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$200 Laptops Break a Business Model — SAN FRANCISCO — The global credit crisis may have caused the decline in consumer and business spending that is assaulting the giants of high tech. But as the dominant technology companies try to emerge from this slump, they may find themselves blaming people …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation — Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we've heard from a source with knowledge of the deal.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Twitter is 2009's Facebook, With Less Upside — Twitter is making the same mistakes Facebook did, which are: — raising money instead of generating any, — letting the valuation get ahead of realistic business prospects which will make any M&A nearly impossible,
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:No Revenue? No Problem. More Money for Twitter on the Way.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Competition in the eBook Market — There's been a lot of buzz on forward-looking publisher mailing lists in the past few days about Robert Darnton's piece in the New York Review of Books, Google and the Future of Books. When it hit techmeme today, I thought it might be appropriate to share …
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Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Has Knol Survived Google's Orphan-Project Killing Spree? (GOOG) — We had thought Google (GOOG) was all about frugality and focus now: In recent months, the search giant has been killing off failed experiments like Twitter-rival Jaiku, mobile social networking service Dodgeball and virtual world Lively.
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Wall Street Journal:
Bumpy Start for BlackBerry Storm — Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion Ltd. have high hopes for the BlackBerry Storm, which they spent nearly two years developing as their big response to Apple Inc.'s iPhone. — But despite a marketing campaign that cost more than $100 million, the smart phone has gotten off to a bumpy start.
Luke Hutchison:
Zoom-Zoom-Zoom — Get Multi-Touch Zooming Support on your T-Mobile G1 TODAY — I posted recently to show that working multi-touch input is available on the T-Mobile G1 phone. Now the necessary changes to the Android software stack are finally in good shape, and the software is easily installable on your own phone.
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Cash-rich US techs guard purse strings — The biggest US technology companies may have a surfeit of cash but leading industry executives have dashed hopes that they will use those resources to return money to shareholders or step up acquisitions in the downturn.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone Bluetooth File Transfer Coming Soon (YES!) — Trust the rogue programmers and Cydia—the independent equivalent to the iTunes App Store—to bring you one of the most awaited features ever for the iPhone: Bluetooth file transfer. — As you can see in the video, iBluetooth will bring you just that …
David Smith / Guardian:
Websites ‘must be saved for history’ — Historians face a “black hole” of lost material unless urgent action is taken to preserve websites and other digital records, the head of the British Library has warned. — Just as families store digital photos on computers which might never be passed …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sprint Treo Pro spotted in the wild, specs and all — Thanks, Best Buy — we owe you [one] another. Yet again, we're getting our first real live look at a recently unveiled Sprint handset courtesy of the big box retailer, and this time it's the CDMA version of Palm's Treo Pro.
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Chris Gampat / Geek.com:
Android app destroying G1 users' memory? — A new app called MemoryUp Personal appears to be responsible for the destruction of many G1 users' memory, as stated in the comments about the app in Android's App Market. The app, created by Peter Liu, is being called a “scam” by users in the App Market.
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