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BBC:
Teraflop chip hints at the future — A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel. — The Teraflop chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo Mail integrates IM — Beginning Monday, some Yahoo Mail users will be able to chat in real time through their e-mail program. Yahoo said in November that it would embed instant-messaging technology directly into its Yahoo Mail program so that users wouldn't have to open up …
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ZDNet:
Microsoft launches 'PlayReady' DRM system — Microsoft has launched a new digital rights management system that will allow users to use commercial content on multiple different devices for a single fee. — Microsoft PlayReady was unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
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laptopmag.com:
HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger — HP's latest iPAQ doesn't look like an iPAQ at all. It's a compact candy bar phone without a keyboard, and that features Wi-Fi and runs Windows Mobile 6. The 510's biggest innovation, however, is its Voice Commander technology, which enables the phone to read …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FilmLoop Betrayed By Investors? — When I added FilmLoop to the TechCrunch DeadPool last month based on rumors of mass layoffs, it was clear there was more to the story. The thirty person company had raised $11.5 million in capital and by any calculation should have still had at least $3 - $5 million left in the bank.
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Nokia:
Nokia unveils new mobile internet video experience — Co-operation with YouTube allows users to enjoy YouTube(TM) videos on the go via Nokia Nseries devices — 3GSM World Congress 2007, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced a new mobile internet video experience …
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Crave: The gadget blog:
Nerf and Nintendo's Safety Dance — You might already be familiar with the Nerf PS2 controller, a foam-covered wireless game pad that can survive the angry throws of frustrated gamers. Now Nerf is getting into the Wii accessory game, and televisions everywhere might be a little bit safer for it.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:Nerf Sports Pack for Nintendo Wii stops the violence — sort of
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Andrew / Treonauts:
Windows Mobile 6 On Treo 750: Exclusive First Images! — Yesterday at 3GSM in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed details of its new Windows Mobile 6 operating system which features support for rich HTML e-mail, increased functionality within Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile and Office Mobile programs …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero" — A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.
Gamasutra:
The 10 Minutes Game Sales Potential Test — Everybody in the gaming industry has a great idea for a game. The desire to see that idea become a reality is what brought many of us to this industry. Sadly, the quality of this idea - or even of the game itself - isn't enough to guarantee …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
YouTube shuts down Gawker account — YouTube has removed videos posted to the site by Gawker Media, many of which featured clips from top TV shows that appeared between advertisements for Gawker's blogs. — More than 50 clips were removed and the YouTube user account, "belowtheradar," …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google decried as friend of piracy over AdSense earnings on piracy sites — Google rules the direct marketing world thanks to AdSense, and AdSense is popular thanks to the fact that almost anyone can sign up. As it turns out, that's a problem when sites break the law.
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Podcasting to Generate $400 Mil. in Ads by 2011 — Podcasting, the hot new media darling before YouTube mania swept in, is poised for a major growth spurt in ad dollars, despite the fact that the young medium's usage has failed to match the recent proliferation of Apple's iPod and other MP3-playing devices.
MarketWatch:
YouTube to post classic TV shows — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — YouTube Inc. plans to offer more than 4,000 hours of classic television shows, including "I Spy," "Gumby" and other material from Digital Music Group Inc., an online distributor of independently owned music, TV and film catalogs, it was announced Monday.
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Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Will Widgets Kill the Webpage? (Exclusive Netvibes video). … Click To Play … Tariq Krim is widget crazy (watch the video above). The CEO of French startup Netvibes, the site where you can build a personal homepage from news and data feeds from all over the Web, is about to unleash a whole lot of widgets onto the Web.
USA Today:
EMI in talks to dump copy protection — LOS ANGELES — The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection. — Major label EMI — home of Coldplay and Norah Jones — is in discussions with online music stores about selling its music without copy protection …
Smaran / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair — The article titled "Pirates of the Multiplex" discusses the new age of sharing movies over the Internet with the help of technologies like BitTorrent. The author describes his experience with UKNova, a torrent site of which he was a member.
Alan Graham / Web 2.0 Explorer:
CommunityNext Highlights — 300-400 people got together this weekend at Stanford to find out what would happen if you supplied them with unlimited Red Bull and Rice Krispie Treats. — Organized by Noah Kagan and described as... We started on Friday night with about 30-40 people at a dinner in Palo Alto.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Command, Option, Control — Two asinine criticisms of Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music" are that (a) it's a shameless attempt to jump on the anti-DRM bandwagon — i.e. that Jobs and Apple are merely attempting to take credit for the already inevitable move toward non-DRM music; and (b) …
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Can Executives Find Happiness With a BlackBerry Minus Its Scroll Wheel? — Executives who are longtime BlackBerry users will have to teach their right thumb some new tricks if they switch to a model introduced on Monday. — The model, the BlackBerry 8800, eliminates a tiny scroll wheel …
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