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11:20 AM ET, May 14, 2007

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Jossip:
CBS News Acquiring Wallstrip, New Headache in Eeking Out Online Profits  —  Wallstrip - the Wall Street web video program featuring Lindsay Campbell trying to make the Nasdaq hilarious - is being snapped up by CBS News, we're told, for something in the $5 million range.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
CBS Acquires WallStrip for $5 million  —  Jossip is reporting that corporate focused video blog WallStrip has been acquired by CBS News for $5 million.  The report states that an announcement is expected early this week and involves WallStrip host Lindsay Campbell being the next Amanda Congdon for CBS, fronting online shows.
Discussion: duncanriley.com
Fred / A VC:
Getting The Story Straight
Discussion: ben barren
The Age:
First A4 colour e-paper unfurled  —  The world's first A4-sized colour electronic-paper - a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel, produced LCD.  —  South Korea's LG Philips LCD has developed the world's first A4-sized colour electronic-paper - a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel.
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Forbes:   SKorea's LG Philips develops first A4 color e-paper
Darren Murph / Engadget:
LG Philips announces A4 color e-paper
Discussion: Gadget Lab and Slashdot
enthusiast.hardocp.com:
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT  —  ATI's DirectX 10 capable GPU is finally here in the form of the Radeon HD 2900 XT.  Does this $399 video card have what it takes to compete with NVIDIA's 8800 series?  We explore the architecture, image quality, and real world gaming that shows a different experience than canned benchmarks.
Discussion: CNET News.com and digg
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AMD:
AMD Names the Next PC Computing Thrill Ride: The AMD Phenom™ Processor  — Industry's only true x86 quad-core architecture paired with the ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 series to offer a phenomenal computing experience —  Delivering a four-core foreshadowing of innovations to come …
Discussion: AnandTech and Gizmodo
BBC:
Web 2.0 'distracts good design'  —  Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said.  —  He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served.  —  He said sites peppered …
Discussion: i-boy and Slashdot
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Source: Apple may build 3G wireless into future notebook model  —  Apple Inc.'s next big step into wireless may well be an integrated cellular broadband module, says one source — but would have a unique spin on an established formula.  —  An unproven but seemingly credible source …
Discussion: Engadget, CrunchGear and MacDailyNews
Roger Parloff / Fortune:
Microsoft takes on the free world  —  Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents.  It wants royalties from distributors and users.  Users like you, maybe.  Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Attention Wal-Mart customers, Skype now in aisle voice  —  Wal-Mart is going to start selling nine Skype-certified hardware devices (and by extension the Skype service) in all of its stores.  The deal also includes Skype pre-paid cards.  Wal-Mart is the first retailer in the U.S …
Discussion: VoIP & Gadgets Blog and jkOnTheRun
comScore:
Mobile Web Audience Already One-Fifth the Size of PC-Based Internet Audience in the U.K.  —  Early Adopters of Mobile Internet Tend to be Males and Under the Age of 35  —  Telephia and comScore today announced the results of their latest study of mobile vs. PC-based Internet usage.
Discussion: MobileCrunch and mocoNews.net
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple iPhones on eBay for $1,000 to $10,000  —  A bidding war has broken out on eBay for Apple (AAPL) iPhones.  —  Prices for at least two of the $500-$600 devices have been driven past the $1,000 mark.  One sale that closes today had 38 bids as of this morning.  Last best offer: $1,025 plus $10 shipping.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Computerworld:
Cell Phones Now Helping to Guide the Blind  —  In Stockholm, wireless technology helps blind people navigate independently.  —  Juris Kaza Today's Top Stories or Other Mobile Devices Stories  —  Although Sweden's reputation for extremely generous social welfare services is somewhat exaggerated …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo To Finally Upgrade MyBlogLog
Discussion: Library clips and duncanriley.com
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog  —  Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day's e-mail.  Coulton is 36 and shaggily handsome.  In September 2005, he quit his job as a computer programmer and …
Michael Pick / Robin Good's Latest News:
Video News Releases That Pay: Syndicate The Latest News Clips And Monetize Your Blog  —  Bringing the latest video news releases to your readers can really liven up any article or blog post.  Wouldn't it be great if you could seek out the latest news clips from a range of categories …
Drew / Dembot:
+ Why do Video Platforms Fail?  —  In online video, there is big interest in the entry point, the place where people go to discover and watch video and ultimately where payment is made, one way or another, for the watching.  For some incredible reason that I can not fathom …
Discussion: Podcasting News
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
Help Key: The Essential Guide to Piracy … Piracy is an action sport.  The ability to infringe copyright and steal valuable work induces a rush like no other.  Whether you steal music, movies, books, applications, or whatever, it feels like breaking the law and it saves our wallets and purses from becoming empty.
Discussion: p2pnet
 
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David S. Joachim / New York Times:
A Nod to Journalistic Integrity Is Seen in an Editor's Return
USA Today:
Computers bumped from top of online sales
Discussion: Things That
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Understanding Apollo  —  During my recent visit to the US …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Facebook Marketplace: WRONG! Not Oodled
Guardian:
Google may use games to analyse net users
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Brooks Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Can CBS Put the Net Into Network?
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Advertising: Trying to Keep the Viewers When the Ads Come On
Discussion: i-boy
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Microsoft's (Beta!) VoIP Device Blitz
 Earlier Items: 
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Memorex finally goes color with MMP8640 4GB DAP
Discussion: CNET News.com and Chip Chick
Eric Miraglia / Yahoo! User Interface Blog:
YUI Theater — David Weinberger in Conversation with Bradley Horowitz
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Contextual Overlay Advertising in Online Video is Here: Metacafe …
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Gizmodo:
BRING ON THE DIGG MOBS  —  Ambient TV Brings Web 2.0 …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Enterprise RSS - 3 Major Vendors Show The Way
ongoing:
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Techmeme's Gabe Rivera Reveals His Secret Sauce in Rare TV Interview …
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
RFID being tapped to stifle exam cheaters
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