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David Ulevitch / OpenDNS System:
Youtube down, not OpenDNS — Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube. This isn't an OpenDNS issue. Just letting you all know. :-) — This is now fixed.
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BBC:
Pakistan ‘sparks YouTube outage’ — Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube has been blamed for an almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on Sunday. — BBC News has learned that the outage was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and Asian internet service provider PCCW.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Pakistan blamed for global YouTube outage — Updated, 4:20 p.m. to add possible Pakistan connection. — At a time when extended site outages are becoming less common, YouTube was down on Sunday for at least 40 minutes. — The first reports started coming in at about 11:30 a.m. PT and the site came back up at about 12:15 p.m. PT
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Updated: Electronic Arts Makes a $2 Billion Cash Bid For Take-Two; TT Rejects Again, But Door Open — Updated below: Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has made a $2 billion cash bid for Take-Two Interactive, best known for “Grand Theft Auto”, “Madden” and “Need for Speed”.
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CNET News.com, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, CenterNetworks, MTV Multiplayer and Newspond.com
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
To keep its top spot, EA tries to buy Take-Two — In a startling bit of news, Electronic Arts announced Sunday morning that it has launched an uninvited bid to buy Grand Theft Auto video game franchise publisher Take-Two Interactive Software for $26 a share, or what could be a $2 billion deal.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Microsoft launches private beta of Internet Explorer 8 — Microsoft has sent out a letter to a select group of beta testers offering a chance to participate in a technical preview of Internet Explorer 8 beta 1. — There's not a whole heck of a lot of information about what IE8 will look like, what features it has, or anything else.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon
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Howard Rheingold / Smart Mobs:
Why I'm hooked on Twitter — 21st Century Literacies - Technologies of Cooperation … On a message board, a student asked me why I said I was hooked on Twitter. I replied off the top of my head. Sometimes, that's better than taking longer to compose something more elaborately thought out.
Associated Press:
Microsoft Pulls Plug on HD DVD Players — SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definition video format battle to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray. — Microsoft said Saturday it would continue …
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USA Today:
Online auction listings down 13% in boycott of eBay — SAN FRANCISCO — The biggest boycott by eBay (EBAY) sellers concludes Monday, capping a week of acrimony after the online-auction site raised fees and changed its feedback policy. — Auction listings on eBay.com dropped some 13% since …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Ad spending moving from portals to search, entertainment sites — For online advertising, the word is that portals are out, but search, entertainment, and social network sites are in. — That's according to a report released on Sunday by Avenue A/Razorfish, the ad agency part …
Slorker:
A Haunting Live Soap Opera: A Surveillance ScreenSaver — SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver which shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. Yep, when your computer is idle you'll get to see a live feed of what's going on in other parts of the world.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
An Experiment in Lifesourcing — What if you could tap into your social net (or even strangers) and ditch time intensive information tasks that you have to do in favor of the higher value stuff that you're best at? After an experiment in “lifesourcing” some work to India …
