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3:40 PM ET, April 1, 2009

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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Once-Mighty SGI Sold to Rackable for $25 Million  —  A collective shudder rippled through Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning, as Rackable Systems announced its purchase of Silicon Graphics Inc. for just $25 million in cash.  —  If you travel all the way back to 1997, SGI was pulling in close to $4 billion in revenue per year.
Discussion: Between the Lines and TechCrunchIT
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Does Android on an HP Netbook Signal Trouble For Microsoft?  —  Google's Android may soon move beyond the limiting confines of the G1 smartphone and onto a much roomier machine: the netbook.  Hewlett Packard is experimenting with the OS in an attempt to gauge how useful it might be on those tiny computers.
Discussion: Technologizer and Electronista
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld Blogs:
One giant step closer to the Google Linux desktop
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Slick Desktop AIR App For Monitoring Twitter  —  Yahoo has launched an Adobe AIR-powered desktop application called Sideline yesterday, once again validating the power of Twitter for real-time search.  After taking it for a spin, I have to say it looks and feels really nice …
Discussion: Download Squad
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Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
Facebook's Problem is the Management  —  Shockwaves were felt throughout Silicon Valley when the social networking site announced that one of its star hires, CFO Gideon Yu, had been fired.  Although Facebook claims that it is looking for someone with “public company experience,” …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Industry Shocked And Angered By Facebook CFO's Firing  —  The industry reaction to Facebook firing CFO Gideon Yu is surprise and anger.  —  The anger stems from the way the company announced his departure, saying it needs a CFO with public company experience.
Carolyn Duffy Marsan / Network World:
Some UltraDNS customers knocked offline by attack  —  NeuStar confirms ‘significant’ denial of service attack on Tuesday morning  —  NeuStar confirmed that some of its UltraDNS managed DNS service customers were knocked offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a distributed denial of service attack.
Discussion: CircleID and GigaOM
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Tom Daly / Dynamic Network Services Incorporated:
UltraDNS Outage Causes Multiple Website Failures  —  This morning, our Dynect Platform monitoring system noticed a problem, a big one.  From our global perspective, it appears that many online services, including amazon.com (the store, AWS, and S3), salesforce.com, advertisting.com, and petco.com, had some serious DNS troubles.
Discussion: Between the Lines and The Register
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Video Site Veoh Cuts Staff, Boots CEO, Bets on Browser Plug-in  —  Video site Veoh, one of the biggest and best-funded players in the “who will be the next YouTube” competition, is restructuring the company, laying off a good chunk of its staff, and is replacing CEO Steve Mitgang with founder Dmitry Shapiro.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Source: Major Veoh restructuring, layoffs tomorrow
Discussion: NewTeeVee and paidContent.org
Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
Review: BlackBerry App World [Update 2]  —  RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is slated to take the stage later today in Las Vegas at the CTIA show and all eyes will be focused on RIM's answer to Apple's App Store.  While we wished that RIM had held off on the launch of BlackBerry App World until …
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Receiving video MMS works on iPhone OS 3.0?  —  Ever since the iPhone 3.0 beta was released, only the lucky and skilled have managed to enable MMS on their iPhones.  It's not that it's impossible to do, you just have to know your way around the OS and do some modifications, enter settings, and that sort of stuff.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I.  —  Wow.  April Fools Is In full swing.  —  The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website.  “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.”
Canadian Press:
Family website specialist Kaboose sells its assets in two chunks for about $120M  —  TORONTO — Kaboose Inc. (TSX:KAB), a provider of family-oriented online media content, has agreed to sell all of its business in two chunks for about $120 million.  —  The Toronto-based company produces websites …
Discussion: Business Wire
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Disney Online Buys Kaboose Assets For $18.4 Million, Barclays …
Discussion: alarm:clock
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Payday for VCs plummets 65 percent in 1st quarter  —  With venture-backed companies failing to launch IPOs and with mergers and acquisitions lagging, liquidity for venture capitalists fell 65 percent in the first quarter and pushed them back to 2003 levels, according to a report released Wednesday by Dow Jones VentureSource.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Hey, Lauren!  Is Apple's 17-Inch MacBook Pro Expensive?  —  There's something about comparing the prices of Windows PCs and Macs that makes otherwise cool and collected people-Windows and Mac users alike-become profoundly emotional and partisan, until steam shoots out of their ears and their eyeballs turn bright red.
