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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Facebook appraisal pegs company's value at $3.7B — Facebook Inc. quickly concluded it wasn't worth anywhere near the $15 billion market value implied in a 2007 investment made by Microsoft Corp., according to confidential information obtained Wednesday from court documents.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The AP Reveals Details of Facebook/ConnectU Settlement With Greatest Hack Ever — This is almost too good to be true. The Associated Press has uncovered the details of the Facebook/ConnectU settlement using, of all things, copy and paste. After taking drastic preventative measures to keep …
Gavriella Schuster / The Windows Blog:
Guidance on Windows Deployments for Business Customers — Hi, I'm Gavriella; welcome to the new Windows for your Business Blog. — Let me introduce myself: I'm a member of the Windows Product Management team and have been at Microsoft for 13 years. For the last two and a half …
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Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Report: Free Windows 7 upgrades to run until January 2010 — Latest clue that Windows 7 will ship by Christmas, says analyst — Computerworld) To encourage consumers to keep buying Windows Vista PCs this year despite Windows 7's looming release, Microsoft Corp. will give away free Windows 7 upgrades …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Vista or Windows 7? Just get rid of XP, Microsoft tells users
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Personal Technology, TechFlash, The Windows Blog, Guardian, Computerworld and Microsoft Watch
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook, Nokia Discuss Alliance — Battle Over Social-Networking Users Extends Into Cellphone Market — Facebook Inc. is stepping up its efforts to integrate its social network into an array of mobile phones, including those made by Nokia Corp., the world's largest handset maker.
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BoomTown, The Social, Music Ally, paidContent.org, SlashGear, Bloomberg, GigaOM and All Facebook
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Diddit launches surprisingly addictive activity guide — The development team behind search company Inktomi is launching a new service tonight called Diddit, which functions as both an activity guide and a way to share stories and accomplishments. — Diddit is a bit like business-rating services …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New Tweetdeck Out Tomorrow, Here's What It Will Include — We got our hands on the new version of popular Twitter desktop app Tweetdeck that will be delivered to all users tomorrow and we're pretty excited about what's been added. — If you've never used Tweetdeck, it's …
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Samsung delays launch of Android phone — Samsung has delayed the release of its first mobile phone based on Google's Android operating system until the second half of this year. — There had been speculation that Samsung, which recently leapfrogged Nokia to become market leader in the UK …
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Nick / Rough Type:
Another little IBM deal — On August 12, 1981, 28 long years ago, IBM introduced its personal computer, the IBM PC. Hidden inside was an operating system called MS-DOS which the computing giant had licensed from a pipsqueak company named Microsoft. IBM didn't realize it at the time …
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PC World:
Skype Growing by 380,000 Users a Day — Ross O. Storey, CIO Asia — The number of its users is growing by the population of Singapore (more than four million) every 12 days and nearly a third of its registered subscribers now use it for business purposes.
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Nokia Beta Labs blog:
Contacts on Ovi beta database failed - my deepest and most sincere apologies — Written by: Kristian Luoma, Product Manager, Contacts on Ovi. — Hey, — Something bad happened yesterday. A cooler broke down in the hosting center that we run the Chat service in.
Christopher Wren / Social Web Blog:
A social bar for your site — Labels: Google Friend Connect, new features — While it's easy to add social features to your site with Google Friend Connect, you may have been wondering where to put all of the great gadgets. You need your users to sign in, to interact with your site …
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Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Java gets a mobile makeover with JavaFX Mobile — BN] e.g. searchapi.php?brand=TR&mode= document — Sun Microsystems announced today the release of the JavaFX Mobile platform. Built on top of the existing Java ME platform, JavaFX Mobile allows developers to create immersive mobile content …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Download and Buy Videos from YouTube — YouTube includes a new section for “My Videos”: a list of purchased videos. A YouTube help page has more details about the new feature: … Videos are available to download in the MP4 format and some of them can be downloaded for free and they're …
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AppleInsider:
Apple prepping iTunes Replay on-demand video service — Apple is believed to be wrapping up a new feature in iTunes 8 that will allow users to stream their iTunes video purchases directly from the company's servers for playback anywhere, anytime without eating up local storage.
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Technologizer, Neowin.net, Edible Apple, VentureBeat, CNET News, Webomatica, Macsimum News, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Ars Technica and The iPhone Blog
Tweet. Meet. Give.:
Tweet. Meet. Give. — On 12 February 2009 175+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water. — Join us by: — Attending one of the events detailed on the city sites listed on this page.
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Esteban Israel / Reuters:
Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S. — HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island's battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony. — The Cuban variant, called Nova …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Acer's DX650 and X960 smartphones leaked: we waited for this? — Ok Acer, you can let us in on the joke now. These “leaks” are just to throw us off the scent of your real smartphones right? After teasing with the announcement of your entry into the marketplace, you can't expect us …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
If Newspapers Went Offline For A Week... People Might Realize They're Fine Without Them — Honestly, it's getting difficult to keep up with the massive amount of stories every day from old school journalists — often with no business or economics background — either complaining about how things used …
Bill Harwood / CNET News:
U.S. and Russian satellites collide — In an unprecedented space collision, a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite ran into each other Tuesday above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of wreckage, officials said today.
Paul McIntyre / Sydney Morning Herald:
MySpace founder concedes social network defeat — THE co-founder of News Corp's MySpace has thrown in the towel in the global battle against Facebook, predicting the social networking site will forever play second fiddle to its younger upstart. — Facebook and MySpace between …
Hiroshi Suzuki / Bloomberg:
Pioneer, Forecasting a Wider Loss, Will Cut 10,000 Jobs, Quit TV Business — Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Pioneer Corp. will cut 10,000 jobs and close its television operations as the slump in global electronics sales forced the company to widen its annual loss forecast to a record 130 billion yen ($1.44 billion).
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Google plans data centre at old Finnish paper mill — * Stora sells old paper plant to Google — * Google says plans to open data centre at site (Releads, adds Google comments) — Google (GOOG.O) said on Thursday it aimed to build a data centre at an old paper mill in southeastern Finland …
The Inudian:
Never Share Your Twitter Password Again — Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! — A few hours ago Twitter's OAuth private beta was launched and Inuda was one of the lucky 150 users to be chosen to test it. OAuth is an open protocol that allows secure API authorisation in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
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IDC:
Precipitous Decline of the Worldwide PC Microprocessor Market in 4Q08 Will Continue Through 1H09, IDC Reveals — Sequential PC processor unit shipment decline in 4Q08 was the worst since IDC started tracking — Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments fell significantly in the fourth calendar quarter of 2008 …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Trial Audio Will Be Streamed Online — Earlier this week, Peter Sunde aka Brokep of The Pirate Bay called for a live webcast of their upcoming trial to be available to the masses. “We want to show how it works,” he said. “Cards on the table, everything should be transparent!”
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M20: A Surprisingly Cute WinMo 6.1 GPS Phone — Garmin-Asus will launch the M20, a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, sometime this year. True to the name, this cute touchscreen handset comes with car dock and a full set of GPS maps for deep-country use.
