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1:45 PM ET, February 7, 2008

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Google News Blog:
All News is Local  —  Something you already know about Google News is that we crawl thousands of sources from around the world.  This means you get as many different perspectives on a story from many perspectives.  A while back, we started thinking about how to bring this same diversity …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Look Out Topix - Google Launches Localized News Service  —  Topix has made a name by aggregating tens of thousands of local news sources and aggregating them online (they also like citizen journalists).  It was only a matter of time before Google expanded their news product to compete more directly with Topix.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Local News
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
GOOGLE'S LOCAL NEWS PLAY IS A WARNING TO ALL
Discussion: Lost Remote
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
OpenID Welcomes Microsoft, Google, Verisign and IBM  —  As anticipated by TechCrunch UK in early January, OpenID is welcoming some big new partners to the club - Microsoft, Google, Verisign and IBM (TechCrunch UK anticipated all but Microsoft).  —  Google has been dabbling with OpenID …
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The Shared Admin / OpenID:
Evolving the OpenID Foundation Board  —  This morning the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board.  The OpenID Foundation was formed in early 2006 by seven community members with the goal of helping promote, protect and enabling the OpenID technologies and community.
Bill Washburn / The Earth Times Online Newspaper:
Technology Leaders Join OpenID Foundation to Promote Open Identity Management on the Web  —  The OpenID Foundation today announced that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) have joined as its first corporate board members.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
OpenID: Google, Yahoo, IBM and More Put Some Money Where Their Mouths Are
Discussion: Silicon Florist
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:   OpenID Foundation scores top-shelf board members
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Google, Microsoft, Verisign and IBM join OpenID
Discussion: PDA and The Real McCrea
Parimal Satyal / Rev2.org:
Google Releases Forms as Spreadsheets Input Method  —  Google today introduced a new feature as part of Google Docs that will make collecting data for your spreadsheets very easy.  Now, every time you want other users/team members/collaborators to contribute data to your spreadsheet, you can do so in a very simple way.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
ARM demoing Android prototype at Mobile World Congress?  —  According to Reuters, chipmaker ARM has plans to show off an Android-based “Google Phone” prototype at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.  The news agency is citing a “source” for this information, and both Google and ARM declined to comment …
Discussion: Electronista and Reuters
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Reuters:   ARM to show Google phone prototype next week: source
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Apple slashing hardware production due to fewer expected orders  —  Last week, we found out that Apple had decreased its iPod and iPhone orders, a move which analysts suggested was due to an expectation of lower demand for those products in the coming months.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Report: Apple cuts iPod, iPhone, and MacBook orders (again)
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Nick / Rough Type:
Sneaking behind IT's back
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
IBM shrinks Cell to 45nm.  Cheaper PS3s will follow  —  SAN FRANCISCO — At an ISSCC session yesterday afternoon, IBM announced details of a smaller, lower-power version of the Cell BE processor that powers Sony's PlayStation 3.  The Cell BE is currently fabricated on IBM's 65nm SOI process …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget, TechSpot News and Kotaku
Fred / A VC:
Silicon Valley Arrogance  —  I opened an email this morning that started like this: … That's as far as I got.  I replied with incredulity and moved on.  —  I am the first to admit that Silicon Valley has the largest concentration of web entrepreneurs, web developers, and web financiers of anywhere in the world.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Why Google's unstoppable  —  Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo because it believes online advertising will be a much bigger business than it is today, and it wants to have a piece of the pie.  Yahoo has a massive number of users, and the second-largest share of Internet searches.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and One By One Media
Virtual Earth:
Microsoft Acquisition news  —  Following on December's announcement that the UK's Multimap is now part of Microsoft, I'm really excited to share the news that the Virtual Earth team has grown once again.  This time in the field of 3D modeling and animation.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Bebo For a Billion?  A 100 Percent Chance of Wrongness!  —  First, Google and News Corp. are not about to buy Bebo for $1 billion to $1.5 billion.  —  Second, Bebo-as has been reported and is easy to find out about by anyone who can pick up a phone and ask around like a reporter is supposed …
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence  —  U.S. spies are looking increasingly online for intelligence and they've become major consumers of social media.  —  In keeping with its mandate to gather intelligence, the CIA is watching YouTube.  —  U.S. spies, now under the Director of National Intelligence …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA boss: Move copyright filtering from ISPs to users' PCs  —  Filtering sounds so wholesome.  As with filtered water, Internet filtering backers suggest that their products simply keep the sludge from passing through, and who wants to drink unfiltered sludge?
Discussion: Public Knowledge and DSLreports
Stephen Wellman / InformationWeek Weblog:
The Top 5 Reasons Nokia Should Bid On Yahoo  —  The entire tech universe is obsessed with Microsoft's attempt to take over Yahoo.  The market has been waiting for this move for the last year, so most of the “analysis” coming from bloggers and industry pundits is well-rehearsed and polished, but hardly thought-provoking.
 
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BBC:
BBC iPlayer to hit Macs in 2008
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Motorola:
Motorola Announces Family of Femtocell Solutions
Discussion: Engadget and Phone Scoop
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time To Change Microsoft - Yahoo (MSFT/YHOO), Here's a Better Deal
InfoWorld:
Facebook links up with Vodafone on mobile platform
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 8820 headed to T-Mobile on March 5th?
Discussion: BlackBerry Cool
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Guitar Rising for Real Guitar Heroes
Discussion: Listening Post and Digg
Michal Lev-Ram / Techland:
New phone morphs into multiple devices
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
eBay's new feedback policy: no real feedback
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An Industry Imperiled by Falling Profits and Shrinking Ads
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So much for whitespace: AdCamo launches background ad network
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches
Associated Press:
Facebook fraudster 'stole prince's ID'
Discussion: Techdirt and Switched
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Future CloudBooks to Have Touch, SSD, 22-inch Screens?
Charles Starrett / iLounge:
iPhone upgraders forced into new 2-year contracts? [updated]
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