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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What Just Happened? Thursday Was Supposed To Be Bing Day. — Everyone knew today was the day that Microsoft was going to launch their new search engine. Everyone's been talking about it for months, and the press and marketing efforts were carefully tailored to maximize the impact.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And The Internet — Steve Ballmer did as good a job as he could have yesterday in balancing optimism about Microsoft's (MSFT) new “Bing” search service with the reality that it doesn't have much of a chance.
Darren Gladstone / PC World:
Dell Exits Gaming, Alienware Invades with New M17x Notebook — The PC game machine maker lifts the lid on a sleek new design and talks about the next level in the Alienware-Dell relationship. — Recommends — Ever since Dell bought a stake in Alienware, people have been wondering: What becomes of Dell's gaming-friendly XPS line?
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Fast Company, SlipperyBrick.com, DailyTech, The Toybox, SlashGear, CrunchGear, Electronista and Hardware 2.0
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Alienware's M17X gaming laptop with twin GTX 280M GPUs truly is all powerful — The announcement wasn't scheduled for a few more days — four according to the teaser site — but it looks like Alienware's All Powerful gaming laptop has been set free anyway. So, does it live up to the clues?
PC World:
Bye-bye Kindle, E-reader Screens Coming for Netbooks — Netbook makers will soon play a larger role in the e-reader market if start-up Pixel Qi has anything to say about it. — The company, founded by former One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) CTO Mary Lou Jepsen, will show off engineering samples …
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The White House:
Securing Our Digital Future — Melissa Hathaway, Cybersecurity Chief at the National Security Council, discusses securing our nation's digital future: — The globally-interconnected digital information and communications infrastructure known as cyberspace underpins almost every facet …
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Victor Godinez / techblog.dallasnews.com:
Obama announces creation of “cyber czar” post — The Wall Street Journal explains the growing focus on protecting the government's computer networks: … Obama didn't name today the person who will handle the new job (officially dubbed the Cybersecurity Coordinator), but one of the candidates …
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology — Wikioperating Thetan Level Zero — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — Exclusive In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Is Wave Bloatware? — Google has published a video of this morning's demo of Wave-its radically ambitious upcoming service which aims to be what e-mail should be and meld it with IM, allow for real-time document sharing, provide instant photo sharing, revolutionize spell checking …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Sky puts content on Xbox console — British broadcaster Sky has struck a deal with Microsoft that will see live football, TV and film content brought to the Xbox 360. — The deal marks the Xbox's first move into live linear broadcast TV. — Rival consoles, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii …
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Dan Rayburn / GigaOM:The Streaming Content Is There, Just Not Enough People Watching It — Yet
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The Business Of Online Video
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
So Much For Twitter's Trending Topics To Indicate Breaking News — Twitter's near real-time search capabilities and the ability for them and third parties to mine the collective data from user messages for indicators of what's buzzing online is the intrinsic core value of the company …
Jon Lech / nanocr.eu:
Syncing music and video to the Palm Pre — Palm today announced that the Pre will sync seamlessly with iTunes: … Reading about this on blogs I've seen two clueless arguments being repeated: … That must be why in Palm's demo iTunes says “Syncing iPod” instead of “Syncing Pre” …
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John Paczkowski / D7 Highlights:Rubinstein and McNamee: Remaking Palm
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour — Having just played with a prototype for a few minutes, I'm really impressed with the Zune HD. I've got a video, too, showing off how well the animations work. — The device is tighter and more physically beautiful than the iPod Touch and it's got a better UI …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
'Page's Law' Is Google Founder's Next-Best Shot at Immortality — Speaking at Google's developer's conference in San Francisco today, Sergey Brin launched some fresh nomenclature into the jargony culture of computer programmers: “Page's Law.” He was trying to make a point about the speed …
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Jim Dalrymple / CNET News:
New Mac clone maker to open retail store in Calif. — The idea of creating a Mac clone complete with Mac OS X is not a new concept. However, one company is taking its entry into the clone market a step further by opening a retail store in the Los Angeles area.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile G2 (Google Ion) Review: Most Improved Award — Not only does the T-Mobile G2/HTC Magic/Google Ion phone improve on original T-Mobile G1 in just about every way, it manages to do it while cutting down significantly on the size. The only thing it doesn't have going for it is a hardware keyboard.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
So That's Why Hulu Hates Boxee — Hulu, the popular television content aggregator backed by major Hollywood companies, today launched a desktop application that can only be used on PCs. Of course, we wouldn't expect the company to do it any other way — after all, if it ran on set-top boxes …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:Hulu Launches Desktop App, Forbids Use on Anything Other than PCs
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Electronic Arts Makes Big Play for Online Services — Videogame Publisher to Unveil Plans for Web Version of Its Popular Tiger Woods Golf Game; Some Titles Will be Free — Free or low-priced online services have squeezed profits from many businesses. But John Riccitiello is placing …
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Experts: Gumblar attack is alive, worse than Conficker — The Web site compromise attack known as Gumblar has added new domain names that are downloading malware onto unsuspecting computers, stealing FTP credentials to compromise more sites, and tampering with Web traffic, a security firm said on Thursday.
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Snapdragon Netbooks Called Smartbooks, Coming This Fall — As I was out running some errands earlier today, Stacey over at the main GigaOm site did a little catching up with Qualcomm. Last time I met with them, they showed me some very basic netbook prototypes with tons of potential …
Steve O'Hear / last100:
Hands-on impressions of Nokia's N97 [video] — I've been pretty excited ever since Nokia announced it's soon-to-be-released Nokia N97 all the way back in December. However, it wasn't till earlier this week that I was actually able to get my hands-on the company's new flagship device courtesy …
