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2:30 PM ET, May 9, 2008

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Russell Beattie / Russell Beattie's Weblog:
Mowser.mobi !  —  Mowser has a new home!  —  It took a few weeks to work out the details, but pretty much on the day that I announced Mowser was shutting, the guys at dotMobi got in touch with us interested in the service.  Today is the official announcement that they've acquired the site and technology …
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James Pearce / dev.mobi:
dotMobi Loves Mowser
Discussion: Lifeblog and mocoNews.net
Vance Hedderel / PR Newswire:
dotMobi Acquires Mowser Assets
Discussion: TechCrunch and Domain Name Wire
Miker / Mike Rowehl:   $dotMobi[] = $Mowser  —  The word is out now that dotMobi is picking up the Mowser assets.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone graphic: Apple's new map of the world  —  Like many Apple (AAPL) watchers, the investors at IMO's Apple Finance Forum have been closely following this week's flurry of announcements of iPhone deals with carriers around the world.  One of the contributors to the forum …
Discussion: The Apple Core
PR Newswire:
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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Bloomberg:
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters  —  Apple Inc. agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to as many as 2.3 million Macintosh computer owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark.  —  Customers who bought certain replacement adapters for PowerBook …
Hsu Chuang Khoo / Reuters:
Britain's Blinkx flies on Google, Newscorp bid talk  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Shares of British video search engine firm Blinkx surged 50 percent to a seven-month high on Friday, on talk that Internet giant Google and media conglomerate NewsCorp may bid for the firm.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Who's Buying Blinkx? Google? News Corp?
Jesper / Jesper's Blog:
Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3?  —  Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue.  —  Updated May 9 to add information on possible additional issues as well as instructions for using the recovery console.  —  Last night WSUS deployed XP Service Pack 3 …
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.
BBC:
Serious playtime  —  For many years the average video gamer has been male and aged 24 or more.  —  These young men typically have the disposable income and time needed to support a gaming habit and, it has to be said, many of the titles being released were designed to appeal to such folk.
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GamesIndustry.biz:
MMO Week: Industry has been irresponsible with kids
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.
Discussion: The Real McCrea and Open Gardens
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com  —  The most pressing question for Google (GOOG) shareholders is what product will drive the company's next growth boom as the search product cycle ends.  Most likely candidate?  Not sexy mobile or video.  Just boring old display ads.
Discussion: MediaFile
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Bloomberg:   Google May Run Display Advertisements With Image-Search Results
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit  —  Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week.  —  There are stories around why the limitation exists at all.  The official reason is that Facebook wants …
Discussion: Technology Live
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Web Worker Daily and Mark Evans
Financial Times:
Blinkx in focus over Nasdaq  —  Blinkx , the video search group that was spun out of software specialist Autonomy, was the standout small cap feature yesterday.  —  Its shares jumped 38.9 per cent to 25p as rumours circulated that Blinkx, which yesterday launched its new online video indexing technology …
Discussion: NewTeeVee, paidContent and WebProNews
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 …
InfoWorld:
Apple slammed on climate change  —  Apple is once again being pilloried on the strength of its green credentials, taking last place among computer firms rated within a recent ClimateCounts survey on climate friendliness.  —  Apple achieved just 11 points in the survey, far behind other computer companies rated in the annual list.
Discussion: Infinite Loop and TG Daily
 
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Chris Laker / Daily Mail:
Pictured: The moment award-winning garden is destroyed after …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Digg
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
New bill ties net neutrality to antitrust law
Discussion: ZDNet Government and Reuters
Steve Rosenbush / paidContent.org:
Inside The Deals: Forget Yahoo—Microsoft Needs To Go On The Ultimate Corporate Diet
Discussion: HipMojo.com and Deal Journal
GamesIndustry.biz:
Reeves admits PSP needs more new games
Discussion: Destructoid and PSP Fanboy
InfoWorld:
Microsoft talks up using printers to make drugs
Discussion: The Inquisitr
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Last.fm announces original video programming
Discussion: BetaNews, paidContent and hypebot
Office Sustained Engineering:
Office 2007 SP1 releasing to Automatic Update
 Earlier Items: 
Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Maps Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA 4): Your Google Guide to Liberty City
Discussion: TG Daily and IGN
Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins / Mashable!:
Jinni Get $1M to Magically Netflix it up with Online Video
Discussion: MarketingShift
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Piracy now “public nuisance” in Los Angeles County
Discussion: WinExtra, Threat Level and Slashdot
Variety:
Gore Verbinski to direct ‘Bioshock’
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rumor: .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0?
Discussion: Infinite Loop, IntoMobile and Digg
Josh / HP 2133 Guide:
New Mini-Note Models coming on Monday and Thursday?
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
Discussion: My Blog Posts
Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Xbox 360 “Jasper” 65nm GPU in Production