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Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines:
Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion — Dell says it has agreed to buy the IT services company Perot Systems for about $3.9 billion as it looks to expand beyond the PC business. — The Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said Monday that it will offer $30 per share in cash for Perot, which is based in Plano, Texas, 200 miles away.
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Dell to Acquire Perot Systems for $3.9 Billion, Creating Comprehensive, Customer-Focused IT-Solutions Company — Dell and Perot Systems have entered a definitive agreement for Dell to acquire Perot Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion.
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Between the Lines, New York Times, GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, Digital Daily and GMSV
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Pink and Microsoft Tablet (Take 2): A couple of updates — Project Pink and the rumored remake of a Microsoft Tablet are back on the rumor treadmill this weekend. — It's been quiet out there lately on both fronts. Here's a recap — plus a couple of small updates — that I've heard recently about these two skunk-works efforts.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Adds Zimbra to the Garage Sale, as It Tries to Shed What Isn't “You!” — According to numerous sources, Yahoo has also been shopping around Zimbra, the open-source email company it bought in late 2007 for $350 million. — Zimbra is only one of the many assets of Yahoo (YHOO) …
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Suzanne Vranica / Digits:
Yahoo's New Ad Pitch: 'It's You!' — and Jessica E. Vascellaro — Yahoo is planning to reintroduce its battered brand to the public Tuesday with a massive global marketing campaign, according to people familiar with the effort. … The Internet company's new tagline, according to one of those people: “It's You!”
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Search Engine Land, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News, AppScout and paidContent, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Micheal Lopez / The Official Google Blog:
A mysterious series for H.G. Wells — You might have noticed an unexplained set of doodles on the Google homepage and a couple tweets from our official Twitter stream, @google, over the last two weeks. On September 5th, we posted a doodle with the abduction of our second ‘o’ and a coded tweet …
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Apple Seeking More Info From iPhone 3.1 Users Reporting Poor Battery Life — An undisclosed number of users who have posted on Apple's discussion boards about poor battery life following the iPhone 3.1 software update are being contacted by AppleCare helpdesk with a hefty list of 11 follow-up questions.
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PC World, MacRumors, Computerworld, Softpedia News, 9 to 5 Mac, PhoneDog.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Gizmodo Australia, Gizmodo, MobileContentToday, MacDailyNews and digg.com
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:Apple inquires with users about iPhone OS 3.1 battery life
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T's 3G MicroCell does unlimited calling, but it ain't cheap — How much would you expect to pay to cover AT&T's dead zone using your own internet bandwidth? We appreciate that these guys can't blanket every nook and cranny with HSPA, but carriers need to understand that femtocells …
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DSLreports, MacRumors, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Gearlog, Maximum PC, Gizmodo Australia, TidBITS, Wi-Fi Networking News and SlashGear
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Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
Gay men ‘can be identified by their Facebook friends’ — Homosexual men can be identified just by looking at their Facebook friends, according to unpublished research by two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. — The study found that it was possible to predict men's sexual orientation …
Andrew Yoon / Joystiq:
Square Enix head predicts new Wii in 2011, says motion ‘impact’ for Xbox, PlayStation will be ‘small’ — The new motion controllers for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are likely to make big appearances at this year's Tokyo Game Show. While both Microsoft and Sony are attempting to take away …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Robo.to TV Turns Status Messages Into Art — You know the viral “Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years”? Well, what if Noah took a 4-second video of himself instead? And what if everyone else did, too? That's kind of the effect you get from the new Robo.to TV service …
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Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:Robo.to: They're Watching the Social Web in Real Time - But Will It Pay?
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Adobe Gets Into Widget Distribution And Advertising With Help From Gigya — Many of the widgets scattered across the Web are made in Flash, but Adobe doesn't participate in the widget economy. Today, it is taking a first tentative step towards changing that with the release …
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Macworld, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, Webmonkey, VentureBeat, Ryan Stewart, The Connected Web, Softpedia News, The Register, InfoWorld and Seeking Alpha
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
FCC Outlines Its Net Neutrality Proposal — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, today outlined a framework aimed at ensuring that both wireline and wireless carriers don't discriminate against traffic traversing their networks based on the type of traffic or the application.
Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson introduces a world first - the Motion Activated Headphones MH907 — Escape the ordinary - listen to your favourite music and receive calls without touching a button with the Motion Activated Headphones MH907. — Sony Ericsson today unveils the world's first ever motion activated headphones that sense the user.
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Mobile-revivew.com, Engadget, IntoMobile, Geek.com, Anything But iPod, Gearlog, Softpedia News, SlashPhone, [Geeks Are Sexy] …, Phone Arena, Unwired View, SlashGear and I4U News
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Netgear offers a networked hard drive for the masses, with a caveat — The tech industry is gradually persuading Americans to set up home networks, but it's had a tougher time selling consumers on the idea of storing all their data on a single device within their homes.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Hollywood, We Have Plenty Of Half-Services. It's Time For A Whole One. — I was reading over a pitch tonight for a new streaming movie service called Epix HD, when I looked up from my computer to my TV stand. On it, I saw an Apple TV, an Xbox 360, and a cable box.
