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8:25 AM ET, May 25, 2009

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia scores first major customer for Ion graphics platform  —  When Nvidia launched its Ion graphics platform for netbooks and small laptops in December, it landed with a thud.  But today, the company is announcing that Lenovo is going to use the platform to create a small laptop with 10 times …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
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Don Clark / Digits:
Hints of a New Market for Cheap, Power-Sipping Servers  —  Netbooks are hot.  Intel estimates that the laptops-which can cost less than $300-sold faster in their first 12 months on the market than Apple's iPhone or Nintendo's Wii game console did.  Could a similar low-end niche emerge in server systems?
Discussion: Gizmodo
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:   Intel Adopts an Identity in Software
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Microsoft Aims Big Guns at Google, Asks Consumers to Rethink Search  —  Here's Why an $80M Ad Effort for a Search Engine, Bing, Makes Some Sense  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Microsoft has used attack ads to go after Apple, and now it has Google in its sights.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Sprint's Pre business launch guide leaked in its entirety  —  Sprint has published a real page turner here — some 22 pages of the most telling Pre details we've seen to date.  It's a very business-centric document, but a lot of the stuff revealed in here applies to each and every user that's buying …
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Palm Pre: The Definitive Guide and FAQ  —  Simply put, the Palm Pre is the most hyped phone since the original iPhone.  It's coming out in two weeks, on June 6.  Here's everything we know—we'll update this as more info comes in.  —  PALM PRE LAUNCH  —  When and where can I buy It?
Discussion: IntoMobile, PalmAddicts and jkOnTheRun
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Exclusive: Everything There Is To Know About Nokia's Next Tablet  —  Move over, Nokia N97.  Your bigger, badder, unannounced brother is on the way - and one of our sources at Nokia has just clued us in on all of the details, from worldwide launch targets to hardware specs.
Discussion: Engadget Mobile, Thanks:atul
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Palm Eos on track for AT&T release second half of 2009  —  The Palm news just keeps coming today.  Looks like Centro successor Eos might be coming sooner than expected, with this purported AT&T powerpoint slide listing a second half 2009 ship date, along with a “new Palm OS experience” …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:
The Man Who Owns LiveSearch.com (No, He Doesn't Work For Microsoft)  —  One thing that has likely hampered Microsoft's efforts to boost Live Search's market share—and perhaps contributed to its decision to consider renaming the search engine—is that it does not own the LiveSearch.com domain name.
The Thrica Network:
Safari 4's Messy Trail  —  Those of you who've been trying out the new Safari 4 beta - at least on the Mac, though I imagine you could find similar data trails on the Windows version too - have no doubt been impressed at its shiny new features.  But if you're a stickler for disk space like I am …
Discussion: Edible Apple
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Lancaster is a QWERTY slider with Android for AT&T  —  AT&T's been extraordinarily coy about its Android plans, right up through our interview with Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega back in February — but rest assured, the carrier does plan to get in the game, and it might just beat a number of T-Mobile's planned launches to market.
Arn / MacRumors:
Unreleased iPhone2,1 Icon Reveals No Major Physical Changes?  —  A MacTalk.com.au forum thread reveals that the unreleased “iPhone2,1” model that has been previously referenced actually includes its own icon within the iPhone 3.0 SDK.  The icon, however, appears identical to the iPhone1,2 model which represents the current iPhone 3G.
Photo Rumors:
Sony a500 and a550 coming soon?  —  The web site sonystyle.ca offers some interesting choices when you attempt to register your new Sony camera:  —  DSLRA350KCF  —  DSLRA380L  —  DSLRA380S  —  DSLRA500  —  DSLRA500S  —  DSLRA550  —  DSLRA550S  —  DSLRA700  —  DSLRA700P  —  DSLRA900
Discussion: Engadget, Ubergizmo and Nikon Rumors
blog.montgomerie.net:
Hither Eucalyptus!  —  Earlier today I received a phone call from an Apple representative.  He was very complimentary about Eucalyptus.  We talked about the confusion surrounding its App Store rejections, which I am happy to say is now fully resolved.  He invited me to re-build and submit …
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Jonathan Seff / Macworld:
Apple changes its mind, accepts Eucalyptus app
Discussion: TeleRead and digg.com
 
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
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 Earlier Items: 
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
How HBO And Gawker Tricked Us Into Reporting An Ad Campaign As News
Discussion: /socnets and MediaMemo
John Markoff / New York Times:
The Coming Superbrain  —  Mountain View, Calif. …
Discussion: Joe Duck and digg.com
 

 
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