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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense — IBM is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion and the deal is long overdue. The companies mesh on the open source software front, Sun is struggling and IBM can consolidate some server market share. — First, the headlines.
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Robert Valpuesta / Bloomberg:
IBM Is in Negotiations to Buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 Billion, WSJ Says — International Business Machines Corp. is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. — IBM may pay at least $6.5 billion …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. Said to Be in Talks to Buy Sun for $7 Billion — I.B.M. is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems in a proposed deal valued at nearly $7 billion, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said on Wednesday. — The merger, if completed, would mark a big consolidation step in the market …
Ben Worthen / Digits:
IBM's Flirtation with Sun: The Next Volley in the Data-Center War — IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems, marking the beginning of what is likely to be a new wave of acquisitions in the tech industry over the next 18 months. — Getty Images — IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano
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Robert Valpuesta / Bloomberg:Sun Microsystems Rises in Germany on WSJ Report IBM Is Discussing Purchase
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
frontech.fujitsu.com:
Fujitsu Begins On-Line Consumer Sales of World's First Color E-Paper Mobile Terminal FLEPia — Displays up to 260,000 colors; features Bluetooth and high-speed wireless LAN; thin and lightweight - — Fujitsu Frontech Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the start …
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Crave, Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, Incremental Blogger, Boing Boing Gadgets, CrunchGear, The Toybox, Electronista, I4U News, Obsessable, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile.com, Gadget Lab and Switched
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
MIX09: Silverlight 3 beta bits start to arrive early (Updated) — Three Silverlight 3 downloads have hit the Microsoft Download Center early, though there is definitely more to come. — The Scott Guthrie and Bill Buxton keynote at MIX09 in Las Vegas is less than four hours away.
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Beyond Binary
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pavlov.net:
Fennec 1.0 Beta 1 — I'm super happy to announce the first beta release of Fennec for the Maemo platform. — Fennec 1.0 Beta 1 includes lots of great improvements, especially around performance. Starting with this beta, I'm able to use Fennec as the primary browser on my N810.
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Palm Pre vs iPhone 3.0: A Feature-by-Feature Comparison — The Palm Pre is going to be a hot item when it launches this summer—possibly hot enough to tackle the iPhone. One reason it's gaining so much traction is that the Pre's features weren't designed to compete against the current iPhone, but the next generation.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Apple's iPhone 3.0 expands the ‘yawning’ competitive gap
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DealBook:
All That Twitters May Not Be Gold, Analysts Say — Twitter seems to have gone from obscure to mainstream in about the same time it takes to send a “tweet” over the network. — Despite the fact that the three-year-old microblogging service doesn't generate revenue — nevermind profits …
Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
How to Tweet Your Way Out of a Job — I saw this exchange on Twitter, which is a painful lesson in how NOT to use Twitter in this tough economy. — A lucky job applicant tweeted the following: … This tweet caught the attention of Tim Levad, a channel partner advocate for Cisco.
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Linux a recession winner, IDC finds — Linux long ago became the “furniture” of open source: essential infrastructure to most of the Fortune 500 and somewhat mundane in its predictable, ever-increasing adoption. — Despite its impressive rise, however, Linux still has a long, long way to go.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
NBC CEO Jeff Zucker: Jon Stewart Was “Incredibly Unfair” to CNBC — Hard to imagine that NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker spends a lot of time thinking about “The Daily Show” critique of CNBC. But when he sat down for a Q&A this morning with BusinessWeek's Ellen Pollock, that was topic A.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
iPhone OS 3.0 first impressions and photos [Updated] — Developers late Tuesday evening are downloading a widely distributed beta of Apple's new iPhone 3.0 software, installing it on their handsets, and weighing in with some first impressions and screen shots, all of which follow. [Updated with video.]
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Pandora for BlackBerry finally launches — BlackBerry users rejoice, Pandora has finally released v1 of it's custom internet radio streaming application this morning and long story short, it's everything we've been waiting for. It's... About... Time! We tested the app out on a Bold via …
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
Psystar launches new Mac clone PC … Psystar might be in a heated court battle with Apple over the use of the Apple Mac OS X operating system, but that hasn't stopped the Mac clone company releasing a new Open Computer model on Tuesday. — According to the company the new model, the Open …
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AppleInsider, Engadget, Hardware 2.0, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Maximum PC all, CrunchGear, SlashGear and Electronista
Mark Goldstein / Photography Blog:
Fujifilm FinePix F200EXR Review — The Fujifilm Finepix F200EXR is potentially one of the most revolutionary cameras of 2009. It features Fujifilm's innocuous sounding EXR technology, which rather cleverly turns the Fuji F200 into three cameras in one. The first EXR mode shoots …
Soshable:
46% of the Digg Front Page is Controlled by 50 Websites — Recent changes and restrictions made by Digg.com to encourage diversity in the range of users whose submissions reach the front page have had 2 profound results. Newer and less active users have seen their stories reach the front page …
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Silicon Alley Insider
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
TomTom Caught Between Microsoft Rock And GPL Hard Place — Last month we covered Microsoft's patent infringement lawsuit against GPS device maker TomTom. As Mike noted, this is a pretty clear example of abusive patent litigation. The patents in question are so broad that it's virtually impossible …
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Silicon Alley Insider
Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Mag:
More Office Depot Employees Report Lying to Customers, Changing Price Tags — Since we published our article about Office Depot associates lying to customers last week, the company has issued an internal memo “reminding” employees not to lie to customers about notebook stock.
Rik Myslewski / The Register:
iPhone chip designer trumpets multi-core GPUs — Use your Imagination — Multicore Expo Immersive gaming, photo-realistic graphics, and HD video will soon take a giant step off your desktop and into the palm of your hand with the arrival of a new line of multi-core GPUs aimed squarely at the mobile, handheld, and automotive markets.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Nintendo: Game Over? Time To Sell, Deutsche Bank Says — Has Nintendo (NTDOY.PK) run out of new levels to play? — Deutsche Bank analyst Satoru Kikuchi this morning launched coverage of the video game company with a Sell rating, asserting that profits are likely to …
