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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
SGI files for Chapter 11 protection — Silicon Graphics Inc. announced on Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to reorganize and re-emerge from its financial woes. — SGI, a former high-flying server and workstation maker for Hollywood and the graphics industry …
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Reuters:
Silicon Graphics files for Chapter 11 — Computer firm's stock plunges on news, as company blames delays in rolling out new technology, competition from rivals. — BOSTON (Reuters) - Silicon Graphics Inc., a struggling maker of high-performance business computers, Monday filed …
Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog:
Silicon Graphics files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy — It's another harbinger of the end of the first major wave of computing companies in the Internet business: today long-time graphics darling Silicon Graphics threw in the proverbial towel, filing for bankruptcy.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Unveils Public Details Of "Panama" Ad System Upgrade — Yahoo's finally gone public with details about its new "Panama" ad system upgrade, which when launched later this year will bring the system up to matching what Google's long offered, though both Yahoo and Google …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Eyeballs 2.0 - Boom or Bust? — Yahoo, should have been the king of online advertising, it is not. It should have owned the market now dominated by Google's Ad Sense. It does not, but has now launched a comprehensive plans to compete with Google in the market place.
BBC:
Beatles lose Apple court battle — The Beatles have lost their court challenge against Apple Computer over its iPod and iTunes download service. — Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of George Harrison and John Lennon control the Apple Corps label.
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Philippe Naughton / Times of London:
Jobs invites Beatles to join iTunes after Apple legal victory — The Beatles were invited to join the iTunes music revolution today after losing their trademark battle with Apple Computer. — Apple Corps, the company set up by the Fab Four in 1968, had wanted multi-million pound damages …
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Andrew Chung / Toronto Star:
Revenge of the nerds — Three computer geeks at the U of T are renowned developers of anti-censorship software, including a program out this month that could allow people to outwit the world's most repressive regimes — Looking at them you might not guess it.
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Neville / NevilleHobson.com:
OPML sharing needs to be easier — Steve Rubel is right: … Today, though, OPML is definitely a tech tool that requires some perseverance in understanding how to use it beyond just importing and exporting your RSS feeds list in and out of your RSS reader.
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Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Do More: Online To Do Lists Compared — Time is our most valuable commodity. Productivity pays. Procrastination costs us time and money, and leaves us stressed, exhausted and unreliable in the eyes of others. — For many, the classic "To Do" list is the remedy.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AT&T Plans Satellite Broadband, WiMAX — AT&T is dead serious about broadband, and is expanding its range of broadband offerings. AT&T Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre outlined company's future broadband plans at the Detroit Economic Club. — AT&T will start selling a satellite-based broadband service later …
Maura Welch / Boston Globe:
Online plagiarism strikes blog world — Beth gets more than 500 hits per day at her blog, Cursed to First, which serves as a very personal homage to the Red Sox and the Patriots, so she knew that spicy entries like ''Chicks dig the long ball" were being read. She didn't realize until recently that they were also being ripped off.
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Lev Grossman / Time:
A Game For All Ages — Nintendo gave TIME the first look at its new gadget, which it hopes will turn girls and even granddads into video gamers — It is cherry-blossom time in Kyoto, Japan, and I am dancing the hula for Shigeru Miyamoto. It's not easy to get into the hula spirit …
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Samsung SGH-X820: World's Slimmest Phone, Again — How thin can a cellphone get? Samsung has created a handset that needs to run around in the shower just to get wet with this SGH-X820, which is a nearly-invisible 6.9mm thick. Even though it's so doggone slim, it still has a fat feature set …
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Back in the USSR — Nick Carr is truly the gift that keeps on giving. His latest can-opener concerns the alleged Google strategy of converting all reading interfaces to search and keyword (i.e. tagging) interfaces. Nick's genius (I think he is the leader in the post-dvorak world of meme-baiting) …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Look Who's Talking — I returned from New York last night, after a fun weekend. Excellent weather combined with street fairs - the big city was pulsating. And it had a raw energy, which can be felt, not described. I think a lot of that has to do with people moving about, and walking in the streets.
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