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11:45 AM ET, November 10, 2008

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Margaret Kane / CNET News:
Circuit City files for bankruptcy  —  Struggling electronics chain Circuit City announced Monday that it has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy.  —  Chapter 11 allows a company to hold off creditors while it attempts to restructure its finances.  Circuit City said Monday that it has has negotiated …
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Reuters:
Circuit City files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy  —  Circuit City Stores Inc (CC.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the No. 2 U.S. consumer electronics retailer, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, falling victim to tighter credit terms from vendors and a loss of market share to Best Buy Co …
Bloomberg:
Circuit City, Electronics Retailer, Seeks Bankruptcy
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Gizmodo and Lifehacker
Peg Brickley / Wall Street Journal:
Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
VMware Lends Virtual Hand to Mobile Phone Crowd  —  It's a real pain for software makers to plant their code on the wide variety of mobile devices on the market.  They have to adapt applications for different processors, other phone innards and a variety of basic frameworks such as Java and Adobe's AIR.
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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
VMware Wants to Bring Virtualization to Your Smart Phone  —  VMware is looking to bring its virtualization technology to smart phones and cell phones in 2009 through a new virtualization platform called the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, or MVP.  The platform will use …
Discussion: Computerworld and BrianMadden.com
Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:
Netbooks: An opportunity for Windows, and a threat to Linux  —  The netbook revolution is upon us.  Less than a year ago, the cheap, Atom-powered mini-laptops were a novelty.  Now they are shaking up the regular laptop industry.  Netbooks are taking marketshare and mindshare, thanks in large part to their low prices.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:   Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google, T-Mobile, Give AOL a Hand and a Big Check  —  Apple (AAPL), Research In Motion (RIMM) and Google (GOOG) are duking it out for consumers' smartphone dollars this fall.  But here's an early winner: Time Warner's AOL (TWX), which has just landed a giant contract to push Google's G1 phone for the next two days.
Reuters:
YouTube to post full-length MGM films  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on Sunday.
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New York Times:
MGM to Post Full Films on YouTube
Wall Street Journal:
Dell Lags in New Products  —  Michael Dell last year promised innovative new consumer products to generate “product lust” and spark his company's turnaround effort.  But in the runup to the holiday sales season, Dell Inc. has been slow to deliver on that promise.
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Agency.com Sues Rival Over Clients  —  Agency.com LLC sued rival digital-ad firm iCrossing Inc., alleging that it poached several of its top executives and clients.  —  Agency.com, a unit of Omnicom Group, filed suit in state court in Dallas on Thursday, alleging breach of contract …
Scott Moritz / Techland:
Nortel cuts jobs, shakes up management  —  Nortel (NT) plans a major restructuring and another round of job cuts as demand for tech gear plunges.  —  The Toronto networking equipment giant said Monday it would trim 1,300 jobs on top 1,200 cuts previously announced.  Nortel had 32,550 employees at the end of 2007.
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
The genius behind Steve  —  The CEO is the heart and soul of Apple Inc. yet he's got a deep management bench from which to choose his eventual successor.  —  (Fortune Magazine) — Let's start with some uncomfortable truths.  We wouldn't be publishing an article about the under-the-radar guy who's …
Discussion: MacRumors, Apple 2.0 and Macsimum News
InfoWorld:
Microsoft eyes Visual Studio advancements  —  Microsoft's Visual Studio software development system is getting a makeover.  —  With the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment, Microsoft intends to offer a new editor based on the company's Windows Presentation Foundation technology …
Discussion: eWeek and The Register
BBC:
Study shows how spammers cash in  —  Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study.  —  By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer.
Discussion: Tech Central and TheNextWeb.org
Patrick Smith / paidContent:
FT.com Relaunching This Week: Pink Front Page, New Name Target ‘Obsessive’ Users  —  FT.com will tomorrow roll out the latest installment of its long-term web redesign with a pink front page and a region-specific homepage for its growing Middle East audience (preview here).
Discussion: RotorBlog.com
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
iPhone trounces BlackBerry, Treo in reliability  —  Man, not only is the iPhone beating BlackBerry in sales and customer satisfaction, but the latest study from SquareTrade is showing that BlackBerrys malfunction about twice as much as an iPhone.  Ouch.  The survey gathered results …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
iPhone trumps RAZR as most purchased US consumer handset  —  Apple's iPhone 3G dethroned the top-ranked Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S. during the third quarter of the year, according to market research firm NPD.
Discussion: I4U News and Electronista
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
NAVIGON breaks the mold and releases the 8100T flagship GPS  —  Rather than releasing your standard black bezel, commonplace GPS unit, NAVIGON threw everything possible into the flagship 8100T GPS navigator.  The real fun begins with a 4.8-inch widescreen touchscreen that serves …
Geraldine Le Meur / LeWeb'08:
LeWeb'08 Startup Competition: Companies Selected and Judges Announced  —  This year's LeWeb Start-up Competition generated quite a lot of interest and more applications than ever!  Our friends at SeedCamp have been working diligently to drive the review of information from each company …
Discussion: Loic Le Meur Blog
 
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
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James Randerson / Guardian:
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Chris Mellor / The Register:
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Google Signs a Deal to e-Publish Out-of-Print Books
Discussion: TeleRead and Social Media
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Digg Dudes' Web Studio Revision3: Layoffs Last Month, But Ad Sales Are Up
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Beet.TV
Christopher Lawton / Wall Street Journal:
Sun Expands ‘Open’ Storage Line
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth opens up on mobility and design
Discussion: The Open Road
John Markoff / New York Times:
Internet Attacks Grow More Potent