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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route — Sun Microsystems won't be acquired by IBM after all. Now the explaining—mostly to customers and shareholders—really begins. — Sun will tell its customers that the IBM deal was just a slight detour and that the company's plan …
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Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:Why Sun Had Better Have a Solid Backup Plan
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Miko Matsumura / SOA Center:Sun IBM Collapse Heralds the Return of McNealy. Jonathan Schwartz is Toast.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems
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Ty McMahan / Digits:
Payment Processor Revolution Money Pumped With $42M — At a time when both consumers and merchants are looking for ways to cut costs, several major financial firms and individual investors have pumped $42 million into Revolution Money, the payment-processing company backed by AOL co-founder Steve Case.
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Nokia:
Email the way you want it - Nokia E75 begins shipping — Espoo, Finland - The Nokia E75 has arrived in stores, bringing the company's best efficiency and productivity solution to the market. The new arrival is the first device to ship with the new email user interface …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget Mobile:Nokia's E75 now shipping to eMail lovers, pixel haters
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
New iPhone To Have FM Radio Transmitter, Video Editing — In addition to faster wi-fi networking via a new wireless chip, Apple's (AAPL) next iPhone — which we expect the company to announce on June 8 — will have a built-in FM transmitter, 9 to 5 Mac reports.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
New FriendFeed: Simpler, Faster, Better (Maybe Too Fast) — FriendFeed cofounder Paul Bucheit was recently asked what it was like to be the R&D department for Facebook. His response was appropriately humble, but you can't help but wonder how long it will be before Facebook …
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:Only the Beginning — On Friday the FriendFeed founders Bret Taylor …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
YouTube, Sony Pictures in talks over feature films — “YouTube is in negotiations with Sony Pictures to get licensing rights to some of the studio's movies. The Professional” is from Sony Pictures and is available at Crackle.com. — YouTube is in talks to acquire licensing rights …
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
How I Came to Get a PC and Not a Mac — I don't buy new computers very often, and for a long time I slightly favored Macs over Windows PCs. So no one perhaps is more surprised than me that my now four-month old laptop is a Sony and not an Apple. I found my decision process to be similar …
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
T-Mobile to Use Google Software in Devices for Home — SAN FRANCISCO — T-Mobile is planning an aggressive push deep into the home with a variety of communications devices that will use Google's new Android operating software that already runs one of its cellphones.
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Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony PS3 outsells Nintendo Wii in March in Japan — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii in March for the first time in 16 months in Japan thanks to hot new PS3 titles from Sega Sammy (6460.T) and Capcom (9697.T), a game magazine publisher said.
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benheck.com:
Commodore 64 Original Hardware Laptop — Visit Hack N Mod for more hacking coolness! — Click photo to super-size it — This project somehow has the distinction of being both the longest and fastest portable electronics project I have ever done. I originally started making a C64 laptop …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Now streaming on Netflix: SpongeBob, Cartman — Viacom's MTV Networks has brought some of its television content to Netflix's library of streaming online video, the companies announced Monday. — The offering consists primarily of kids' shows from the Nickelodeon network …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
MLB's Web Video Puts Everyone Else To Shame — Today is Major League Baseball's Opening Day, which means the first real game in more than five months for most players and fans. It's also a big day for the league's Internet division: MLB Advanced Media is pushing a full slate of games …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Glam Raises $10 Million Fifth Round For German, Japan Expansions — Glam Media has raised a $10 million fifth round from investors related to its Japanese and German units, paidContent has learned. The Japanese funding comes from Mizuho Venture Capital. The VC arm of the Japanese bank …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Completes Rollout Of Haystack To Stem Losses From Massive Photo Uploads — One nugget of information Facebook leaked out to press last week during the Gideon Yu fiasco: the company has been EBITDA profitable for five quarters, but doesn't expect to generate positive cash flow until 2010.
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
The Motorola Media Mover Video Gadget — This one's been percolating for some time within Motorola's labs. We last saw the “Media Mover” back in September sporting a different enclosure and name (MCUBE). Motorola (MOT) hopes the device will become the “Swiss Army knife” of USB widgets.
John Cook / TechFlash:
Isilon cuts 10 percent of staff, shares plunge on sales shortfall — Citing economic weakness and uncertainty, Seattle-based Isilon Systems today announced that it is cutting 10 percent of its workforce. The Seattle digital storage company also said that revenue for the first quarter …
Louis Gray:
As FeedBurner Flails and Fails, Feedblitz Fights — A week and a half ago, FeedBlitz announced it would be taking Google head on, offering a much-needed alternative to FeedBurner in the RSS automation space. (See our initial post) At the time, they said they would “rapidly evolve”, and they weren't kidding.
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