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8:25 AM ET, March 3, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
When Will We Have Our First Valleywag Suicide?  —  Today I read all the sordid details about the alleged sexual encounter between a notable technology visionary and a woman who appears to be looking for as much publicity as possible.  Where did I read it?  On the Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag.
Discussion: O'Flaherty
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
After Suicide, Blog Insults Are Debated  —  Advertising blogs churn out some of the Web's more scathing, and personal, vitriol.  Last week, the bloggers absorbed some body blows of their own.  —  Visitors to AgencySpy and AdScam, two sharp-tongued blogs written by advertising industry insiders …
Discussion: IP Democracy, MediaVidea and Gawker
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DailyTech:
Thinking Small: New Intel Architecture Champions Sub 1 Watt x86  —  10 Watts, 4 Watts — why stop there?  Intel debuts 0.6 Watt x86 processor  —  A flurry of announcements and roadmaps from Intel this week shed light on the company's 5.5 Watt Penryn and the 4 Watt Diamondville processors.
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:   Intel chooses ‘Atom’ name for new chips
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Expand Microsoft Online Services for Businesses of All Sizes  —  Exchange Online and SharePoint Online enter beta.  —  Monday from the annual Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., will announce that the company will offer Microsoft Online Services to businesses of all sizes.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I Really Hope Microsoft Has More Than This  —  Excitement rose this weekend with the rumor, kicked off by Nick Carr, that Microsoft may be releasing web versions of Office and other software.  Software and storage would be moving to the cloud.  —  But now I fear that the rumor may have been wrong …
Discussion: p2pnet and Team Think
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites  —  Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download.  The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
MacBook Air aflutter: demand stays strong, sold out often  —  It might not be the iPhone, but the MacBook Air is selling much stronger than many of us would have guessed.  After a full month of being on the market, the Macbook Air is still a difficult commodity to obtain in some markets …
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone gets native P2P torrent software  —  Your iPhone plays audio.  Your iPhone plays video.  Until now, you had to sync those suckers.  Today, the insanely brilliant iPhone Hacker core announced a preliminary version of a Transmission Peer-to-Peer client for iPhone.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Digg
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wickedpsyched.net:
Torrent P2P torrent on the iPhone, a sad tale of woe, misery …
Discussion: IntoMobile
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write Unfiltered Blog  —  Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart's biggest suppliers.  But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista.  —  “Is it really all that and a bag of chips?” he wrote on his blog.
Discussion: The Stalwart
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ASUS busts out 7-inch R70 UMPC at CeBIT  —  It's big, thick, lacking any sort of keyboard and not all that pretty.  But if you're aching for ASUS' next gen UMPC to cut loose from the product chute then the R70a is it.  Besides toting a 7-inch display with Vista tucked inside a 120GB disk …
Discussion: Gadgetell and Technology Questions
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Enterprise Community Provider Mzinga Swallows Propsero  —  Burlington, MA-based Mzinga, which provides social networking, community, and e-learning solutions for the enterprise, is today announcing that it has acquired Prospero.  Prospero is itself a provider of enterprise community solutions …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
More Consolidation in the White Label Social Networking Space …
Discussion: Mashable! and chrisbrogan.com
Rachael King / Business Week:
Building a Brand with Widgets  —  The customizable bits of software on Facebook and other social networking sites are the latest trend in viral marketing.  But are widgets here to stay?  —  The cards were stacked against A&E Television Network as it tried to generate positive buzz about its new series, Parking Wars.
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 supersize data center plans
 
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John Hagel / Edge Perspectives with John Hagel:
Shift Happens - The Future of Advertising
Reuters:
Facebook lets its users translate site into German
Discussion: PDA
Dan Harrelson / Adaptive Path:
The Death of Mobile Applications?
Discussion: Mobile Opportunity
Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Faux Facebook fatigue
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
First spam felony conviction upheld: no free speech to spam
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA plays both sides of the street in music royalty debate
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
After Hijacking Site, Scammers Move to Seize Shareaza Trademark
Discussion: Digg
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It's a Deal
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Offline Wars about to heat up?
Discussion: Beet.TV and Ryan Stewart
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really.
 

 
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