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Wired News:
The Plot to Kill Google — When Google's lawyers entered the smooth marble hallways of the Department of Justice on the morning of October 17, they had reason to feel confident. Sure, they were about to face the antitrust division—an experience most companies dread—to defend a proposed deal with Yahoo.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Web Sites Scale Up for Inauguration Traffic — Popular web sites and social networks are scaling up for huge web traffic for today's inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president. But there's debate over whether today's traffic will challenge election night 2008 as the record peak for Internet traffic.
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Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:
The inauguration looms large on Google and Twitter — Searches and tweets relating to Barack Obama's inauguration are spiking today, as the nation tunes into the transfer of presidential power. — Twitter's top ten “trending topics” included nine terms related directly or indirectly to the inauguration (see screenshot, below).
Miguel de Icaza:Watching the Obama Official Inauguration on Linux with Moonlight.
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Ars Technica, Ben Waggoner, InformationWeek, Sydney Morning Herald, Lifehacker, HotHardware.com News and Slashdot
Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft cuts back on campus expansion plans — Microsoft is embarking on a set of cost cutting measures, which include postponing most of its plans to further expand its facilities across the Puget Sound region. Much more from my story in tomorrow's paper, which you can read here.
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Joseph Tartakoff / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft expansion to take a hit to cut costs — Still unclear whether layoffs part of plan — When Microsoft Corp. reports its second-quarter earnings Thursday, the company is expected to outline a series of cost-cutting measures, which will include postponing most of its plans …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple's Mac, iPod sales see slight rebound in December — Sales of Apple's Mac and iPod products bounced back last month following a disappointing November, helping the company's performance in those segments pull slightly ahead of Wall Street's consensus estimates for the December quarter.
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John Ham / The Ustream.TV Blog:
Ustream Viewing Application is in the Apple App Store — The Ustream iPhone Viewing Application is now available in the Apple App Store. — The Ustream iPhone Viewing Application was pending approval from Apple and was approved in time for the inauguration. Now any iPhone owner can watch the inauguration from their iPhone.
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MediaMemo, The iPhone Blog, Phone Arena, IntoMobile, TUAW, Mashable!, Lifehacker, TidBITS, I4U News, Local Mobile Search and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Ted Dziuba:
Corporate Blogs: It's The PageRank, Stupid — If you're running an online business and have hired a consultant who tells you that you should have a corporate blog to “better connect with the community”, fire that consultant. — If you have a corporate blog that is only marginally …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Logitech to cut up to 600 jobs — Clarification at 7:40 a.m. PST: The percentage figure for net income has been fixed. — Logitech International announced late Monday plans to cut 550 to 600 jobs, as it posted a steep drop in its financial performance and predicted continued weakness in the months ahead.
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Jessica Vascellaro / Digits:
Coupons Clips Google Engineering Director — By Jessica E. Vascellaro — The down economy has dramatically slowed hiring at Google. But it hasn't stopped startups from poaching the company's stars. — Coupons Inc., which makes software to help marketers create, distribute and track coupons …
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Apple's Real Problem: Netbooks — Forget Steve Jobs' health problems. Cheap “netbooks” could steal the sizzle from Apple's hot notebook business. — BURLINGAME, Calif.—Forget Steve Jobs' health problems. Apple has other troubles. For starters, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer …
iSpazio - The iPhone Blog:
Clippy - iSpazio Exclusive: Finally the real Copy & Paste for iPhone and iPod Touch is here! — Everyone was missing it! Finally we got the real Copy and Paste application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch! It's Clippy, avaiable from the iSpazio Repository in Cydia: — It's very easy to use this app.
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Online TV Sites Battle for Viewers — Sites like TV.com, Hulu, and Joost that feature much of the same content are hoping that social-networking features will put them ahead of the crowd — On TV, content is king. But on the Web, community may reign supreme.
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Chaos Reigns in the PC Industry — The popularity of netbooks, Acer's rise, Lenovo's fall, the struggles of component makers to sell virtually anything — it all makes for a crazy time in the personal computer market these days. — The major PC component suppliers — companies like Intel …
Oliver Kay / Times of London:
As Obama becomes President, get ready for Change.gov — As Barack Obama is sworn in as President today, Change.gov will come to the White House. — As he takes the oath of office, the White House website - occupied by President George. W. Bush for the past 8 years - will also pass over to the young, tech-savvy Obama team.
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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Marketers Look Beyond Search Engines — Facebook, MySpace, iPhone Figure in Efforts by Pizza Hut, Others to Boost Online Exposure While Controlling Costs — Marketers, seeking to boost their online exposure while keeping a lid on costs, are looking beyond Internet search engines such as Google …
Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
Metadata: Cisco Serves Up A Big One — Reports of Cisco's move into servers only tell part of the story. — Reports that Cisco is moving into the server business indicate that, economic hard times and all, the networking giant is still pursuing its plan to dominate the entire data center, as Forbes described in detail in September.
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:Cisco Plans Big Push Into Server Market
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GigaOM, The Huffington Post, TECH.BLORGE.com, Virtualization.com, SmoothSpan Blog and The Register
Anton / Twingly Blog:
Twingly inaugurating world's first federated microblog search — This is it! Today we're launching Twingly Microblog Search. — We've been microblogging for a couple of years now at Twingly. Mostly at Jaiku because it's been the service of choice for new-media-people here in Sweden …
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The Blog Herald, Twitterrati, VentureBeat, TheNextWeb.com, the Econsultancy blog, Data Mining and TechCrunch
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Dutch government study: net effect of P2P use is positive — The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs commissioned a study by research company TNO about how much Dutch Internet users download music, movies, and games, and what the social and economic effects of this downloading are.
DigiTimes:
LGE ships 100 million handsets in 2008, ranking third worldwide, says South Korea paper — LG Electronics (LGE) shipped over 100 million handsets in 2008, surpassing the amounts shipped by Motorola and Sony Ericsson, respectively, to capture, for the first time, third place in the global handset market …
