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Nick / Rough Type:
Who killed the blogosphere? — Blogging seems to have entered its midlife crisis, with much existential gnashing-of-teeth about the state and fate of a literary form that once seemed new and fresh and now seems familiar and tired. And there's good reason for the teeth-gnashing.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Internet As A Force In Politics: “Obama Would Not Have Won Without The Internet” — New York Magazine's John Heilemann is leading a panel at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this morning on “The Web and Politics.” Joining him is San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome, Arianna Huffington and Joe Trippi.
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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Chinese hack into White House network — Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior US official told the Financial Times. — On each occasion, the cyber attackers accessed …
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Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
Steve Ballmer Confirms Existence of Windows Mobile 6.5 — The possibility of there being a Windows Mobile 6.5 fell in the “rumor” column after Motorola CEO casually mentioned it in a conference call. Now have official word from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that this rumor is reality.
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Rodney Gedda / Techworld:
Microsoft ‘interested’ in open source browser: Ballmer — Browser extensions likely to attract proprietary development — Microsoft has given its most ringing endorsement of open source Web browsers to date with chief executive officer Steve Ballmer not ruling out adopting such technology …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Cash Panic Sweeping The VC Industry — Why have VC firms and PE firms clamped down on investments so fast? Why are they shouting from the rooftops that portfolio companies had better start cutting costs immediately? — Well, for one thing, because they're not boneheads.
Gary Burd / FriendFeed Blog:
Instant FriendFeed - Notifications and Posting over IM — The great thing about IM is that it's instant. You know right away when someone wants to reach you. To give users the option of having that same immediacy when it comes to FriendFeed, we're now offering FriendFeed over IM:
Reuters:
Sprint Nextel Lost 1.3 Million Customers in Quarter — Sprint Nextel, the third-largest mobile service, on Friday posted a quarterly loss and weaker revenue as customers fled to rival services. — Sprint reported a net loss of $326 million, or 11 cents a share, compared with a profit of $64 million …
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Erick Schonfeld / MobileCrunch:
Study: iPhones Twice As Reliable As BlackBerries — The iPhone is twice as reliable as the Blackberry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans.
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Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Arrives: Sleek but Slow — This morning the stork dropped off one of the most highly-anticipated netbooks of the year. Everyone wanted to see and touch the Inspiron Mini 12 because it's the first netbook with a 12-inch display. How good was the keyboard? How bright was the display?
Tech-On! : tech news:
‘Mobile Phones Will Shoot Full HD Video in 2012,’ Ericsson Says — Ericsson AB of Sweden revealed its efforts in the mobile broadband market at a press conference Nov 6, 2008. — In the area of mobile communications, innovative technologies such as “HSPA evolution,” which is the successor to HSPA …
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Apple iPhone Chief Claims He Didn't Violate IBM Contract — Mark Papermaster says in court papers that the two tech vendors are not direct competitors. — Apple's newly appointed chief of iPod and iPhone engineering said his move to Cupertino does not violate a non-compete contract he signed …
Christina Wodtke / The LinkedIn Blog:
Announcing LinkedIn Events — LinkedIn Groups and LinkedIn Answers cater to two of the three most important activities professionals engage in to further their career and starting today, we're launching the third and most important piece of that puzzle - LinkedIn Events.
Hitwise Intelligence:
Guest Post - Sizing Up the Long Tail of Search — At Hitwise our clients are always discovering new trends from the vast amount of data we offer. From those findings we frequently get asked by clients to let them post their findings to our research blog. So I am happy to present …
Rob Bushway / GottaBeMobile.com:
GBM InkShow: Windows 7 and N-Trig Pre-Beta Multi-Touch Demo — When N-Trig released their Windows 7 multi-touch drivers today, it was all I could do to finish up some needed work and keep focused on the task at hand. Soon enough, though, I had an opportunity to install the new drivers …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Former Time Inc. Exec Domeniconi to Lead Microsoft U.S. Ad Sales — Will Be Responsible for Digital Media Assets From Xbox Live to Facebook Display Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — To try to pull together all of its myriad digital media assets for clients, Microsoft has lured an executive from the magazine world.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Online Money Transfer Service iKobo Calls It Quits — Atlanta, GA-based iKobo, a company that provides a worldwide online money transfer service, is discontuining its operations, effective immediately. In an e-mail to its users, the company writes:
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Barclays Cuts FY Q1 iPhone Forecast; Sees Ultra-Portable Macbook, Possible Phone Price Cuts In 2009 — The latest cautionary comment from the Street on the prospects for Apple (AAPL) iPhone sales for the December quarter comes from Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Yahoo: Focus Switches To Search Deal With Microsoft — Jerry Yang's list of options for stopping the bleeding at Yahoo (YHOO) has continued to dwindle. Pressured by the Feds, Google (GOOG) pulled out of the search outsourcing deal. Despite speculation, Microsoft (MSFT) …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Microsoft touts 25 percent eBay Cashback rebate — Microsoft is getting more aggressive with Live Search Cashback, a program that offers price cuts for those who buy products found with the company's search engine, touting a 25 percent rebate for items purchased through eBay.
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld:
Yahoo adds social features to Yahoo Buzz — Updates expand on Yahoo Open Strategy with new comments section, activity hub — Computerworld) Yahoo Inc. this week added new social elements to the beta version of its Yahoo Buzz social news site, which identifies the top news stories …
Electronista:
MS deems hybrid graphics unstable for Windows 7 — A Thursday report warns Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system will not support hybrid dual-graphics systems currently on the market from NVIDIA and AMD. The news came after a review of Microsoft's Guidelines for Graphics …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Introducing The First Extension For Fennec (aka Firefox Mobile) — Fennec, the codename for the mobile version of the Firefox web browser, now has its first extension. The browser, which launched into alpha last month, has always allowed for extendibility through add-ons, but none had been ported over until recently.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Subletting Office Space At NYC Googleplex (GOOG) — Want to address your rent check to Larry and Sergey — and move into one of NYC's best Internet-connected buildings? — Here's your chance: Google (GOOG) will be subleasing about 50,000 square feet of office space at its massive NYC headquarters at 76 Ninth Ave.
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