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Wei Yi Lim / Dow Jones Newswires:
Apple Plans To Launch Netbook With Touch Screen - Sources — TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touch screen monitor as early as the second half of this year, two people close to the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.
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AppleInsider, PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Silicon Alley Insider, jkOnTheRun, Local Mobile Search, TheAppleBlog, CrunchGear, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Electronista, Electricpig.co.uk, The Toybox, Gearlog, Engadget, MacRumors, techblog.dallasnews.com, Tech-Ex, PalmAddicts, GottaBeMobile.com and Liliputing
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
27 Huge Publishers Join To Replace The Banner — 27 publishers with a reach of about 109 million unique visitors per month — that's 66% of the total U.S. Internet audience — have agreed to try one of three new online ad formats sometime before July. The publishers are all members of the online publishers association (OPA).
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Microsoft:
Growing Notebook Market Spurs New Accessories From Microsoft — Hardware Group expands into new product category and updates top-selling Arc Mouse. — REDMOND, Wash. March 10, 2009 Notebook sales are now outpacing desktop PCs three to one,1 and to meet that growth, the Microsoft Hardware Group …
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Silicon Alley Insider, CrunchGear, TechFlash, Neowin.net, DVICE, GottaBeMobile.com, Gizmodo and TechSpot
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft does the unthinkable, reveals own Notebook Cooling Base — Desperate times call for desperate measures, and while we can't say with any level of certainty that Microsoft Hardware engineers weren't toiling away on this laptop cooling stand back in the heyday that was 2005, we highly doubt that's the case.
Kevin Anderson / Guardian:
Guardian launches Open Platform tool to make online content available free — The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it “into the fabric of the internet”. — Open Platform launched …
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ReadWriteWeb, Web Strategy, PC World, Mashable!, yelvington.com, BuzzMachine, The Noisy Channel, Sculpture.org.uk, All Points Blog, broadstuff and open
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Steve Jobs appears at Disney shareholder's meeting; re-elected to board. — Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who missed his company's shareholder meeting because of his medical leave, reportedly made an appearance at the Disney's shareholder's meeting today, according to Marketwatch.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Layoffs In Progress — As expected, many AOLers in Dulles started receiving “the email” yesterday afternoon. The email asks them to attend an “important meeting” this morning—at which they will be fired. — This is the way AOL's layoffs have been handled over the past several years, with depressing regularity.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Legacy Locker: An Online Will For Your Digital Life — For many of us, the internet is quickly becoming a comprehensive digital archive of our lives, housing our photo albums, documents, correspondence, and video clips. Unfortunately, when someone passes away, the mechanisms for transferring …
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ReadWriteWeb, CenterNetworks, Technologizer, Digits, LIVEdigitally, CNET News and VentureBeat
Brian Solis / TechCrunch:
Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The Statusphere? — Depending on which numbers you source or believe, all reports agree that the blogosphere continues to expand globally. — As the leading blog directory and search engine, Technorati maintains a coveted Authority Index …
Robert Buderi / Xconomy:
Paul Graham on Why Boston Should Worry About Its Future as a Tech Hub—Says Region Focuses On Ideas, Not Startups — Robert Buderi wrote: — For entrepreneurs and investors alike, it was a sad day back in January, when Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced he would stay …
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Innovation Economy
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
How many links per page? — I'm about to publish a blog post with a ton of links in it — almost two hundred of them. So before I did that, it seemed like a good time to talk about Google's recommendation to “Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).”
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Was February The Bottom For Mac Sales? — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster this morning said he expects the next set of NPD data on Apple (AAPL) Mac sales to show a 12% year-over-year drop compared with a year ago, but that the recently revamped product line should provide a rebound in March.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds — Warning: This clip is a piece of Samsung marketing material. — Warning 2: It's actually pretty fracking amazing, and it might change your view of computers. — Samsung techies linked 24 of the company's 256GB SSD drives together …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Drop.io Speeds Up Its File-Sharing And Adds Chat — Private file-sharing service drop.io is jumping on the “real-time” bandwagon, speeding up its application to make it a near-instantaneous experience and adding chat. Before, drop.io was slightly asynchronous in that one person …
Jack Davis / SiliconBeat:
Silicon Graphics shares headed for delisting — Silicon Graphics will have its shares delisted from the Nasdaq stock market beginning Thursday morning, according to an SEC filing it made Monday. The news was delivered last week to the Sunnyvale computer maker in a letter from Nasdaq …
Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
INTERVIEW-Activision CEO confident in tough economy — * Sees opportunity to develop stronger games for Wii console — * Confident of company and sector prospects — * Sales seen improving further if console makers cut prices — Video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc (ATVI.O) …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Palm boosts stock offering, nets $83.9 million — Palm shares rose sharply in early morning trading Tuesday, after the smartphone maker increased the size of its secondary offering and netted $83.9 million. — Palm resold 23.13 million shares, as part of a follow-on offering it announced the previous day.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Sprint Evaluating LTE Equipment — Sources in the telecommunications world have been telling me that Sprint is testing Long Term Evolution, or LTE, equipment, which seems a bit odd given Sprint's cheerleading for WiMAX and 51 percent stake in Clearwire, which is building out a nationwide WiMAX network.
Leena Rao / TechCrunchIT:
Jive Launches All-In-One Social Enterprise Software — Jive Software has launched a comprehensive Social Business Software application suite, Jive SBS 3.0, which includes the company's previous social computing applications, Clearspace and Clearspace Community.
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Coop's Corner, InfoWorld, Collaboration 2.0, Jive Talks, VentureBeat, Xconomy and Silicon Florist
Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
Alley Insider closes the gap — today only 9 minutes behind AllThingsD — Check it out, people. My man Dan Frommer of Alley Insider is slowly gaining on his Apple-watching nemesis at AllThingsD, John Paczkowski. This morning at 7:16 a.m. PT, Paczkowski was the first to re-report …
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Swa Frantzen / SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON:
conspiracy fodder: pifts.exe — Several readers wrote in with samples of a file PIFTS.exe that seems to be related to a Norton update and gets flagged for its behavior. — The file has been confirmed to call home to stats.norton.com . — The truly bizarre are the mentions that the support forums …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Chinese hackers selling $200 iTunes vouchers for $2.60 — Chinese hackers have cracked the codes used for iTunes Store vouchers using key-generators, and as a result are selling $200 voucher codes for as little as $2.60 online. That's according to a report on the blog of Chinese music industry consultancy Outdustry.
BBC:
Gmail down again for some users — Google has confirmed that its popular e-mail service Gmail has become unavailable to what it describes as “a small subset of users”. — It follows a major outage of the service at the end of February when it was unavailable to all users for several hours.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster? — This is the first in a series of three posts looking at the lessons for the United States from broadband deployment in other countries. — Bits readers have a serious case of broadband envy. I've been writing about the debate …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Thesixtyone Is Building a Digg For Indie Music — The concept of building a Digg for music has been tried before (see Contrastream or iJigg), but a music streaming site called thesixtyone is the closest I've seen so far to getting the formula right. It features only about 50,000 tracks self-uploaded …
