesday …
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Wall Street Journal:
Satyam Rocked by Fraud — Overstated Profits Raise Investor Concern About India Oversight — By NIRAJ SHETH and JACKIE RANGE in New Delhi and ROMIT GUHA in Bangalore, India — The chairman of one of India's largest information technology companies admitted he concocted key financial results including …
Sun Microsystems:
Sun Microsystems Expands Cloud Computing Offerings with Acquisition of Q-layer — Q-layer Technology Simplifies Cloud Computing Development and Deployment — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment …
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Renai LeMay / CNET News:
Windows 7 beta: First impressions — Windows 7 could be one of Microsoft's greatest operating systems, if it fulfills the promise shown by the unofficial beta version (build 7000) we have been testing for the past couple of days. — Let me preface these quick impressions of Redmond's latest opus …
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
A Great Start to 2009 — Today, we reached another milestone: 150 million people around the world are now actively using Facebook and almost half of them are using Facebook every day. This includes people in every continent—even Antarctica. If Facebook were a country …
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PC World, Inside Facebook, The Social, Furrier.org, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Watch, Between the Lines, Mashable!, All Facebook and WebProNews
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Yelp user faces lawsuit over negative review — San Franciscan Christopher Norberg went to a chiropractor after being injured in a car accident in 2006. After a disagreement with the chiropractor over billing, he posted a negative review of the business on Yelp suggesting that the doctor was dishonest.
IEBlog:
IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available Today! — We believe IE8 helps make browsing the web faster, easier, safer and more reliable. To help our users be more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE8 via Automatic Update (AU) and the Windows Update (WU) and Microsoft Update (MU) sites much like we did for IE7.
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Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
LG Announces Watch Phone … Like we mentioned last night, LG has announced their 3G HSDPA, video conferencing watch phone today, model number LG-GD910, which is due for Europe this year. Just about as stylish as the Prada Link, isn't it? The CEO was a little tenative to show off the features …
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Dianne See Morrison / mocoNews.net:
Verizon To Support Kindle Competitors; Question Is Who? — Amazon's Kindle may soon be just another electronic reader among a handful of choices on Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ). In an interview with Reuters just ahead of CES, Verizon exec Tony Lewis, who runs a program to help third-party vendors …
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Market Wire:
T-Mobile USA to Offer Customers the Thinnest and Lightest Full-QWERTY BlackBerry Smartphone — New BlackBerry Curve 8900 Smartphone Delivers GPS, Wi-Fi, Enhanced Multimedia Capabilities and More — BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON and WATERLOO, ONTARIO—(Marketwire - Jan. 7, 2009) -
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 makes its way into stores, Feb. 11th release
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bush: Fix Your “Miserable Failure” Googlebomb Legacy Before Obama Takes Office — Few realize that outgoing US president George W. Bush has left behind a unique legacy for future presidents, including Barack Obama — that they are all condemned to rank tops for a search on “miserable failure” in major search engines.
Constantinos Michael / Google Mobile Blog:
Getting directions to businesses now easier on Google Maps for mobile — One of my favorite things about Google Maps for mobile is finding businesses on the go. Today we launched a server-side change that makes it easier to get directions to businesses. You can now get directions to restaurants …
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Forget SDHC: SDXC Holds 2-Terabytes — Still struggling to remember the difference between SD and SDHC? Then you don't want to hear about SDXC, which is a new standard from the SD Association. Secure Digital eXtended Capacity is the new name and with it comes huge leaps in flash storage capacity.
Ritsuko Ando / Reuters:
Verizon picks Microsoft search over Google, Yahoo — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc said it agreed to a mobile search deal with Microsoft Corp and that details will be announced later on Wednesday. — Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer …
DealBook:
CBS's Wallstrip to Scale Back — Like much of Wall Street, Wallstrip is pulling in its horns. — The finance-focused, comedy video Web site, which CBS's interactive unit acquired in May 2007, won't be producing any more episodes, PEhub.com said Wednesday, citing an undisclosed source.
Elaine Chow / Gizmodo:
Sony Walkman X-Series Is Surfable, Touchable and Shuts Up the World Around You — Sony's Walkman NWZ-X1000 features an OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi and built-in noise cancellation and could re-seat the brand as the world's music player of choice... if it doesn't come with typical Sony prices.
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SlashGear, Anything But iPod, OLED-TV Display/Monitor …, Engadget, I4U News, Gadgetell and Switched
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Netgear's MBR624GU 3G Router — The Netgear press event just finished up and among the new products is the MBR624GU router. Using a USB dock, you can plug your existing 3G USB adapter in the backside of this puppy and share your wireless broadband connection.
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: Netgear Shows off Devices for Surfing, Storing Internet TV — I'm sitting in the Consumer Electronics Show presentation for Netgear (NTGR). Vivek Pathela, VP of netgear's consumer products is taking the stage with his characteristic enthusiasm. He mentions Netgear is introducing 15 …
Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com:
Asus planning Eee phone... with Android? — CES 2009: CEO commends Apple's iPhone too — Johnny Shih, CEO of Asus, has announced that the company is looking at an Eee-branded phone... and that it may run Android as well. — Speaking to TechRadar at Asus' keynote speech at CES 2009 …
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
LG's HDTV lineup streams, has Hz, will block out the sun — LG just released a vast amount of information detailing their latest lineup of HDTVs, but most of it you can make up yourself: imagine a list of TV sizes, a descending list of model numbers, and a likewise descending list of features.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Opera: One Web Across Multiple Devices — Opera plans to unveil a new version of its SDK today that will allow Opera's partners to create a more uniform browsing experience across multiple devices and platforms. The new version of the Opera Devices SDK now gives developers access to Opera Link …
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
A Smaller CES, But Big Tech News Still Expected — () ], Intel [INTC Loading... () ], Sony [SNE Loading... () ] and so many others didn't make their fortunes focused on today and tomorrow. — They're all about the future, which is particularly important in today's current economic climate.
Ricky Cadden / MobileBurn.com:
Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition discontinued — News by Ricky Cadden on Wednesday January 07, 2009. — Our sources have informed us that Nokia has discontinued its N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition, effective immediately. Distributors have apparently been asked to send any remaining stock back to Nokia.
