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Circuit City Board of Directors Authorizes Exploration of Strategic Alternatives to Enhance Shareholder Value — Company Agrees to Allow Blockbuster and Icahn to Conduct Due Diligence — Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC - News) announced today that it has retained Goldman Sachs & Co …
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Circuit City Opens Door To Blockbuster; Icahn May Buy Chain Himself — The awkward pairing of Circuit City and Blockbuster is past the spitball phase and into the handholding phase. The struggling electronics giant says it will allow Blockbuster and its investor Carl Icahn to conduct due diligence …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Tips For Dealing With Information Overload — I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots).
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The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9000 to be announced May 12th at WES 2008 — You heard it here first, people! The much-awaited BlackBerry 9000 will be announced on May 12th, the first day of WES 2008 in Orlando, FL. There will even be booths setup so y'all can demo the device to your heart's delight.
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CrunchGear, Unwired View, BB Geeks, CrackBerry.com blogs, BlackBerry Cool and IntoMobile
Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Xbox 360 “Jasper” 65nm GPU in Production — Microsoft preps 65nm GPU for cooler Xbox 360s — Chip process evolution is a usual thing in a console's lifecycle, but rarely has it been as important as in the case of the Xbox 360. — Known for its relatively hardware fragility …
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Tom Lee / Techdirt:
Does The GPL Still Matter? — from the expired-license? dept — The GNU General Public License heads to court again today, as Skype attempts to defend its distribution of Linux-enabled SMC hardware handsets that appear to be in violation of the operating system's open source license.
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Ewan Spence / All About Symbian:
dotMobi Buys Mowser For Mobile Web Integration — Congrats to Russ Beattie and Mike Rowehl, the guys behind Mowser. It may well have looked dead and buried a few weeks ago, but the service has been bought by the dotMobi consortium. Reporting on Dev.Mobi, James Pearce charts out the use of their new toy …
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Ryan Spoon:
15 Websites / Services I'd Actually Pay For — One measure of a service's utility and stickiness is its ability to charge for usage. Consequently, I regularly find myself asking, “Is this important enough to me that I'd pay for it?” — Here are some of the services / sites where that answer is yes …
Wendy Tanaka / Forbes:
Google Bores — After a rousing conversation with reporters Thursday that focused on Google's possible advertising partnership with Yahoo!, the search king's annual meeting was ho hum. — Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Chief Legal Officer David Drummond kicked off the meeting …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:Google addresses antitrust issue on Yahoo ad deal
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Ends Hello — Google is shutting down Hello, Picasa's photo sharing service which was part of the Picasa acquisition back in 2004. On the program, Wikipedia writes: — Hello by Google's Picasa is [was] a free computer program that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs.
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Webware.com, Mark Evans, Google Operating System, ReadWriteWeb, The Blog Herald and The Inquisitr
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Jesper / Jesper's Blog:
Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3? — Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue. — Last night WSUS deployed XP Service Pack 3 to the sole remaining computer running XP that I have. This morning, I came down and was greeted with incessant reboots.
Aidan Henry / ReadWriteWeb:
The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model — The perennial debate surrounding Twitter's revenue model continues to live on. The micro-blogging service has succeeded in building a strong, loyal following, but failed to capitalize on it. Such a scenario, which lacks a revenue model …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
AT&T yanks iPhone free Wi-Fi info from site — On-again free hotspot access now off-again — Computerworld) Only hours after posting information that indicated iPhone owners would receive free access to AT&T's public wireless hotspots, the company pulled all references to the service from its Web site.
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DSLreports, I4U News, PC World, Engadget, CrunchGear, Podcasting News, iLounge, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, jkOnTheRun and Wi-Fi Networking News
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
TechCrunch Nabs Syndication Deal With Washington Post — TechCrunch got a seal of approval from one of the stalwarts of newspaper journalism today. — The Washington Post said it would begin running TechCrunch stories in the tech section of its site. (It already publishes stories from paidContent.org and mocoNews.net.)
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Anders Bylund / Ars Technica:
Nokia aiming to reinvent itself as an “Internet company” — During Nokia's annual shareholder meeting yesterday, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo seemed to change the direction of the entire company. “Our goal is to act less like a traditional manufacturer, and more like an internet company,” Kallasvuo told his shareholders.
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Move Suggests Not Reversing Yahoo Decision — Microsoft Corp. released potential proxy board members from their agreements to serve in the event it made a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc., following the software giant's decision last weekend to end its effort to buy the Internet company.
Josh / HP 2133 Guide:
New Mini-Note Models coming on Monday and Thursday? — A very nice young lady from the middle east got to chatting with an HP rep today and sent her the following: … The rep also said he had not heard about any user configurable options, so I'm not sure what's up with that.
