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12:30 AM ET, March 3, 2008

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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
Intel Drops an ‘Atom’ Brand  —  The chip maker's new Atom brand includes its Diamondville chip for low-cost laptops and its Silverthorne processor for mobile Internet devices.  —  Intel's latest branding scheme is truly atomic.  —  Starting March 3, Intel will corral all its processors for MIDs …
Nick / Rough Type:
Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push  —  I've received a few more hints about the big cloud-computing initiative Microsoft may be about to announce, perhaps during the company's Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this coming week.  One of the cornerstones of the strategy, I've heard …
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Dan Farber / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's supersized data center plans  —  We are in the midst of the digital land grab for Internet users.  And a key building block to serve those billions of users on the planet is tens of thousands of servers in data centers processing the bits.  —  Nick Carr has received hints …
Discussion: Rough Type
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
I Need a Virtual Break.  No, Really.  —  I TOOK a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off.  I was fully disconnected for 24 hours.  —  The reason for this change was a natural and predictable back-breaking straw.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T?  It's a Deal  —  Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: the two sides are talking but they don't speak each other's language.  A new venture involving a phone company may just add Pluto into the mix.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will RealNetworks Buy Scrabulous?  —  Scrabulous is like Danger Mouse's The Grey Album of Facebook Apps.  Everyone loves it except the guys who own Scrabble (Mattel and Hasbro), the board game that inspired Scrabulous.  —  The legal troubles of the game cooked up by Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla …
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Nine Inch Nails Pushes Onward In Digital Music Distribution Experimentation  —  Continuing their ongoing digital music experimentations, Nine Inch Nails has released a new instrumental album online named Ghosts I-IV.  —  Like Radiohead's In Rainbows before it, you can choose the price you pay …
Discussion: paidContent.org and Digg
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Offline Wars about to heat up?  —  Ryan Stewart (who works at Adobe) wonders if Microsoft is bringing an offline version of Silverlight out this week at Mix.  —  I'm hearing that Google is about to ship something major offline too.  —  So, for the next month we might hear “go offline” …
John Fontana / PC World:
Rules altered in OOXML standardization process  —  Rules changed on the fly to meet five-day deadline to discuss concerns with specification; final vote due in 30 days  —  ISO delegates working to standardize Open Office XML created new rules on the fly to cover the fact they failed …
Discussion: Open Source
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
After Hijacking Site, Scammers Move to Seize Shareaza Trademark  —  After taking control of Shareaza.com, imposters trying to pass themselves off as an open-source dev team have stepped up their action to destroy the GNU GPL licensed project.  In an audacious move, lawyers representing Discordia Ltd …
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