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John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel Makes a Push Into Pocket-Size Internet Devices — SAN FRANCISCO — Intel plans to proclaim Wednesday in Shanghai that the next big thing in consumer gadgets will be the “Internet in your pocket.” — The challenge for the giant chip maker will be to prove that it is not too late …
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Why Apple Will Go Atomic — What will Steve Jobs do next? — Intel's plans may offer the best Rosetta stone for decoding the secretive Apple chief executive's intentions. The latest clue came Monday in Shanghai at the Intel Developer Forum, where the chip maker detailed its new lineup of low-cost …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google/Skype Acquisition or Partnership Imminent? — Something big is brewing between Google and Ebay's Skype, we've heard from multiple sources. Actually, for weeks now there have been low level rumors of the two companies talking, but nailing down any details was difficult.
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Dave Greenfield / Team Think:
Google to Buy Skype? — Rumors are out again that Ebay's albatross. aka Skype, may soon be unloaded to Google. The deal could be valued at as much as $6 billion: … Complaints with Skype isn't anything new. Rumors have been ripe for sometime that Ebay had to do somthing with the P2P VoIP system.
Darren Waters / BBC:
Children flock to social networks — More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social network, research shows. — Most sites, such as Bebo, MySpace and Facebook, set a minimum age of between 13 and 14 to create a profile but none actively enforce the age requirement.
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Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Social networks - will the government crack down? — Last week we had the Byron review, today we have Ofcom research on children and social networking and on Friday the Home Office will publish what it calls “Good Practice Guidance for the Providers of Social Networking and Other User Interactive Services”.
iso.org:
ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard — ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology - Office Open XML file formats, has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard. — Approval required at least 2/3 …
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Kevin J. O’Brien / New York Times:Reversing Loss, Microsoft Wins Open-Format Designation
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Furrier.org:
Breaking News: Google CIO Douglas Merrill Quits Becomes President of EMI — Update: People within EMI are saying that they are lining up mainstream media exclusives for tomorrow either NY Times or WSJ and want to kill all blog coverage. — More brain drain at Google.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service — Amazon has launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon customers to purchase items via mobile phone text message. — To use the service, customers text the name of a product, its description, or its UPC or ISBN number to Amazon (262966).
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Ben Hoyle / Times of London:
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing — Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales. — This is the bleak forecast of the Society of Authors, which represents …
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Associated Press:
Police: Couple covered up theft with Craigslist post — MEDFORD, Ore. — It wasn't a hoax or revenge that cost a Southern Oregon man many of his belongings when people responded to a Craigslist posting and nearly emptied his rural home, officers say: It was a pair of thieves covering their tracks.
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Rubicon Consulting:
The Apple iPhone: Successes and Challenges for the Mobile Industry — Quick Facts — The Apple iPhone is easily the most publicized new mobile device in recent memory. But despite all the discussion about the product, there's relatively little hard information available to the public on its impact.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Is sharing a folder copyright infringement? — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — A US Judge on Monday upheld the view that sharing copyrighted music is infringement. It's a defeat for defendant Denise Barker and the Electronic Frontier Foundation …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft-Yahoo deal ‘preaction’ — One of the big risks of heading down to Latin America right now is that something big could blow up—the Microsoft-Yahoo merger. — Rest assured, I'll be pushing on my sources even if I am a continent away. Still, the deal could break while I am asleep or something.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Some venture investors heading for the cellars, as larger economic problems loom — Despite a one-day rise in the stock market, the macro-economic outlook is stormy, and confidence is falling among venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. — Last fall's housing slowdown has led to turmoil among Wall Street banks.
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