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Chad Lorenz / Slate:
The Death of E-Mail — TEENAGERS ARE ABANDONING THEIR YAHOO! AND HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS. DO THE REST OF US HAVE TO? — By 2002, everyone in my family had become an Internet convert. For the technophobic older generation, signing up for an e-mail account was a concession to us youngsters …
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Is email dead? No, but it's not well — After I wrote a post yesterday about Google and Yahoo's plans to turn email into a Facebook-style social hub, someone commented and included a link to a Slate piece about the "death of email." As Zoli Erdos notes in his response …
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Email, 1961-2007 R.I.P... Thank God! — The death of e-mail. - By Chad Lorenz - Slate Magazine Slate Magazine is out with an article titled "The Death of Email." The article points to the declining useage of email by the people who really matter. The kids.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Leopard 10.5.1 is now available — Leopard bugs got you down? Apple just pushed out its first update for the new OS, 10.5.1. It looks like it cures a whole laundry list of niggles with Leopard, including that nasty "potential data loss" issue with partitions in Finder.
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Dan / UNEASYsilence:Load OSX 10.5 Leopard on the eeePC
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:Apple issues an early fix for Leopard...
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. to Push 'Cloud Computing,' Using Data From Afar — I.B.M. plans to build a sizable business by bringing Google-style computing to mainstream corporate customers. — The I.B.M. strategy, to be announced today, seeks to exploit the technical work and commercial interest in large data centers …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
CBS Offers Midtown Manhattan Free Wireless Internet Access — Some awesome news out of Manhattan today. CBS Corporation has announced today that it will "light up" midtown Manhattan with the creation of the "CBS Mobile Zone," a wireless high-speed network enabling New Yorkers …
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Sony's PS3 With Blu-ray Gets Back In the Game — Sony appears to be coming up with a winning formula. Amazing what a steep price cut will do, but you can't argue with success. Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO, is on the wires saying Sony — [SNE Loading...
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Paul McIntyre / Sydney Morning Herald:
Revenue: one search Google won't answer — Karim Temsamani ... expecting a surge in online advertising to be sustained for two years. — GOOGLE's new Australasian boss has predicted a surging online advertising market for the next two years, challenging recent industry predictions of a slowdown in the booming sector for 2008.
Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
Modern PCs to challenge WWII codebreaker — Colossus, the cipher-breaking World War II computer, is to be pitted against modern computing power in a competition organized by the National Museum of Computing. — In an event called the "Cipher Challenge," running on Thursday and Friday …
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Times of London:
Hidden crime of 'wi-fi tapping': only 11 arrests but most of us are guilty — More than half of computer users have illegally logged on to someone else's wi-fi connection yet only 11 people have been arrested for the crime, an investigation by The Times has found.
Blake Snow / PC World:
Xbox Originals Are Imperfect Says Microsoft — Microsoft says "there are some known issues" with the downloadable games including choppy visuals, lack of additional content, and even system crashing. — Recommend this story? — A day after confirming downloadable Xbox games for 360 …
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Amazon 'Customers Vote' deals are outstanding — How'd you like a Wii for $79? Unbelievable. See this is why you can't get a Wii anywhere. Amazon's been hoarding them all for this very event. Up for grabs is your choice of 1000 Wii consoles at $79 each, 1000 40GB PS3 consoles at $139 each …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Loopt extends location alerts — Loopt, which offers a mobile friend-finding service, has extended the reach of its application with a new feature that allows users to notify not just other Loopt users but any friend of their whereabouts via text or IM. — Starting Thursday the Loopt service …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
BEA: Shares Slump As Oracle's Ellison Says The Stock Is Worth Less Than The Already-Rejected $17 Bid — Now they've done it: BEA Systems (BEAS) has made Oracle's (ORCL) Larry Ellison mad. And BEA shareholders are paying the price. As you no doubt know by now, Oracle recently offered to buy BEA for $17 a share.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Jajah, Jangl Team Up. No Not Like That — Back in 2006 a whole crop of VoIP app companies cropped up, each one trying to figure out how they can make a business out of voice, including in-fashion, if pointless forays such as embeddable widgets for social networks. One had to look really hard to find any difference.
