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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Linux Foundation says it's time to ditch Microsoft's FAT — Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says that Microsoft is hostile to open technologies and that product makers should ditch the company's patent-encumbered FAT filesystem. — The Linux Foundation …
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
WebOS to Support Palm OS Emulation! — I just finished getting a great Palm Pre app walkthrough from Palm (video coming soon!), but this couldn't wait for the upload to finish. There was one app that Palm didn't want to talk about (but we suspect will be revealed tonight) the “Classic” …
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Once-Mighty SGI Sold to Rackable for $25 Million — A collective shudder rippled through Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning, as Rackable Systems announced its purchase of Silicon Graphics Inc. for just $25 million in cash. — If you travel all the way back to 1997, SGI was pulling in close to $4 billion in revenue per year.
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Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
Review: BlackBerry App World [Update 2] — RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is slated to take the stage later today in Las Vegas at the CTIA show and all eyes will be focused on RIM's answer to Apple's App Store. While we wished that RIM had held off on the launch of BlackBerry App World until …
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Walt Mossberg / Mossblog:
First Impressions of the New BlackBerry App Store — There have long been third-party programs for the BlackBerry, but in light of Apple's enormous success with an easy, built-in App Store for the iPhone, Research in Motion today unveiled its own similar store, called BlackBerry App World.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
AT&T Offers a $50 Netbook and Bundled Broadband Package — Updated: Holy price cuts, Ma Bell! AT&T is rolling out a trial of subsidized netbooks in its Atlanta retail stores, where it will have some netbooks (or “mini laptops,” in AT&T speak) for $49.95 (on the high end you're gonna pay $250).
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AT&T Offers Mini Laptops, ‘Internet at Home and On the Go,’ and Onsite Tech Support from Retail Stores — Select AT&T Stores Trial Promotional Mini Laptop Pricing, Complimentary ConnecTech® Consultations; ‘Internet at Home and On the Go’ Broadband Service
Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
Facebook's Problem is the Management — Shockwaves were felt throughout Silicon Valley when the social networking site announced that one of its star hires, CFO Gideon Yu, had been fired. Although Facebook claims that it is looking for someone with “public company experience,” …
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Carolyn Duffy Marsan / Network World:
Some UltraDNS customers knocked offline by attack — NeuStar confirms ‘significant’ denial of service attack on Tuesday morning — NeuStar confirmed that some of its UltraDNS managed DNS service customers were knocked offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a distributed denial of service attack.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Confirmed: Major Veoh restructuring, layoffs — Online video service Veoh is said to be undergoing a major restructuring tomorrow, a source close to the company tells me, that could include large layoffs and a potential change to its product strategy. [Update: We've since confirmed the layoffs …
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Nicole Ferraro / Internet Evolution:
Third-Party Clients Causing Twitter Downtime — We weren't imagining things: Twitter's Fail Whale has been resurrected as of late, and it's your fault. — Well. Maybe it isn't your fault, but according to Twitter's API lead, Alex Payne, the Twitter team has been keeping an eye on the mammal's return …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Slick Desktop AIR App For Monitoring Twitter — Yahoo has launched an Adobe AIR-powered desktop application called Sideline yesterday, once again validating the power of Twitter for real-time search. After taking it for a spin, I have to say it looks and feels really nice …
Basheera Khan / TechCrunch Europe:
Yahoo Mobile launches across eight countries, 300 devices — The mobile content service which Yahoo previewed at Mobile World Congress in February launched today across eight countries, available both as an iPhone app and a mobile content site optimised for 300 devices ‘with HTML-enabled mobile browsers’.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Payday for VCs plummets 65 percent in 1st quarter — With venture-backed companies failing to launch IPOs and with mergers and acquisitions lagging, liquidity for venture capitalists fell 65 percent in the first quarter and pushed them back to 2003 levels, according to a report released Wednesday by Dow Jones VentureSource.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Verizon wants its software on mobile phones — LAS VEGAS - Verizon Wireless doesn't care who emerges from the coming mobile operating system wars because no matter who wins, Verizon will make sure its software runs on top of that operating system. — “I don't think I need to bet on an operating system …
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Maggie Shiels / dot.life blog:
The Power of Less at Web 2.0 — The theme of this year's Web 2.0 Expo doesn't shy away from the fact that the economy looms large over the event. — “The Power of Less can mean how to get more done with fewer resources,” said conference co-chair Jennifer Pahlka.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft launches new netbook-like Windows Server option — With a nod to the new economic realities pushing users towards lower-priced options, Microsoft took the wraps off its new low-end Windows Server release, known as Windows Server 2008 Foundation, on April 1.
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Receiving video MMS works on iPhone OS 3.0? — Ever since the iPhone 3.0 beta was released, only the lucky and skilled have managed to enable MMS on their iPhones. It's not that it's impossible to do, you just have to know your way around the OS and do some modifications, enter settings, and that sort of stuff.
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Is Twitter Turning Into MySpace? — Editor's note: The following guest post was written by Mrinal Desai, who was an early employee of LinkedIn before he co-founded CrossLoop, a startup funded by El Dorado and Venrock. You can follow him on Twitter. — I try and test many social services …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I. — Wow. April Fools Is In full swing. — The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.”
Darren Murph / Engadget:
MSI outs full specs of X-Slim X320 / X340 and Wind U123 — While MSI has been teasing its Wind U123 and X-Slim X320 / X340 laptops for a little while now, we've yet to see the full specifications for each rig laid out. Until now, of course. Over at CTIA in Vegas, the company is revealing …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Latest iPhone developer agreement bans jailbreaks — The latest revision of the iPhone SDK agreement that developers must sign forbids jailbreaking or creating apps for jailbroken phones. — The “iPhone Developer Program License Agreement” governs what iPhone developers can and cannot do.
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