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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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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Four Things You Need To Know About Knol — Recently Google mentioned that 100,000 different articles have been posted to Google Knol. I've been meaning to talk about Google Knol for a while, because there's a few things you need to know. It seemed especially relevant after I saw …
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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.
New York Times:
$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 …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
RSS-powered Windows 7 desktop slideshows — Desktop themes are making a comeback in Windows 7 with many new styling options to make sure it's easy to create, mix and share your unique themes. And many there are already, including Paul Thurrott's collection and various OSX inspired theme packs.
Patrick Foster / Times of London:
Music pirates will not be disconnected from the internet — Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by illegally sharing music and video files, The Times has learnt. — Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, said last year that the Government had …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AMD fills out its server product line in salvo at Intel — The tennis match continues. Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are in a duel for the top performance in microprocessors. Today, AMD is taking a swing with the launch of its new series of server processors for high-end computers and Internet servers.
Kevin Rose / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers — This guest post is written by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and the cofounder of Revision3 and Pownce. Kevin, who has over 88,000 followers on Twitter (making him the second most followed after President Obama), also “bloggs” at kevinrose.com.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Wow. ChaCha Is Raising Another $30 Million — ChaCha, the human-powered answers service we've written about quite a bit here on TechCrunch, is raising a Series C round of $30 million, of which close to $11 million has already been secured according to a regulatory filing, reports peHUB.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Commodore 64 emulator brings retro joy to Symbian S60 — Have a Symbian S60-based handset in your pocket, do you? If you've a fever that can only be cured by more Commodore 64, you're in luck. The FrodoS60 application brings C64 emulation right to your N95, N96 or any other S60 mobile …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Microsoft's Zune: $100 Million Sales Drop Plus Layoffs Equals Questions — Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, particularly the Zune group, reportedly was hit hard in Thursday's unprecedented layoff of 1,400 employees and plans to cut up to 3,600 more jobs.
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Marcel van de Hoef / Bloomberg:
Philips Halts Buyback, Slashes 6,000 Jobs After Reporting Quarterly Loss — Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe's largest maker of consumer electronics, said it will eliminate 6,000 jobs and halt its share buyback program after reporting its first quarterly loss in almost six years.
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