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11:10 AM ET, January 22, 2008

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GigaOM:
Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight  —  Yahoo has lost about $20 billion in market cap over the last two years.  The fight that it was supposed to put up against Google has been full of Brownian Motion, generating no real momentum.  —  Yahoo has a staggering 500 million users.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo
Chris / LiveSide:
Windows 7 details emerge - look Software + Services  —  Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners.  One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and while unsurprisingly its difficult to verify this …
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Neowin.net forum member posts first review of Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1  —  Looks like it didn't take long for the first external build of Windows 7 to be leaked on to the interwebs.  Black fumes were reported escaping Steven Sinofsky's office earlier this morning after news Microsoft …
Discussion: TechBlog, Neowin.net and Slashdot
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple store down: pink iPod nano and Canadian iPhone rumors swirl  —  Yup, it's down again... on a Tuesday... just hours before they announce their quarterly financials.  We've been hearing about new pink iPod nanos all morning which have apparently been shipped to big box retail locations.
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Apple Pushes Pink iPod nano in Time for Your Valentine
Mylene Mangalindan / Wall Street Journal:
EBay Chief Whitman Plans to Retire  —  EBay Inc. Chief Executive Meg Whitman is preparing to retire.  —  In the past few months, Ms. Whitman, who has led the San Jose, Calif., Internet auctioneer since March 1998, has been delegating more daily responsibilities to her lieutenants and is completing …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
eBay's Whitman To Retire; Donahoe As Leading Candidate
Discussion: The Register and David Galbraith
Jeffro / Jeffro2pt0.com:
The Digg Story Doesn't Sell Anymore  —  Muhammad Saleem posted an article on Techcrunch.com that goes over 9 different reasons on why the Digg story sells.  Muhammad makes a series of points that I agree helped to propel Digg.com to success.  However, the golden days of Digg.com are long gone.
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Muhammad Saleem / TechCrunch:
9 Reasons Why The Digg Story Sells
Discussion: Digg
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista virtualization move opens real doors  —  Microsoft's decision to allow Home versions of Vista to run inside virtual machines may have far-reaching benefits in the coming years.  —  The initial market for such virtual Vista machines is likely to be among Mac users looking to run Windows …
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Robert McLaws / Windows Vista Edition:
Microsoft Caves on Vista Virtualization
Discussion: The Register, The Tech Report and eWeek
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pownce Opens To Public Tonight At Midnight; Early Screen Shots Of New Features  —  Pownce, a service that lets users send messages, files, links, and events to friends, first launched into private beta over six months ago.  It was founded by Leah Culver, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka (Rose and Burka of Digg fame).
Joe Fay / The Register:
IBM snubs OS/2 open source plea  —  IBM has dashed the hopes of a bunch of software nostalgics by refusing to open source its coulda, woulda, shoulda OS/2 platform.  —  Online OS/2 community OS/2 World.com first petitioned IBM to throw open the OS back in 2005, when the firm stopped selling the product.
Discussion: OSDir.com
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Kim Haverblad / os2world.com:
IBM's response to the 2nd petition letter
USA Today:
Boston gets Comcast's TiVo-powered DVR  —  NEW YORK — TiVo aims to make life easy for its digital video recorder customers.  But its journey to this potentially pivotal week was extraordinarily difficult.  —  After three years of painstaking work, Comcast, (CMCSA) the nation's largest cable provider …
Paul Taylor / Inquirer:
HD3870X2 delayed, benchmarked  —  West misses East by a week  —  AMD HAS riled world+dog by back the date on the 3870X2 launch.  —  NDA'd for today, the twin engine graphics card was supposed to shock and awe consumers around the world as hardware sites were to publish their benchies on the beast.
Discussion: CNET News.com
Nokia:
Nokia unveils two handsets that offer a range of useful features and colours aimed at consumers in emerging markets  —  Nokia Sharing Survey reveals mobile phone sharing on the rise  —  Espoo, Finland - Today, Nokia unveiled the Nokia 2600 classic and the Nokia 1209, two mobile handsets …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Mobiles linked to insomnia  —  Chatting on a mobile phone before bedtime makes for more restless nights, a Swedish researcher who headed up a study on the subject cautioned today.  —  “If you feel you have trouble sleeping, you should think about not talking on a mobile phone right before you go to bed …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Airwaves, Web Power at Auction  —  WASHINGTON — The auction for rights to a highly valuable swath of the nation's airwaves will begin Thursday and is expected to include multibillion-dollar bids from the nation's two biggest wireless phone companies, Verizon and AT&T, as well as Google.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
IFPI Fails to Force ISPs to Become Anti-Piracy Enforcers  —  The IFPI has been hard at work in its attempts to lobby members of the European Parliament to introduce legislation which would force ISPs to take extreme measures to fight piracy.  They suggested that ISPs should start …
Discussion: p2pnet and Boing Boing
Verne Kopytoff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Recording industry threatens to sue students  —  Natalie Miles, a legal studies student at UC Santa Cruz, is getting some unwelcome education in her major.  —  Attorneys representing some of Hollywood's biggest companies say the 20-year-old illegally made 599 songs available for sharing on a popular online service.
 
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Jarno / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
New Symbian Worm in the Wild
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Netvibes gets unnecessary social features
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
MacBook Air Unboxed, Compared to Sony VAIO
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Shooting yourself in the foot: Time Warner's usage caps
Discussion: DSLreports
comScore:
U.K. Traditional Media Brands Attract Online Audiences From Around the World
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Larry Dignan / Zero Day:
Virtualization: What are the security risks?
Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Olympus Stylus 1030SW Is Drop-, Water- and Freeze-Proof
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Re: Google's Vint Cerf Interviewed
Discussion: Search Engine Land
 Earlier Items: 
Steven Hodson / WinExtra:
Is it really about the conversation?
Discussion: chrisbrogan.com
Richard Wray / Guardian:
EA looks to ads in free games
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The UGC limb, day 2  —  Following up on yesterday's piece on UGC as a business model.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
The $20 iPod touch upgrade: really for legal reasons or no?
The Register:
Latest iPhone firmware unlocked
Niclas Mika / Reuters:
Dutch firm launches phone with fold-away screen
Justin Moresco / Red Herring:
Online Video Ads Must Change
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Viral + Monetizable = StartUp Magic Quadrant
Discussion: Alec Saunders .LOG