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Hollywood Newsroom:
Exclusive: Tom Cruise buys Google Adwords, to launch new web site. In two days, his web site is gonna... ITEM: Tom Cruise is buying Google Adwords. His Scientology handlers must be working on his SEO optimization; type in “Tom Cruise” in Google Search — and his paid sponsored ads pop up at the top of the search results.
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
YouTube disappears from the screen temporarily — At 7:00 a.m. PDT I was heading for my video page on YouTube and ran into this message: — I was getting to other sites just fine, so it's safe to assume it's a Google problem. YouTube receives 10 hours of video per minute and is by far the leader in the crowded field.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
YouTube down? We have been receiving reports for the past 90 minutes that users are not able to access YouTube. Upon further testing, it looks like the YouTube CDN (static file server) is down. All images are not currently being served (see screenshot below) but videos and everything else …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel: “Web 2.0"-style cloud computing just a passing vapor — Let's say that you're Intel, and you spent $5.5 billion in capital expenditures in 2007, much of it on the 45nm transition, and all of it for the purpose of beating rivals at delivering performance-per-watt increases across a range …
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public — HAVANA (AP) — Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.
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Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Cubans line up to buy their first legal PCs — Perhaps the days of looking at Cuba as the island that technology forgot are beginning to wane. — Late last month, President Raul Castro's government lifted the ban on ordinary citizens from owning a cell phone and getting cell service …
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Gizmodo
Hiptop 3:
Sidekick Gekko/Aspen Screenshot — That's right, a Hiptop3.com exclusive where we bring you the first screenshots from the Sidekick Aspen/Gekko. Everything we've been hearing points to the Aspen and Gekko being one and the same. We're not 100% sure which name T-Mobile is going to market this as …
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Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Silently Drops Case Against BitTorrent Site — For those that don't remember, lets recap. It was a little over three years ago that Hollywood took their first blast against a BitTorrent site in Europe with a lawsuit against DVDr-core. The notification (see end) …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
MicroHoo: Hasta La Vista, Hotmail? — Yesterday, BoomTown wrote a piece about Yahoo's worries about the scrutiny that the monopolistic combination of Yahoo Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail would get if it merged with the software giant. — The issue-which has not gotten a lot of attention …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict — You may have heard of Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of Javascript, but are you using it to its fullest potential? There are hundreds of scripts available …
New York Times:
Higher Offer by Microsoft Brings Yahoo to Table — After a three-month standoff, Microsoft was in active merger talks with Yahoo on Friday, several people involved in the discussions said. — Microsoft, which had threatened to abandon its bid or initiate an attempt to oust Yahoo's board …
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Mondrian, Just the First Internal Google Tool Be Released Via App Engine? — Guido van Rossum, creator of Python and Google employee, has released a version of the internal Google code-checking tool Mondrian via the Python mailing list (text after the jump).
BBC:
Spam reaches 30-year anniversary — Spam - the scourge of every e-mail inbox - celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend. — The first recognisable e-mail marketing message was sent on 3 May, 1978 to 400 people on behalf of DEC - a now-defunct computer-maker.
