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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.
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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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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?
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.
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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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New York Times:
Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
Victor Godinez / techblog.dallasnews.com:Obama announces creation of “cyber czar” post
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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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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 …
AppleInsider:
A glimpse at Snow Leopard's more subtle refinements — While many of the changes present in betas of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been discussed at length by Apple followers, one tester has taken to the web with observations on some of the more subtle refinements spread through the most recent build of the next-gen operating system.
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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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Arn / MacRumors:
New Comparison Photo of Matte iPhone Enclosure? — In February, the first images depicting the back casing of an unreleased iPhone began circulating around the Internet. The images showed a matte finish to the casing, but looked otherwise identical to the current iPhone enclosure.
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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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Roger Cheng / Dow Jones Newswire:
Sprint Has Palm Pre Exclusive Through 2009 — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel Corp.'s (S) exclusivity agreement with Palm Inc. (PALM) and its Pre smartphone runs through the year, according to a Sprint spokesman. — “We have the Pre through 2009,” said spokesman James Fisher.
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Agence France Presse:
Color Kindle ‘multiple’ years away: Amazon CEO — WASHINGTON (AFP) — Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said Thursday that the online retail giant may never reveal sales figures for the Kindle and a color version of the electronic reader is “multiple” years away.
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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.
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Palm Pre Default Ringtone Leaks Out — Want to hear the Palm Pre's default ringtone? Heck, want to download it to use now? Here you go, courtesy of an anonymous tipster: — Download it directly with this link — For those that are curious, the ringtone was composed by Roger Bourland …
Sumner Lemon / Computerworld:
Dell building up its cash reserves for acquisition — IDG News Service - Dell plans to grow its business by acquiring another company, a senior executive said Friday. — “Michael [Dell] did talk about our desire to increase activity for inorganic growth.
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 …
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Gigabyte Touchnote Screen Gestures in Action. Useful and Fun! — One element of the Gigabyte Touchnote that I'm starting to get used to now is the gesture support. It's built into a special set of eGalax drivers that have been included on the device. Originally I wanted to turn them off …
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:
Lyrics, Free Downloads are Among McAfee's Most Dangerous Searches — Security technology company McAfee has identified the world's most dangerous search terms. They searched 2,600 keywords culled from several of the top keyword lists from sources such as search engines and Hitwise.
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Chris Connolly / HotHardware.com News:
Windows 7 HD and SSD Performance Analyzed — Article Index: — Windows 7 is undoubtedly the most exciting new operating system to come out of Microsoft within the past decade—and with good reason. The user interface is superb, gone are many of the oddball Vista quirks …
Gordon Haff / CNET News:
IBM building ‘green’ data center at Syracuse — Not long ago the infrastructure pieces needed to construct a data center were pretty straightforward—Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units, power conditioning equipment, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), and electrical and plumbing to tie it all together.
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