Discussion: CloudAve and The Toybox
The Official Palm Blog:
Watch this space: No foolin'  —  We thought about running a harmless little April Fool's Day prank on the blog today.  Maybe leak a hint about a hush-hush rumor that Palm would be merging with that pomegranate juice company (the new company would have the ticker symbol POM-PALM, with a cheerleader as our corporate mascot, natch).
Darren Murph / Engadget:
MSI outs full specs of X-Slim X320 / X340 and Wind U123  —  While MSI has been teasing its Wind U123 and X-Slim X320 / X340 laptops for a little while now, we've yet to see the full specifications for each rig laid out.  Until now, of course.  Over at CTIA in Vegas, the company is revealing …
David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
IBM stands for 'I've Been Moved'  —  Amid thousands of U.S. layoffs, a plan to relocate some workers abroad has some questioning the company's motives.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Shifting U.S. jobs overseas is nothing new for technology giant International Business Machines Corp. …
Basheera Khan / TechCrunch Europe:
Yahoo Mobile launches across eight countries, 300 devices  —  The mobile content service which Yahoo previewed at Mobile World Congress in February launched today across eight countries, available both as an iPhone app and a mobile content site optimised for 300 devices ‘with HTML-enabled mobile browsers’.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Linux Foundation says it's time to ditch Microsoft's FAT  —  Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says that Microsoft is hostile to open technologies and that product makers should ditch the company's patent-encumbered FAT filesystem.  —  The Linux Foundation …
Discussion: Jim Zemlin
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
AT&T Offers a $50 Netbook and Bundled Broadband Package  —  Updated: Holy price cuts, Ma Bell!  AT&T is rolling out a trial of subsidized netbooks in its Atlanta retail stores, where it will have some netbooks (or “mini laptops,” in AT&T speak) for $49.95 (on the high end you're gonna pay $250).
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Zoho Chat opens to Google, AIM, and more  —  Zoho, a company offering a wide range of low-cost web applications for productivity and business, is launching version 2.0 of its instant messaging client, Zoho Chat.  The biggest change is both simple and absolutely crucial …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Billion Dollar Charlie takes on the RIAA  —  Ars sits down with “Billion Dollar Charlie” Nesson, the Harvard Law professor who's taking on the RIAA in federal court.  Winning his case would be great, but Nesson's thinking even bigger.  He wants nothing less than a national …
Discussion: p2pnet, Thanks:atul
 
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Nicole Ferraro / Internet Evolution:
Third-Party Clients Causing Twitter Downtime
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Graeme Thickins / ReadWriteWeb:
How Tough Is It Today Being a VC?  10 Questions for Two Early-Stage Stars
Thanks:atul
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Newspapers Begin to Use Zillow
Discussion: TechFlash, Thanks:mrinaldesai
MediaPost:
Google Settles Lawsuit With Search Marketers
Discussion: Search Engine Land and CNET News
AppleInsider:
Snow Leopard roadmap; Pro app updates in pipeline
Discussion: Ars Technica
 Earlier Items: 
James Sherwood / The Register:
GM in-car kit team says no to drive'n'Twitter tech
Discussion: GPS Obsessed and Gizmodo
Maggie Shiels / dot.life blog:
The Power of Less at Web 2.0
Discussion: bub.blicio.us
Jessica Davis / eWeek:
Intel Nehalem Xeon Processor Could Hurt Server Sales
Discussion: Ars Technica
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Nomee Is An All-In-One Social Networking Aggregator And RSS Feed
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
John Cook / TechFlash:
Struggling to find the best iPhone apps? Mobui offers an answer
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Sure Does Have Trouble Keeping Execs
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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