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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems — I.B.M., after months of negotiations, withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun's board balked at a slightly reduced offer, according to a person close to the talks.
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Miko Matsumura / SOA Center:
Sun IBM Collapse Heralds the Return of McNealy. Jonathan Schwartz is Toast. — The Wall st Journal reports two board factions at odds in Sun Microsystems, one in favor of the IBM deal led by Jonathan Schwartz, the other opposing, led by Scooter McNealy. — Pundits are already spinning …
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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 …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
D'oh! Sun May Be Pulling A Yahoo! — If the struggling server vendor can't negotiate a sale to IBM, it faces a bleak future. — Sun Microsystems is facing its Jerry Yang moment. — On Sunday, weeks of negotiations between the struggling server vendor and IBM ( IBM - news - people ) …
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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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Facebook's photo storage rewrite — This week Facebook will complete its roll-out of a new photo storage system designed to reduce the social network's reliance on expensive proprietary solutions from NetApp and Akamai. The new large blob storage system, named Haystack …
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.
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 3,1 to have Broadcom BCM4329, 802.11N/5GHz Wireless, FM transmitter/receiver — According to the fine folks over at AI, the soon-to-be-released iPhone 3,1 references the Broadcom BCM4329 wireless chip in the boot script. This is a significant upgrade over the current Broadcom BCM4325 for a number of reasons.
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Arn / MacRumors:Next Gen iPhone: 802.11n and Video Editing?
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Only the Beginning — On Friday the FriendFeed founders Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit debuted a radical redesign of the product for about 15 journalists, technologists, and Robert Scoble. We were asked not to discuss the details until Monday morning at 9AM Pacific.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
So Now Everything Is Google's Fault — A year ago British musician Billy Bragg was whining that Bebo should be paying musicians a portion of their $850 million liquidity event, arguing that “the musicians who posted their work on Bebo.com are no different from investors in a start-up enterprise …
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Chris Tryhorn / Guardian:
Europe orders ISPs to keep records of every email and call — Recorded delivery: New data retention law — Internet service providers are to keep records of emails and online phone calls under controversial new government regulations that come into force today.
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 …
John Ribeiro / PC World:
Xerox Outsources Management of Data Centers to India's HCL — Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies is to offer data center services to Xerox under a six-year contract. — The value of the contract is about US$100 million, according to a source close to the situation.
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.
Jon Swartz / USA Today:
Tech firms eager to gobble stimulus funds — SAN FRANCISCO — The biggest federal public works project since World War II offers tantalizing possibilities for the struggling tech market. — President Obama's staggering $787 billion economic stimulus package, passed in February …
