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HP:
HP to Acquire EDS for $13.9 Billion — EDS shareholders to receive $25.00 per share in cash for each EDS share — Transaction expected to more than double HP's revenue from services, furthering its standing as world's largest technology company — PALO ALTO, Calif., and PLANO, Texas, May 13, 2008
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
HP-EDS: It's About The Clouds, Baby! — Updated: With the Microsoft-Yahoo battle fading from the dynamic random memories of our over stimulated brains, it is time to turn our attention to Hewlett-Packard's $13.9 billion deal to acquire EDS, a services giant in its own right. The news was announced this morning.
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Thunder, the touchscreen BlackBerry we've all been waiting for — Since we were the first ones to break the news about a touchscreen BlackBerry device, it's only fitting that we follow up and give y'all the real lowdown on it! This is going to excite a lot of people, but anger many.
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BB Geeks, CrunchGear, Unwired View, CrackBerry.com blogs, Gizmodo, SlashPhone, Electronista and Engadget
Tom Neumayr / Apple:
HBO & Apple Bring Critically Acclaimed Television Programming to the iTunes Store — Favorites Including “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City” Now Available on iTunes — HBO and Apple® today announced that programming from HBO is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com).
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Sex and the iTunes Store
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Salon, PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, Portfolio, Computerworld, AppleInsider, TG Daily, BloggingStocks and Contentinople
Simon Pope / Apple:
Apple Executives to Showcase Mac OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone Development Platforms at WWDC 2008 Keynote — Apple® today announced that a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning …
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PC World, Tech Trader Daily, Infinite Loop, mocoNews.net, I4U News, Engadget and Gizmodo
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Justin Scheck / Wall Street Journal:
Dell Tries to Revive Its Game PCs — Company to Drop Some Niche Models In Bet on Alienware — Dell Inc. is taking a surprising step to reinvigorate its business in specialty gaming personal computers: abandoning several of its most popular models to focus on what it sees as its premium line.
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DailyTech, Crave, Engadget, WOW Insider, Gizmodo, TechBlog, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and Electronista
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Android Developers Blog:
The Top 50 Applications — As you may have heard, the results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced to all the participants late last week. We're still working on pulling together a more extensive listing for each application that made it into the top 50 …
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Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, mocoNews.net, InformationWeek and dailywireless.org
Microsoft:
Microsoft Mac BU Delivers Strongest Launch in History of Office for Mac — Group releases Service Pack 1, announces the return of Visual Basic for Applications in next version. — Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) today announced details about the success of Office 2008 …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Search To Surpass Size of Microsoft Windows in 2009 — Why is Microsoft (MSFT) so concerned about Google? (GOOG) Lots of reasons, one of which is this: By this time next year, Google's search business will be larger and more profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history—Microsoft Windows.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs — One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites. — But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future …
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PubMatic:
Online Advertising Impacted by U.S. Economic Slowdown — PubMatic Ad Network Pricing Index Shows 23 percent Drop in Ad Rates — PubMatic (www.pubmatic.com), the world's first service that automates and optimizes ad inventory decision-making for Web publishers, today released …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Windows Server 2008 goes down-market — Microsoft is set to announce Tuesday that it is launching a “public preview” program for two server products based on its Windows Server 2008 operating system. — The products, one aimed at small business and the other at midsize firms …
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Opera:
Opera Mini — the people's choice — Today, Opera Software announced the availability of Opera Mini 4.1, the newest version of the award-winning browser that works on nearly every mobile phone. Opera Mini 4.1 revolutionizes the way people get the Web on their Mobile phone.
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jkOnTheRun, Download Squad, UMPCPortal, The Boy Genius Report, PalmAddicts, CrackBerry.com blogs, SlashPhone and Unwired View
EarthLink, Inc.:
EarthLink to Discontinue Operation of Its Municipal Wi-Fi Network in Philadelphia — Decision comes after EarthLink's agreement to transfer network to non-profit for free unravels — Wi-Fi customers notified about 30-day transition period and alternative access offers
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Photobucket Introduces Group Albums to Make Sharing Simple — Photobucket, one of the web's most visited sites and home to billions of photos, is introducing a new feature dubbed “Group Albums”. The feature will allow multiple friends to add their photos and videos to a shared album …
