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8:15 AM ET, January 26, 2009

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Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Has Knol Survived Google's Orphan-Project Killing Spree?  (GOOG)  —  We had thought Google (GOOG) was all about frugality and focus now: In recent months, the search giant has been killing off failed experiments like Twitter-rival Jaiku, mobile social networking service Dodgeball and virtual world Lively.
Discussion: broadstuff and Data Mining
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Four Things You Need To Know About Knol  —  Recently Google mentioned that 100,000 different articles have been posted to Google Knol.  I've been meaning to talk about Google Knol for a while, because there's a few things you need to know.  It seemed especially relevant after I saw …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Wall Street Journal:
Bumpy Start for BlackBerry Storm  —  Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion Ltd. have high hopes for the BlackBerry Storm, which they spent nearly two years developing as their big response to Apple Inc.'s iPhone.  —  But despite a marketing campaign that cost more than $100 million, the smart phone has gotten off to a bumpy start.
Adam Sage / Times of London:
Nintendo brain-trainer ‘no better than pencil and paper’  —  A 10p pencil is just as good as a £100 Nintendo at stimulating the memory, according to a study that dismisses the DS Lite's claims to boost the brain.  —  The survey of ten-year-old children found no evidence to support claims …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Wow.  ChaCha Is Raising Another $30 Million  —  ChaCha, the human-powered answers service we've written about quite a bit here on TechCrunch, is raising a Series C round of $30 million, of which close to $11 million has already been secured according to a regulatory filing, reports peHUB.
Discussion: PE Hub Blog and TechFlash
New York Times:
$200 Laptops Break a Business Model  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The global credit crisis may have caused the decline in consumer and business spending that is assaulting the giants of high tech.  But as the dominant technology companies try to emerge from this slump, they may find themselves blaming people …
Patrick Foster / Times of London:
Music pirates will not be disconnected from the internet  —  Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by illegally sharing music and video files, The Times has learnt.  —  Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, said last year that the Government had …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Commodore 64 emulator brings retro joy to Symbian S60  —  Have a Symbian S60-based handset in your pocket, do you?  If you've a fever that can only be cured by more Commodore 64, you're in luck.  The FrodoS60 application brings C64 emulation right to your N95, N96 or any other S60 mobile …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
RSS-powered Windows 7 desktop slideshows  —  Desktop themes are making a comeback in Windows 7 with many new styling options to make sure it's easy to create, mix and share your unique themes.  And many there are already, including Paul Thurrott's collection and various OSX inspired theme packs.
Robin Harris / Storage Bits:
Windows kicks Linux to the curb  —  Gosh, that didn't take long!  —  Last July Linux had a huge opportunity to beat Windows in the red-hot netbook market (see Linux for housewives.  XP for geeks. ).  But faster than I'd expected Microsoft has kicked Linux to the curb, claiming an 80% attach rate for netbooks.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AMD fills out its server product line in salvo at Intel  —  The tennis match continues.  Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are in a duel for the top performance in microprocessors.  Today, AMD is taking a swing with the launch of its new series of server processors for high-end computers and Internet servers.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Microsoft's Zune: $100 Million Sales Drop Plus Layoffs Equals Questions  —  Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, particularly the Zune group, reportedly was hit hard in Thursday's unprecedented layoff of 1,400 employees and the company's plans to cut up to 3,600 more jobs.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
 
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Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
GateHouse Media case against NYTimes goes to trial
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and CNET News
Marcel van de Hoef / Bloomberg:
Philips Halts Buyback, Slashes 6,000 Jobs After Reporting Quarterly Loss
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Kevin Rose / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
Microsoft Songsmith Is Easy (if Painful to Hear)
Discussion: The Noisy Channel and Gawker
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Lucid Imagination: Open source competition in enterprise search
Discussion: Open Source
Denise Dubie / PC World:
2008: The Last Year for Awhile for IT Pay Hikes?
Discussion: Tech Sanity Check
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Technology Gets a Piece of Stimulus
Discussion: All Points Blog
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Slicing Decades of Video for New Life on the Web
Discussion: broadstuff
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Condé Nast Reshuffles Digital; No Layoffs Planned
Discussion: paidContent.org
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Cash-rich US techs guard purse strings
Discussion: Clickety Clack
David Smith / Guardian:
Websites ‘must be saved for history’
Discussion: jd/adobe
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sprint Treo Pro spotted in the wild, specs and all
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone Bluetooth File Transfer Coming Soon (YES!)
Discussion: SlashGear and CrunchGear
Chris Gampat / Geek.com:
Android app destroying G1 users' memory?
Discussion: Gizmodo and 9 to 5 Mac
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Competition in the eBook Market